Cities need good public transit or they grind to a halt. Growing cities in the developing world often have traffic jams that choke up whole expressways for days. The reliance on the car also leads to large amounts of pollution, both smog and CO2 emissions. The solutions for these problems is more and better public … Read more
With millions of copies of violent games like Grand Theft Auto and Halo, should there not be an epidemic of violence, if there is a direct causal link between violence and video games? Are kids slowly but surely giving into the violence of the the game and will they/we start committing violent crimes? Fingers have … Read more
So many people swear, should they be punished for it?“Should swearing remain legal?” All the Yes points: Too common The positive aspects of swearing. It waters down the meaning of ideas with emotion instead of content and limits people’s vocabulary, destroys life. All the No points: Crime defined Not arrested but a ticket. Free right … Read more
War is always evil, but some thinkers have maintained that under limited circumstances it may be the lesser evil. From Cicero to St Augustine, Thomas Aquinas to Hugo Grotius, philosophers and theologians have proposed numerous criteria for determining if a war is just. According to contemporary Just War Theory, a war is just only if … Read more
The line item veto is a debate that is only really relevant to the United States. The US Constitution gives Congress, as the legislative branch of government the power of the purse. This means that all taxation and spending decisions (appropriations of federal government money for particular purposes) must be authorized by both houses of … Read more
School uniforms; to wear or not to wear. That is the question. All the Yes points: School Uniforms – Yes It encourages discipline It contributes to the sense of school’s unity Creates a sense of equality Uniform has practical benefits when students are outside the school building. Uniform prepares students for life after education, when … Read more
