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The electoral college is just a violation of democratic principles and should be abolished.
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The reasons for which the Founding Fathers created the Electoral College are no longer relevant.
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The Electoral College gives too much power to "swing states" and allows the presidential election to be decided by a handful of states.
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The Electoral College ignores the will of the people.
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The Electoral College guarantees certainty to the outcome of the presidential election.
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Scotland needs English economic muscle as through the Barnett formula England, especially the Southeast effectively subsidizes the rest of the UK in general and Scotland in particular
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An independent Scotland has enormous economic potential to join other small European nations, especially as a leader in technology and renewable energy
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Scotland has potential to be a leader in technology and renewable energy.
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Small European nations would benefit from Scotland's economic potential.
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Scotland has a proud history and has demonstrated since devolution different political interests
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The union has worked for over three hundred years and most people feel comfortable with the joint Scots/British identity
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Devolution has demonstrated the ability of Scots to govern themselves not only as well as Westminster but with more civility
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Scots can govern themselves better than Westminster.
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Devolution shows that Scots are more than capable to govern themselves.
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Bribery is sometimes the cost of doing business
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Bribery is occasionally a necessary price of engaging in business.
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Sometimes bribery is a required cost of business
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Bribery is morally wrong
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Bribery can never be justified, as it is immoral.
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There is no justification that can make bribery anything other than immoral.
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The demand for bribes would end if companies stopped supplying them
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Bribery is sometimes necessary for survival
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In some circumstances, bribery is absolutely necessary.
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Sometimes situations necessitate bribery.
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Individuals may have no choice
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Variation in standards leads to a ‘race to the bottom’ of corruptibility
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Bribery is only wrong under a Western-centric notion of corruption
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Bribery is not considered wrong in all cultures.
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Libertarians would return society to a state of nature where ‘life is cruel, bloody and short’.
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Libertarians want a world where everyone fends for themselves.
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A libertarian world would be a crueler and darker world than the one we currently live in.
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Libertarianism only works – even in theory – if you start off with a level pl
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Libertarianism is really a coalition of the unwilling; the fringes of the left and right, happy to criticize but without a single policy on which they can agree
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Libertarians have no policy ideas, but still want to be able to criticize others.
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Libertarianism is a movement led by people who have no ideas on how to fix things, but criticize those that do.
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[Iran specific] Iran has threatened to destroy Israel
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Iran has Israel targeted.
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No country has an inherent right to invade or use aggression against another.
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The United States has an obligation to protect international stability due to its unique military strength.
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The US must protect the international community.
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The US military is needed to ensure peace.
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[Iran specific] Others, particularly Israel, would act if the United States did not
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If the US does not act on Iran, Israel will
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Humanitarian intervention becomes impossible in states that possess nuclear weapons
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Humanitarian missions would not be possible in states that have nuclear weapons.
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It is very difficult to intercede in humanitarian crises in states wherein nuclear weapons are present.
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The threat of a state developing nuclear weapons could instigate pre-emptive strikes from its neighbours and rivals to prevent the acquisition of such weapons
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Other countries could strike against those developing nuclear weapons to protect themselves.
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To keep other countries from obtaining a nuclear arsenal, other nations may pre-emptively strike.
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The intention of a state to develop nuclear weapons may incite military attacks by enemies and by other supporting countries.
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Public acknowledgement of the right to nuclear deterrence will benefit the public regulation of nuclear weapons generally
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Nuclear weapons give states valuable agenda-setting power on the international stage
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Countries with nuclear weapons have the ability to set their own agenda.
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States with nuclear weapons are afforded more authority to set agendas at international levels.
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All countries have a right to defend themselves with nuclear weapons, even when they lack the capacity in conventional weapons
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All states have a right to nuclear self-defense.
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To use nuclear weapons in defense of the nation is lawful for all countries.
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countries have to right to self defense with nuclear weapons, even when they lack capacity in conventional weapon
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all countries are entitled to self defense with nuclear weapons, even when they do not have the capacity to carry conventional weapons
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Possessing nuclear weapons will be counter to the peaceful interests of states
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Nuclear waste disposal is rarely safe/efficient; it is too much to expect a sqeaky clean disposal/disarmament of nuclear weapons
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Disarmament is impossible, rendering efforts to disarm pointless and simply wasteful
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Disarmament would actually cause increased insecurity among nations, as there can never be any guarantee that a nation has disarmed
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Disarmament would actually cause increased insecurity among nations, it is near impossible to guarantee that a nation has disarmed.
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Disarmament would actually cause increased insecurity among nations, you can never really know for sure whether they have disarmed.
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The abolition of nuclear weapons would actually incentivize the development and use of even more dangerous weapons, such as chemical and biological weapons
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Proliferation of nuclear weapons increases the chances of nuclear accidents
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Nuclear weapons can fall into the wrong hands.
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The nukes can end up being used against us.
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States will give terrorists nuclear weapons
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It's conceivable that the wrong people will have the weapons.
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Irrational leaders make the possession of nuclear weapons dangerous
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It is immoral to use the threat of nuclear annihilation in order to achieve foreign policy aims
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As a matter of principle, every country, including the United States, has the right to defend itself to the best of its technological and economic ability
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Every country, including the United States, has a sovereign right to defend itself with every available means necessary
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Every sovereign nation has the right to defend itself by all means necessary
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Open primaries will lead to an intensification of lobbying activities
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A result of open primaries will be increased activity in the lobbying.
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Lobbyists will increase their activity if open primaries exist.
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Open primaries will just make lobbying more prominent
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Allowing open primaries will only encourage more lobbying
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Increasing voter engagement
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Voter engagement will be better.
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More people participate.
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Open primaries allow the electorate to express nuanced polling choices
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Open primaries make it so that voters aren't locked into single party stance voting.
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Open primaries will lead to an increase in disputes internal to political parties
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Political parties will have more disputes with open primaries.
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The primaries being open cause more internal friction.
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With open primaries, there will be more conflict withing the parties
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There will be more party infighting with open primaries
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Open primaries will distract and confuse the majority of the electorate
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Most people are confused by open primaries.
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Open primaries are unnecessarily complex for most people.
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Open primaries are open to manipulation
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Open primaries can be manipulated.
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It's possible to manipulate open primaries.
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Open primaries promote engagement with political minorities
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Political minorities are more engaged with open primaries.
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If you want political minorities to be more engaged, open primaries can help with that.
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