Over the past decade many countries in what we know as the ‘third world’ have borrowed huge sums of money from wealthier countries in times of strife. Do these debts now hanging like nooses around countries necks? Are they preventing economic expansion and ultimately wealthier populations? All the Yes points: The loans are preventing economic … Read more
nuclear weapon states possess over 25000 nuclear weapons. Some states continue to rely on nuclear weapons for their security, while others seek them to dominate their neighbors or gain and maintain great power status. Should they be banned, or shoud we accept reality and learn to “love the bomb?” All the Yes points: All nuclear … Read more
Citizens must become the masters of corporations or they will become slaves to corporate power. Corporations’ aggregation of wealth, political influence and legal protections has far surpassed those available to citizens. Corporations have usurped citizens’ contract with their elected representatives so that government primarily serve corporate interests rather than those of citizens. People must reclaim … Read more
Billions of dollars are spent every year by the world’s space agencies, but does this money bring us any benefit, or should we pull the plug and spend it elsewhere? All the Yes points: against space exploration Space exploration gives us no direct benefit The Earth itself is not fully explored yet A commercial space … Read more
In the British education system you have a choice: you can either pay for your (or your children’s) education or you can rely on the state to the job for nothing. Private schools disadvantage kids from poor backgrounds even if they’re brighter than the ones who can afford to pay. Does the two-tier system create … Read more
There isn’t a day that goes by where we don’t hear about tragedies around the world. Does this mean that a benevolent god is out of the question? The greatest physicists in recent history do NOT reject God.Stephen Hawking and Einstein both vocally and in literature expressed their ideas of a non-interventionist creator. Hawking resents/ed … Read more
