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Dictators have incentives to promote development and diminish social differences
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Dictator’s decisions undermines the people and are unaccountable
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Dictatorships regimes can be a path for countries move on from civil wars and focus on development
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Dictatorial regimes can move countries from civil wars toward development.
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Dictatorship is a threat to diversity and multi ethnicity
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Imposing dictatorship will be a threat to diversity and multi ethnicity.
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Dictatorship will stop all path of development in a democratic country
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Dictatorships better control the variables of human development
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Dictatorship brings profit to dictators and its clique, but not to the citizens
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Dictatorships breed development though efficient and straighfoward decision making
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Dictatorship is a good breeding ground for personal discipline and order
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Dictatorships are more effective than democracies at mobilizing resources for investment.
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Democracies are more likely to be economically successful
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Democracies do better at meeting economic needs.
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People's needs are met best in democracies.
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Human development indicators have significantly improved in recent years.
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Africa’s Economies are growing rapidly
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Majority of states are still undemocratic
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Greater Access to Technology
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The Continent is still vulnerable to natural disasters
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Foreign Direct Investment to the continent has increased
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Expansion would be unpopular.
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Enlarging the EU could cause controversy.
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Is the unpopularity of EU expansion worth its further enlargement?
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The European Union is no longer in a financial position to be taking in new members.
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Enlarging the EU could potentially cause financial problems for all involved.
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Possible financial instability does not warrant the EU accepting new members.
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There will be an even greater brain drain from poorer countries to richer.
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Adding poorer countries to the EU will adversely impact the ones that are more prosperous.
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Richer countries will not benefit from adding poorer countries to the EU.
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Expansion furthers EU ideals.
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As the EU expands, so does it's ideals.
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The ideals of the EU have greater reach if the union expands.
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Expansion will create conflicts of interest between members.
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EU expansion could wreak havoc between its members.
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Enlarging the EU will have a more negative impact between its members.
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EU expansion is right.
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It is proper that the EU continues to expand.
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It is the right thing for the EU to expand.
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EU expansion is good for current members politically.
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From a political standpoint, it is to the EU's member's benefit to continue to expand.
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The EU should continue to expand for the benefit of its members.
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EU expansion is good for current members economically.
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Economic gains can be seen for EU members when the union continues to expand.
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EU expansion is positive for the economic health of its members.
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Returning to the 1967 borders would bring peace to Israel.
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Establishing the borders as they were prior to 1967 would cease violence in Israel.
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Israel will be peaceful if its borders were changed as they were before 1967.
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International law supports dividing Jerusalem
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Dividing Jerusalem would harm Israeli society:
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Division would do more harm than good.
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Unfavorable societal outcomes from division mean that it is not worth it.
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Offshoring exploits both individual workers and under developed states.
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There are multiple negative effects of offshoring.
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Underdeveloped states and workers are harmed by this practice.
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Offshore outsourcing is consistent with existing labour distribution patterns.
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Outsourcing follows the current labor distribution model.
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Offshore outsourcing reduces living standards and limits social mobility.
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Social mobility is negatively impacted by offshore outsourcing.
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Living standards decline and is just one example of the cons of offshore outsourcing.
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Sanctions are necessary for national security
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The national well-being is best served by the continuation of economic sanctions against Cuba
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Cuba deserves sanctions
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Economic punishment is what Cuba should be subject to
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The actions of the Cuban government have merited the Cuban government economic penalty
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The people of Cuba are the victims of the embargo, opposed the intended target of the government.
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Cuban citizens are paying the price for their government's actions.
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The casualties of the embargo are the civilians of Cuba, not the government as ideal.
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The embargo harms the people of Cuba, not the government as intended.
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Sanctions harm the Cuban people.
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Economic benefits of ending sanctions
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If sanctions were lifted trade benefits would flow to all parties to trade.
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Sanctions are not working
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The Cuban government is unaffected by the sanctions.
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Where the people and not the government shoulder the burden, sanctions don't work.
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The United States should end the Cuba embargo because its 50-year policy has failed to achieve its goals.
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After 50 years the Cuba embargo has shown no results so the US should end it.
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The Cuba embargo has failed to achieve its goal after 50 years so the US should end it.
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The embargo enables the United States to apply pressure on the Cuban government to improve human rights.
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The United States should not have different trading and travel policies for Cuba than for other countries with governments or policies it opposes.
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The embargo prevents the people of Cuba from joining the digital age by cutting them off from technology, and restricts the electronic flow of information to the island.
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Cubans can't join the digital era while under embargo due to lack of electronic access.
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The United States should maintain the Cuba embargo because Cuba has not met the conditions required to lift it.
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Ending the embargo before the Cuban government meets the conditions specified by US law would make the United States look weak.
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The embargo is a relic of Cold War Era thinking and is unnecessary because Cuba does not pose a threat to the United States.
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The Cuba embargo is a product of Cold War Era mentality thus obsolete for Cuba is not a threat to the US.
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Cuba should be subject to sanctions because it is known to have repeatedly supported acts of terrorism.
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Cuba is knows to sponsor terrorism so sanctions are appropriate.
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Because Cuba supports terrorism, it should have sanctions levvied against it.
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The United States is able to target the Cuban government with its embargo while still providing assistance to Cuban citizens.
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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.
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The embargo must be upheld as others have allowed open travel with no results.
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Open travel to Cuba has not yielded change so the embargo should continue.
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Lifting the embargo would put pressure on Cuba to address problems that it had previously blamed on US sanctions.
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Most of the world opposes the embargo, and maintaining it is detrimental to the reputation of the United States among the international community.
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Maintaining a widely-reviled embargo damages the US's diplomatic reputation.
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The global community opposes the embargo, and maintaining it hurts the US diplomatically.
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The Cuban government has consistently responded to US attempts to soften the embargo with acts of aggression, raising concerns about what would happen if the sanctions were fully lifted.
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Free trade, not the isolation of an embargo, can promote democracy in Cuba.
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Free trade in lieu of embargo can promote Cuban democracy.
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