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Geoengineering, solar shading | Volcanoes perform solar shading; why is it wrong for humans to do so? | PRO |
Geoengineering, solar shading | Solar ring is cheapest solar shading solution | PRO |
Wind energy | Wind energy comes naturally from the environment. | PRO |
Carbon emissions trading | Emissions trading has govt not markets set cap | CON |
Carbon emissions trading | US cap-and-trade in sulfur dioxidew was succesful | PRO |
Carbon emissions trading | A cap-and-trade system is progressive | PRO |
Natural gas vehicles | Natural gas vehicles are not yet commercially viable. | CON |
Natural gas vehicles | The performance of natural gas vehicles is not notable. | CON |
Natural gas vehicles | Natural gas utilities have a long record of safety | PRO |
Random sobriety tests for drivers | Random sobriety tests are a just public safety intervention | PRO |
Random sobriety tests for drivers | RBT has been successfully implemented in many modern democracies | PRO |
Random sobriety tests for drivers | Good use of police to cultivate awareness on drunk driving. | PRO |
Hybrid vehicles | Power of hybrids is senseless in the face of global warming. | CON |
Hybrid vehicles | Hybrid cars are simply a way for oil companies to maintain profits. | CON |
Hybrid vehicles | Hybrids are more economical than electric cars. | PRO |
Hydrogen vehicles | Too much energy required to compress hydrogen for cars | CON |
Hydrogen vehicles | Hydrogen can't be compressed to give sufficient driving range | CON |
Hydrogen vehicles | Hydrogen is more challenging than alternatives | CON |
Hydrogen vehicles | It's OK to use more energy to make hydrogen than is obtained out | PRO |
Hydrogen vehicles | Hydrogen is non-toxic, unlike most fossil fuels. | PRO |
Hydrogen vehicles | Hydrogen cars are like high-performance electric cars | PRO |
Electric vehicles | Public transportation is a better idea than electric cars | CON |
Electric vehicles | Electric vehicles are more resilient to price pressures. | PRO |
Electric vehicles | Electric car battery technology and costs are improving rapidly | PRO |
Electric vehicles | Electric car power and speed can be precisely controlled. | PRO |
Tidal energy | Tidal barages produce more energy than other forms of tidal. | PRO |
Tidal energy | A tidal barrage can safeguard coastlines from storms. | PRO |
Natural gas | Natural gas vehicle fuel tanks are very strong and safe | PRO |
Natural gas | Natural gas engines are as efficient as gasoline engines. | PRO |
Natural gas | Liquefied natural gas can be a good fuel for vehicles. | PRO |
Natural gas | Natural gas has very diverse applications in the home. | PRO |
Hydroelectric dams | There are better ways to store water than dams. | CON |
Hydroelectric dams | Human displacement does not inherently accompany dams. | PRO |
Solar energy | Solar electricity cannot significantly reduce dependencies on oil. | CON |
Solar energy | Nuclear power is a more potent and efficient source of energy. | CON |
Solar energy | Clouds and smog undermine solar energy unlike other energy sources. | CON |
Solar energy | Producing solar cells need not use fossil fuel energy. | PRO |
Solar energy | Solar energy can be stored in ways other than batteries (i.e. hydrogen). | PRO |
South Ossetia independence | The world needs fewer borders; A S. Ossetian nation adds more. | CON |
South Ossetia independence | S. Ossetia has a definite territory. | PRO |
South Ossetia independence | S. Ossetia 2006 referendum should be recognized | PRO |
South Ossetia independence | Russia supports S. Ossetia's 2006 referendum and right to independence. | PRO |
South Ossetia independence | Modern Georgia never really controlled S. Ossetia. | PRO |
South Ossetia independence | Name Ossetia has history independent of Georgia | PRO |
Falkland Islands, return of | Relations with Argentina are not important to Britain. | CON |
Falkland Islands, return of | The Nookta Sound convention did not affect Britains rights to the islands as they already had an agreement with Spain where both nations rights were secured in 1771 | CON |
Falkland Islands, return of | Britain sent its soldiers to fight an unjust war in the Falkland Islands. | PRO |
Home plate collision rule in baseball | Home plate contact isn't an important part of game. | CON |
Home plate collision rule in baseball | Home base collisions are essential characteristic of hardball. | PRO |
Obama, meeting with hostile foreign leaders without preconditions | Iran sponsors terrorists; wrong to talk with them | CON |
Obama, meeting with hostile foreign leaders without preconditions | Iranian leaders are evil; wrong to meet with them | CON |
Obama, meeting with hostile foreign leaders without preconditions | It is irrational to meet unconditionally with irrational leaders. | CON |
Obama, meeting with hostile foreign leaders without preconditions | Obama's position on meeting hostile leaders is naive; poor judgement. | CON |
Obama, meeting with hostile foreign leaders without preconditions | Talking to your enemies is not a concession | PRO |
EU constitution reform treaty (Lisbon Treaty) | The Lisbon Treaty simply repackages the failed EU Constitution | CON |
Cluster bomb ban | Cluster bombs are usually used in uninhabited areas | CON |
Cluster bomb ban | Importance of cluster bombs against threats makes a ban infeasible | CON |
Democratic peace theory | Democracies mostly only engage in defensive wars with non-democracies. | PRO |
Democratic peace theory | Democracies are founded on similar principles so they should not go to war. | PRO |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | The bombing of Japan was illegal under the international law of the time. | CON |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Bombing Japan was to take revenge on the civilians. | CON |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Soviet victories in Manchuria were core cause of Japanese surrender. | CON |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | No international law forbade the bombing of Japanese civilians | PRO |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Bombing Japan was the lesser evil among the alternatives | PRO |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Bombing Japan was ethical in context of the horrors of WWII | PRO |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Bombing Japan was justified in the post-Okinawa context | PRO |
Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Hiroshima was a strategic military headquarters and target. | PRO |
NATO expansion | Croatia is doing well at securing stability | PRO |
NATO expansion | The expense of NATO expansion is marginal when compared to the defence budgets of the major NATO States. | PRO |
European missile defense | Both missile threat and missile defense do not exist | CON |
European missile defense | The majority of poles oppose missile defense on their territory | CON |
European missile defense | European missile defense is a necessary part of a layered defense | PRO |
European missile defense | Real threat of rogue states missile attacks | PRO |
European missile defense | Missile defense systems are becoming effective and reliable | PRO |
European Union Expansion | European Union should include all of Europe; it's in their name. | PRO |
European Union Expansion | Cheaper labour is good for the economies of richer European nations. | PRO |
Banning cell phones in cars | Many things in cars are just as distracting as cell phones | CON |
Banning cell phones in cars | If you can't ban sleep-driving, why ban talking on phone in car. | CON |
Banning cell phones in cars | Markets are better at regulating cell phone use in cars | CON |
Banning cell phones in cars | Cell phone use in cars is unnecessary; people went without them before. | PRO |
Banning cell phones in cars | Cell phones should only be used while driving in dire situations | PRO |
Banning cell phones in cars | Careless driving laws are inadequate; cell phone ban is necessary. | PRO |
Banning cell phones in cars | State has authority to regulate actions of drivers (by cell phone ban). | PRO |
Child beauty pageants | Pageants based on bad idea of children being better than others | CON |
Child beauty pageants | Parents should be trusted on entering kids in child beauty pageants. | PRO |
Child beauty pageants | Plenty of other activities are exclusive to boys/girls. | PRO |
Death penalty | Life in prison is a sufficient punishment; execution is excessive | CON |
Death penalty | The death penalty does not bring back a loved one | CON |
Death penalty | The death penalty is often motivated by discrimination | CON |
Death penalty | Capital punishment is compassionate to the victims | PRO |
Hunting for sport | Animals should be treated as we would want to be treated | CON |
Hunting for sport | Wrong to hunt harmless, defenseless animals | CON |
Hunting for sport | Modern humans have lost touch with animals and our likeness | CON |
Hunting for sport | Evolutionary science debunks the idea of human dominion over animals | CON |
Hunting for sport | There is an inherent human passion for hunting | PRO |
Hunting for sport | Exploiting animals is more dignified than their living in the wild | PRO |
Hunting for sport | Human life is of greater intrinsic value than animal life | PRO |
Prisoners right to vote | Unhelpful to ban voting by prisoners serving for 6 months | PRO |
Prisoners right to vote | Prisoners must be able to influence world they will re-enter. | PRO |
Prisoners right to vote | Depriving prisoners of a vote is simply mean spirited. | PRO |
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