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We should abolish the two-party system	Gonzales concluded that the two-party system offered little benefit [REF].	1
We should legalize doping in sport	In June 2009, Hamilton was given an eight-year ban after testing positive for a banned anti-depressant [REF].	0
We should protect endangered species	The Korean Ministry of Environment has found a variety of endemic plant and animal species in its habitats, with some being threatened and endangered species [REF].	0
We should abandon the insanity plea	The critical distinctions are that diminished capacity is a partial, negating defense (negates an element of the state's case) with the burden on the state to show that the defendant acted with the requisite state of mind while insanity is a complete but affirmative defense-the defendant bearing the burden of proving that he was legally insane.	0
We should legalize public nudity	Public nudity itself has not been a crime throughout California since a 2000 Appellate Court ruling, and prosecutions and convictions are unheard of	1
We should abolish the Olympic Games	A survey carried out between December 2011 and January 2012 found that 84% of Spanish citizens supported the Madrid bid to host the Olympic Games in 2020.	0
We should support water privatization	In 2000, a lease contract between GWCL and the US company Azurix failed due to public opposition and accusations of corruption which led to the formation of the Coalition against Water Privatization [REF].	0
We should ban alcoholic beverages	Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) For ALL in children, maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy is "unlikely to be an important risk factor for ALL"[REF] .	0
We should ban human cloning	On March 10, 2010 a bill (HR 4808) was introduced with a section banning federal funding for human cloning [REF].	1
We should adopt libertarianism	A survey by David Kirby and David Boaz found a minimum of 14 percent American voters to have libertarian-leaning views [REF].	0
We should abolish personality tests	The registration, personality test and the basic matchmaking service are free of charge.	0
We should fight nationalism	Mitchell and O'Neill split the nationalist vote and he was defeated at the polls on 8 May 1956 by George Forrest, who stood as an Independent Unionist candidate.	0
We should subsidize distance education	The commission recommended that there is need for distance education at university level to upgrade skills and "to provide a continuing education facility for the adult population" [REF].	1
We should lower the age of consent	Numerous studies and professional clinical experience in the field of psychology, both before and after Rind et al.'s publications, have long supported the stance that children cannot consent to sexual activity and that child and adolescent sexual abuse cause harm	1
Physical education should be mandatory	A study of 1800 children aged 2 to 12 in Colac, Australia tested a program of restricted diet (no carbonated drinks or sweets) and increased exercise. Interim results included a 68% increase in after school activity programs, 21% reduction in television viewing, and an average of 1 kg weight reduction compared to a control group [REF	1
We should protect Antarctica	Quigg, Philip W. - A Pole Apart: The Emerging Issue of Antarctica.[REF][REF]	0
Prenatal diagnosis should be mandatory	Couples who are considering prenatal diagnosis should discuss the risks and benefits of this type of testing with a geneticist or genetic counselor.	0
We should subsidize public transportation	The results were mixed, with around two thirds of respondents thinking that congestion charging was not "a good idea" but a slim majority in favour of congestion charging in Manchester as part of the proposed public transport improvement scheme in Manchester's Transport Innovation Fund bid.	0
We should subsidize journalism	Of the rulings for Time Warner, the Church of Scientology complained that they "provide a safe harbor for biased journalism" [REF].	0
We should disband NATO	NATO aircraft conducted 62 airstrikes against loyalist targets near Misrata, Ra's Lanuf, Sirte, Brega, and Zintan [REF].	0
We should fight for Tibetan independence	The 14th Dalai Lama's 2005 proposal for "high-level autonomy" for Tibet, evolved from a position of advocating Tibetan independence, has been compared to "one country, two systems"	0
We should disband NASA	The ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Concatenator: This Adobe Photoshop script will combine the metadata from two or more individual exposures after the FITS Liberation process.	0
We should disband NASA	McDonnell Douglas worked with NASA's Langley Research Center to study aerodynamic improvements [REF].	0
We should abolish zoos	The zoo endeavors to create an ecologically-friendly environment for the animals - the 'Swan Lake' with its natural reed clumps and trees providing shade for pelicans, geese, black swans, night herons and other birds, is a perfect example of this.	0
We should fight nationalism	Morris also quarried from his work on Jay a series of lectures in the Gaspar G. Bacon Lecture Series at Boston University, which in 1967 he published as John Jay, the Nation, and the Court, focusing on Jay as a committed nationalist in his work as a diplomat and as the first Chief Justice of the United States.	0
We should ban alcoholic beverages	"Thus, the results of this study suggest that relatively elevated alcohol intake (of the order of 40 g per day or more) may cause a modest increase of epithelial ovarian cancer risk." [REF]. "Associations were also found between alcohol consumption and cancers of the ovary and prostate, but only for 50 g and 100 g a day."	1
The use of AI should be abandoned	AI reduces the chance of spreading sexually transmitted diseases between mare and stallion.	1
We should ban free newspapers	Back in the US, Brenda is shocked to discover that The Flash has become a free newspaper and has taken on a blogger, the callow Jason.	0
We should fight global warming	Global warming may extend the favourable zones for vectors[REF] conveying infectious disease such as dengue fever,[REF] West Nile virus,[REF] and malaria [REF].	0
Historical racism continues to be reflected in socio-economic inequality	Massive racial differentials in account of wealth remain in the United States: between whites and African Americans, the gap is a factor of twenty [REF]. An analyst of the phenomenon, Thomas Shapiro, professor of law and social policy at Brandeis University argues, “The wealth gap is not just a story of merit and achievement, it’s also a story of the historical legacy of race in the United States.”[REF	1
We should fight global warming	During a debate at the Oxford Union in 2005, Peiser stated, "The lack of a balanced approach to the issue of global warming has led to an extremely one-sided and alarmist perception of risk... Climate alarmists habitually ignore the potential economic and health benefits of warming temperatures.	1
We should ban the use of child actors	The five works by Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Gauguin were outnumbered by seven from Henri Rousseau and thirteen from child artists [REF].	0
We should fight gender inequality	Among families in the United States alone, gender inequality often exists, which is evident in the unequal sharing of household labor [REF].	0
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution	Chere Lyn Tomayko has been granted asylum in June 2008 in Costa Rica for kidnapping Alexandria Camille Cyprian (born 1989) in 1997 for escaping alleged domestic violence	1
We should ban alcoholic beverages	Unlike some other airline lounges, WorldClubs offered free alcoholic beverages in domestic locations and Tokyo-Narita.	0
We should ban alcoholic beverages	Although most of the research (80%) has been carried out in high-income countries, there is also strong evidence from low- and middle-income countries that pharmacological and psychosocial interventions are effective ways to treat mental disorders, with the strongest evidence for depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and hazardous alcohol use.	0
We should subsidize biofuels	The member countries made a pledge to promote the production and use of biofuels as a clean and ecofriendly alternative.	1
We should fight urbanization	In recent years, the expansion of Beijing has also brought to the forefront some problems of urbanization, such as heavy traffic, poor air quality, the loss of historic neighborhoods, and a significant influx of migrant workers from less-developed rural areas of the country [REF].	1
We should legalize prostitution	The Socialstyrelsen (National Board of Health and Welfare) noted that estimating the extent of prostitution was almost impossible.	0
We should introduce recall elections	On October 7, the recall election was held, and voters decisively voted to recall Davis and to elect Schwarzenegger as his replacement.	0
We should disband the United Nations	The government's petition to the Court argued that the stations had "illegally used their respective media outlets by broadcasting hate messages against the government and deliberately spreading misinformation and messages of violence, and instigating the people to rise up and take to the streets and engage in confrontation with the Liberia National Police and the United Nations security forces."[REF]	0
We should ban alcoholic beverages	Binge drinking during pregnancy is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol-related birth defects as well as alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders. The affected children after birth can suffer mental retardation and problems with learning, memory, attention, problem solving and problems with mental health and social interactions. Deformities in facial features, skeletal and body organs as well as a smaller head circumference are also sometimes present in these children [REF	1
We should ban abortions	According to a 1987 study that included specific data about late abortions (i. e.	0
We should abandon television	Through publications on its website including staff reviews, (non peer-reviewed) research reports, and web-based newsletters, the Council proclaims television programs or other entertainment products to be beneficial or harmful to the development of children and actively works to ensure broadcasters and content producers conform to the council's advice.	0
We should lower the drinking age	Many people have criticized medical amnesty policies as policies that perpetuate underage drinking.	0
We should legalize same sex marriage	The data of current psychological and other social science studies on same-sex marriage in comparison to mixed-sex marriage indicate that same-sex and mixed-sex relationships do not differ in their essential psychosocial dimensions; that a parent's sexual orientation is unrelated to their ability to provide a healthy and nurturing family environment; and that marriage bestows substantial psychological, social, and health benefits.	1
We should fight nationalism	Through his study of Kokugaku, Hirata Atsutane advocated nationalistic State Shinto, the obedience to the Emperor and abolition of Confucianism and Buddhism.	0
We should increase international volunteering	Former attorney and successful Hollywood screenwriter Scott Fifer founded the organization in 2006 after taking a volunteer vacation in Tanzania.	0
We should ban boxing	Professional bouts are usually much longer than amateur bouts, typically ranging from ten to twelve rounds, though four-round fights are common for less experienced fighters or club fighters.	0
We should ban gambling	In 1996, local churches began protesting legalized gambling in what had become Little Reno, and the state outlawed the games in 2000.	0
We should adopt socialism	In it, he discusses the economic calculation debate, and, while admitting that it is a problem for socialism, denies that Mises has shown it to be fatal, or that it is this particular problem that led to the collapse of the socialist states.	0
We should limit the use of birth control	In this chapter, the authors field questions on a variety of topics, including abortion, adultery, birth control, communication, counseling, dating, fantasy, fornication, free love, homosexuality, masturbation, menopause, oral sex, petting, privacy, "September sex", etc.	0
We should ban the use of child actors	Following his family's relocation to California in 1976, Jacobs - like his older siblings Christian and Rachel and younger brother Tyler - worked as a child actor, appearing in numerous commercials and television shows in his preadolescence [REF].	0
We should further exploit hydroelectric dams	Some native communities, particularly the Crees, have come to a point "where they increasingly resemble the industrialized society of the South", notes an Hydro-Québec report summarizing the research conducted in the area between 1970 and 2000. The report adds that a similar phenomenon was observed after the construction of roads and hydroelectric plants near isolated communities in northern Canada and Scandinavia. However, growing social problems and rising unemployment have followed the end of the large construction projects in the 1990s.	0
We should subsidize renewable energy	The Spanish government committed to achieving a target of 12 percent of primary energy from renewable energy by 2010 with an installed solar generating capacity of 3000 megawatts (MW) [REF].	1
We should abandon television	A wardrobe malfunction meant that viewers were seeing more of Esther than 1950s television considered to be in good taste; more live show mishaps followed.	0
We should not subsidize cultivation of tobacco	Following his graduation, Dr. Bissell moved to Suffield, Connecticut, a tobacco-farming community where his parents came from, and where he practiced as a country physician for the rest of his life [REF].	0
The free market should be protected	Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Friedrich Engels argue that the free market is not necessarily free, but weighted towards those who already own private property [REF].	0
We should abolish marriage	A separate question on the same survey found that 67% of Florida voters supported legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 33% supporting same-sex marriage, 34% supporting civil unions but not marriage, 31% opposing all legal recognition, and 1% not sure [REF].	0
We should ban beauty contests	A small group of friends in West Hollywood created the original show, Battle for the Tiara, a farcical beauty pageant aimed at raising funds for AIDS assistance through Aid For AIDS that was featured in an award-winning[REF] documentary in 1998, Battle For the Tiara [REF].	0
We should protect Antarctica	The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, located at the base of the Southern Hemisphere.	0
We should increase government regulation	Small business people recognize that some government regulation is essential for maintaining an orderly society.	0
We should disband NASA	During his work at EG&G, Van den Berg asked NASA for permission to conduct crystal growth experiments in space, which NASA approved [REF].	0
We should further exploit green technology	Global wind power installations increased by 35,800 MW in 2010, bringing total installed capacity up to 194,400 MW, a 22.5% increase on the 158,700 MW installed at the end of 2009. The increase for 2010 represents investments totalling €47.3 billion (US$65 billion) and for the first time more than half of all new wind power was added outside of the traditional markets of Europe and North America, mainly driven, by the continuing boom in China which accounted for nearly half of all of the installations at 16,500 MW. China now has 42,300 MW of wind power installed [REF	1
We should abandon social media	Social media can be used to create political change, both major and minor.	1
We should abandon democracy	The Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act, commonly known as the DISCLOSE Act and also known as H.R. 5175 (S.3628-Senate), was a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) on April 29, 2010 and in the U.S. Senate by Charles Schumer (D-New York) on July 21, 2010.	0
We should further exploit nuclear power	Amory Lovins, from the Rocky Mountain Institute, has argued that centralized electricity systems with giant power plants are becoming obsolete. In their place are emerging "distributed resources"-smaller, decentralized electricity supply sources (including efficiency) that are cheaper, cleaner, less risky, more flexible, and quicker to deploy. Such technologies are often called "soft energy technologies" and Lovins viewed their impacts as more gentle, pleasant, and manageable than hard energy technologies such as nuclear power [REF	1
We should cancel the Social Security tax	Social Security is funded through the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA), a payroll tax [REF].	0
We should abolish the two-party system	The Westminster constitutional conventions that had applied under the Union were preserved by the 1961 constitution, so in effect the State President was required to appoint a Prime Minister and Cabinet that commanded the support of the House of Assembly; commonly the Prime Minister would be the leader of the majority party.	0
We should end mining	Despite extensive efforts to secure new payable lodes, it was the lack of success of deep exploration that spelled the end of mining at Croydon.	0
We should ban school uniforms	To combat temperature, sexual harassment, and traditional sexual discrimination, the Ministry of Education (South Korea) has been encouraging the usage of pants as school uniforms, as of 2000 [REF].	1
Prenatal diagnosis should be mandatory	The development of a variety of screening methods for fetal aneuploidy and other chromosomal aberrations is now a prominent research area because of the discovery of circulating fetal nucleic acid in maternal blood plasma.	0
We should abolish the US Electoral College	The differences in turnout between swing states and non-swing states under the current electoral college system suggest that replacing the Electoral College with direct election by popular vote would likely increase turnout and participation significantly [REF].	0
We should abolish the needle exchange programs	Some countries use needle exchange services as part of integrated programs to contain drug use, while others aim simply to contain HIV infection as their top priority, considering reduction in incidence of drug use as a much lower priority [REF].	1
We should ban fishing	May 18 - Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 50-mile limit round Iceland.	0
We should end cheerleading	Sylar overhears the cheerleaders' chanting, foreshadowing his attempt to kill Claire.	0
We should fight illegal immigration	USA Today reported that "Illegal immigrants can get emergency care through Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor and people with disabilities.	0
We should subsidize journalism	The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said that the "murder of Gadzhimurat Kamalov [..] is a lethal blow to press freedom", adding that his murder was "a massive loss for independent journalism in the North Caucasus, Russia's most dangerous place for reporters" [REF].	0
We should adopt blasphemy laws	Pope Benedict XVI called for the repeal of the blasphemy law and also called on governments in Muslim-majority countries to protect Christians from violent attacks.	0
We should ban lotteries	Wandsbek was one of the three locations in the Danish monarchy where the first lottery drew its numbers, and this expression dates from the early years of this lottery's life where a number of people tried to claim prizes in Copenhagen with tickets from Wandsbeck.	0
We should fight urbanization	However, in Thailand, urbanization has also resulted in massive increases in problems such as obesity.	1
We should subsidize higher education	In 1989, Hobby asked Caperton to lead the fight to increase funding for higher education.	1
We should legalize the growing of coca leaf	The UNODC press release stated that during 2005 the "area under coca cultivation in Colombia rose by 6,000 hectares to 86,000 after four consecutive years of decline despite the continued efforts of the Government to eradicate coca crops". This represents a small increase above the lowest figure recorded by UNODC's surveys, which was 80,000 hectares in 2004 [REF].	0
We should fight nationalism	Benedict Anderson argued that anti-colonial nationalism is grounded in the experience of literate and bilingual indigenous intellectuals fluent in the language of the imperial power, schooled in its "national" history, and staffing the colonial administrative cadres up to but not including its highest levels.	0
We should abolish the US Electoral College	Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama won Virginia's 13 electoral votes in the 2008 presidential election, taking 1.96 million votes (52.6%) to Republican nominee John McCain's 1.73 million votes (46.3%) [REF].	0
We should ban lotteries	Now an adult, Hurley (Jorge Garcia) watches as his new Mr. Cluck's chicken restaurant gets hit by a meteorite, killing those inside, including Tricia Tanaka (Sung-Hi Lee), the newswoman who just interviewed him about his lottery winnings.	0
We should ban cosmetic surgery	Minor nasal fractures may be allowed to heal on their own provided there is not significant cosmetic deformity.	0
We should increase internet censorship	A 2012 study of social media sites by other Harvard researchers found that 13% of Internet posts were blocked.	0
We should adopt vegetarianism	A meatless diet was the best regimen for maintaining a healthy and disease-free lifestyle.	1
We should abandon social media	Opponents of this theory claim that social media websites are not public utilities because new social media websites continually come into existence and replace the old.	0
We should prohibit international adoption	Judith Daar - California law professor and clinical professor of medicine , "Progress and Pitfalls in Emerging Reproductive Technologies"; Gregory Pence - University of Alabama at Birmingham philosophy professor and medical ethics specialist, "The Case for Non-Regulation"; David M. Smolin - Cumberland professor and international children's issues specialist, "Money, Markets and Intercountry Adoption."	0
We should further exploit nuclear power	Hubbert believed that solar power would be a practical renewable energy replacement for fossil fuels, and that nuclear energy in breeder reactors would be able to sustain us for centuries [REF].	1
We should adopt blasphemy laws	In turn, an Awami League-led government would enact the Majlish agenda of declaring the Ahmadiyya community as non-Muslim, passing a blasphemy law (outlawing expressions of criticism of Islam) and make fatwas (decrees from Muslim clerics) legally binding [REF].	0
We should limit genetic testing	.My colleagues and I are using families with inherited mutations in the p53 gene, which predisposes to breast cancer and diverse childhood cancers, as a model for developing a genetic testing program."	0
We should abandon online dating services	Emailing back-and-forth, after meeting on a dating website, is one way to get to know people in Britain, and elsewhere [REF].	0
We should abolish standardized tests	In a 2008 study paid for by the National Science Foundation in the United States, researchers found that "girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests.	0
We should abolish capital punishment	In both Stanford v. Kentucky, and the parallel case Wilkins v. Missouri, the Supreme Court affirmed the capital punishments handed down in lower courts.	0
Boarding schools should be abolished	Filming commenced on 8 March 2010 at the Michaelhouse boarding school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa[REF] and ended on 18 April 2010 [REF].	0
We should ban corporal punishment in the home	Allegations that the JA had too authoritarian a style of leadership and that members were under pressure to commit to lifelong celibacy, together with the fact that corporal punishment of children (rodding) was practised, and that community members were required to hand over their material possessions, left them vulnerable to accusations of cultic practices.	0
We should fight global warming	The historian of science Naomi Oreskes published an article in Science reporting that a survey of the abstracts of 928 science articles published between 1993 and 2003 showed none which disagreed explicitly with the notion of anthropogenic global warming [REF].	0

We should abolish the two-party system

Gonzales concluded that the two-party system offered little benefit [REF].

1

We should legalize doping in sport

In June 2009, Hamilton was given an eight-year ban after testing positive for a banned anti-depressant [REF].

0

We should protect endangered species

The Korean Ministry of Environment has found a variety of endemic plant and animal species in its habitats, with some being threatened and endangered species [REF].

0

We should abandon the insanity plea

The critical distinctions are that diminished capacity is a partial, negating defense (negates an element of the state's case) with the burden on the state to show that the defendant acted with the requisite state of mind while insanity is a complete but affirmative defense-the defendant bearing the burden of proving that he was legally insane.

0

We should legalize public nudity

Public nudity itself has not been a crime throughout California since a 2000 Appellate Court ruling, and prosecutions and convictions are unheard of

1

We should abolish the Olympic Games

A survey carried out between December 2011 and January 2012 found that 84% of Spanish citizens supported the Madrid bid to host the Olympic Games in 2020.

0

We should support water privatization

In 2000, a lease contract between GWCL and the US company Azurix failed due to public opposition and accusations of corruption which led to the formation of the Coalition against Water Privatization [REF].

0

We should ban alcoholic beverages

Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia (ALL) For ALL in children, maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy is "unlikely to be an important risk factor for ALL"[REF] .

0

We should ban human cloning

On March 10, 2010 a bill (HR 4808) was introduced with a section banning federal funding for human cloning [REF].

1

We should adopt libertarianism

A survey by David Kirby and David Boaz found a minimum of 14 percent American voters to have libertarian-leaning views [REF].

0

We should abolish personality tests

The registration, personality test and the basic matchmaking service are free of charge.

0

We should fight nationalism

Mitchell and O'Neill split the nationalist vote and he was defeated at the polls on 8 May 1956 by George Forrest, who stood as an Independent Unionist candidate.

0

We should subsidize distance education

The commission recommended that there is need for distance education at university level to upgrade skills and "to provide a continuing education facility for the adult population" [REF].

1

We should lower the age of consent

Numerous studies and professional clinical experience in the field of psychology, both before and after Rind et al.'s publications, have long supported the stance that children cannot consent to sexual activity and that child and adolescent sexual abuse cause harm

1

Physical education should be mandatory

A study of 1800 children aged 2 to 12 in Colac, Australia tested a program of restricted diet (no carbonated drinks or sweets) and increased exercise. Interim results included a 68% increase in after school activity programs, 21% reduction in television viewing, and an average of 1 kg weight reduction compared to a control group [REF

1

We should protect Antarctica

Quigg, Philip W. - A Pole Apart: The Emerging Issue of Antarctica.[REF][REF]

0

Prenatal diagnosis should be mandatory

Couples who are considering prenatal diagnosis should discuss the risks and benefits of this type of testing with a geneticist or genetic counselor.

0

We should subsidize public transportation

The results were mixed, with around two thirds of respondents thinking that congestion charging was not "a good idea" but a slim majority in favour of congestion charging in Manchester as part of the proposed public transport improvement scheme in Manchester's Transport Innovation Fund bid.

0

We should subsidize journalism

Of the rulings for Time Warner, the Church of Scientology complained that they "provide a safe harbor for biased journalism" [REF].

0

We should disband NATO

NATO aircraft conducted 62 airstrikes against loyalist targets near Misrata, Ra's Lanuf, Sirte, Brega, and Zintan [REF].

0

We should fight for Tibetan independence

The 14th Dalai Lama's 2005 proposal for "high-level autonomy" for Tibet, evolved from a position of advocating Tibetan independence, has been compared to "one country, two systems"

0

We should disband NASA

The ESA/ESO/NASA FITS Concatenator: This Adobe Photoshop script will combine the metadata from two or more individual exposures after the FITS Liberation process.

0

We should disband NASA

McDonnell Douglas worked with NASA's Langley Research Center to study aerodynamic improvements [REF].

0

We should abolish zoos

The zoo endeavors to create an ecologically-friendly environment for the animals - the 'Swan Lake' with its natural reed clumps and trees providing shade for pelicans, geese, black swans, night herons and other birds, is a perfect example of this.

0

We should fight nationalism

Morris also quarried from his work on Jay a series of lectures in the Gaspar G. Bacon Lecture Series at Boston University, which in 1967 he published as John Jay, the Nation, and the Court, focusing on Jay as a committed nationalist in his work as a diplomat and as the first Chief Justice of the United States.

0

We should ban alcoholic beverages

"Thus, the results of this study suggest that relatively elevated alcohol intake (of the order of 40 g per day or more) may cause a modest increase of epithelial ovarian cancer risk." [REF]. "Associations were also found between alcohol consumption and cancers of the ovary and prostate, but only for 50 g and 100 g a day."

1

The use of AI should be abandoned

AI reduces the chance of spreading sexually transmitted diseases between mare and stallion.

1

We should ban free newspapers

Back in the US, Brenda is shocked to discover that The Flash has become a free newspaper and has taken on a blogger, the callow Jason.

0

We should fight global warming

Global warming may extend the favourable zones for vectors[REF] conveying infectious disease such as dengue fever,[REF] West Nile virus,[REF] and malaria [REF].

0

Historical racism continues to be reflected in socio-economic inequality

Massive racial differentials in account of wealth remain in the United States: between whites and African Americans, the gap is a factor of twenty [REF]. An analyst of the phenomenon, Thomas Shapiro, professor of law and social policy at Brandeis University argues, “The wealth gap is not just a story of merit and achievement, it’s also a story of the historical legacy of race in the United States.”[REF

1

We should fight global warming

During a debate at the Oxford Union in 2005, Peiser stated, "The lack of a balanced approach to the issue of global warming has led to an extremely one-sided and alarmist perception of risk... Climate alarmists habitually ignore the potential economic and health benefits of warming temperatures.

1

We should ban the use of child actors

The five works by Van Gogh, Cézanne, and Gauguin were outnumbered by seven from Henri Rousseau and thirteen from child artists [REF].

0

We should fight gender inequality

Among families in the United States alone, gender inequality often exists, which is evident in the unequal sharing of household labor [REF].

0

Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution

Chere Lyn Tomayko has been granted asylum in June 2008 in Costa Rica for kidnapping Alexandria Camille Cyprian (born 1989) in 1997 for escaping alleged domestic violence

1

We should ban alcoholic beverages

Unlike some other airline lounges, WorldClubs offered free alcoholic beverages in domestic locations and Tokyo-Narita.

0

We should ban alcoholic beverages

Although most of the research (80%) has been carried out in high-income countries, there is also strong evidence from low- and middle-income countries that pharmacological and psychosocial interventions are effective ways to treat mental disorders, with the strongest evidence for depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and hazardous alcohol use.

0

We should subsidize biofuels

The member countries made a pledge to promote the production and use of biofuels as a clean and ecofriendly alternative.

1

We should fight urbanization

In recent years, the expansion of Beijing has also brought to the forefront some problems of urbanization, such as heavy traffic, poor air quality, the loss of historic neighborhoods, and a significant influx of migrant workers from less-developed rural areas of the country [REF].

1

We should legalize prostitution

The Socialstyrelsen (National Board of Health and Welfare) noted that estimating the extent of prostitution was almost impossible.

0

We should introduce recall elections

On October 7, the recall election was held, and voters decisively voted to recall Davis and to elect Schwarzenegger as his replacement.

0

We should disband the United Nations

The government's petition to the Court argued that the stations had "illegally used their respective media outlets by broadcasting hate messages against the government and deliberately spreading misinformation and messages of violence, and instigating the people to rise up and take to the streets and engage in confrontation with the Liberia National Police and the United Nations security forces."[REF]

0

We should ban alcoholic beverages

Binge drinking during pregnancy is associated with fetal alcohol syndrome, alcohol-related birth defects as well as alcohol-related neurodevelopmental disorders. The affected children after birth can suffer mental retardation and problems with learning, memory, attention, problem solving and problems with mental health and social interactions. Deformities in facial features, skeletal and body organs as well as a smaller head circumference are also sometimes present in these children [REF

1

We should ban abortions

According to a 1987 study that included specific data about late abortions (i. e.

0

We should abandon television

Through publications on its website including staff reviews, (non peer-reviewed) research reports, and web-based newsletters, the Council proclaims television programs or other entertainment products to be beneficial or harmful to the development of children and actively works to ensure broadcasters and content producers conform to the council's advice.

0

We should lower the drinking age

Many people have criticized medical amnesty policies as policies that perpetuate underage drinking.

0

We should legalize same sex marriage

The data of current psychological and other social science studies on same-sex marriage in comparison to mixed-sex marriage indicate that same-sex and mixed-sex relationships do not differ in their essential psychosocial dimensions; that a parent's sexual orientation is unrelated to their ability to provide a healthy and nurturing family environment; and that marriage bestows substantial psychological, social, and health benefits.

1

We should fight nationalism

Through his study of Kokugaku, Hirata Atsutane advocated nationalistic State Shinto, the obedience to the Emperor and abolition of Confucianism and Buddhism.

0

We should increase international volunteering

Former attorney and successful Hollywood screenwriter Scott Fifer founded the organization in 2006 after taking a volunteer vacation in Tanzania.

0

We should ban boxing

Professional bouts are usually much longer than amateur bouts, typically ranging from ten to twelve rounds, though four-round fights are common for less experienced fighters or club fighters.

0

We should ban gambling

In 1996, local churches began protesting legalized gambling in what had become Little Reno, and the state outlawed the games in 2000.

0

We should adopt socialism

In it, he discusses the economic calculation debate, and, while admitting that it is a problem for socialism, denies that Mises has shown it to be fatal, or that it is this particular problem that led to the collapse of the socialist states.

0

We should limit the use of birth control

In this chapter, the authors field questions on a variety of topics, including abortion, adultery, birth control, communication, counseling, dating, fantasy, fornication, free love, homosexuality, masturbation, menopause, oral sex, petting, privacy, "September sex", etc.

0

We should ban the use of child actors

Following his family's relocation to California in 1976, Jacobs - like his older siblings Christian and Rachel and younger brother Tyler - worked as a child actor, appearing in numerous commercials and television shows in his preadolescence [REF].

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We should further exploit hydroelectric dams

Some native communities, particularly the Crees, have come to a point "where they increasingly resemble the industrialized society of the South", notes an Hydro-Québec report summarizing the research conducted in the area between 1970 and 2000. The report adds that a similar phenomenon was observed after the construction of roads and hydroelectric plants near isolated communities in northern Canada and Scandinavia. However, growing social problems and rising unemployment have followed the end of the large construction projects in the 1990s.

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We should subsidize renewable energy

The Spanish government committed to achieving a target of 12 percent of primary energy from renewable energy by 2010 with an installed solar generating capacity of 3000 megawatts (MW) [REF].

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We should abandon television

A wardrobe malfunction meant that viewers were seeing more of Esther than 1950s television considered to be in good taste; more live show mishaps followed.

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We should not subsidize cultivation of tobacco

Following his graduation, Dr. Bissell moved to Suffield, Connecticut, a tobacco-farming community where his parents came from, and where he practiced as a country physician for the rest of his life [REF].

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The free market should be protected

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Friedrich Engels argue that the free market is not necessarily free, but weighted towards those who already own private property [REF].

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We should abolish marriage

A separate question on the same survey found that 67% of Florida voters supported legal recognition of same-sex couples, with 33% supporting same-sex marriage, 34% supporting civil unions but not marriage, 31% opposing all legal recognition, and 1% not sure [REF].

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We should ban beauty contests

A small group of friends in West Hollywood created the original show, Battle for the Tiara, a farcical beauty pageant aimed at raising funds for AIDS assistance through Aid For AIDS that was featured in an award-winning[REF] documentary in 1998, Battle For the Tiara [REF].

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We should protect Antarctica

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica, located at the base of the Southern Hemisphere.

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We should increase government regulation

Small business people recognize that some government regulation is essential for maintaining an orderly society.

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We should disband NASA

During his work at EG&G, Van den Berg asked NASA for permission to conduct crystal growth experiments in space, which NASA approved [REF].

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We should further exploit green technology

Global wind power installations increased by 35,800 MW in 2010, bringing total installed capacity up to 194,400 MW, a 22.5% increase on the 158,700 MW installed at the end of 2009. The increase for 2010 represents investments totalling €47.3 billion (US$65 billion) and for the first time more than half of all new wind power was added outside of the traditional markets of Europe and North America, mainly driven, by the continuing boom in China which accounted for nearly half of all of the installations at 16,500 MW. China now has 42,300 MW of wind power installed [REF

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We should abandon social media

Social media can be used to create political change, both major and minor.

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We should abandon democracy

The Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light On Spending in Elections Act, commonly known as the DISCLOSE Act and also known as H.R. 5175 (S.3628-Senate), was a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland) on April 29, 2010 and in the U.S. Senate by Charles Schumer (D-New York) on July 21, 2010.

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We should further exploit nuclear power

Amory Lovins, from the Rocky Mountain Institute, has argued that centralized electricity systems with giant power plants are becoming obsolete. In their place are emerging "distributed resources"-smaller, decentralized electricity supply sources (including efficiency) that are cheaper, cleaner, less risky, more flexible, and quicker to deploy. Such technologies are often called "soft energy technologies" and Lovins viewed their impacts as more gentle, pleasant, and manageable than hard energy technologies such as nuclear power [REF

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We should cancel the Social Security tax

Social Security is funded through the Federal Insurance Contributions Act tax (FICA), a payroll tax [REF].

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We should abolish the two-party system

The Westminster constitutional conventions that had applied under the Union were preserved by the 1961 constitution, so in effect the State President was required to appoint a Prime Minister and Cabinet that commanded the support of the House of Assembly; commonly the Prime Minister would be the leader of the majority party.

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We should end mining

Despite extensive efforts to secure new payable lodes, it was the lack of success of deep exploration that spelled the end of mining at Croydon.

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We should ban school uniforms

To combat temperature, sexual harassment, and traditional sexual discrimination, the Ministry of Education (South Korea) has been encouraging the usage of pants as school uniforms, as of 2000 [REF].

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Prenatal diagnosis should be mandatory

The development of a variety of screening methods for fetal aneuploidy and other chromosomal aberrations is now a prominent research area because of the discovery of circulating fetal nucleic acid in maternal blood plasma.

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We should abolish the US Electoral College

The differences in turnout between swing states and non-swing states under the current electoral college system suggest that replacing the Electoral College with direct election by popular vote would likely increase turnout and participation significantly [REF].

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We should abolish the needle exchange programs

Some countries use needle exchange services as part of integrated programs to contain drug use, while others aim simply to contain HIV infection as their top priority, considering reduction in incidence of drug use as a much lower priority [REF].

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We should ban fishing

May 18 - Joseph Godber, British Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, announces that Royal Navy frigates will protect British trawlers fishing in the disputed 50-mile limit round Iceland.

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We should end cheerleading

Sylar overhears the cheerleaders' chanting, foreshadowing his attempt to kill Claire.

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We should fight illegal immigration

USA Today reported that "Illegal immigrants can get emergency care through Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor and people with disabilities.

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We should subsidize journalism

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said that the "murder of Gadzhimurat Kamalov [..] is a lethal blow to press freedom", adding that his murder was "a massive loss for independent journalism in the North Caucasus, Russia's most dangerous place for reporters" [REF].

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We should adopt blasphemy laws

Pope Benedict XVI called for the repeal of the blasphemy law and also called on governments in Muslim-majority countries to protect Christians from violent attacks.

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We should ban lotteries

Wandsbek was one of the three locations in the Danish monarchy where the first lottery drew its numbers, and this expression dates from the early years of this lottery's life where a number of people tried to claim prizes in Copenhagen with tickets from Wandsbeck.

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We should fight urbanization

However, in Thailand, urbanization has also resulted in massive increases in problems such as obesity.

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We should subsidize higher education

In 1989, Hobby asked Caperton to lead the fight to increase funding for higher education.

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We should legalize the growing of coca leaf

The UNODC press release stated that during 2005 the "area under coca cultivation in Colombia rose by 6,000 hectares to 86,000 after four consecutive years of decline despite the continued efforts of the Government to eradicate coca crops". This represents a small increase above the lowest figure recorded by UNODC's surveys, which was 80,000 hectares in 2004 [REF].

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We should fight nationalism

Benedict Anderson argued that anti-colonial nationalism is grounded in the experience of literate and bilingual indigenous intellectuals fluent in the language of the imperial power, schooled in its "national" history, and staffing the colonial administrative cadres up to but not including its highest levels.

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We should abolish the US Electoral College

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama won Virginia's 13 electoral votes in the 2008 presidential election, taking 1.96 million votes (52.6%) to Republican nominee John McCain's 1.73 million votes (46.3%) [REF].

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We should ban lotteries

Now an adult, Hurley (Jorge Garcia) watches as his new Mr. Cluck's chicken restaurant gets hit by a meteorite, killing those inside, including Tricia Tanaka (Sung-Hi Lee), the newswoman who just interviewed him about his lottery winnings.

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We should ban cosmetic surgery

Minor nasal fractures may be allowed to heal on their own provided there is not significant cosmetic deformity.

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We should increase internet censorship

A 2012 study of social media sites by other Harvard researchers found that 13% of Internet posts were blocked.

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We should adopt vegetarianism

A meatless diet was the best regimen for maintaining a healthy and disease-free lifestyle.

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We should abandon social media

Opponents of this theory claim that social media websites are not public utilities because new social media websites continually come into existence and replace the old.

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We should prohibit international adoption

Judith Daar - California law professor and clinical professor of medicine , "Progress and Pitfalls in Emerging Reproductive Technologies"; Gregory Pence - University of Alabama at Birmingham philosophy professor and medical ethics specialist, "The Case for Non-Regulation"; David M. Smolin - Cumberland professor and international children's issues specialist, "Money, Markets and Intercountry Adoption."

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We should further exploit nuclear power

Hubbert believed that solar power would be a practical renewable energy replacement for fossil fuels, and that nuclear energy in breeder reactors would be able to sustain us for centuries [REF].

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We should adopt blasphemy laws

In turn, an Awami League-led government would enact the Majlish agenda of declaring the Ahmadiyya community as non-Muslim, passing a blasphemy law (outlawing expressions of criticism of Islam) and make fatwas (decrees from Muslim clerics) legally binding [REF].

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We should limit genetic testing

.My colleagues and I are using families with inherited mutations in the p53 gene, which predisposes to breast cancer and diverse childhood cancers, as a model for developing a genetic testing program."

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We should abandon online dating services

Emailing back-and-forth, after meeting on a dating website, is one way to get to know people in Britain, and elsewhere [REF].

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We should abolish standardized tests

In a 2008 study paid for by the National Science Foundation in the United States, researchers found that "girls perform as well as boys on standardized math tests.

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We should abolish capital punishment

In both Stanford v. Kentucky, and the parallel case Wilkins v. Missouri, the Supreme Court affirmed the capital punishments handed down in lower courts.

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Boarding schools should be abolished

Filming commenced on 8 March 2010 at the Michaelhouse boarding school in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa[REF] and ended on 18 April 2010 [REF].

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We should ban corporal punishment in the home

Allegations that the JA had too authoritarian a style of leadership and that members were under pressure to commit to lifelong celibacy, together with the fact that corporal punishment of children (rodding) was practised, and that community members were required to hand over their material possessions, left them vulnerable to accusations of cultic practices.

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We should fight global warming

The historian of science Naomi Oreskes published an article in Science reporting that a survey of the abstracts of 928 science articles published between 1993 and 2003 showed none which disagreed explicitly with the notion of anthropogenic global warming [REF].

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