Question: What debate topic are the following sentences about? 1. Given that powerful countries such as Britain and France gained their own economic prosperity through the exploitation of the economic potential of the colonies , it is entirely appropriate and logical that they should pay reparations as compensation .
2. By this method , they could supply their own markets with the natural resources which they had already exploited at home , and find cheap -LRB- or free -RRB- human labour for their markets .
3. Colonists targeted countries with rich natural resources and little ability to defend themselves from invasion and manipulation .
4. Given that much of the motive for colonisation was economic , many former colonies have suffered damage to their natural resources or human resources , which has left them less able to sustain a healthy economy .
5. In this way , the economic disparity between former colonies and colonists would be equalised .
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Answer: This House believes that former colonial powers should pay reparations to former colonies


Question: What debate topic are the following sentences about? 1. 2007 ,
2. More Government Does Not Mean Less Freedom . .
3. All these problems yield very negative social consequences .
4. The constant reporting on violence leads to people demanding immediate law enforcement , and politicians quick to oblige , which leads to a ratchet effect , a precipitous increase in punishments for crimes .
5. Constant reporting on violent crime makes people more fearful .
6. This not a deliberate effort on the part of the media to keep people afraid , but rather is a corrosive negative externality ; violence sells , so media provides , resulting in the scaring of audiences .
7. The result of the medias reporting on violent crimes is a constant iteration of fear , which makes people wary of each other , and of the world .
8. Furthermore , such reporting creates a feeling in people of other individuals and groups most often reported as committing crimes as being other from themselves .
9. For example , reporting on extensive crimes in inner-city areas in the United States has caused middle class suburbanites to develop wariness toward African-Americans , who are constantly reported in the media as criminals .
10. This is socially destructive in the extreme .
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Answer: This House would restrict media reporting on violent crimes


Question: What debate topic are the following sentences about? 1. Successful programs designed to help HIV-positive employees remain in the workplace for as long as they want to do so should be developed .
2. Procedures for treating personnel with fairness and dignity must be put in place .
3. Businesses ought to take a responsible and active position on HIV .
4. The issue isnt going to go away .
5. Without knowledge of the numbers involved , employers may put in place inadequate medical and pensions arrangements that will ultimately prove inadequate .
6. The potential fears and prejudices of other employees must be combated .
7. The beginning of that process is ensuring they know about the problem and , crucially , the scale of it .
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Answer: This House Believes That Employees Should Be Compelled To Disclose Their HIV Status to Employers


Question: What debate topic are the following sentences about? 1. Therefore a maximum working week prevents business from externalising costs to others .
2. That the businesses themselves manage to push those costs onto wider society or the state doesnt make those costs go anywhere from the point of view of an economy as a whole .
3. It goes without saying that all this avoidable stress and medical trouble needs paying for .
4. The WHO estimates that work related stress costs $ 300bn p.a. in the US , to take one example .
5. Even in less extreme examples , we can see health issues affecting productivity and causing medical problems which require paying to treat .
6. In extremis , as we can see in the karoshi phenomenon in Japan , people can work themselves to an early grave .
7. Working for too many hours per week can affect health , wellbeing and productivity over the medium to longer term .
8. In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in article 23 Everyone has the right to work to just and favourable conditions of work and article 24 Everyone has the right to rest and leisure , including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay both relate to a fundamental freedom from being forced to work too hard .
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Answer:
This House believes that there should be a legally mandated ceiling on weekly working hours.