PROBLEM: Claim: Drugs currently fund terrorism and regional instability
What evidence supports this claim?

EVIDENCE: 1. They then demand protection money as well , or else either another local warlord or the protectors themselves would rob the farmer .
2. Something like 22,700 people have died in Mexico since January 2007 from gangsters who want to protect their revenue and almost the entire continent of South America , from Brazil to Colombia , has had their governments destabilised by drug lords .
3. The Taliban gets most of its revenue from poppies , which provide the opium for heroin .
4. They do this by intimidating local farmers who would otherwise sell their harvest at market .
5. The hugely-costly but unsuccessful war on drugs could be ended , starving terrorists of the profits of drug production .
6. As a result peace and development could be brought to unstable drug-producing states such as Colombia and Afghanistan .


PROBLEM: Claim: Marriage should be for all by Marriage is a religious institution in a society of declining religion
What evidence supports this claim?

EVIDENCE: 1. It is clear that marriage can no longer perform this function for everyone in society .
2. As a result there needs to be a new more inclusive institution that is open to all religions and those of no religion .
3. Church attendance is even lower at a mere 6 % -LRB- whychurch.org.uk -RRB- .
4. However , with the percentage of people in the UK who identify as having no religion having risen by nearly 20 % in the last 20 years and the percentage of people who identify as religious having dropped by approximately the same amount -LRB- British Social Attitudes Surveys 2007 -RRB- .
5. This leaves its only function as one of religious significance .
6. The proposition believes that they have proven that marriage no longer has a social or practical function .


PROBLEM: Claim: Physical education helps to forge skills that will prove invaluable in later life
What evidence supports this claim?

EVIDENCE: 1. Hardman , K. -LRB- 2007 -RRB- .
2. Current situation and prospects for physical education in the European Union .
3. It is often the experience of playing on a team together which builds the strongest friendships at school , which endure for years afterwards .
4. As was noted in a report to the European Parliament , ` PE ... helps children learn to respect and value their own bodies and abilities , and those of others ' Compulsory physical education is the only means by which all children can be forced to appreciate such advantages .
5. Sport teaches children how to win and lose with good grace and builds a strong school spirit through competition with other institutions .
6. It is invaluable to imbue with children the delicate balance between a competitive rivalry that encourages effort and , on the other hand , losing the fairness and respect required to enjoy sport .
7. Physical education helps to forge character and the mutual respect required to succeed in an adult environment .
8. Playing team sports builds character and encourages students to work with others , as they would be expected to do in most business or sporting environments .
9. European Parliament .


PROBLEM: Claim: Belief in Santa is not confined to Western culture
What evidence supports this claim?

EVIDENCE:
1. Billions of people across the world believe in Santa Claus , and so many people cant be wrong .
2. Whats more , a belief which was once confined to the Anglo-Saxon world is becoming more and more widespread .
3. If Chinese and South American children are coming to accept the existence of Santa Claus , then why should we in the western world give up our belief ?