cindermond/bento huggingface dataset:
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. This has led to Wikipedia being banned in China , after Jimmy Wales refused to censor articles to make the site acceptable to the Chinese government .
2. A key principle for Wikipedia is to present information as neutrally as possible .
3. As such , Wikipedia is not threatened by variants and rivals that also seek to promote freedom of knowledge because it views them as partners to a mutual goal , not rivals .
4. Wikipedia , thus , epitomizes the principle that all should have access to the necessary information required not just to live , but also enjoy and cherish our lives .
5. Its founder , Jimmy Wales , readily acknowledges it will eventually be superseded by another way of sharing knowledge on a mass level .

Wikipedia enshrines the principle of freedom of information
1. It has been shown that for many sex offenders , the crime is caused by both psychological and physical urges no rational counselling will prevent a repetition of the crime .
2. Castration fits the bill perfectly .
3. For such a horrific crime , a suitable punishment is needed .
4. Sex crimes , typically defined as crimes of violence involving sex , are one of the worst kinds of crime , damaging its victim both physically and psychologically .
5. Castration as the punishment for sex offenders suits both perpetrator and victim , providing an effective and specific punishment for a specific crime .
6. Furthermore , as Douglas Besharov argues , the sexual abuse and violence in prisons merely heightens their propensity to commit further crime -LRB- Besharow , 1992 -RRB- .
7. Thus castration does not only stop further crimes by the offender -LRB- one of the main purposes of any punishment -RRB- , but it is a strong deterrent for prospective offenders .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Castration, as a punishment, is proportionate to sex crimes
This House would ban professional cheerleading
What is a possible side to this debate?

The superficiality of cheerleading means that cheerleaders are poor role models for young girls
1. With the ability to make good on the threat , however , the teacher can either effectively intimidate potential miscreants or deliver on the promise of punishment .
2. The teacher , when making a threat , can either follow through on the threat and enact corporal punishment , or he can not do so .
3. In terms of conflict resolution , without access to corporal punishment , the teacher-student relationship is at an imperfect equilibrium in the context of Game Theory .
4. In this scenario , the two players , the teacher and the student , have a set of options .
5. The student can either consider the threat to be credible and will thus modify his behaviour in accordance with the teacher 's demands , or he can determine the threat to be non-credible and thus `` call his bluff '' .
6. This produces an efficient equilibrium in which the teacher has greater control over the class .
7. Without the ability to follow through on the threat , an imperfect equilibrium is reached in which the teacher 's bluff is called and his authority undermined .
8. To take an example from international relations , the relations between the United States and Israel can be analyzed in this way .
9. Currently , when Israel makes a decision to expand settlement building in Palestinian territory the United States threatens a withdrawal of certain supports .
10. Israel can either call their bluff or fold .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

The threat and capacity for violence is essential for efficient conflict resolution
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. The organ donation process : A humanist perspective based on the experience of nursing care .
2. Nursing Philosophy 13.4 -LRB- 2012 -RRB- : 295-301 .
3. As crass as this might seem , they are statistically more likely to die earlier than their offspring in any event and stand to lose less .
4. They have had the chance to experience more of a life than their child .
5. They are furthermore the cause of the childs existence , and owe it to the child to protect it at any cost .
6. Monforte-Royo , C. and M.V. Roqu .
7. We are biologically programmed to want to preserve our species .
8. As such , our offspring will often be more important to ourselves than our own persons .
9. Many doctors hear parents tell them how they wish that they could take over their childs terminal illness rather than have the child suffer .
10. It is therefore natural and right for the older generation to sacrifice itself where possible to save the younger generation .

It is a natural thing to do
This House would hold a referendum on UK membership in the EU
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

An in or out referendum would be legitimate.
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. Individuals elected under open primaries are much more likely to be willing to compromise across the aisle .
2. At the moment American politics is plagued by gridlock both in the states and in Congress .
3. As a result government will begin moving again .
4. An Open Primary is more likely to choose more centrist candidates for the general election , providing a degree of moderation to the process of election and politics in general .
5. By creating a situation whereby all voters have a potential say in selecting candidates , it can prevent overweening control by party grass roots who may vote for overtly ideological candidates who turn off the moderate voters needed to win elections .
6. This then means that much more is likely to get done .
7. This in turn can help foster a consensual atmosphere in political discourse with general agreed points , focusing the debate on more core issues between the main parties .

Open primaries promote moderate, non-partisan politics
1. Secondly , development can only progress once new land becomes available - investment requires space .
2. Therefore space has to be cleared for the city to be re-planned and new investments made .
3. Evictions often occur where inhabitants may not have the legal titles to occupy land .
4. Evictions enable the transition from communities who occupy land based on traditional laws and beliefs to the emergence of a refined legal system .
5. London experienced numerous slum clearances from the 18 to the 20 Century , one such clearance was the building of the Metropolitan railway to the City which destroyed the slums around Farringdon and forced relocation of 5-50 ,000 people from 1860-4 .
6. Firstly , as modernisation theory shows transition occurs as society progresses from traditional to an age of mass consumption .
7. Forced evictions have occurred globally across time , they show the natural progression of development .
8. Cases across Europe and the USA show evictions were a feature of cities and urbanisation in the past .
9. New investments can ensure African cities become sites of prosperity and continue to attract investors .
10. Temple , 2008

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Forced evictions are a natural path of development.
Asylum is the only way to protect women
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. Kausch , Kristina , ` If Europe is to preserve influence in the Middle East and North Africa , it must move on from technocratic policies towards more flexible cooperation . '
2. By granting asylum we can help them escape a legal system that clearly is against them and replace it with a European Union legal system that grants them those rights they never had .
3. Moreover the influence of the European Union is declining ; it has always been primarily financial , through aid which is declining , and through investment which , at least in the MENA , region has reversed as a result of those same revolutions .
4. Moreover , the situation in countries with legislated discrimination against women is not improving , in countries which were previously secular there is increasingly a challenge from Islamism as in Libya and Egypt during the ` Arab Spring ' .
5. Where women are seen as second-tier citizens it is seen as a natural part of the society can barely walk to the corner of the street without the consent of their husband .
6. They will not respond to these urgings social and cultural traditions are deeply ingrained and only slowly change .
7. Countries that have legislation discriminating against women are clearly not listening to European urgings on human rights .
8. The European Union is not able to protect women in other countries that are not a part of the union .
9. , 21 December 2012 ,
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. Bill Klem , , .
2. Instant replay will ensure that baseball revolves around the players , rather than the officials .
3. With instant replay , we would not have had Jim Joyce , the umpire who blew Galarragas perfect game , holding a tearful press conference apologizing for his missed call .
4. Instant replay will help make this happen .
5. The latter , not the former , is what baseball is supposed to be about , and what fans want to see .
6. Instead , we would have had images of Galarraga celebrating his historical achievement with his teammates .
7. When they are the center of attention , it is usually because something has gone wrong .
8. Umpires are supposed to facilitate a smooth game .
9. The game is supposed to be decided by the feats of the players on the field , not the fallibility of the men in blue .
10. Legendary Hall of Fame umpire Bill Klem accurately stated , The best umpired game is the game in which the fans can not recall the umpires who worked it .

Instant replay will place the focus of the game where it belongs—on the players, not the umpires
1. Justice is only applicable when the perpetrators remain within the arm of the law ; double jeopardy prevents this .
2. As a Home Office spokesman stated when England overturned the double jeopardy ban , ` it is important the public should have full confidence in the ability of the criminal justice system to deliver justice . '
3. Victims deserve such justice and it is an insult to them , and all of us , to see their persecutors go free .
4. When Jennifer McDermott witnessed her daughter 's murderer get convicted at a re-trial , she described it as a ` victory for everyone who feels let down by the justice system . '
5. Our bargain with the state entails the state 's right to judge the individual because the state protects the individual : if our attackers roam the streets because an arbitrary legal rule exempts them from prosecution despite clear guilt , then that system has broken down .
6. When we see people still unpunished for offences in society they 've clearly committed , it damages our faith in the justice system .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Abolishment of the rule would restore faith in the justice system
This House would, as the developed world, fund African climate adaptation
What is a possible side to this debate?

The developed world has the responsibility to help others
Claim: Suicide is a rational choice in many situations.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. With murder someone is denying that person all their future potential so denying their freedom of choice , and this remains the case even if the murder was completely painless .
2. Here , reason tells us , the virtuous act is death and the reservation of that choice .
3. However , if an individual accepts that death is their preferred option in such a scenario , it is difficult to comprehend of reasons why they should not be allowed to proceed .
4. Our social rejection of murder does not , ultimately relate to death itself but to the denial of choice .
5. Neither of these issues arise with either assisted suicide or voluntary euthanasia .
6. Proposition has no difficulty at all with the suggestion that both procedures should be regulated and take place in safe , medically supported , environments .
7. When confronted with chronic pain or with diseases that steadily remove our sense of self or at least the self of whom we are aware death has proven to be a sensible option taken by sensible people .
8. It is a simple fact that we all die , our objections to it tend to be based on the idea that it can happen at the hands of others or at a time , or in a manner , not of our choosing .
9. The determining element of humanity is that we are rational beings ; a blanket ban legal and social on choosing the time and manner of our deaths reflects our primeval fear of a death that comes , unwanted , in the dark of the night , not the mature judgement of modern , thinking -LRB- and long-lived -RRB- humans .
Wishing for a white Christmas shows a desire to return to the true nature of the holiday
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. Instead of focusing on getting presents , getting fat and getting drunk , a white Christmas is something money ca n't buy .
2. It symbolizes time with family , playing outdoors in the snow , making your own entertainment and enjoying the wonder of nature .
3. For most people Christmas today is not about a religious festival , but about consumption , greed and shopping .
4. Wishing for a snowy white Christmas is about turning the clock back to a time when life was simpler .
5. Who would n't prefer a Christmas like that ?
This House would Abolish the Superdelegate System for Democratic Party Conventions.
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Candidates solicitation of superdelegates damages the political system and requires candidates to go through contortions to secure their support
This House believes that US intervention in Libya, lacking congressional approval, was illegal
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

The Libya intervention lacks sufficient international authority
1. As Jon Adler of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association told The Washington Post in January of 2009 : `` I think a bomb detonating on a plane is the biggest invasion of privacy a person can experience . ''
2. Privacy is good , but outweighed in this case by the need to save lives .
3. Fighting against a threat as big as terrorism , some rights need to take a backbench .
4. Full-body scans have the ability to protect countless people and save just as many lives .
5. In any case , some sort of check must occur .
6. Additionally , people who still feel that their privacy is infringed upon by the full-body scanner can always opt for the traditional pat-down by a security officer .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Full-body scans are in accordance with individual rights
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. Markets that involve child labor , forced labor or sex , and forced migration and detention , should be stopped and those who organize and profit from such markets should be prosecuted .
2. Some markets in sex should be blocked .
3. It is also critically important that children are protected from sexual predators , and are excluded from all aspects of sex businesses .
4. As with any service , it is critically important that no one is forced to work or to continue working , either through the threat of harm or through fraud and deception .
5. Voluntary , adult sex work is significantly different from trafficking , and law enforcers need to distinguish market exchanges involving consensual sex among adults from market exchanges involving forced sex among adults or involving minors .
6. Forced labor and child sexual abuse involve violations of basic human rights that all societies are expected to protect .
7. Additionally , clients of sex business would have the choice of patronizing legal business , and therefore would be less likely to patronize inadvertently a business that relies on forced or child labor .
8. By legalizing voluntary , adult sex work , law enforcers and rights protectors could focus their efforts on eliminating markets that involve the sexual abuse of adults or children .

Legalization would free up resources that could be devoted to eliminating sex trafficking
Claim: Education standards will be improved across the region
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Enlarging and deepening the EAC will therefore enhance education standards on a large part of the African continent ; such policies will lift weak academic institutions in DRC , South Sudan and Somalia which are typical of their poor education systems .
2. -LRB- 1 -RRB- East African Community Education , Harmonisation of education and training curricula in East Africa , -LRB- 2 -RRB- Kevin Watkins , Narrowing Africas Education deficit , January 2013 ,
3. Unlike other regional blocs in Africa the EAC has been keen to work on the improvement of education among member states .
4. It has policies such as the introduction of the inter University council of education to ensure the quality of University education , and an ongoing process of harmonising education curricula in all member countries -LRB- 1 -RRB- .
5. However , Africa still remains the continent with poorest quality of education and has the lowest skilled/educated labour .
6. A large number of children fail to access basic education -LRB- 2 -RRB- .
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. * On a social level , not having children will mean more gender equality as there will be no ground for justifying an unequal labour division .
2. * Goodley , 2011 ,
3. They view females as those responsible for parenting and thus not reliable , devoted or loyal as employees .
4. Even when there is little or no discrimination in recruitment women often hit a glass ceiling due to breaking their careers in order to have children , in the UK a recent report by the Chartered Management Institute found it would take until 2109 to close the pay gap .
5. Social and economic inequalities between men and women stem primarily from the fact that women are the child bearers , and mothers overwhelmingly spend more time on childrearing tasks than do their male spouses .
6. Not surprisingly then , many employers still discriminate against women when recruiting to work .

This House Would Never Have Children
Claim: Term limits restore a concept of rotation in public office, and reestablish the concept of the citizen legislature:
What evidence supports this claim?

1. New Hampshire was both the most minimal parliament and the state with most fiscal freedom according to the Ruger-Sorens Index .
2. Will , George .
3. It does not take long for legislators to become more occupied with their relationships with each other and with lobbyists , than with their constituents .
4. Representative assemblies work best when they function as citizen legislatures , in which people who pursue careers other than politics enter the legislative forum for a brief time to do their country service , and then leave again to reenter society as private citizens .
5. Such citizen legislators who enter politics to make their mark and then leave are far more desirable than the career politicians of today who focus only on building their own power influence , rather than considering the people they were elected to represent .
6. US states with ` citizen legislatures ' , where the state legislature is part time with short sessions so allowing its members to hold other jobs , were at the top of freedom indexes .
7. It is gravely unfortunate that politics has become an accepted career path for citizens of democratic states .
8. It is far better that participation in government be brief .
9. To end politics as a lifetime sinecure , thereby making legislative service a leave of absence , rather than a means of permanently absconding from a productive career in the private sector , requires that there be term limits .
10. Without term limits , the temptation to remain in office for life will keep people seeking reelection long after they have accomplished all the legislative good of which they are capable .
This House would ban partial birth abortions
What is a possible side to this debate?

If personhood accrues at birth, then abortion after inducing birth is wrong
Claim: Forced evictions are necessary to change perceptions.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. See further readings : Werth , 2010 .
2. Although accurate figures of the number of evictions carried out , and/or number of residents displaced , are unavailable , cases have been reported where around 20,000 people could have been evicted in one settlement .
3. The evictions were only a small cost in the broader scale , whereby a better city would be built for all to enjoy , employment created , and tourists attracted .
4. Evictions occurred to create an aesthetic city , for the greater good .
5. Stadiums were built in Johannesburg , Cape Town , and Durban and provided the international community an opportunity to see the beauty of South Africa and confirm its ability to deliver as a BRIC country .
6. In 2010 , South Africa hosted the FIFA World Cup .
7. Taking the case of South Africa forced evictions , in cities , have been central in promoting its new image .
8. Forced evictions enable local , and national , governments to redesign African cities .
9. Cities across Africa are an opportunity to change this idea of Africa .
10. Western media and institutions often present an image of ` Africa ' which fails to understand the reality , and continues to position ` Africa ' as the ` other ' , ` unknown ' , and in need of assistance .
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Imposing youth curfews can help to solve these problems , as they keep young people off the street , and therefore out of trouble , and prevent them from congregating in the hours of darkness .
2. Police in Philadelphia have found curfews effective in the prevention of gang violence : the measure has been successful in helping to curb violent attacks by teen mobs that had severely injured several people in recent months , city officials said .
3. Youth crime is a major and growing problem , often involving both drugs and violence .
4. Particularly worrying is the rise of youth gangs who can terrorise urban areas and create a social climate in which criminality becomes a norm .

This House would introduce child curfews
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. His influence was such that even naturally left wing parties such as New Labour under Tony Blair stuck to right wing or wing orthodoxies in order to keep the support of the Murdoch press .
2. Murdoch has been running his empire in pursuit of power and to advance a right wing agenda .
3. This is however not at all how Rupert Murdoch ran News Corp or his newspapers .
4. Those running media corporations should be morally upright people who control their media companies in the public interest as these are organisations that potentially have a lot of influence through their control of information .
5. The attitude of the person at the top towards how their company and its staff should conduct themselves informs how they do conduct themselves and engage in their business .
6. Tom Watson MP has gone so far as to accuse Murdoch of being the first mafia boss in history who didnt know he was running a criminal enterprise .
7. Murdochs News Corporation has shown their lack of moral scruples not just by engaging in industrial scale hacking but also by its determination to use its contacts to close down investigations by parliament or the police as well as being willing to destroy evidence and lie when giving evidence .
8. Murdoch was therefore pushing narrow interests rather than the public interest .
9. It is the owners and the management that create the corporate culture which in Murdoch tabloids meant profits at all costs and doing anything to get a story .

Murdoch is morally unfit to run a powerful media company.
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. These are simply not the values education can possibly support .
2. This is just one example of why rap is not to be encouraged at all , let alone awarded a label of -LRB- so-called -RRB- `` poetry '' .
3. Eminem has caused much offence and controversy over the years with his homophobic lyrics .
4. It is unthinkable that rappers who promote gun crime , drugs and degrade women should be given a platform and even promoted in classrooms .
5. Rappers like him must not be promoted as great artists in the classroom .
6. Sir Andrew Motion , Professor of Creative writing at Royal Holloway , University of London , specified that ; `` Poetry is a house of many mansions .
7. Given that the highly respected Royal Holloway University of London is one such institution that supports this , the future of poetry education and even poetry itself does not look hopeful .
8. Rap has its own challenges and opportunities - but so do many other kinds of poetry , many of which are neglected in schools '' .
9. It does pupils a disservice only to tell them things they already know .

The future of poetry teaching looks dismal. It is falling into disrepute by citing rappers as modern day poets.
The electoral college allows small third parties to tip the balance in a state and distort the preferences of the voters.
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. Nevertheless , Gore was the preferred choice of voters in a match up with George W. Bush .
2. In 2000 , Ralph Nader siphoned a few votes from Al Gore in New Hampshire and Florida , costing Gore victories and thus the election .
What claim can be made from the following pieces of evidence?

1. Under the status quo the state exists to protect the security of its citizens .
2. It does so by maintaining a monopoly of violence with the consent of its citizens .
3. US citizens have been allowed to bear small arms as a symbolic representation of their ability to rise up against state oppression should it ever occur .
4. That is , to keep a check and balance upon the monopoly of violence that the state has .
5. It is important to note that the state has the monopoly of violence such that it can protect its citizens in the best possible way .
6. In the same way , the right to bear arms exists such that citizens can protect themselves and prevent harm .
7. This means that should the state visit harm upon the citizens of the state then its right to claim a monopoly on violence is revoked and the citizens can fight against the state .
8. In a similar fashion to the above , should the citizens of the state use their right to bear arms to visit harm upon one another , it seems reasonable that in the same way that the states monopoly on violence is revoked , the citizens should have their right to bear arms revoked .
9. Given that this does not occur in every single part of the U.S. it also seems reasonable to isolate the ban to areas where the spirit of the right to bear arms is being significantly violated .
10. In this case the ban is limited to DC however it could potentially extend to other areas in the U.S. which suffer similar problems .

Individuals Should Not Have the Right to Bear Arms in DC
Banning a symbol of bigotry promotes racial tolerance.
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. ag activates racially biased responding , by virtue of the ?
2. ag 's cultural associations with prejudice , and results in negatively biased judgments of Black people '' .
3. Empirical studies indicate that `` exposure to the Confederate ?
4. ag led White participants to rate a hypothetical Black male character more negatively than those in the control condition .
5. The effects of a general ban on the public display of the Confederate flag would reach beyond those whom it is so plainly meant to intimidate .
6. It would remove what amounts to a constant visual reinforcement of Old Southern racial doctrines and would consequently help to cultivate a more tolerant society .
7. These ?
8. ndings support the argument that exposure to the Confederate ?
9. Participants ' racial attitudes failed to predict the degree to which ?
10. ag exposure produced more negative evaluations .
Sentences: 1. Such scroungers include the incurably lazy , those who are defrauding the taxpayer by claiming welfare while holding down a paying job , and those who are working in the black economy .
2. Making the unemployed work for their welfare benefits calls the bluff of those claiming benefit but not really looking for jobs .
3. Moving from a traditional something-for-nothing welfare scheme to a workfare system stops all these individuals from being a burden on the state , cutting welfare rolls very rapidly and allowing the government to concentrate upon assisting the truly needy .
4. Furthermore , workfare schemes require applicants also search for work whilst completing the scheme .

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Workfare will eliminate scroungers, who are a financial drain on the system
Claim: Wild animals belong in their natural habitat
What evidence supports this claim?

1. Excessive human involvement in the food cycle has disrupted it considerably .
2. Let nature take its course .
3. Predators need to hunt and taking from them their ability to do so by taming/caging/drugging them is beyond cruel .
4. A study by the journal Science in 2008 found that ` Asian elephants in European zoos had a median lifespan of just 18.9 years compared to 41.7 years for wild elephants in an Asian logging camp . '
5. They are ` prevented from gathering their own food , developing their own social orders and generally behaving in ways that are natural to them . '
6. No matter how we may try to replicate their surrounding in a zoo , we will never achieve the full result .
7. Animals belong in their natural habitat , in the wild .
8. It is a breach of their natural rights to take them by force into captivity for our own purposes .
This House believes university education should be free
What is a possible side to this debate?

In order to foster social equality, the state must actively encourage groups in society without cultures of university attendance to seek higher education
This House believes democracy can be built as a result of interventions
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Incentivizes democratic development in other countries as well.
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. The result of poor funding and bad governance is a decreased efficiency of security and military services in these states .
2. In turn , this has resulted in destabilisation of the region .
3. Africa is the least developed continent in the world and will struggle to independently maintain a specialised counter-terrorism force .
4. Thirty four of its fifty four states are classed as least developed countries .
5. Aid from the United States enables these African states to field financially viable forces which can then participate in counter-terrorism .
6. Before military aid was cut to Egypt in 2013 , the US provided $ 1.3 billion annually to support one of the strongest militaries on the continent .
7. Wages , training , and military equipment are expenses which few African countries can afford alone .
8. Kenya , for example , had to disband its Police Reserve unit in 2004 as unpaid officers had turned to corruption to ensure a decent wage , despite the need to combat terrorism in the state as shown by the attack on Nairobis Westgate shopping mall .
9. The World Bank Least Developed Countries Boniface , B. , Kenya to revive police reservists in Garissa to fight al-Shabaab BBC US withholds Egypt military aid over crackdown

African states can’t afford the full cost
This House believes the internet brings more harm than good
What is a possible side to this debate?

The quality of information online cannot always be relied upon
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Releasing works under a creative commons licensing scheme does a great deal to cope with these pressures .
2. In the first instance it is a less draconian regime , so individuals are more willing to buy into it as a legitimate claim by artists rather than an onerous stranglehold on work .
3. Only a tiny fraction of perpetrators are ever caught , and though they are often punished severely in an attempt to deter future crime , it has done little to stop their incidence .
4. Copyright , in many cases , does not work in practice plain and simple .
5. In fact , the level of internet piracy of books , music , and films has increased dramatically year on year for several years , increasing by 30 % in 2011 alone .
6. This is because in many cases copyright laws are next to unenforceable , as the music and movie industries have learned to their annoyance in recent years , for example ninety percent of DVDs sold in China are bootlegs while even western consumers are increasingly bypassing copyright by using peer to peer networks .
7. The state incurs huge costs in monitoring for copyright infringement , in arresting suspected perpetrators , in imprisonment of those found guilty , even though in reality nothing was stolen but an idea that , once released to it , belonged to the public domain more or less .
8. Furthermore , the deterrent effect to copyright piracy generated by all the efforts of the state and firms has proven generally minimal .
9. This increases compliance with the relaxed law .
10. Secondly , the compliance means that artists are given the vocal crediting under the license rules that gives them more public exposure than clandestine copying could not .

This House believes that all literature, art, photography, film and music should be released under Creative Commons licenses
1. Van Woudenberg , Anneke , How to Catch Joseph Kony , , 9 March 2012 ,
2. One of the suggested solutions to the failure to capture Joseph Kony and leaders of the LRA is to have greater involvement of peacekeepers ; an ICC force would provide the same kind of help .
3. An in house force would be solely focused on capturing the wanted war criminals so would both be focusing resources and much less likely to be sidetracked by other priorities -LRB- many of which may be influenced by politics -RRB- than national forces .
4. An in-house enforcement arm would be more effective at capturing indictees than many of the forces of the state parties , as it is likely to be more competent than many of the under-resourced or under-trained national forces .
5. Eight out of the thirty people indicted by the ICC -LRB- four in the Darfur situation , including Omar al-Bashir , three Lords Resistance Army leaders in Uganda and one in the DR Congo investigation -RRB- are still alive and avoiding justice .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

An ICC Enforcement arm would bring in a higher proportion of defendants in to trial
This House Would Abolish nuclear weapons
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

Risk of nuclear weapons falling into the wrong hands
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Should n't parent mean the one who cared for you as a baby , got up in the night for you , saw you through teething and childhood illnesses , and worked hard to give you food , shelter and the best life they were able to provide ?
2. In the case of children seeking the mother who gave them up for adoption , this is permissible specifically because of the relationship built up during pregnancy and birth .
3. The concept of parenthood in the context of donor-assisted conception is complicated .
4. Is someone who donated an egg or some sperm really a parent ?
5. As such , given that donors never actually meet or speak to the real parents or the actual children , the situation is not at all like adoption or even surrogacy .
6. It is more like blood donation , and therefore gives the recipient no rights over the donor .
7. In the case of sperm donors , ` whether for money or out of altruism , the father has gone into a cubicle and masturbated into a container .
8. There is a difference ' .

This house believes Sperm and egg donors should retain their anonymity
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. Unfortunately , there is a vicious circle , caused by poverty that many poor countries find themselves in .
2. A poor country also means a poor , ill-funded government .
3. Such an institution is either unhelpful in preventing poverty or a road block to poverty alleviation .
4. A poor population is also unfortunately more likely to lead to an autocratic government .
5. This phenomenon can be shown by looking at decolonisation .
6. Poor countries when decolonised , even if they initially had democratic aspirations quickly fell to dictatorship .
7. There are very few exceptions such as India that have managed to continually maintain a democratic government while poor .
8. Wealthy countries when decolonised are much more likely to become democracies and once poor autocracies become rich the pressure for democratisation usually becomes unstoppable so countries like South Korea democratised as they became wealthy .
9. There might be considered to be a wealth threshold about which states will become democracies .
10. -LRB- 1 -RRB- The reason why poverty is likely to lead to dictatorship is simple ; a lack of an educated , effective civil service .

This House believes that poverty is the most important security issue facing Africa
This House believes university education should be free
What is a possible side to this debate?

Individuals have a right to equal opportunity in order to maximize their personal utility, and to break free from the social strata in which they are born
This House supports the development of a missile defence system
What argument could one make about this debate topic?

A strategic missile defense shield will be an effective defense against ballistic missile attacks targeted at the United States and its allies
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. -LSB- 1 -RSB- Its institutions involve surprisingly high costs -LRB- especially high when they dont achieve anything -RRB- but still complain of under-resourcing ; members are unwilling to commit any more funds , so nobody is happy .
2. If its divisions are not bridged and ASEAN does not become a vehicle for real action , the charter may prove to be ASEAN 's tombstone rather than its future blueprint .
3. -LSB- 1 -RSB- '' New ' ASEAN , old problems ' , 5/03/2009 ,
4. Best to scrap it .
5. It is expensive and it diverts attention from the proper efforts of members governments pursuit of the national interest .
6. ASEAN is a total waste of time .
7. Members frequently disagree with one another -LRB- on important international relations issues like the war on Iraq , and on regional economic issues like labour laws -RRB- , so the idea that it helps present a united front is incorrect - Yet , the `` new '' ASEAN looks a lot like the old one : united more in word than reality .
8. It is yet another unnecessary talking shop .

This House would disband ASEAN
Sentences: 1. Denialism can be dangerous because it is likely to create perceptions that are likely to make conflict more likely again .
2. For example the post-First World War Dolchstolegende -LRB- stab in the back myth -RRB- was used by the political right in Germany after WWI implied that the German Army had not lost but Germany had only done so due to the civilian leadership .
3. By creating a historical record through the investigations and trial proceedings , International justice can create a narrative that helps fight denialism over events in the past .
4. It creates an accepted version of events where both victim and accused have had their say .
5. This not only encouraged a belief that Germany could win in another war but also as the accusation was levelled particularly at socialists and Jews helped pave the way for the holocaust .
6. Goldstone , p422 Holocaust Encyclopedia , Antisemitism in history : World War I , , 10 June 2013 ,

What claim can be made from these sentences?

Justice is needed to help end denialism.
Claim: States should respect the freedom from religion, as well as the freedom of religion.
What evidence supports this claim?

1. For school children who do not share the majority-Christian faith , Christmas celebrations require either their participation when they do not want to , through coercion , or their non-participation and therefore isolation whilst everyone else celebrations their inclusiveness .
2. Christmas celebrations in the Western world , held in schools and public squares , do not respect the rights of those who are not religious .
3. ` Happy Holidays ' is a generic term for the December break that does not discriminate between Christians and non-Christians , or indeed between the religious and the non-religious .
4. States should instead be sponsoring and celebrating events that everyone can join in equally , regardless of religion , race or class .
5. A tolerant , multi-cultural state would not stop there , but ban the public naming of Christmas and celebrate the ` holidays ' instead .
6. Furthermore , even Christmas symbols like the Christmas symbol could be co-adopted to appeal to non-Christians ; Boston in 2005 re-named its Christmas Tree to ` Holiday Tree ' .
1. < http://www.histori.ca/peace/page.do?pageID=260 > .
2. 1 Dec. 2011 .
3. Specifically , Quebec was attempting to entrench recognition of their special status and needs as a distant society within Canada and this was denied .
4. The Canadian Constitution was patriated in 1982 in a backroom deal known as the Meech Lake Accord where Quebec was explicitly excluded from the negotiations and their issues were ignored .
5. Quebec has historically been denied the right to determine its own form of governance systematically and therefore the Canadian government has no right to claim legitimacy over Quebec and can not stop it from leaving the federation .
6. All people have the right to determine their own form of government and representation and Quebec has been systematically denied this right .
7. Historica , n. d. Web .
8. `` The Meech Lake Accord . '' .
9. Therefore , Quebec has the right to independence as its sovereignty was illegitimately taken from it and it is systematically denied adequate representation in Canadian politics .
10. To this day , Quebec has refused to sign the Canadian constitution as it feels it doesnt adequately represent its interests and needs .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Quebec has the right to self-determination.
A directly elected upper house is more democratic
Come up with some evidence to support this claim.

1. An appointed or indirectly elected upper house violates this principle , because allows a group of individuals to exercise power without having to explain or justify themselves to the public .
2. Democracy means self-governance by the people , wherein citizens have the fundamental right to decide how they are to be governed and by whom .
What is the debate topic for the following sentences?

1. If anything , countries with more homework get worse results !
2. International comparisons of older students have found no positive relationship between the amount of homework set and average test scores - students in Japan and Denmark get little homework but score very well on tests .
3. Some schools and some countries do n't bother with homework at all , and their results do not seem to suffer from it .
4. Homework has little educational worth and adds nothing to the time spent in school .
5. As Alfie Kohn notes , no study has ever found a link between homework and better tests results in elementary school , and there is no reason to believe it is necessary in high school .
6. Studies show that homework adds nothing to standardised test scores for primary / elementary pupils .

This House would ban homework
Summarize the argument implied by these sentences?

1. For the reasons outlined above , i.e. that voters may simply lack quality of choice in election time , giving them the ability to demand a recall decreases the democratic deficit .
2. Having a recall mechanism focuses the minds of elected representatives and ensures that they keep the interests of their constituents constantly in mind .
3. Not only will this lead to harder working politicians with higher ethical standards , it will also prevent them selling out to lobby groups and party whips .
4. All too often elected representatives give way to the lure of business as usual in the capital city , and forget the folks who sent them there in the first place .
5. A system which provides the opportunity for a recall will give voters more power than what they currently have cast a ballot once every four or five years .

Recall mechanisms ensure leader accountability.
1. Prohibiting loss leaders will prevent this abuse of market dominance by the big retail companies and ensure a fair deal for our farmers .
2. If they refuse they will be dropped by the retailer and cut off from the marketplace .
3. The American Antitrust Institute has concluded that these `` Resale price maintenance -LRB- RPM -RRB- '' agreementswhich are agreed upon because retailers have all of the leverageare usually illegal .
4. The practice of loss leaders is bad for suppliers .
5. Farmers and manufacturers are often forced by the dominant retail giants to participate in discount schemes , sharing the losses at the dictate of the retailer .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Banning loss leaders would help suppliers
1. If we can not trust juries to decide which evidence is relevant to the verdict and which is not , then the entire use of juries in the criminal justice system should be reconsidered .
2. As the UK Governments White Paper states , we want less evidence to be withheld from the courts , on the principle that relevant evidence should be admissible ... magistrates , judges and juries have the common sense to evaluate relevant evidence and should be trusted to do so .
3. A criminal justice system which currently relies on the ability of the jury to make a decision can not legitimately choose to withhold evidence from them without innately biasing the trial itself .
4. Jurors should be allowed to weigh the relevance of previous convictions and compare them with the accusations of the trail at hand .
5. Just because their verdict might be more prone to conviction rather than acquittal does not necessarily mean that this is an unfair or even inaccurate conclusion ; given that violent offenders are likely to re-offend , it may illuminate the truth rather than confuse it .
6. It is nonsensical to withhold evidence from a jury that might be necessary for them to reach an accurate verdict .

What is the general argument implied by these sentences?

Juries need to have all the information possible in order to reach a fair verdict.
What debate topic are the following sentences about?

1. Birthright citizenship prevents an increase in the number of illegal residents .
2. As more children of current illegal aliens are denied citizenship , we will be creating a permanent , ` marginalized and undereducated ' underclass with few civil rights , likely to be alienated from our society but knowing no other homeland to which they could return .
3. A recent Migration Policy Institute study found that the removal of birthright citizenship would lead to a 44 % increase in the illegal immigrant community .
4. More illegal immigrants creates a hereditary poverty due to the understandable barriers to entry in the job market for non-citizens .
5. Further to that , Jared Bernstein , a senior economist , argues that illegal immigrants are statistically poorer because they lack access to the economic advantages conferred by citizenship ; ` while 9.8 % of those naturalized are poor , the share for non-citizens is a whopping 21.6 % ' .
6. To increase the amount of illegal immigrants with such statistics in mind would only serve to exacerbate the poverty of such groups and provide a sore for the state as a whole .

This House believes states should offer citizenship to all children born in that state