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What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Independence may have ended some of the worst aspects of imperialism but it exacerbated the problem of borders .
2. Africa has since seen the problems that this has created and should realise the need to break from the colonial legacy .
3. Imperialism and Colonisation is one of the great wrongs of history where much of the globe was carved up without any reference to the facts on the ground .
4. When the west drew borders peoples were split , and kingdoms and cultures carved up .

This House would redefine African borders to reflect ethnic groups
This House would make the raising of business and labour standards a prerequisite for developmental aid
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Labour standards are necessary to protect basic human rights
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. This has happened before : World War I started out as a local conflict between the Austro-Hungarian empire and Serbia , but through their security alliances inadvertently drew in all the major powers of the world .
2. The clause that an attack against one means an attack against all -LRB- Article V -RRB- runs the risk of entangling the entire alliance in an unwanted conflict .
3. Given that many members of NATO have unstable countries near their borders -LRB- i.e. Turkey bordering Iraq -RRB- there is a risk they could become involved in a small regional war , which then inadvertently draws in the entire world .

NATO runs the unacceptable risk of accidental escalation
Cyber attacks can do serious damage to the state
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. All these instances cause disruption and leave the targeted country vulnerable with the government unable to operate successfully .
2. For example , massive cyber attacks can cause serious disruption to economy by targeting financial , banking and commercial services ; they can target government websites and steal confidential information that would compromise country 's security , as was the case with USA in 2007 -LSB- 10 -RSB- ; they could target power grids and shut down infrastructure on a massive scale across the country .
3. Many states are dependent on flawless functioning of government and financial services online , and attacking them would cause mass disruption .
4. Large scale cyber attacks can result in substantial harms to the state equivalent to those of an armed attack .
5. Given the damage of possible attacks to the state , large-scale cyber attacks should be considered an act of war .
6. For these reasons USA 's Pentagon decided to consider a cyber attack that ` produces the death , damage , destruction or high-level disruption that a traditional military attack would cause ' an act of war -LSB- 12 -RSB- .
7. This way , for instance , a large scale cyber attack from Russia on Georgia 2008 caused massive disruption to government , banking services , and communication within and outside of the country -LSB- 11 -RSB- .
Sentences: 1. Tactical voting is likely to be used less , and minority voices are not as likely to be overshadowed by popularly claimed opinions .
2. There would be less stifling of discussion , voters would not be subjected to possibly biased information or misused statistics at this critical time of thinking and making a wise choice .
3. Therefore , we propose that opinion polls not be published 2 weeks prior to an election .
4. This does not harm free expression because it is serving a specific purpose at a specific time .
5. This would ensure a more democratic discussion immediately prior to the decision making process of voting .
6. Since there is information on public opinion in all of the other weeks of the year , this two week moratorium would solve some of the harms of published opinion polls .
7. For instance , during times of national security or disaster certain citizen behaviour is restricted .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Opinion Polls should not be published 2 weeks in advance of an election.
ACC could deal with pan-African problems that the ICC does not address
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. An ACC could deal with piracy off the coast of East Africa , where there is no effective court system , due to Somalia amounting to a failed state .
2. However , an African Criminal Court could not only deal with the existing crimes , but create pan-African solutions in terms of dealing with a number of issues where Africa needs particular solutions .
3. The ICC is limited to only a small number of crimes .
4. It has been suggested that offences such as unconstitutional change of government , drug trafficking , piracy and corruption should be added to the jurisdiction of an African Criminal Court .
5. , , 13 June 2012 , http://www.irinnews.org/report/95633/analysis-how-close-is-an-african-criminal-court
6. IRIN , Analysis : How Close is an African Criminal Court ?
7. Similarly , unconstitutional change of government prosecutions could amount to a deterrent to coups .
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. Freedom of speech certainly may be curtailed when real harms can be shown to arise from it .
2. Extremist sites serve as centers of dangerous dissent , whose members threaten all of society .
3. They promote a message that is fundamentally bad speech , because it can not it can not be argued with and promotes aims that are so anathema to free society that its dissemination represents a true threat to peoples safety .
4. The threat extremists represent to free society demands that their right to speech online be curtailed .
5. By blocking these sites , ISPs certainly are denying some freedom of speech , but it is a necessarily harmful form of speech that has no value in the global commons .
6. Thus , there is essentially no real loss of valuable speech in censoring extremist websites .
7. Kaplan , E. Terrorists and the Internet .
8. Council on Foreign Relations .
9. 8 January 2009 .

The freedom of speech can be curtailed when it represents a serious threat to society
Sentences: 1. Countries can be more efficient and productive if they produce what they are best at based on their domestic resources and populations , and trade for other goods .
2. It is the same in the international economy .
3. In order to maximize efficiency in the international economy , countries need to utilize their comparative advantage .
4. Therefore all markets should strive for highest efficiency .
5. The right resources and technology must be combined to produce the right amount of goods to be sold for the right price .
6. Operating at maximum productivity is one of the most important aspects of an efficient economy .
7. Comparatively it makes more sense for someone else to do the carpentry , and for Mary to be the lawyer .
8. Mary has an absolute advantage in law and carpentry , but someone else has a comparative advantage in carpentry .
9. If Mary is the best carpenter and lawyer in the US , but makes more money being a lawyer , she should devote more of her time to law and pay someone for her carpentry needs .
10. This means producing what you are best at making , compared to other countries .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Free trade promotes global efficiency through specialization.
This house supports the creation of single-race public schools
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Black students should have the choice to attend these schools if they wish.
1. The new simple form of English would be taught in schools so the next generation and subsequent generations would grow up knowing it .
2. There would be a significant divergence in how different people spell many English words .
3. Changing the whole language is going to take a long time in order to make a complete change .
4. Even if the all the English speaking nations agreed on a method of simplifying the language there would be millions who would need to unlearn some of what they were taught .
5. As such it should not pose a problem to have different the different formats of English operating alongside each other .
6. However this would not be a problem as there are already many instances where different generations , or different regions spell or speak the same language in different ways .
7. Indeed standardisation of spelling only dates from the 18 Century when Samuel Johnson published his .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Changing would not be difficult
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. The drinking age should be lowered to remove the glamorisation of alcohol and resultant binge drinking , and instead focus on frequent but moderate alcohol consumption .
2. Limited alcohol consumption can actually be beneficial for a persons health , and is linked to a lower risk of coronary heart disease in healthy men and women .
3. A 2009 survey showed that , in the US , there was a higher rate of binge drinking among high school students -LRB- 41.8 % -RRB- who reported current alcohol use than among adults where , even in high-risk categories , binge-drinking rates did not rise above 25.6 % .
4. If the drinking age were lowered , the perceived need to binge drink would be removed too .

Lowering the age limit would create healthier long-term drinking habits.
This house would grant the EU a permanent seat on the UN Security Council
What is a possible side to this debate?

Only a more representative United Nations Security Council is legitimate.
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Personal letters , charity reports , photographs and even visits help to build a bridge between the developed and developing world -LSB- 5 -RSB- .
2. More and more people are able to talk to each other around the world , and it is important that less fortunate people in poor countries are connected to the rest of us and have the opportunity to communicate with us .
3. Sponsorship creates a personal connection - the children get to learn about their sponsors and the sponsors get to learn how their money helps people .
4. This continued attention to the positive effects of sponsorship is really important to help poorer countries , especially at a time when worldwide economics are in trouble and charities are most at risk from begin forgotten -LSB- 6 -RSB- .

This House Would sponsor children in developing countries. (Junior)
This House would boycott sports events in states with repressive regimes
What is a possible side to this debate?

Repressive regimes do not represent Olympic values
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. There is no equality of opportunity in cases of past discrimination .
2. A good example of this can be seen in the example of Brazil , where poverty is much more wide-spread in African communities who were previously used as slaves .
3. Affirmative action helps level the playing field for selection by assisting those who are held back from a continual historical denial of opportunity and providing them the equality of opportunity everyone deserves .
4. Discrimination in the past not only leaves a feeling of rejection by ones community , but also a legacy of disadvantage and perpetual poverty .
5. Affirmative action evens the playing field for those who have suffered past discrimination .
6. The denial of opportunities for education and employment in the past has left families in situations where they are stuck in a poverty trap and can not afford to achieve the basic opportunities that others can as they are stuck in a cycle of poverty .
7. Discrimination is not only psychologically damaging , but tangibly .

Affirmative action removes the cyclical disadvantages of discrimination
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Obviously we are not advocating imposing democracy on every country which does not have it , but if there are strong enough institutions and conditions , imposition can work and there have been past successes like Germany and Japan post WWII that show the worth of imposing democracy / .
2. Certain factors may increase the chance of success : for example imposing democracy on a nation with which there were once colonial relationships increases the expected lifespan of the democracy .
3. Democratic transitions in general also tend to be more successful if economic conditions are better .

This House would impose democracy
Sentences: 1. Iran has been training the Jaysh al - Shabi , a Syrian government-controlled force modelled on Iran 's Basij militia .
2. Syria 's government has been receiving outside support from a variety of sources ; Russia and Iran being the most prominent .
3. The rebels have received some support for Qatar and Saudi Arabia but not to the extent the Syrian government has .
4. Far from just providing weapons , both Iran and Hezbollah from Lebanon have been sending fighters to support the Syrian government .
5. Anyone with an interest in the free Syrian cause should realise that they can not do so simply by sitting on their hands expecting a victory when those doing the fighting are only provided diplomatic support .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Would balance the support for Syrian government
Claim: Predicting and protecting the future nation
What evidence supports this claim?

1. In a much more practical sense historical data may well breach national security .
2. They may well be instances , such as in the case given in the introduction , where governments may even be unaware that there were issues of national security involved until they are brought to light .
3. Data that was not significant fifty years ago may become of great significance later on .
4. To take a simple , hypothetical example .
5. Laws relating to the ownership of the sea are relatively obscure and often based on ancient negotiations or treaties that are mostly about something else .
6. They frequently involve custom and precedent and , for the most part , nobody really makes a fuss about the exact details .
7. Until , of course , someone finds an oil field underneath that stretch of ocean or the fish supplies of a neighboring area become depleted .
8. At his point , the exact details of those negotiations and treaties become a source of great interest .
9. Thus for example documents relating the Senkaku/Daioyu islets may have been uncontentious and irrelevant in the 1950 may now be of vital importance in an international dispute between China and Japan over the islands .
10. In a scenario such as this , there may well be vital national issues that were not predicted at the time of the negotiation or ratification of a treaty .
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Additionally , this eventually leads to more waste and overproduction , reversing all the potential benefits of industrial 3D printing .
2. This happens because individual consumers tend not to be concerned about the sustainability implications of every purchase : they will do so even less when 3D printers allow instant gratification .
3. On one hand , it can make people more dependent on material possessions , which makes it harder for them to attain more sustainable forms of happiness .
4. While 3D printing may revolutionise professional manufacturing and lead to less waste , in the household it promotes mindless consumerism .
5. By producing anything desired cheaply and more accessibly , without even having to leave your house , they encourage people consume much more than they otherwise would .

This House would ban the sale of 3D printers to households
Claim: Collective Bargaining Leads to an Overpaid Public Sector
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Biggs , Andrew G. Why Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Is Right About Collective Bargaining .
2. This is , in and of itself , problematic because the public sector , due to being shackled to the needs of public opinion often take fewer risks than the private sector and as such results in fewer innovations than work in the private sector .
3. This is problematic because it leads to a drain of workers and ideas from the private sector to the public .
4. As such , public sector workers can earn significantly more than their equally skilled counterparts in the private sector .
5. This is significantly different to private enterprise where public opinion of the company is often significantly less relevant .
6. Further , governments in particular are vulnerable during negotiations with unions , due their need to maintain both their political credibility and the cost effectiveness of the services they provide .
7. The reason this happens is that collective bargaining means that workers can often , through the simple idea that they can communicate with the government and have a hand in the decision making process , make their demands much more easily .
8. In the United States there is a salary premium of 10-20 percent in the public sector .
9. The workers within the public sectors of Western liberal democracies often get paid more than people of equal education and experience who are employed in the private sector .
10. The public sector is often significantly overpaid .
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. The worlds ills are perfectly explained by the natural , amoral development of the Universe , of life , and of humanity .
2. The reality of the Universe , however , is incompatible with a God of goodness , as He is conventionally described by todays predominant religions , which stem from the Abrahamic tradition .
3. If God , or the gods , were good there would be no evil in the world .
4. Disasters would not kill millions of innocents , disease and hunger would not claim the lives of children every day , war and genocide would not slaughter people indiscriminately as they have done for countless bloody millennia .
5. The world is awash with blood , pain , and suffering .
6. No loving God would make a world so imperfect and troubled .

This House believes atheism is the only way
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. If a debatable goal were scored , play would stop anyway while one team celebrates and the other protests to the officials .
2. Football is no more fluid a sport than any of the others .
3. GLT would only be used on a goal decision , much like tennis uses challenges only once a rally has stopped .
4. It has become a natural aid to sport .
5. A survey of its implementation in the 2011 Australian Open demonstrates the impact that guaranteeing correct decisions had on several games .
6. Technology has been proven to work across a wide range of sports from tennis , cricket and rugby .

GLT is used across a range of other sports
This House would treat the desecration and destruction of high-value sites and property of cultural heritage as a crime against humanity.
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Our world cultural heritage is extremely important and its destruction would constitute a crime against humanity.
1. Most experts are agreed that it is statistically unlikely that Earth is the only life-bearing planet , to date we have not been serious investigating this issue despite the enormous implications it has for almost every area of human thought and activity .
2. The moon also provides a better base for SETI than Earth as Radio telescopes on the far side of the moon would be shielded from the interference of Earth .
3. Equally the Moons slow rotation would allow light-based observatories to undertake experiments lasting for days at a time .
4. Any civilization that is serious about space exploration would probably have to start with the moon .
5. Its a comparatively simple mission which would allow us to learn the pitfalls and problems while staying within a few days of earth .
6. Colonizing the Moon should not be seen as an end goal in and of itself but rather a platform for reaching out further into the universe .
7. The moon makes a better base than Earth for a number of reasons .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

It would be the first step in colonizing space – the moon is preferential to Earth as a base for investigating life elsewhere in the universe
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. This then ensures that universities have better access to the brightest people .
2. For instance , Stanford University 's online course on Artificial Intelligence enabled people from 190 countries to join , and none of students receiving a score of 100 percent where from Stanford -LSB- 14 -RSB- .
3. Relocating to the best universities is a budgetary concern , but also family and social relations concern for many people , which prevents all the best people from even applying to universities that would suit them the best .
4. Online courses can recruit students from anywhere in the world much easier than traditional universities can because students do n't need to travel far away for the best education .
5. Improving the pool of students would automatically result in better academics , professionals and science , which would benefit the society better .

Online courses are a way to higher academic excellence
Claim: Transparency helps reduce international tension
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Transparency is necessary in international relations .
2. States need to know what each other are doing to assess their actions .
3. Without any transparency the hole is filled by suspicion and threat inflation that can easily lead to miscalculation and even war .
4. The Cuban missile crisis is a clear example where a lack of transparency on either side about what they were willing to accept and what they were doing almost lead to nuclear war .
5. It is notable that one of the responses to prevent a similar crisis was to install a hotline between the White House and Kremlin .
6. A very small , but vital , step in terms of openness .
7. Today this is still a problem ; China currently worries about the US pivot towards Asia complaining it has aroused a great deal of suspicion in China .
8. A huge deficit of strategic trust lies at the bottom of all problems between China and the United States .
9. The result would be an inevitable arms race and possible conflict .
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Thus for example Saudi Arabia is willing to pump less oil -LRB- and so get less money in the short term at least -RRB- in order to create stability in the oil market by having enough excess capacity to prevent price spikes .
2. Governments without elections can engage in long term planning and make unpopular decisions without fear of the consequences .
3. Even mature democracies have sometimes seen their governments make use of the levers of government to boost their electoral chances ; for example Margaret Thatchers government stoked the economy in the Lawson boom in 1987 which just happened to be an election year .
4. Democracy and elections are about popularity but popular decisions are not always the right ones .
5. Congdon , Tim , , 2007 , p. 73

This House would have no elections rather than sham elections
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. The sheer volume of advertising in our society is incredible .
2. You can not watch television , ride on a bus or even walk down the street without someone trying to sell you something or inform you of something .
3. Recent research suggests people living in a city today sees up to 5,000 advertisements a day .
4. 50 % of those surveyed said they thought ` advertising today was out of control ' .
5. People should n't have to go about their lives having their minds saturated with such a vast quantity of , in most cases , redudant and profiteering information .
6. They should be able to go about their daily lives in peace without being forced to watch , listen or view an advertisement .

There are too many advertisements in everyday life.
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. This allows universities to improve their academic credentials and their academic output , which benefits the students and the society .
2. Even if some of administrative costs remain , that would still substantially increase the amount of resources to be spent entirely on teaching and research .
3. Across 72 US public universities the average administrative cost was about 8 % of spending with the highest , at the University of Connecticut at 17 % -LSB- 15 -RSB- .
4. Traditional Universities are forced to spend a lot on administration and facilities , such as renting and maintaining buildings and parking lots , providing student support for accommodation , renting student halls , subsiding transports costs and meals , supervising university areas and so on .
5. There would be no need for lecture halls and student accommodation as students would just work from home , and even professors could mostly work from home .
6. All these costs can be cut or abandoned all together if universities move to online teaching .

This House believes that the traditional university will be replaced by online learning
Claim: Collective Bargaining is Needed to Voice Opinion
What evidence supports this claim?

1. The bargain between normal unions and private enterprise involves all parties being brought to the table and talking about the issues that they might have .
2. However , the public sector represents the benefits of taxpayers , the politicians and the unions .
3. The power that unions exercises means that negotiations can happen without the consent or involvement of the public sectors stakeholders , the public .
4. Even though power in a democracy is usually devolved to the politicians for this purpose , given the highly politicised nature of union negotiations , government office-holders who supervise union negotiations may act inconsistently with the mandate that the electorate have given them .
5. This is because public unions often command a very large block of voters and can threaten politicians with this block of voters readily .
6. This is not the same as a private business where officials arent elected by their workers .
7. As such , collective bargaining rights for public union undermine the ability of taxpayers to dictate where their money is being spent significantly .
8. Union Bargaining Just A Dream For Many Gov Workers .
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Business owners would be expected to comply with standard business laws and regulations .
2. Moreover , the government could enact special regulations appropriate to this industry , such as age restrictions on workers and clients , and mandatory condom use .
3. The resources that are currently allocated to arrest , prosecute , and incarcerate sex workers and clients could be reallocated for better uses .
4. For example , these resources could be used to better address the sexual abuse of minors , sexual assault , substance abuse , mental health problems , and the many public and individual needs that go unmet .
5. Removing criminal penalties from the sale or purchase of sexual services , and regulating sex markets so that they protect participants and non-involved third parties , would be socially beneficial .
6. In particular , sex enterprises and businesses could be made safer for workers , clients , and the communities in which they operated .
7. By allowing sex businesses to operate openly , providers , clients , and business owners can become law-abiding , productive citizens , who contribute to their communities .
8. Sex businesses and workers would pay taxes , and other licensing fees .

This House would legalise Prostitution
Claim: The public sector is an extension of the elected executive
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Political parties also function as peer networks .
2. Membership of a party gives individuals a certain sense of belonging and allows them to influence and define the identity of other members .
3. Many political parties such as the BNP portray themselves as victims of repression by a liberal elite , while at the same time remaining cognitively blind to the fact that liberal forms of political discourse are the basis of their organisations existence .
4. Under these circumstances , individuals whose view of the world has been systemically distorted by their beliefs are more likely to use positions of power to correct the imbalances that they perceive in society .
5. Indeed , extremists are more likely to ignore their duty to act impartially because of the heterodox nature of their beliefs .
6. The term extremism implies a willingness to depart from moderate and open discourse , and to set aside social convention in the pursuit of political beliefs .
7. Without appropriate vetting , this duty can not be fulfilled .
8. Notable failures under the status quo include the discovery that a number of workers employed by the UK tax authorities to oversee support payments to poor minority families had been deliberately reducing the amounts of money families received .
9. Thus , members of racist or extremist political movements should not be employed by the government , as there is a risk that they will prioritise their own beliefs and political objectives over those of the electorate .
10. Not only do governments have a duty to ensure that they pursue egalitarian and equitable employment policies , they also have a much more important duty to ensure that the machinery of the state is effective and efficient .
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. If their party remains popular , or if their seat is a safe one , then incompetent and unethical politicians will often be re-elected regardless of their personal failings .
2. In any case , regular elections seldom focus on the record of one particular candidate for a legislature , but are a referendum on their party as a whole .
3. And after three years or so , many voters may have forgotten about their offending behavior , allowing them to get away with it .
4. Elections only come around every four years or so , allowing unethical or incompetent politicians to do a lot of damage in office before facing the judgment of their constituents .
5. Such was the case in California , where immediately before the recall , Gray Davis -LRB- a Democrat -RRB- was re-elected simply because the local Republican Party had self-destructed .

Elections every four years are not enough to ensure representation.
This House opposes televising all criminal trials, and the ICC is no exception
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Unruly defendants can play up to the cameras
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. This has the advantage of allowing school rooms , facilities and other resources to be used more efficiently , thus providing a better education without putting even more strain on government budgets .
2. Year-round schooling often goes hand in hand with multi-tracking , where different groups of students at the same school are on different schedules .

This House would introduce year round schooling.
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. As a result it should have a seat at the worlds foremost foreign policy institution .
2. The UNSC could turn the EUs soft power outwards to help the world .
3. Being a member of the UNSC would deepen Europes commitment to international peace-keeping and peace-making missions , something which currently varies very widely between member states , and push them to spend sufficient on equipping their militaries for such missions .
4. Croatia was at war with its neighbors fifteen years ago and part of Yugoslavia twenty years ago but will become the 28 member of the EU in 2013 .
5. It has also had successes in encouraging reform in the countries of Eastern Europe and is continuing to do so in the Balkans through enlargement .
6. Europe has been successful in creating peace on a previously warlike continent .
7. Given this history , the EU can contribute a lot of knowledge and experience on how to use soft power in a foreign policy context .
8. The Economic integration is a means to this goal , by making member states economically too dependent on each other for them to want to declare war on each other .
9. The political resolution of the Congress of Europe in 1948 said it is the urgent duty of the nations of Europe to create an economic and political union in order to assure security and social progress the creation of a United Europe is an essential element in the creation of a united world .
10. The EU might function as an economic union , but its original goal was to prevent war from ever happening again on the European continent .

This house would grant the EU a permanent seat on the UN Security Council
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Reducing inequality therefore both makes society safer and makes it more likely to help those at the very bottom .
2. By behaving charitably and fostering a culture of generosity one ensures that the community will assist them in the future .
3. The wealthy should also consider the possibility that a wealthy individual can fall on hard times and need charity in the future .
4. The pattern is uniform across all races in the United States , the longer they stay in school , and therefore the more chance they have of finding a job , the less chance of ending up in prison .
5. For example , of those black students who did make it to college , only 2 % were incarcerated .
6. In the United States in 2008 , 37 % of black high-school dropouts were incarcerated ; if more money was given to charities that support the poor sectors of society that are the most likely to drop-out , crime rates would inevitably come down .
7. In order to make one 's own society safer one ought to give generously to charities that support the poor .
8. The wealth gap is strongly correlated to crime .

This house would give to charity
Claim: Children who commit crimes are victims of circumstance.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. We should address these circumstances rather than punishing them .
2. Studies show that they are often vulnerable children who have grown up in poverty , been uncared for by their parents , moved house a lot , been abused , been victims or members of gang activity , and often skipped school .
3. Rather than sending these children to young offender institutes , often harming their education and training them to be criminals , we should take other measures .
4. As in Norway , for example , social authorities should take action to secure the child 's development through counselling or time in a special care unit .
5. Measures should depend of the child 's circumstances , rather than how bad their crime was .
6. This is more likely to reduce criminal behaviour in the future .
7. In addition , there are issues about ` class ' here .
8. Rich children are less likely to be criminalised because their parents can deal better with the situation and pay for better lawyers .
Sentences: 1. Soros , George , How to save the European Union , , 9 April 2013 , Bloomberg , Rates & Bonds , accessed 15 October 2013 , Soros , George , How to save the European Union , , 9 April 2013 , Soros , George , How to save the European Union , , 9 April 2013 ,
2. Right now , sovereign-bonds are not affordable for the government as their interest rates are extremely high .
3. Greece has an interest rate of 9.01 % , Portugal 6.23 % , and Italy and Spain near 4.30 % .
4. If we choose to bundle the bonds together we will obtain a single interest rate that will lower the price of bonds and permit countries to borrow more , the price would be closer to Germanys than Greeces as the Eurozone as a whole is not more risky than other big economies .
5. More than that , the markets wont be worry anymore of the possible default of countries like Greece ; as the bonds are backed up by the ECB and indirectly by other countries in the union , the debtors will know that their loans will be repaid because in the last resort more financially solvent countries take on the burden .
6. Introducing Eurobonds will lower interest rates for bonds issued by national governments so making the loans affordable .
7. The most recent example of this problem is the need of recapitalization of banks in Cyprus .
8. Although government debt and interest rates were not the direct problem if the government had been able to borrow at low interest rates to recapitalize its own banks then it would have not needed a bailout from the rest of the Eurozone .
9. In order to avoid these kinds of solutions and put people back to work in countries like Portugal , Italy or Spain , national governments need a bigger demand for their bonds so that interest rates go down .
10. When the risk of default is eliminated , the demand for government bonds will rise and the interest rates will go down .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Eurobonds even up interest rates within the Union
This House would build the Hyperloop
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Fastest possible transportation over a short distance
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. In just the same way when a new area of potential conflict arises that too must be regulated by treaty .
2. Just as importantly there are rules on what weapons can be used through various treaties that ban weapons such as the Land Mine Ban , and on when a state can legally initiate conflict through the UN Charter .
3. Warfare and conflict is currently regulated by the Geneva Conventions that seek to limit the effects of armed conflict and regulate the conduct of the involved actors .
4. Conflict needs to be regulated , and something that can start conflicts even more so .
5. The Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols , , 29 October 2010 , Convention on the prohibition of the use , stockpiling , production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and on their destruction , , 18 September 1997 , Brookes , Adam , US Pentagon to treat cyber-attacks as acts of war , BBC News , 1 June 2011 ,
6. As a result it is most sensible to draw up the rules and regulations early , to ensure everyone knows the consequences and prevent damage by making sure that states agree not to engage in offence cyber-attacks against each other .
7. While cyber warfare is not currently a large scale threat it is still a form of conflict that could escalate just like any other - the Pentagon has explicitly stated it could respond militarily to a cyber-attack .
8. The internet and the threat of cyber-conflict is that new area at the moment .

Arenas of potential conflict must be regulated
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1. Only recently have the people finally voted against him , but it was too late , as his power had become too entrenched to unseat him .
2. The uphill battle that will always exist to unseat incumbents makes term limits necessary .
3. Such has been the case in the United States , for example , where presidents are almost always re-elected for a second term .
4. Leaders are re-elected because they have better name recognition both with the electorate and with lobby groups .
5. Incumbency provides a huge election advantage .
6. Leaders and politicians generally , almost always win re-election .
7. These leaders often command huge followings and mass loyalty , which they use to maintain power in spite of poor decisions and corruption in many cases .
8. Such has been the case in Zimbabwe with Robert Mugabe winning presidential elections in spite of mass corruption and mismanagement .
9. People have a tendency to vote for those who they recognize , and firms tend to support past winners who will likely continue to benefit their interests .
10. This problem has become particularly serious in developing world in which revolutionary leaders from the original independence movements are still politically active .

Term limits check the power of incumbency as an election-winning tool and allow new and energetic leaders and ideas to flourish.
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1. Allowing mandatory minimum sentences to be applied in cases like this undermines the integrity of the criminal justice system .
2. Regardless of how severe a view one takes of recidivism , such a punishment is clearly excessive and grossly disproportionate to the current offense .
3. In -LRB- 2003 -RRB- , a four-time felon received the mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction of stealing three golf clubs with a combined total value of less than $ 1,200 .
4. In California , the first two strikes must be considered serious or violent , but the mandatory minimum sentence of 25-years may be imposed upon conviction of any third felony offense .
5. Three strikes laws mandate that courts impose upon offenders a lengthy minimum sentence upon conviction of a third offense .

This House would strike out three-strikes laws
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1. Federation of Veterinarians of Europe , Slaughter of animals without prior stunning , , FVE/02/104 , 2002 ,
2. It follows that we should require stunning .
3. When we have two methods of killing the animal available , it is inhumane to use the more painful one .
4. Rendering the animal unconscious stops it feeling pain immediately .
5. Although animals cant tell us if they are in pain , the best metrics we have brain activity , eye movement and making sounds indicate that the animals are in pain during this period .
6. Depending on the species of animal , it can survive for anything between 20 seconds and 2 minutes after this .
7. This is normally done by cutting the neck .
8. All slaughter methods which do not involve stunning work by bleeding the animal so that it suffers brain-death .
9. Slaughter without stunning is painful for the animal .

This House would ban the slaughter of animals which have not been stunned first
1. These loans can weigh heavily on the minds of university students , and put inordinate amounts of pressure to perform well .
2. In the United States , for example , obtaining loans for university is the norm .
3. When fees are put in place in countries , many people find it extremely difficult to find the funds to pay for it , leading many people , and even most in some countries , to seek school loans .
4. University fees , in countries where they are implemented , are usually quite high .
5. This can lead to individuals taking jobs to which they are not necessarily best suited in order to get started on debt repayment immediately .
6. The pressure does not end when an individual graduates , since he must then begin to pay off the debts accrued while in university .
7. This is quite understandable when one considers the degree of pressure a young person would feel if his school loan was collateralized against his family home .
8. This pressure can lead to students dropping out .
9. With free university education , everyone can go to college without crushing debt burden , can study what they wish , and can leave with a qualification and no onerous debt obligations .
10. Even still , repayment of loans can take many years , even decades , leaving individuals under the thumb of creditors for much of their working lives .

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The burden of fees and loans are too great to expect young people to shoulder, particularly for more financially disadvantaged individuals
This House Would Make Vaccination Compulsory
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It is the state’s duty to protect its community
Sentences: 1. Full-body scanners come in here .
2. As the former homeland security secretary , Michael Chertoff states , you need to find some way to find those weapons .
3. Such machines , properly used , are a leap ahead of the metal detectors used in most airports , and supporters say they are necessary to keep up with the plans of potential terrorists .
4. Screening technologies with names like can show the contours of the body and reveal foreign objects .
5. What this means is that the full-body scanners have the ability to detect hidden weapons , which are not necessarily large enough to be noticed otherwise , or metallic , to be seen by metal detectors .
6. argued the New York Times after the Detroit Christmas bombing .

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Full-body scanners are an effective tool of counter-terrorism
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1. Rather than pouring wasted resources into attempting to suppress drug use , the state would be better off running information campaigns to educate people about the risks and consequences of taking different types of drugs .
2. Since the pleasure gained from drugs and the extent to which this weighs against potential risks is fundamentally subjective , it is not up to the state to legislate in this area .
3. Individuals are sovereign over their own bodies , and should be free to make choices which affect them and not other individuals .

People should be free to take drugs
Sentences: 1. Unlike Germany or Japan , where ethnicity has traditionally been the criteria for citizenship , the USA is a melting-pot , uniting people of diverse origins under one flag .
2. Throughout US history the children of non-citizens have been accepted as true Americans , paying taxes , being drafted and fighting for the flag in wartime , and being elected to office .
3. A child has no choice where it is born , and the child of non-citizen parents should be recognized as a citizen just as much as the child born to those who can trace their citizenship back through many generations .
4. The United States is famously a nation of immigrants , welcoming `` huddled masses yearning to breathe free '' on the Statue of Liberty .
5. As enshrined in the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution , ` all persons born or naturalized in the United States , and subject to the jurisdiction thereof , are citizens of the United States ' .
6. This is what America stands for , what made the nation great ; it is a proud history which should not be rejected .

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Citizenship should be tied to the land of birth
1. Second most phones today have apps -LRB- programs -RRB- to enable learning using the phone , or else through the internet .
2. Phones can access online courses and lessons which can be provided in fun ways and can in some cases instantly tell you if you have the right answer .
3. Having a mobile phone helps us to learn in a lot of different ways .
4. First we learn about technology ; about how to use the mobile phone .
5. It may even sometimes be possible to do homework on a phone and send it to your teacher .
6. Even without the internet phones can be used to provide short assignments , or to provide reminders to study .

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Mobile phones help us to learn
This House believes long term cooperation between Russia and the United States is possible.
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Desire to stabilize Central Asia
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1. A government that destroys an indigenous culture must similarly work to reverse their destruction .
2. `` Living With the Past , '' FOCUS September 1997 , Vol .
3. 9 , Asia-Pacific Human Rights Information Center .
4. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 , the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act , and the 1887 General Allotment Act are just a few examples of legislation used to destroy Native American communities in the US .
5. Settlers in Australia are similarly responsible for a multitude of massacres , as well as several decades of forced separation of aboriginal children from their parents in an effort to `` Christianize '' them .
6. While the current citizens of Canada , the US , and Australia are not guilty of the crimes of their predecessors , they nevertheless reap the benefits of those atrocities while today 's indigenous populations still suffer from the lasting impact of oppression .
7. When chemical companies make huge profits at the expense of damaging the surrounding community 's environment , those companies are expected to pay reparations .

This House would protect aboriginal culture
This house believes that the United States should be isolationist
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Isolationism is the political philosophy on which the United States is founded and its pursuit is what made it great.