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Proportional representation is necessary.
PR leads to weaker government.
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Proportional representation is necessary.
Extremist parties will rise under PR.
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Proportional representation is necessary.
The link between constituencies and Members of Parliament is important.
SUPPORT
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Proportional representation is necessary.
Coalition government is a good thing.
SUPPORT
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Proportional representation is necessary.
PR decreases political engagement.
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Proportional representation is necessary.
PR creates an unfair balance of power.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Human-caused global warming is changing weather systems and making heat waves and droughts more intense and more frequent.
SUPPORT
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Global warming and cooling are primarily caused by fluctuations in the sun's heat (solar forcing), not by human activity.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Rising levels of human-produced gases released into the atmosphere create a greenhouse effect that traps heat and causes global warming.
SUPPORT
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Earth's climate has always warmed and cooled, and the 20th century rise in global temperature is within the bounds of natural temperature fluctuations over the past 3,000 years.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
More than one thousand scientists disagree that human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Global warming caused by human-produced greenhouse gases is causing the Arctic ice cap to melt at an increasing rate.
SUPPORT
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Predictions of accelerating human-caused climate change are based upon computerized climate models that are inadequate and incorrect.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Deep ocean currents, not human activity, are a primary driver of natural climate warming and cooling cycles.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Ocean acidity levels are increasing at an unprecedented rate that can only be explained by human activity.
SUPPORT
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
The specific type of CO2 that is increasing in earth's atmosphere can be directly connected to human activity.
SUPPORT
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Sea levels have been steadily rising for thousands of years, and the increase has nothing to do with humans.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
The acidity levels of the oceans are within past natural levels, and the current rise in acidity is a natural fluctuation, not the result of human caused climate change.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Overwhelming scientific consensus says human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change.
SUPPORT
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Dramatic changes in precipitation, such as heavier storms and less snow, are another sign that humans are causing global climate change.
SUPPORT
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Rising levels of atmospheric CO2 do not necessarily cause global warming, which contradicts the core thesis of human-caused climate change.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Glaciers have been growing and receding for thousands of years due to natural causes, not human activity.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Increased hurricane activity and other extreme weather events are a result of natural weather patterns, not human-caused climate change.
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Human activity is primarily responsible for global climate change
Lack of scientific understanding
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
Terrorists use our own media to terrify our people and create a climate of fear.
SUPPORT
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
Censorship of news can have a boomerang effect.
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
Excessive publicity of terrorist acts corrupt good decision-making by placing undue focus upon terrorism.
SUPPORT
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
If you deny terrorists publicity, you prevent future terrorist attacks.
SUPPORT
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
Recruitment occurs through various other channels than through public news sources.
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
Citizens and the world community have a right to be informed.
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
The lack of extensive publicity would also reduce social unrest among citizens.
SUPPORT
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
The oxygen of publicity is a good way to expose terrorism.
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Terrorism should not be allowed publicity
Publicity creates a public forum for terrorist organizations.
SUPPORT
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Any job is better than no job
Can leave you financially worse off.
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Any job is better than no job
Some jobs genuinely need higher qualifications.
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India should give up Kashmir
Give it to the Roma.
SUPPORT
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
Arming the rebels would be unpopular
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
Sovereignty and non intervention in internal affairs
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
Unforeseeable consequences
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
It is in the national interest for democracies to support those seeking to oust dictators
SUPPORT
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
Diplomacy is not going anywhere
SUPPORT
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
Would balance the support for Syrian government
SUPPORT
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
Possibility of being drawn into a long drawn out conflict
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
The Free Syrian Army is outgunned
SUPPORT
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The world must arm the Syrian rebels
Syria clearly meets the standards for intervention
SUPPORT
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Act to regulate the activities of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign Wealth funds are not transparent
SUPPORT
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Act to regulate the activities of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Sovereign wealth funds must be regulated
SUPPORT
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Act to regulate the activities of Sovereign Wealth Funds
SWFs can harm national security
SUPPORT
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Act to regulate the activities of Sovereign Wealth Funds
SWFs should be welcomed for the benefits they bring rather than ostracized for doing what others do.
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We should detain terror suspects without trial
Internment without trial exacerbates the antagonism of enemies and subsequent risk to civilians.
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We should detain terror suspects without trial
Internment without trial encourages the bad behaviour of other states.
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We should detain terror suspects without trial
The protection of intelligence sources is more important than trying suspects.
SUPPORT
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We should detain terror suspects without trial
Internment without trial undermines democratic values.
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We should detain terror suspects without trial
Internment without trial fails to make society safer.
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We should detain terror suspects without trial
The war on terror is not an armed conflict, and therefore internment without trial is illegal.
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We should detain terror suspects without trial
Tribunals are adequate replacements that maintain respect for detainees' rights.
SUPPORT
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Sao Tome would drop relations with Taiwan in favour of Mainland China
PRC is clearly the China that matters
SUPPORT
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Sao Tome would drop relations with Taiwan in favour of Mainland China
Should recognise a democracy
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Sao Tome would drop relations with Taiwan in favour of Mainland China
Economically beneficial
SUPPORT
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Ethiopia is right to build a dam on the River Nile
Economic benefits of the dam for Ethiopia
SUPPORT
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Ethiopia is right to build a dam on the River Nile
The dam is predicted to provide energy for all of Ethiopia
SUPPORT
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Ethiopia is right to build a dam on the River Nile
Ethiopia does not need another hydroelectric dam
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Governments should lower the voting age to 16
Parents are guardians and should be trusted to vote in their children’s interests
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Governments should lower the voting age to 16
Voting at a lower age would increase participation
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Governments should lower the voting age to 16
Young people would be more likely to misuse their vote
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Governments should lower the voting age to 16
16 year olds are mature enough to vote
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Governments should lower the voting age to 16
At sixteen there is a lack of maturity that is necessary to vote responsibly.
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Governments should lower the voting age to 16
YES, give them the rights they deserve!
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Governments should lower the voting age to 16
Would complicate elections
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Criminal trials should not be televised, and the ICC is no exception
Broadcasting provides a public record
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Criminal trials should not be televised, and the ICC is no exception
ICC does not have same problems as other legal systems
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Criminal trials should not be televised, and the ICC is no exception
Televising turns justice into entertainment
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Criminal trials should not be televised, and the ICC is no exception
Witnesses might be identified and placed in danger
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It is important to use foreign aid funds to research and distribute software that allows bloggers and journalists in non-democratic countries to evade censorship and conceal their online activities.
Funding technologies to evade censorship could have immense benefits for very little cost
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It is important to use foreign aid funds to research and distribute software that allows bloggers and journalists in non-democratic countries to evade censorship and conceal their online activities.
We all have an obligation to help maintain freedom of speech.
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It is important to use foreign aid funds to research and distribute software that allows bloggers and journalists in non-democratic countries to evade censorship and conceal their online activities.
Violation of Sovereignty
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It is important to use foreign aid funds to research and distribute software that allows bloggers and journalists in non-democratic countries to evade censorship and conceal their online activities.
This will needlessly antagonise non-democratic countries
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Build hydroelectric dams
Hydroelectric dams destroy communities
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Build hydroelectric dams
Hydroelectric dams increase methane emissions
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Build hydroelectric dams
Hydroelectric dams can be used to provide flood control and irrigation
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Build hydroelectric dams
Hydro electric dams reduce carbon dioxide emissions
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Build hydroelectric dams
Hydroelectric dams provide cheap access to renewable energy
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Build hydroelectric dams
Hydro electric dams destroy existing ecosystems
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Atheism is the only way
Entirely natural theories can adequately explain the existence and development of the Universe and all it contains, making God irrelevant to the discussion of reality:
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Atheism is the only way
The nature of God as it is conventionally described is logically contradictory:
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Atheism is the only way
Even if atheism was wrong and God did exist His seeming lack of interest and interaction with the Universe as far as humans can perceive means his existence is irrelevant:
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Atheism is the only way
In the absence of positive evidence for the existence of God the rational position is agnosticism, not atheism:
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Atheism is the only way
If there were a God there would be irrefutable evidence of His existence and people would feel compelled to belief by the fact of it:
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Atheism is the only way
The complexity of the universe and of life cannot be explained by atheism:
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African leaders should be transparent about their health
The head of state/government must be accountable to the people
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African leaders should be transparent about their health
Transparency allows citizens to choose for a healthy leader as to ensure proper functioning
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African leaders should be transparent about their health
A lack of transparency can endanger the leader
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We should dramatically increase the rate of income tax paid by the rich
Income tax is not the best way to redistribute wealth or pay for public goods.
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We should dramatically increase the rate of income tax paid by the rich
Balancing governmental deficits for common good of society
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We should dramatically increase the rate of income tax paid by the rich
Redistributing wealth to balance the inequality of income disparity
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We should dramatically increase the rate of income tax paid by the rich
more taxes on rich could create more backlash
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Lesotho should be annexed by South Africa
Annexation is not needed where there is already extensive cooperation between the countries
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Lesotho should be annexed by South Africa
Lesotho is in a dire condition and needs help from its closest ally
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Lesotho should be annexed by South Africa
It is not in the interest of South Africa to annex a poor, underdeveloped country
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Lesotho should be annexed by South Africa
South Africa will gain influence, stability and a better image on the international stage
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