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cosmetic surgery should be allowed as long as the person undergoing it pays for it themselves | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be allowed for children who may have deformities and need the surgery. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | cosmetic surgery for minors should be banned because they are to young to make an informed life lasting decision. |
cosmetic surgery should be allowed for minor because they may need surgery from an accident or from a deformity that can be fixed before they are old enough to suffer from it. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | Cosmetic surgery can have really harmful side-effects that minors can't consent to and will not be able to physically handle the way adults do. |
cosmetic surgery should be allowed in a free enterprise system where people can act of their own free will in making that decision. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
Cosmetic surgery should be banned as it feeds the belief that people should look a certain way to be accepted. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned as more people are feeling under pressure to become more youthful or beautiful and not all cosmetic surgery is safe | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned as some surgeries can be dangerous and have negative side affects which women will have to live with for the rest of their lives. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned because a lot of people these days continuously get it, which can eventually lead to them having a mental disorder. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned because it is really not a necessary type of surgery. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned because it is unnatural. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned because it leads to a downhill slide for those with body dysmorphic disorder, sometimes causing it altogether. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned because the risks attached both to the surgery and in the longer term are not worth the gains. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery has too many risks of something going wrong compared to the benefit of looking more aesthetically pleasing. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned for minors because their bodies are still continuing to grow and change. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | we should ban cosmetic surgery for minors because they are too young to decide what they want |
cosmetic surgery should be banned for minors because their bodies haven’t even finished developing yet so anything done to correct issues with appearance may be undone by nature anyway. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | we should ban cosmetic surgery for minors because they are too young to decide what they want |
cosmetic surgery should be banned if minors are having surgery for the wrong reasons for example body image because of peer pressure | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | Allowing minors to access cosmetic surgery would put even more pressure on them to conform to certain unrealistic aesthetic standards. |
cosmetic surgery should be banned on those who cannot consent for themselves to have it done. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | we should ban cosmetic surgery for minors because they are too young to decide what they want |
cosmetic surgery should be banned. god made you a certain way and these procedures are going against that. besides, it could be dangerous as joan rivers died from complications during surgery. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery has too many risks of something going wrong compared to the benefit of looking more aesthetically pleasing. |
cosmetic surgery should be lawful as everyone should be allowed to do anything to their body as long as they are informed and aware of the risks. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should not be banned as it is a person prerogative to do what they wan to their bodies and if it will enhance their self-esteem, then it is for the good rather than the bad. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should not be banned because it helps people recover from traumatic injuries resulting from accidents or disease. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should not be banned because it helps restore confidence to people who have suffered disfigurement. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should not be banned because it is harmless and can boost people's self esteem. also, many people who are burned or injured can get surgery which can fix their horrific scars. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery should not be banned for children because there may be born with a disfigurement that may hinder there development, or could be bullied, so a child still might need it to help them out. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | we should ban cosmetic surgery for minors because children tend to change their minds about things and they might regret having it when they get older |
cosmetic surgery should not be banned, its the individuals choice | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery shouldn't be banned because there are plenty of cases and times when someone is in a accident and they actually need it to fix their appearance. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery simply forces an "ideal" model for children to feel that they need to follow in order to be accepted in the world, and should be banned. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery sometimes causes more damage then good and some people can become addicted to it. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery has too many risks of something going wrong compared to the benefit of looking more aesthetically pleasing. |
cosmetic surgery supports the idea that young people are not good enough as they are and that they require invasive procedures in order to look good enough for society. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery teaches our daughters that they need to look perfect and never age. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery has too many risks of something going wrong compared to the benefit of looking more aesthetically pleasing. |
cosmetic surgery that has not been fully researched should be banned. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery when practiced ethically can offer helpful ways for people with physical or mental issues to overcome their problems. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
cosmetic surgery will only lead minors to get more and more surgery in an attempt to reach an impossible standard. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | Allowing minors to access cosmetic surgery would put even more pressure on them to conform to certain unrealistic aesthetic standards. |
cosmetic surgery will only reinforce eurocentric beauty standards for people that are potentially too young to understand that implication. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | Allowing minors to access cosmetic surgery would put even more pressure on them to conform to certain unrealistic aesthetic standards. |
Cosmetic surgery, like any other surgery, can have potentially fatal complications. | We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors | sometimes a cosmetic procedure is necessary in cases of disfigurement, and when this is addressed early, the chances of recovery and normalised existence are maximised. |
cosmetic surgery, other than for disfigurments, should be banned. society puts too much pressure on people to look perfect. people should embrace individuality. | We should ban cosmetic surgery | cosmetic surgery is a frivolous waste of resources and should be banned. it takes medical time away from those in need. cosmetic surgery promotes vanity and self absorption. |
could in turn put pressure on the economy as tax is increasing which could worse the economic currency | We should adopt an austerity regime | an austerity regime hurts the poorest in our society |
could not regulate that because if it is the passion of the child then i could put it into practice as a child grabbing more experience | We should ban the use of child actors | the use of child actors should not be banned as youthful actors can take on roles that provide inspiration for young people |
could open up congress and create new opportunities for bargaining and coalition building on unusual lines. | We should adopt a multi-party system | the multi-party system offers voters more choices that may get more people involved in politics |
could play other roles such as nursing and planning techniques | We should prohibit women in combat | women should be prohibited from combat roles because they lack the physical size and strength to perform many of the tasks required of them |
counselors would probably a similiar option that would work. | We should abolish safe spaces | safe spaces are vital to many, especially on campuses where the students that feel excluded or discriminated against have a safe haven to enable them to feel comfortable in continuing their education |
countless studies have determined that homeopathy is no better than a placebo. | Homeopathy brings more harm than good | homeopathy can interact badly with real medicine. |
Countries are unlikely to listen to anti-nuclear weapons advocates, making this sort of advocacy useless. | We should fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons | we should fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons because is fundamental for world peace |
countries can not be allowed to get away with just anything. economic sanctions are a non violent way to punish and effect change of an offending country without the horrors of war. | We should end the use of economic sanctions | economic sanctions are useful in deterring unacceptable behavior from other governments. |
countries shouldn’t have to provide things to other countries when they’re not comfortable doing so. | We should end the use of economic sanctions | economic sanctions are a great way to apply pressure to a country without using military force. |
countries spend foolish money in support of the olympic games and should be abolished; the money could be spent on education of all children. | We should abolish the Olympic Games | olympic games cost a lot of money for the host city to organise and the money could be spent better elsewhere |
countries that abolish nuclear weapons will leave themselves defenseless to the countries that refuse to. | We should fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons | Nuclear weapons provide a deterrent for starting a major conflict. |
Countries that target another country's leader to kill should be banned. Target killing is just another term for murder and murder is illegal, | We should ban targeted killing | targeted killing should be unlawful as everyone is entitled to a fair impartial trial. |
countries that used sex selection, like china, now have a problem with two many older men and not enough women to marry them and have more children for the next generation. | We should legalize sex selection | sex selection can lead to a gender imbalance if one sex is favoured over the other. this can lead to a lack of suitable partners in the future and people being forced to lead a single life. |
countries where people do not routinely keep guns have far lower murder rates and are far safer than the usa where there is a constitutional right to keep and bear arms | We should abolish the right to keep and bear arms | Gun ownership only breeds more violence. Guns sold on the consumer market today are inexcusably far too powerful for mere self-defense purposes. |
countries with nuclear weapons are better able to defend themselves than countries without. | We should fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons | Nuclear weapons provide a deterrent for starting a major conflict. |
couples have the right to explore options for starting a family, and if a third party is willing and able to consent surrogacy should be an option. | Surrogacy should be banned | surrogacy should be banned because there are many children who could be adopted without surrogacy. |
couples should be able to select the sex of their child since some may only want boys or may want girls. they may also already have more then one child of a certain sex and want the other sex next time. | We should legalize sex selection | legalizing sex selection is a good option for people looking to have a specific sex of child. |
couples who cannot have children of their own, are able to love and care for a child | Foster care brings more harm than good | foster care families provide loving homes for children who need support |
Couples who marry tend to stay together longer than couples who don't marry. | We should abandon marriage | marriage offers certain protections and privileges that simply dating or cohabitating can not and do not. it's needed it many instances. |
courts are the way average people can access justice - judges have the power to right wrongs. | We should limit judicial activism | judicial activism allows judges to play a legislative role which destroys the balance of power inherent to our form of government |
creating a situation that entraps a person into committing a crime should always be illegal. manipulating a person into doing something wrong is not a valid form of legal enforcement. | Entrapment should be legalized | entrapment should be legalized because sometimes this tactic is the only way to apprehend repeat offenders. |
Creating an industry out of nuclear technology also helps create nuclear energy plants, which reduce pollution and increase access to cheap energy. | We should fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons | The nuclear weapons industry produces a large volume of radioactive waste |
Creating intellectual property is a form of labor and its unfair to allow others to steal and profit from someone else's work | We should abolish intellectual property rights | Intellectual property rights are important to protect the assets of those who have invested time and money into a particular idea. |
creating pockets of dense population does not benefit the majority, just the administration of the area. | We should fight urbanization | urbanization of areas has a positive effect on the growth and productivity of citizens. it helps society become and stay competitive in a global culture. |
Creating such a secluded environment for this detention camp has encouraged and legitimized unlawful and immoral behaviour on the part of the soldiers in charge of the detainees. | We should close Guantanamo Bay detention camp | Indefinite detention and torture completely undermine the standards of decency and justice that make America a country worth working for. |
creative property is just as important as physical work and should be protected | We should abolish intellectual property rights | Intellectual property rights are important to protect the assets of those who have invested time and money into a particular idea. |
creative work is just as important as physical work and authors should be compensated | We should abolish intellectual property rights | Intellectual property rights are important to protect the assets of those who have invested time and money into a particular idea. |
Creativity, emotional sensitivity, social understanding, and various acquired skills such as music or art, are excluded from test measurements of intelligence | Intelligence tests bring more harm than good | Intelligence tests can help to identify struggling or gifted students so that educators can accommodate to each individuals needs. |
creators have the right to profit from their ideas. | We should abolish intellectual property rights | Intellectual property rights are important to protect the assets of those who have invested time and money into a particular idea. |
creators need intellectual property rights so that can get paid for what they create. | We should abolish intellectual property rights | Intellectual property rights are important to protect the assets of those who have invested time and money into a particular idea. |
Crime rates in states with capital punishment is no different than crime rates in states without, proving that it is an ineffective deterrent. | We should abolish capital punishment | capital punishment has done nothing to actually deter serious crime in this country |
Crime rates increase when there is no fear of a death penalty. | We should abolish capital punishment | capital punishment has done nothing to actually deter serious crime in this country |
crimes as extreme as treason have such long-reaching effects, it is warranted to kill their perpetrators so that they can never benefit from their crimes. | We should abolish capital punishment | capital punishment is inhumane and often an unfit punishment for the crime |
Crimes that get the death penalty are rarely premeditated, which means capital punishment doesn't function as a deterant. | We should abolish capital punishment | capital punishment is inhumane and often an unfit punishment for the crime |
crimials shouldn't need three strikes before they pay for their crimes | We should abolish the three-strikes laws | Three-strikes laws are too harsh. Many people who have committed non-violent felonies - and in some cases, misdemeanors - have been given mandatory life sentences. |
criminal charges for denying the holocaust violates a person's first amendment rights. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Holocaust denial should not be a criminal offence because it is better to let bad ideas be outcompeted by good ideas than to let them fester and grow out of sight like a cancer. |
criminal offenders are judged proportionately the crime they committed. when the crime is too serious and involved taking the life of a person, it's then the equal judgment | We should abolish capital punishment | capital punishment is inhumane and often an unfit punishment for the crime |
criminalization does not help people get out of prostitution it rather makes life harder for those trapped in it and perpetrate physical and sexual violence against them | We should legalize prostitution | prostitution should be legalized as it provides a service and reduces rape and sex crimes |
Criminalization of Holocaust denial is to democracy what free speech is to totalitarianism - a polar opposite. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Holocaust denial should not be a criminal offence because it is better to let bad ideas be outcompeted by good ideas than to let them fester and grow out of sight like a cancer. |
criminalize the negationism is violate the first amendment of the constitution fundamental pillar of our great nation | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | The right to free speech is a fundamental right and must be upheld, no matter how distasteful the speech. |
Criminalizing holocaust denial allows deniers to martyr themselves as champions of free speech and prevents the state from logically deconstructing their argument in a way that the public will believe. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Holocaust denial propagates negative Jewish stereotypes and encourages Anti-Semitism. It must be stopped. |
Criminalizing holocaust denial cuts down on anti-semitic acts by making it clear that no actions of this kind will be tolerated by the government. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Holocaust denial propagates negative Jewish stereotypes and encourages Anti-Semitism. It must be stopped. |
Criminalizing holocaust denial gives alt-right organizations a way to play the victim of the state and boost popularity and recruitment. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | holocaust denial allows for hate to continue and encourages people to act upon such hatred. |
Criminalizing Holocaust denial gives the deniers martyr-status, giving their followers conspiracy theory claims to tote. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Making Holocaust denial a criminal offense will force deniers underground, and their activity will be hard to monitor. |
Criminalizing Holocaust denial is necessary in order to prevent the reemergence of Nazism. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Making Holocaust denial a criminal offense will force deniers underground, and their activity will be hard to monitor. |
Criminalizing holocaust denial is strong government signaling in support of truth and oppressed people, which makes minorities feels safer and makes such hateful speech socially unacceptable. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | holocaust denial allows for hate to continue and encourages people to act upon such hatred. |
Criminalizing holocaust denial lets the state catch anti-semites before they put their hatred into action and cause real damage to people. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | holocaust denial allows for hate to continue and encourages people to act upon such hatred. |
Criminalizing Holocaust denial limits academic research and makes it difficult to publish new facts still being discovered. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Holocaust denial propagates negative Jewish stereotypes and encourages Anti-Semitism. It must be stopped. |
Criminalizing holocaust denial makes it so that even people who are deniers are deterred from spreading their views to others for fear of punishment. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | holocaust denial allows for hate to continue and encourages people to act upon such hatred. |
Criminalizing holocaust denial significantly hurts the recruitment of nazi groups by giving new members a meaningful deterrent. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Holocaust denial propagates negative Jewish stereotypes and encourages Anti-Semitism. It must be stopped. |
Criminalizing Holocaust denial will lead to more Holocausts because it deprives people of independent thought. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | holocaust denial allows for hate to continue and encourages people to act upon such hatred. |
Criminalizing independent thought is something a Nazi might do, so isn't it ironic that this is proposed regarding Holocaust denial. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Making Holocaust denial a criminal offense will force deniers underground, and their activity will be hard to monitor. |
criminalizing something makes it more compelling to the angry, white, males who would find conspiracy theories attractive. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Criminalizing speech simply because it's reprehensible leads us on a slippery slope towards totalitarianism. |
Criminalizing speech simply because it's reprehensible leads us on a slippery slope towards totalitarianism. | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | The right to free speech is a fundamental right and must be upheld, no matter how distasteful the speech. |
criminalizing who denies the holocaust is unconstitutional and violates the 1st amendment | Holocaust denial should be a criminal offence | Holocaust denial should not be a criminal offence because it is better to let bad ideas be outcompeted by good ideas than to let them fester and grow out of sight like a cancer. |
criminals are bound to repeat themselves, and with increasing risk. the three strikes law would punish those criminals accordingly. | We should abolish the three-strikes laws | three-strikes laws are effective in deterring repeat offenses and should not be abandoned. |
criminals are going to commit the crime either way. by allowing law enforcentment to use entrapment you just catch them sooner and keep that many more people safe. | Entrapment should be legalized | legalizing entrapment would be insanity. it would allow for mostly innocent people to be trapped into doing wrong and thereby losing their freedom. it's much too easy to use it to prey on the weak. |
Criminals are often kept on death row for many years, suffering in anticipation of their death. This makes capital punishment more severe than just depriving the criminal of life. | We should abolish capital punishment | capital punishment is inhumane and often an unfit punishment for the crime |
criminals can pretend they are in trouble to hide in safe spaces and hurt people that are looking for a place to get away from danger. | We should abolish safe spaces | safe spaces give a place of sanctuary to those that may be in a vulnerable state and a safe place is the only accessible option to gather oneself together in safety. |
criminals deserve to suffer at the same level of which they've called pain. | We should close Guantanamo Bay detention camp | we should close guantanamo bay since the treatment of these inmates is likely inhumane and some are there with no real proof they belong there, but will never even get a trial. |
criminals may be deterred from committing further crime if they know that they will be put in prison for life if they commit further criminal acts. | We should abolish the three-strikes laws | if limited to violent crime, three-strikes laws serve the necessary function of keeping dangerous individuals out of society. |
criminals need to realize their crime will not be tolerated and they will have to pay the price. | We should abolish the three-strikes laws | the three-strikes laws have resulted in our prisons being overcrowded with non-violent offenders |
criminals should always have be defended in court by public defenders | The use of public defenders should be mandatory | having a system where public defenders are mandatory would make it fairer because all defendants would have the same level of defense |
criminals should be caught and not allowed to continue to harm society. entrapment is an effective means of catching them. | Entrapment should be legalized | entrapment should be legalized because sometimes this tactic is the only way to apprehend repeat offenders. |
criminals should be caught by any means possible | Entrapment should be legalized | entrapment should be legalized because sometimes this tactic is the only way to apprehend repeat offenders. |
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