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# Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?'
**Argument**
Cuba has not demonstrated a willingness to negotiate in good faith with the United States.
President Barack Obama stated in a Sep. 28, 2011 “Open for Questions” roundtable, “Now, what we’ve tried to do is to send a signal that we are open to ... |
# CBD for Pets - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Pet owners report success in treating their animals with CBD.
Many pet owners swear by the use of CBD to treat ailments such as anxiety, pain, digestive issues, and inflammation. Their positive experiences are reflected in the growing market for CBD pet products... |
# Should Election Day Be a National Holiday? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
Other solutions would more reliably increase voter turnout than a national holiday.
Solutions such as automatic voter registration, same-day registration, early voting, no-excuse absentee voting, restoring voting rights to former felons, i... |
# Should College Be Free? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
Tuition-free college will decrease completion rates, leaving students without the benefits of a full college education and degree.
Jack A. Chambless, Economics Professor at Valencia College, said that with a free college program, “Potentially millions of you... |
# Should Tablets Replace Textbooks in K-12 Schools?'
**Argument**
The higher cost of tablets marginalizes poorer school districts and increases the “digital divide.”
Rich school districts can afford to implement e-textbooks on tablets, while poor school districts cannot. Low income schools are less likely to implemen... |
# Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?'
**Argument**
Cuban-Americans support the embargo.
US Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Cuban-American, and long-time proponent of the embargo, wrote in a press release, “In addition to imposing economi... |
# Was Ronald Reagan a Good President?'
**Argument**
Foreign Policy:
Reagan broke his own vows not to make deals with terrorists or states that aided them. In the “Iran-Contra” scandal, Reagan’s administration bypassed congressional restrictions on aiding Nicaragua’s Contra guerilla fighters, in part by diverting mone... |
# Should Vaccines Be Required for Children?'
**Argument**
Vaccines provide economic benefits for society.
The CDC estimates that vaccinated children born between 1994 and 2018 have yielded net savings of $406 billion in direct costs and $1.9 trillion in societal costs, which includes money saved by preventing lost pr... |
# Filibuster - Top 3 Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
The filibuster prevents meaningful debate and slows the work of the Senate.
In 1957, Senator Strom Thurmond (R-SC) filibustered for 24 hours and 18 minutes on Aug. 28 and 29, the longest filibuster on record. Thurmond spent valuable Senate time reciting th... |
# Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?'
**Argument**
CO2 is so saturated in earth’s atmosphere that more CO2, manmade or natural, will have little impact on the climate.
As CO2 levels in the atmosphere rise, the amount of additional warming caused by the increased concentration becomes l... |
# CBD for Pets - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
There isn't enough scientific evidence to support giving CBD to pets.
Research in this area is so new that no one knows the long-term impacts of CBD use in companion animals, or what an effective and safe dose would be.
Sue Lowum, DVM, a veterinarian and associ... |
# Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care?'
**Argument**
A right to health care could stop medical bankruptcies.
According to the National Bankruptcy Forum, medical debt is the #1 reason people file for bankruptcy in the United States. In 2017, about 33% of all Americans with medical bills r... |
# Net Neutrality - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Net neutrality protects consumers by preventing ISPs from speeding, slowing, or charging higher fees for select online content.
Allowing ISPs to speed or slow certain websites, or charge fees for fast lane access, may eventually trickle down to consumers in th... |
# Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?'
**Argument**
Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to human beings in many ways.
Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans. All mammals, including humans, are descended fr... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
Raising the minimum wage would increase the price of consumer goods.
A 2013 article by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago stated that if the minimum wage is increased, fast-food restaurants would pass on almost 100% of their increased labor costs on to co... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
School uniforms keep students focused on their education, not their clothes.
The National Association of Secondary School Principals stated that, “When all students are wearing the same outfit, they are less concerned about how they look and how they fit i... |
# Should Teachers Get Tenure?'
**Argument**
Tenure allows teachers to work more effectively since they do not need to be in constant fear of losing their jobs.
Without the anxiety and fear of losing employment, teachers can focus their efforts on providing the best education for students.
**Background**
Teacher ten... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
Improvements in productivity and economic growth have outpaced increases in the minimum wage.
While the estimates of how much the minimum wage should be increased vary, many economists agree that if it had kept pace with rising productivity and incomes, it... |
# Should Gay Marriage Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Legal marriage is a secular institution that should not be limited by religious objections to same-sex marriage.
Religious institutions can decline to marry gay and lesbian couples if they wish, but they should not dictate marriage laws for society at large.
As explained... |
# Space Colonization - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Space is inhospitable to humans and life in space, if even possible, would be miserable.
As novelist Andy Weir explained, “The problem is that you still don’t want to send humans to the moon. You want to send robots. Humans are soft and squishy and they di... |
# Is Obesity a Disease?'
**Argument**
Obesity is the result of sedentary lifestyles.
Compared to 40 years ago, people today spend more time commuting, sitting in front of a computer, watching television, playing video games, and generally exercising less. In 1960 50% of jobs required moderate physical activity compa... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
Students’ legal right to free expression remains intact even with mandatory school uniforms.
The US Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (7-2, 1969), which concerned the wearing of black armbands to protest the Viet... |
# Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?'
**Argument**
Natural changes in the sun’s activity cannot explain 20th century global warming.
The amount of solar energy received by the earth goes up and down in cycles, but overall there is no net change since the 1950s. There has, however, been... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
School uniforms restrict students’ freedom of expression.
The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees that all individuals have the right to express themselves freely. The US Supreme Court stated in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community Scho... |
# Do Standardized Tests Improve Education in America?'
**Argument**
Standardized tests offer meaningful data to help students in marginalized groups.
Keri Rodrigues, Co-founder of the National Parents Union, explained, “If I don’t have testing data to make sure my child’s on the right track, I’m not able to intervene... |
# Should Abortion Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Life begins at conception, making abortion murder.
Conception is the moment a sperm cell fertilizes an egg cell, which begins the process of cell division that creates a human.
Tara Sander Lee, Senior Fellow and Director of Life Sciences at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, st... |
# Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?'
**Argument**
Increased hurricane activity and other extreme weather events are a result of natural weather patterns, not human-caused climate change.
According to a report from the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University, the incr... |
# Animal Dissection - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Medical studies do not require or benefit from animal dissection.
Animal dissection is not required by the College Board for AP Biology, the International Baccalaureate for IB Biology, or the Next Generation Science Standards. The inclusion of dissection un... |
# Is Golf a Sport?'
**Argument**
Golf does not require enough physical exertion to meet the definition of sport.
Burning 360 calories per hour playing golf without a cart or caddie is far less than the number of calories burned per hour in competitive sports: 900 in soccer, and 727 in football, basketball, and tennis... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
Social media can endanger the military, journalists, and activists.
The US Army notes that checking in with location based services on social media like Foursquare or Facebook could expose sensitive whereabouts and endanger military personnel and operations. In 2015 ... |
# Should Churches (Including Mosques, Synagogues, etc.) Remain Tax-Exempt?'
**Argument**
The only constitutionally valid way of taxing churches would be to tax all nonprofits, which would place undue financial pressure on the 960,000 public charities that aid and enrich US society.
If only churches were taxed, govern... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
The children of college graduates are healthier and more prepared for school.
A Lancet medical journal study from 1970 to 2009 showed college graduates had lower infant mortality rates than high school graduates. Mothers with only a high school education are 31% more ... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
Uniform policies save valuable class time because they are easier to enforce than a standard dress code.
Doris Jo Murphy, EdD, former Director of Field Experiences at the University of North Texas College of Education, stated: “As an elementary assistant p... |
# Should Vaccines Be Required for Children?'
**Argument**
Vaccines can contain ingredients some people consider immoral or otherwise objectionable.
Some DTaP/IPV/Hib combination, Hep A/Hep B combination, HepA, MMR, and chickenpox vaccines are cultivated in cells from two fetuses aborted in the 1960s (listed as and ... |
# Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?'
**Argument**
Medical breakthroughs involving animal research may still have been made without the use of animals.
Devoting enough money and resources to animal-free alternatives could result in the same medical advances achieved through animal testing. ... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
College education has a high return as an investment.
Return on investment (ROI) is calculated by dividing the gain from an investment (here the money earned as a result of a college degree) by the cost of the investment (the money spent on a college degree). A college... |
# Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?'
**Argument**
Playing violent video games causes more aggression, bullying, and fighting.
60% of middle school boys and 40% of middle school girls who played at least one Mature-rated (M-rated) game hit or beat up someone, compared with 39% of boys and 14% of gir... |
# CBD for Pets - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Studies about CBD use in pets have had positive results.
A clinical trial found that 89% of dogs who were given CBD oil experienced fewer seizures. Researchers at Cornell University who performed a double-blind cross-over trial on dogs with osteoarthritis found ... |
# Was Bill Clinton a Good President?'
**Argument**
Social Policy:
Clinton neglected to take to steps to restructure Social Security and Medicare. In anticipation of the upcoming Baby Boom generation retiring and drawing heavily on those social services, Clinton should have worked to secure those programs. In a June 2... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
Social media can help disarm social stigmas.
The Sticks and Stones campaign uses Twitter to reduce stigmas surrounding mental health and learning disabilities. The Stigma Project uses Facebook to “lower the HIV infection rate and neutralize stigma through education v... |
# Should Birth Control Pills Be Available Over the Counter (OTC)?'
**Argument**
Tying prescription birth control to a visit with a medical professional results in additional screenings, tests, and conversations that promote overall good health.
When the Pill is available by prescription only, a doctor usually require... |
# Saturday Halloween - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Moving Halloween to Saturday would allow kids more time to be mischievous.
Halloween has historically always been a night of pranks. Celebrations in Colonial America included “mischief-making of all kinds,” according to History.com. These days, kids might... |
# Bottled Water Bans - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Other types of beverages have plastic containers that are more harmful than plastic water bottles, and bans don't necessarily reduce waste.
Plastic water bottles contain much less polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic than soft drink bottles that requir... |
# Was Bill Clinton a Good President?'
**Argument**
Environment:
Clinton’s pro-environmental policies included preserving 4.6 million acres of land in national monuments, strengthening the Safe Drinking Water Act, and enacting tougher emissions and energy efficiency standards. The communities of more than 44 million A... |
# Should the US Government Regulate Prescription Drug Prices?'
**Argument**
Too many companies with too many private interests are involved in drug pricing, resulting in high prices and limited access to important drugs due to corporate greed.
Drug prices are first set by drug companies that have an interest in recou... |
# Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?'
**Argument**
Gun control laws are racist.
Current gun control laws are frequently aimed at inner city, poor, black communities who are perceived as more dangerous than white gun owners. Charles Gallagher, MA, PhD, the Chair of Sociology at LaSalle University, stated that s... |
# Net Neutrality - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Net neutrality preserves free speech on the internet by prohibiting internet service providers from blocking content.
ISPs may slow or block websites that disagree with the companies’ political viewpoints or interfere with their monetary interests.
In 2017, t... |
# Saturday Halloween - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Celebrating Halloween on a Saturday would be more fun and less stressful for everyone.
Instead of rushing home from school and work to fit in dinner and homework before setting out for trick-or-treating, kids and parents could enjoy the day and do more fun... |
# Should Election Day Be a National Holiday? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
Making Election Day a national holiday would turn voting into a celebration of democracy.
Election Day is a holiday in Puerto Rico. Caravanas are joyful, noisy parades of cars festooned with flags and other decorations that stream through... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
Teenagers and young adults may be shut out of the workforce if the minimum wage is increased.
Minimum wage workers are disproportionately young. According to the Pew Research Center, 16- to 24-year-olds make up 50.4% of minimum wage earners, despite repre... |
# Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?'
**Argument**
The Second Amendment is not an unlimited right to own guns.
In the June 26, 2008 District of Columbia et al. v. Heller US Supreme Court majority opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia, LLB, wrote, “Like most rights, the right secured by the Second Amendment is not unl... |
# Vaping Pros and Cons - 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
E-cigarettes reduce health care costs, create jobs, and help the economy.
Sally Satel, a psychiatrist specializing in addiction and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, argued, “promoting electronic cigarettes to smokers should be a ... |
# Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?'
**Argument**
Promoting democracy by prohibiting Americans from traveling to Cuba is hypocritical. Most Americans want improved diplomatic ties and open travel and trade policies with Cuba.
Restricting American rights as a means of forcing another country ... |
# Should the Penny Stay in Circulation? - Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
The existence of pennies helps raise a lot of money for charities.
Organizations such as the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the Salvation Army, and the Ronald McDonald House ask people to donate pennies to raise funds. In 2009, the Leukemia ... |
# Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?'
**Argument**
Violent video games provide opportunities for children to explore consequences of violent actions, develop their moral compasses and release their stress and anger (catharsis) in the game, leading to less real world aggression.
Violent games allow y... |
# School Vouchers - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
School vouchers allow school districts to overcome racial and other segregations.
Betsy DeVos, US Secretary of Education in the Trump Administration, stated, “Empirical evidence finds school-choice programs lead to more integrated schools than their public-sc... |
# Is Cell Phone Radiation Safe?'
**Argument**
US government agencies conclude there is no scientific evidence proving that cell phones cause cancer or other health problems.
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), US Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), have all ... |
# Should Recreational Marijuana Be Legal?'
**Argument**
The enforcement of marijuana prohibition is racist because people of color are disproportionately impacted.
Statistics show a significant racial disparity in the enforcement of marijuana laws: even though white and black people use marijuana at roughly the same ... |
# Is Cell Phone Radiation Safe?'
**Argument**
Radiation from cell phones can damage sperm.
Cell phone storage in front pockets has been linked to poor fertility and higher chances of miscarriage and childhood cancer.
According to the Cleveland Clinic Center for Reproductive Medicine, semen quality “tended to decline... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
College degrees do not guarantee learning or job preparation.
Many students graduate from college with little understanding of math, reading, civics, or economics. In 2011, 35% of students enrolled in college reported they studied 5 hours or less per week and there wa... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Student loan debt may not be forgiven in bankruptcy and may not have the same borrower protections as other consumer debt.
A study found 60% of people attempting to discharge student loan debt in bankruptcy were unsuccessful. Medical, legal, credit card, loan, and eve... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
Raising the minimum wage would encourage companies to outsource jobs to countries where costs would be lower.
According to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, 2,382,000 US jobs were outsourced in 2015 with 44% of companies saying they did so to reduce ... |
# Filibuster - Top 3 Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
The filibuster is a Jim Crow relic used to block meaningful legislation.
President Barack Obama, in his July 30, 2020, eulogy for Representative John Lewis (D-GA), referred to the filibuster as “another Jim Crow relic.”
Between 1917 and 1995, half of the... |
# Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?'
**Argument**
Animals do not have rights, therefore it is acceptable to experiment on them.
Animals do not have the cognitive ability or moral judgment that humans do and because of this they have been treated differently than humans by nearly every cultu... |
# Should People Become Vegetarian?'
**Argument**
Vegetarians do not live longer.
This myth stems from the fact that vegetarians tend to be more health conscious overall, eating a more balanced diet, exercising more, and smoking less than the general population.
When a study from the German Cancer Research Center com... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
Wearing uniforms enhances school pride, unity, and community spirit.
Christopher P. Clouet, former Superintendent of the New London Public Schools in Connecticut, stated that “the wearing of uniforms contributes to school pride.” A study of over 1,000 Tex... |
# Was Bill Clinton a Good President?'
**Argument**
Economy:
Clinton gets too much credit for the good economy of the 1990s, which was already growing when he took office. The Republican-controlled Congress helped improve the economy by exercising fiscal restraint. Clinton’s failure to regulate the financial-services... |
# Should People Become Vegetarian?'
**Argument**
Vegetarians live longer.
A study of 121,342 people found that eating red meat was associated with an increased risk of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease. Another study found that adherence to vegetarian diets or diets very low in meat for 20 years or more c... |
# Should Tablets Replace Textbooks in K-12 Schools?'
**Argument**
Files on one tablet can be downloaded onto any other tablet, increasing flexibility and convenience for teachers and students.
E-textbooks and other files can be stored on “cloud” servers and accessed on any equivalent device. Users can sign into an ac... |
# Should Teachers Get Tenure?'
**Argument**
Tenure protects teachers from being fired for teaching unpopular, controversial, or otherwise challenged curricula such as evolutionary biology and controversial literature.
According to Edison State College teacher David McGrath, tenure “ensures academic freedom to teach ... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Young adults learn interpersonal skills in college.
Students have the opportunity to interact with other students and faculty, to join student organizations and clubs, and to take part in discussions and debates. According to Arthur Chickering’s “Seven Vectors” student... |
# Should College Be Free? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
Tuition-free college is not free college and students will still have large debts.
Tuition is only one expense college students have to pay and accounts for anywhere from 28.9% to 73.6% of total average college costs. [
On average, 2021-2022 in-state tuition... |
# Should the Federal Corporate Income Tax Rate Be Raised?'
**Argument**
Raising the corporate income tax rate would weaken the economy.
Erica York, economist, and Alex Muresianu, Federal Policy Analyst, both of the Tax Policy Institute, estimated that raising the corporate tax rate to 28% from 21% “would reduce GDP [... |
# Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?'
**Argument**
Free trade, not the isolation of an embargo, can promote democracy in Cuba. And, lifting the embargo would put pressure on Cuba to address problems that it had previously blamed on US sanctions.
Trading with China led to economic reforms that... |
# Should Tablets Replace Textbooks in K-12 Schools?'
**Argument**
Tablets have too many distractions for classroom use.
Students may pay attention to apps, email, games, and websites instead of their teachers. 87% of K-12 teachers believe that “today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation... |
# Is Cell Phone Radiation Safe?'
**Argument**
Radiofrequency radiation from cell phones is non-ionizing and is not powerful enough to cause cancer.
Ionizing radiation, including x-rays and ultraviolet light, produces molecules called ions that have either too many or too few electrons. Ions are known to damage DNA an... |
# Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?'
**Argument**
The embargo should be maintained because open travel is insufficient to promote change in Cuba. Many democratic countries already allow travel to Cuba with no results.
Lifting all travel restrictions to Cuba would not lead to improved conditi... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Learning a trade profession is a better option than college for many young adults.
Trade professions are necessary for society to function, require less than four years of training, and often pay above average wages. The high number of young adults choosing college ove... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
Using social media can harm job stability and employment prospects.
Job recruiters reported negative reactions to profanity (63%), poor spelling or grammar (66%), sexual content (70%), and references to illegal drugs (83%), guns (51%), and alcohol (44%) on potential e... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
The push for school uniforms is driven by commercial interests rather than educational ones.
Americans spend around $1 billion on school uniforms every year. Retailer J.C. Penney Co. says school uniforms are “a huge, important business for us.” In one ye... |
# Defunding the Police Pros and Cons | Top 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
The level of police misconduct is overstated, more (not fewer) police are being called for in crime-ridden areas, and reforms are both possible and supported by a majority of Americans.
In Camden, New Jersey, the local police depart... |
# Reparations for Slavery - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
There is already precedent for the paying of reparations to the descendants of slaves and to other groups by the US federal government, US state and local governments, and international organizations.
The US federal government paid reparations to vict... |
# Banned Books Pros and Cons - Top 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
Keeping books with inappropriate content out of libraries protects kids, but doesn't stop people from reading those books or prevent authors from writing them.
Peter Sprigg of the Family Research Council noted that removing certain books fro... |
# Net Neutrality - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Net neutrality reduces investment in internet services resulting in less access and higher costs for consumers.
Between 2011 and 2015, when neutrality rules were being debated by the FCC, the mere threat of implementing them reduced ISPs investments in network... |
# Is Artificial Intelligence Good for Society? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
AI will harm the standard of living for many people by causing mass unemployment as robots replace people.
AI robots and other software and hardware are becoming less expensive and need none of the benefits and services required by human... |
# Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?'
**Argument**
Video games that portray violence against women lead to more harmful attitudes and sexually violent actions towards women.
A 2012 peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Interpersonal Violence found that video games that sexually objectify w... |
# Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?'
**Argument**
Glaciers have been growing and receding for thousands of years due to natural causes, not human activity.
The IPCC predicted that Himalayan glaciers would likely melt away by 2035, a prediction they disavowed in 2010. In 2014 a study ... |
# Homework Pros and Cons - Should Homework Be Banned?'
**Argument**
Homework exacerbates the digital divide or homework gap.
Kiara Taylor, financial expert, defined the digital divide as “the gap between demographics and regions that have access to modern information and communications technology and those that don’t... |
# Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care?'
**Argument**
Instituting a right to health care could lower the cost of health care in the United States.
According to a study from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, under a single-payer system, in which all citizens are guaranteed a right... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
School uniforms can save parents money.
Parents can reduce their financial burden when their children are limited to wearing one simple outfit every day. A study of uniform cost in the United Kingdom found that uniforms cost parents £88.05 ($128.79) per o... |
# Was Bill Clinton a Good President?'
**Argument**
Crime:
The crime rate fell every year that Clinton was president and was at a 26-year low by the end of his two terms. He got funding for 100,000 new police officers nationwide. He signed the 1993 Brady Bill requiring a waiting period and background check to purchase... |
# Bottled Water Bans - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Bottled water is a practical emergency water supply.
If tap water is not drinkable, then bottled water is a necessary replacement, making its availability essential to public health.
Ready.gov, the Department of Homeland Security’s preparedness website on ... |
# US Supreme Court Packing - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Historical precedent allows for more than nine Supreme Court Justices, and there are no laws against having more than nine.
The US Constitution does not specify the number of justices on the Supreme Court.
As the Supreme Court FAQs page notes, “T... |
# Should Teachers Get Tenure?'
**Argument**
Teacher tenure requires schools to make long-term spending commitments and prevents districts from being fiscally flexible.
Teacher employment contracts generally lack provisions for declining enrollment and economic turmoil.
**Background**
Teacher tenure is the increasin... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
Social media facilitates cyberbullying.
52% of students have reported being the victim of cyberbullying with 84.2% naming Facebook as the site through which they have been bullied, followed by Instagram (23.4%), Twitter (21.4%), and Snapchat (13.5%). 17.5% of male st... |
# Should Adults Have the Right to Carry a Concealed Handgun?'
**Argument**
The right to carry concealed handguns is protected by the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment states: “a well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infr... |
# Should Students Have to Wear School Uniforms?'
**Argument**
Parents should be free to choose their children’s clothes without government interference.
One of the founders of the Wilson County (LA) Parents Coalition, Richard Dashkovitz, stated: “It’s time we let the government know that we are fed up with this. Quit... |
# Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care?'
**Argument**
A right to health care could improve public health.
According to a study in the Lancet that looked at data from over 100 countries, “evidence suggests that broader health coverage generally leads to better access to necessary care and i... |
# Should the United States Continue Its Use of Drone Strikes Abroad?'
**Argument**
Drone strikes allow an emotional disconnect from the horrors of war and inflict psychological stress on drone operators.
According to D. Keith Shurtleff, an Army chaplain and the ethics instructor for the Soldier Support Institute at F... |
# Should Gay Marriage Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Gay marriages bring financial gain to federal, state, and local governments, and boost the economy.
The Congressional Budget Office estimated in 2004 that federally-recognized gay marriage would cut the budget deficit by around $450 million a year.
In July 2012 New York ... |
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