Abortion, when the woman's life is not threatened, should always be illegal.
Strongly Disagree - Choice dammit, choice.
All authority should be questioned.
Strongly agree - Critical analysis is our best defense from the manipulative forces of large organizations.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.
Disagree - Talk about a biblical passage where '***is situational' should have replaced it.
Taxpayers should not be expected to prop up any theatres or museums that cannot survive on a commercial basis.
Disagree - The public benefits from the arts, history and the collective knowledge compiled by society. Everything need not have a pure profit motive lest we have situations where people think they know history through repeat viewings of The Honeymooners.
Schools should not make classroom attendance compulsory.
Agree - Homeschooling, vocational schools or remote learning have all proven to be effective at creating well-rounded people. You don't need to be in a classroom to learn.
All people have their rights, but it is better for all of us that different sorts of people should keep to their own kind.
Strongly Disagree - Confronting insecurities and people who don't think like you often makes for stronger, more tolerant individuals. You just might learn something you had been taking for granted by doing so.
Good parents sometimes have to spank their children.
Agree - Sometimes a good slap is just what the doctor ordered when children get ridiculous. Doesn't mean that's the only tool to be used or to kill your kid in the process however.
It's natural for children to keep some secrets from their parents.
Agree - Some secrets, not all. ***is situational yet again.
Possessing marijuana for personal use should not be a criminal offence.
Strongly Agree - Enough wasting taxpayer dollars on the war on drugs already.
The prime function of schooling should be to equip the future generation to find jobs.
Agree - Schools jobs are to engage students and encourage them towards potential careers they find of interest in addition to a baseline level of knowledge required to participate in the democracy.
People with serious inheritable disabilities should not be allowed to reproduce.
Disagree - The information should be made available to the couple and the decision left to them.
The most important thing for children to learn is to accept discipline.
Strongly disagree - Good if you're trying to create slaves, bad for critically minded children and citizens.
There are no savage and civilised peoples; there are only different cultures.
Agree - At the end of the day my opinions on other peoples and they towards me are arbitrary and relative to what the ideal is defined as.
Those who are able to work, and refuse the opportunity, should not expect society's support.
Agree - If you're given opportunities and openly reject them you aren't helping yourself and shouldn't expect anything less than pity.
When you are troubled, it's better not to think about it, but to keep busy with more cheerful things.
Disagree - Recognize the problems but be willing to be cheerful and upbeat in spite of it.
First-generation immigrants can never be fully integrated within their new country.
Agree - Some remnant of the 'old country' will always remain negative or positive.
What's good for the most successful corporations is always, ultimately, good for all of us.
Disagree - Lemme tell you how good that oil spill was for the people of the gulf or toxic chemicals dumped into NYC waterways.
No broadcasting institution, however independent its content, should receive public funding.
Disagree - Public television in conjunction with public donations is useful to society (the television programs) as a whole and is checked by the donations that come in to supplement gov't funds.
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Our civil liberties are being excessively curbed in the name of counter-terrorism.
Agree - There should be limits on how far we go to 'stop terror' lest we become as authoritarian as the people we loathe so much.
A significant advantage of a one-party state is that it avoids all the arguments that delay progress in a democratic political system.
Strongly disagree - There is no advantage to a one party state unless you like dictatorships or are a member of the ruling party.
Although the electronic age makes official surveillance easier, only wrongdoers need to be worried.
Strongly disagree - everyone should be worried when your government is wiretapping your phones.
The death penalty should be an option for the most serious crimes.
Agree - Some people can't be rehabilitated and if the evidence is certain they committed a crime then away they go.
In a civilised society, one must always have people above to be obeyed and people below to be commanded.
Disagree - In civilized society people should be provided social mobility and open to differing sides through fair and proper election processes.
Abstract art that doesn't represent anything shouldn't be considered art at all.
Disagree - Art is in the eye of the beholder.
In criminal justice, punishment should be more important than rehabilitation.
Disagree - If rehab is possible then rehab. If it isn't possible then why are we wasting time breeding criminals?
It is a waste of time to try to rehabilitate some criminals.
Agree - Some people are beyond help.
The businessperson and the manufacturer are more important than the writer and the artist.
Disagree - Both play their parts in society.
Mothers may have careers, but their first duty is to be homemakers.
Disagree - Parents may have careers, but their duty is to be homemakers.
Multinational companies are unethically exploiting the plant genetic resources of developing countries.
Agree - Duh. You think MNCs give a ***about the 3rd world people?
Making peace with the establishment is an important aspect of maturity.
Disagree - If the establishment is corrupt or incorrect on certain aspects why would passivity be the sole option?
Astrology accurately explains many things.
Disagree - Superstitious nonsense. I do like being a Pisces though. Fish are cool.
You cannot be moral without being religious.
Strongly Disagree - Lemme tell ya, I eat babies on the weekend between drinking the blood of theists.
Charity is better than social security as a means of helping the genuinely disadvantaged.
Disagree - Charity ebbs and flows on the whims of people. Get caught at the wrong time and disadvantaged people die in the process so society institutionalized safety nets.
Some people are naturally unlucky.
Agree - Situations outside of the control of personal decisions can result in being 'unlucky'. Just ask anyone who is born in the 'hood or didn't have proper family structures.
It is important that my child's school instills religious values.
Strongly disagree - Keep your faith out of school and practice it at home. This is the USA, not Afghanistan.
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Sex outside marriage is usually immoral.
Strongly disagree - Sex is sex. Consensual relations between two adults. Hopefully.
A same sex couple in a stable, loving relationship, should not be excluded from the possibility of child adoption.
Strongly agree - LBGT couples are no different than two hetero couples at raising offspring. There is no magic formula that makes one better than the other. If you put effort into it you'll reap rewards.
Pornography, depicting consenting adults, should be legal for the adult population.
Agree - Porn will be consumed by the masses and so long as we don't have ***like sex trafficking, rape or anything that isn't consenting adults going on let them feel free to throw their genitalia on the big screen.
What goes on in a private bedroom between consenting adults is no business of the state.
Agree - Stick to raising taxes or pork barrel spending or conjuring up pointless wars against ideologies. Everyone knows the government isn't good in bed anyway.
No one can feel naturally homosexual.
Disagree - The more we learn about homosexuality, the more we learn how wrong this statement is. Unless you're a religious zealot of course.
These days openness about sex has gone too far.
Disagree - The more open people are about their sexuality, the less likely we're to see priests nailing little boys to tables or other rash acts of sexual repression.
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