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all are made to feel welcome and included in pride parades
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all available resources should be directed at curing diseases, not vanity
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all avenues should be looked at, not just the supposedly straight forward.
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all children attending school ensures that they are taught the values that the state and society in which they live hold to be important.
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all children should receive the same education to ensure a standard of learning is established.
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all citizens have the right to protest, even if they are burning a flag.
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all citizens should be compelled to vote to voice their opinion on who should be our elected leaders. apathy in selecting our political leaders is detrimental to our society.
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all cosmetic surgery for minors should be banned as they don't have the maturity to make informed decisions about thier appearance
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all countries want to do the best for their citizens. let there be free trade so all people can succeed. no sanctions mean all can improve.
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all education including vocational education should be subsidized. it all leads to the bettering of society overall.
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all education should be subsidized because education creates better people and a better world.
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All executions violate the right to life and are a gross affront to human dignity
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all guilty people should be punished and some criminals are simply impossible to rehabilitate and release.
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all human beings have the right to satisfy our needs
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all judges should be allowed to practice judicial activism if the situation calls for it and nothing else would work.
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all lies which we listen and watching today on tv is huge propagnda and tv should be abandoned.
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all life is important and should be protected
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all natural, non-invasive and promoting self-healing. natural plus green is always winning combination.
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all nuclear weapons should be abolished. the bombs strike at innocent people not just soldiers. the bombs can knock out cities. true devastation are the results of them.
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all people are entitled to celebrate in their prefered ways.
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all people have personal flaws and age. cosmetic surgery is just vanity by those that cannot face the truth of life. by banning this surgery we mkle people accept themselves as they are and not judge others.
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all people need to have life skills such as cooking, fixing items, and building. by giving classes in these vocational areas we are helping all of society. life is not just book smarts.
We should subsidize vocational education
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all people should be able to decide what they want to do with their own bodies. this includes minors as well.
We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors
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all people should be able to use the rights for inventions and literature. a price should not have to be required in order for people to use the ideas.
We should abolish intellectual property rights
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all persons should have the final say over their own lives and bodies. bodily autonomy should be up held above all. as long as properly informed about naturopathy, it should be a personal choice.
We should ban naturopathy
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all services have to be paid for, and until the defecit has been reduced, too much money is being wasted on interst payments. once debts have been reduced, that money will be availbale for services.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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all students have the right to feel safe and protected, especially in the ever increasingly hostile world. there should be a place to escape from and feel protected.
We should abolish safe spaces
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All students should have acces to subsidized loans as society as a whole benefits from a more educated population.
We should subsidize student loans
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all surrogacy is exploitation. france, germany, italy, and spain prohibit all forms of surrogacy
Surrogacy should be banned
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All the talk about the free market correcting itself are nonsense. A recession could mean major unemployment, house loses and more poverty. The government cannot ignore it's citizens.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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all these parades do is emphasize the fact that many people believe that being anything other than cis gender is strange or different. by promoting these rallies we are perpetuating this myth.
We should cancel pride parades
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all votes should be heard and must be obligatory for all adults and not voting must include some penalties.
We should introduce compulsory voting
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All young people whether rich or poor should have the opportunity to better their lives by going to into higher education, the more student loans are subsidized the closer this will become a reality.
We should subsidize student loans
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allow assisted suicide could allow unscrupulous people to become serial killers
Assisted suicide should be a criminal offence
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allow the selection of sex could alter the natural order of things
We should legalize sex selection
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allowing assisted suicide sends a message to the elderly, disabled, and ill that they are a burden.
Assisted suicide should be a criminal offence
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Allowing assisted suicide would enable greedy relatives to take advantage of ill relatives for their own financial gain
Assisted suicide should be a criminal offence
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Allowing cosmetic surgery for minors creates more risk for doctors and therefore more frivolous lawsuits and money spent on malpractice insurance. This is bad for the healthcare system overall.
We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors
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allowing cosmetic surgery for minors is a great mistake and it's dangerous for their health
We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors
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Allowing cosmetic surgery for minors makes it easy for minors to pressure well-intentioned parents even if it is objectively a bad decision. A ban prevents parents from being put in this situation.
We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors
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allowing cosmetic surgery for minors would simply sweep the real problem under the rug: the effect of toxic appearance standards.
We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors
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Allowing couples to choose the gender of their child makes for happier families.
We should legalize sex selection
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Allowing Guantanamo Bay and other similar detention camps around the world to continue operating gives terrorists ammunition in their war against the free world and our democratic values.
We should close Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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Allowing minors to access cosmetic surgery would put even more pressure on them to conform to certain unrealistic aesthetic standards.
We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors
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allowing minors to get plastic surgery will only serve to damage the self-esteem of those who can't afford to get it even more so.
We should ban cosmetic surgery for minors
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allowing nations to have nuclear weapons contributes to peace as nobody wants to start a war that will result in mutual destruction.
We should fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons
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allowing organ trade would probably lead to more people donating and helping patients survive. currently there are too many restrictions even for people that would be willing to sell their organs.
We should legalize organ trade
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allowing people to be entrapped will lead to further abuses of power
Entrapment should be legalized
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allowing people to falsely believe things such as diet can cure their cancer causes them to pass away instead of seeking treatment that likely would have saved them.
We should ban naturopathy
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allowing people to try to use natural ways to heal themselves without being stuck within the parameters of medicine that doctors and insurance companies want to push on you can be beneficial.
We should ban naturopathy
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Allowing people to work longer means that there will be less of a strain on things like Social Security and pension programs, which means there will be more resources available for future generations.
We should end mandatory retirement
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allowing personal feelings and opions can skew legal judgements in ways they would otherwise go when only relying on the facts.
We should limit judicial activism
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allowing sex selection could lead to an imbalance of the genders in the population.
We should legalize sex selection
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allowing sex selection may lead to a gender imbalance in the population causing problems for future generations.
We should legalize sex selection
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allowing sex selection would alleviate the depression faced by mother's who truly wanted one gender over another.
We should legalize sex selection
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allowing the sale of organs will result in desperate people being taken advantage of
We should legalize organ trade
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allowing whaling would leave more fish available to be caught which is important when taken in context of the drive to get people to eat less meat.
We should ban whaling
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Allowing workers to choose when they retire can improve staff retention, increase workforce morale, and help employers retain vital skills and experience
We should end mandatory retirement
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allows to recruit more professional people
We should limit executive compensation
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also called intellectual plagiarism none of this makes sense there may be people who think the same and that is not a crime
We should abolish intellectual property rights
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altering the sex of an unborn child disrupts the natural order of evolution
We should legalize sex selection
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alternative medicine can be just as effective if not more than doctor prescribed drugs.
Homeopathy brings more harm than good
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alternative medicine provides relief in the form of the placebo effect
We should ban naturopathy
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alternative medicines can harm harmful side effects that have not yet been studied.
Homeopathy brings more harm than good
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alternative medicines dont bring enough money into the government
We should ban naturopathy
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alternative types of medicine such as diet, exercise and massages work for some people and it should not be banned.
We should ban naturopathy
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Alternatives are available to nearly every product produced from whales.
We should ban whaling
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although cosmetic surgery is not necessary for most people it often gives people a psychological lift
We should ban cosmetic surgery
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although elderly people may want to continue working to make more money it could be dangerous for their bodies to continue at a fast paced work environment. we have to look out for their safety.
We should end mandatory retirement
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although i am in favor i do not have well the notion of what is imprisonment
Entrapment should be legalized
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Although naturopathy doesn't always make things better, it very rarely makes things physically worse, and makes people feel better via the placebo effect in a meaningful way.
We should ban naturopathy
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Although naturopathy is rarely validated via the scientific method, it is often upheld by years of anecdotal evidence and cultural history that is also valid.
We should ban naturopathy
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although new technologies are gaining more ground every day, there are still many parts of the world where it continues to be the main medium of information.
We should abandon television
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although sometimes considered a brutal place, suspected terrorists can be questioned somewhere they can't possibly escape from or be rescued from, potentially opening up new lines of investigation.
We should close Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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although we hope never to use them, we need to keep our nuclear weapons as a deterrent against others using them therefore we should not abolish them.
We should fight for the abolition of nuclear weapons
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although whaling is a practice that has existed since the beginning of time now it has become a sport where killing is just fun
We should ban whaling
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america far and away has the highest gun related homicides of any developed nation, to say nothing of the multiple mass shootings per year.
We should abolish the right to keep and bear arms
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America is now the murder capital of the world with mass shootings happening almost daily. The madness must end and that means so must the right to keep and bear arms.
We should abolish the right to keep and bear arms
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america needs a place to safely incarcerate the most heinous of terrorists and state enemies safely to protect its citizens. guitmo does this perfectly
We should close Guantanamo Bay detention camp
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america was founded by the freedom of expression, so people should be allowed to burn a flag, regardless of whether i agree with the concept or not
We should prohibit flag burning
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american citizens have the right to choose whether or not they want to vote.
We should introduce compulsory voting
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americans have always had the right to keep and bear arms.
We should abolish the right to keep and bear arms
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americans should respect the flag and the lives lost in fighting for that flag
We should prohibit flag burning
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amulti-party system can lead to unstable coalitions in order to get into power
We should adopt a multi-party system
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an assisted suicide is just another way to murder a person. it does not matter if the person asked to be killed the person who does the killing has put one to death.
Assisted suicide should be a criminal offence
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an auserity program will reduce the national debt.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime allows for government to properly address issues and begin reparations on their deficit/debt.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime allows for the restructuring of economic for a country which can provide financial benefits.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime allows the country to save money and to reduce the national debt.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime allows us to save money when it is needed.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime can affect those most vulnerable in society most.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime can help get a country back on it's feet financially.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime can help lower debt throughout the country
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime can help restructure a country's debt without increasing the deficit
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime can prevent people from having the funds they need to live the life they chose.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime can save the country money and reduce the national debt.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime does not guarantee high-quality policies for the benefit of the citizens of a country. for that reason it should be avoided.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime foster's a country's inability to function on its own and independantly
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime has never been shown to work because there is always someone who insists that his project must be funded
We should adopt an austerity regime
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an austerity regime helps reduce government budget deficits.
We should adopt an austerity regime
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