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training-health-dssiahwlswo-pro01a | Decriminalising increses sex workers’ rights. Sex workers remain stigmatised across Africa. Legalising sex work enables the practice to be decriminalised, and rights provided. Being a sex worker where it is illegal creates additional risks and vulnerabilities. Reports from South Africa show that criminalizing sex wor... |
training-health-dssiahwlswo-pro05b | Gender inequality, hierarchies and violence, will become legalised [1] . Across Africa, women account for a higher proportion of the population living with HIV - gender inequalities are a key driver of the epidemic. For example, patriarchal structures encourage polygamy in marriage; and women’s roles in the reproductiv... |
training-health-dssiahwlswo-pro03a | Legalising ensures health care and safe sex. Legalising sex work will enable regulation. Responsive laws can promote safe sex practices and enable access to health services [1] . Firstly, sex workers fear asking for health assistance, and treatment in public services, due to the illegal and criminalised nature of sex... |
training-health-dssiahwlswo-pro04a | Monitoring who enters the sex trade. By including sex workers under a legal framework regulatory rules can be imposed on who enters the profession, such as is found in Senegal. The introduction of Senegal’s Identity Card means frequent health checks are required upon registration to be a prostitute. Additionally, the ... |
training-health-dssiahwlswo-con03b | By legalising sex work the duty, and ethics, of care are granted to national bodies. The state is able to intervene and act when the rights of sex workers are identified as being breached. The individual self becomes empowered, and integrated into, a legal framework. |
training-health-dssiahwlswo-con03a | Legalization leaves ‘risk’ in the hands of the worker. Legalising sex as work, puts the burden of risk to the sex workers themselves; and having its basis from European law models raises questions over applicability across Africa. Although, in theory, a legal framework will enhance a duty of rights and a voice for wor... |
training-health-dssiahwlswo-con01a | The market framework: sex work is an industry. Sex work needs to be understood as a market-based industry. Sex workers are influenced by supply and demand [1] . It needs to be questioned both who, what, and why sex workers are forced into sexual exchanges and alternatively, why demand is found. The legalisation of se... |
training-health-dssiahwlswo-con02b | Criminalising HIV transmission puts human rights in greater jeopardy. The stigmatisation of HIV/AIDS will remain prominent. The acceptance, and inclusion, of sex workers will become further marginalised as they become symbols of risk, disease, and transmission. This is something no sex worker would want. Countless arti... |
training-health-hgfhwbhc-pro02a | Playing God Cloning is playing God. It is not merely intervention in the body’s natural processes, but the creation of a new and wholly unnatural process of asexual reproduction. Clerics within the Catholic, Muslim and Jewish faiths have all expressed their opposition to human cloning. However, this objection to cloni... |
training-health-hgfhwbhc-pro05a | Cloning treats children as objects Cloning treats children as objects. Children will be manufactured by an expensive technological process that is subject to quality control. The gulf between an artisan and an artefact is immense. Individuals will be able to have a child for the sake of having children, or as a symbol... |
training-health-hgfhwbhc-pro01a | Cloning is unsafe The technology is unsafe. The nuclear transfer technique that produced Dolly required 277 embryos, from which only one healthy and viable sheep was produced. [1] The other foetuses were hideously deformed and either died or were aborted. Even today, cloning animals through somatic cell nuclear transf... |
training-health-hgfhwbhc-pro04b | When people resort to talking in wholly empty abstract terms about ‘human dignity’ you can be sure that they have no evidence or arguments to back up their position. It is difficult to understand why the act of sexual intercourse that leads to sexual procreation is any more ‘dignified’ or respectable than a reasoned de... |
training-health-hgfhwbhc-con03b | Human reproductive cloning is unnecessary. The development of in vitro fertilisation and the practice of sperm donation allows heterosexual couples to reproduce where one partner is sterile. Moreover, merely 300 babies are adopted each year in the United Kingdom. [1] It might be better for potential parents to give the... |
training-health-hgfhwbhc-con01a | Will allow the elimination of diseases Cloning is unlikely to be widespread so any dangers from any reduction in the diversity of the human gene pool will be so limited as to be virtually non-existent. The expense and time necessary for successful human cloning should mean that it will only be used to the benefit of t... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-pro02b | Of course all drugs can be abused but introducing one into the system full in the knowledge that it will be abused is an entirely different matter. On the basis of the balance of probabilities, the moment any government says that cannabis is safe to use and, more than that, beneficial to health then every pothead in th... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-pro01a | Cannabis has many medical properties, notably the alleviation of suffering in chronic diseases. It should therefore be freely available Cannabis has been used for medicinal purposes for at least 5,000 years most frequently as an analgesic, that is to say it reduces pain. It also stimulates hunger and can be used as an... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-pro01b | Government has a role in establishing what is an acceptable level of behaviour within society. Full in the knowledge that some people will use any substance responsibly and others less so, governments make decisions to protect their citizens and to show a lead. It is the settled will of most people in most countries th... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-con03b | Government policy on this issue has long been confused. When it is perfectly acceptable for politicians, celebrities and other public figures to admit that they have broken the law and face no sanction, it is time for the law to change. Virtually all of the societal problems caused by its usage are directly as a result... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-con02a | By expanding the legal use of the drug, it simply makes the illegal, recreational use easier as there’s a greater supply If the drug were made available, it would need to be grown somewhere, stored somewhere and sold somewhere. Increased supervision of pharmacies and users would be required, in order to guard against ... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-con03a | By promoting the use of soft drugs in any context, encourages young people down a slippery slope toward harder drugs Part of the attraction of cannabis, especially among younger users is its appeal as a ‘forbidden fruit’. Removing that would mean that other, harder drugs would be sought out to fulfill the same need to... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-con01a | In most countries where there is an acceptance of the medical value of cannabis it is fairly easily available, this would simply condone its recreational use At a time when governments, along with health professionals, are trying to restrict the use of legal drugs such as alcohol and nicotine, giving the use of cannab... |
training-health-ahghtrpcas-con02b | Ultimately there is a clear difference between the medical use of a drug, the banning of which is both harming patients and is against the wishes of many societies and allowing a free-for-all. As a society we regulate the use of other products to ensure that they are not available to minors or open to abuse. Clearly t... |
training-health-hghpghbus-con03a | Mandatory health insurance is analogous to constitutional mandates Federal mandates are a cornerstone of the American legal system and the everyday life of every American. As Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray and Iowa's attorney general Tom Miller, argued in 2010: "We live under mandates every day. Without them, s... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-pro02b | It is true that it is difficult to decide where to draw the line between legitimate and illegitimate performance enhancement. However we should continue to draw a line nonetheless. This line should be drawn at protecting athletes from harmful drugs and preserving the spirit of fair play and unaided competition between ... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-pro02a | There is no distinction between "natural" and synthetic methods of performance enhancement The natural/unnatural distinction is untenable. Already athletes use all sorts of dietary supplements, exercises, equipment, clothing, training regimes, medical treatments, etc. to enhance their performance. There is nothing ‘na... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-pro03b | Rich athletes from wealthier countries will always have access to the latest, highest quality performance enhancers. On the other side, athletes from poorer countries which do not have the same medical and scientific advances will not be able to keep up. They will always be at a disadvantage regardless of whether perfo... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-pro01b | Simple analogy: If a person were to kill himself for the sake of entertaining the crowd, this act would still be considered illegal by the government and efforts to hinder and discourage it would be created. An appropriate example is the one of dangers of alcohol and tobacco, which were not known until after they had ... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-pro04b | There will always be a black market for cheaper or for new untested drugs that will give an athlete an edge before others have a chance to try it. Legalization is therefore unlikely to result in large health benefits as the competitiveness of sport will always result in athletes being willing to take a risk. |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-pro03a | Controlling, rather than ignoring, performance enhancing substances will improve competitive standards in sport The use of performance enhancing drugs is based on advances in science. When new drugs and therapies are found, athletes turn to them and as a result are much of the time ahead of the anti-doping organizatio... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-pro04a | Improving safety standards in sport It does not take a lot for chemists to produce performance enhancing drugs, the Scientific American reports: “Rogue scientists start with testosterone or its commercially available analogues and then make minor structural modifications to yield similarly active derivatives.” The und... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-con03b | Sport is dangerous. Today’s athletes decide to endanger their lives by participating in sports all the time. They decide to participate in sports with the informed decision that they might get hurt as it is part of the sport. Performance enhancing drugs are no different. In the USA every year there are nearly 300,000 ... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-con02a | Permitting the use of performace enhancers would have a coercive effect on athletes who would otherwise avoid drug use Once some people choose to use drugs to enhance their performance, other athletes have their freedom of choice infringed upon: if they want to succeed they have to take drugs too. Athletes are very dr... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-con01a | Drugs will undermine the central philosophy of sport The show and the celebration of human physical achievement is what makes sport enjoyable to the public. The reason people enjoy sport is because it is a demonstration of what other fellow human beings can achieve and what humans can achieve collectively, as a specie... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-con04b | The temptation of youth to try illegal substances is not just a problem in sports. In all environments you will have age restrictions. To say that we should uphold the ban for the sake of children is as if we would advocate a ban of alcohol for everyone, because some teenagers like to socialize with adults who are leg... |
training-sport-ehcpssohwpup-con02b | There is no such thing as a forced decision. Everyone has complete control over their own body and their own decisions. Everyone has an absolute right to possession of one’s own body. If you own your body then you can choose what to do with it, and any exchange, such as money to an employer in exchange for use of your ... |
training-sport-emgssghwfmdpa-pro02a | Increased media coverage changes public perceptions towards gender roles and women’s sport. The male world-view which dominates sports media and conveys to the public that women’s sport are inferior to men’s reinforce traditional gender stereotypes and deter young girls from becoming active in sport. Gender perception... |
training-sport-emgssghwfmdpa-pro04b | The unpopularity of the events sports media would be forced to cover would mean less money, not more money going into sports. This is because incentives for lucrative TV rights deals, sponsorships and advertising only exist where there is a high expectation of positive returns for the advertisers and media companies. F... |
training-sport-emgssghwfmdpa-con01b | The media can and often is used as a tool for public policy. Examples of this include the broadcasting of public information campaigns against drink-driving or smoking or else bans on certain advertising such as smoking advertisements or sponsorship appearing on TV.[1] What’s more the government has a huge influence in... |
training-sport-lsgtshwrps-pro03b | It should not be dependent on one man or one woman to carry the weight of the nation upon their shoulders. Winning the world cup should not be about just whether an individual plays or not but about the team. Even in the Olympics one individual’s performance makes little difference in most cases to the whole of the tea... |
training-sport-lsgtshwrps-pro03a | Benefits to the nation It is not just the player or athlete who benefits from taking part in international competitions but the nation as well. Every nation wants to do well in international sporting completions and every national wants their nation to do well internationally. Every country wants all of their best spo... |
training-sport-lsgtshwrps-con01b | It is true that freedom is one of the core principles of society, but it is neither an absolute value, nor one which isn’t legitimate to confine at some moments. This coercive measure isn’t very time or energy intensive. In general, international competitions are pretty scarce, once every two or four years, and they la... |
training-sport-lsgtshwrps-con02a | There is no need for compulsion There is an old saying ‘if it ain’t broke don’t fix it’. In order for this proposal to be taken into consideration, a problem regarding the world of sports must be identified. Fortunately for sports, it works like a charm. In a great many sports revenues are going up, television rights... |
training-sport-lsgtshwrps-con01a | Liberty Liberty is the foundation stone of society. Every individual must be free to do as they choose and one part of freedom is the freedom to walk away from work when you are asked. Forcing sportspeople to represent their nation in international competition is would be a kind of unfree labour very similar to involu... |
training-sport-lsgtshwrps-con02b | How well the finances of sports are doing has little relevance to the international game. Indeed it creates the potential problem that as club, or domestic level competition grows more lucrative so sportspeople may feel that they have less need of taking part internationally. Even if there are currently few who reject... |
training-sport-tshwiropf-pro03b | Local loyalties went out of the game years ago – it isn’t just overseas players who change clubs often in search of higher wages. Everyone agrees that when teams were only full of local boys the standard of play was worse. And strong local loyalties aren’t always good – they used to spill over into hooliganism as the f... |
training-sport-tshwiropf-con03b | There is already a problem with talented teenagers from Africa and other poorer countries being recruited by rich European clubs to train at their academies. This takes them far away from family and friends and ties them into long contracts they don’t understand – some have called it a form of slavery. And if they get ... |
training-sport-tshwiropf-con01b | The six-plus-five plan is not banned under EU law. Although it would be illegal to stop clubs in Europe from employing as many overseas players as they wish, this is not what the plan proposes. It simply puts a limit of five on how many foreign players can start a game – so clubs can employ as many foreigners as they w... |
training-sport-tshwiropf-con02b | Competition would actually improve if foreign players were less common. At the moment the richest clubs can buy up all the best global players and so dominate domestic competitions – often no more than two or three teams have a real chance of winning the big European leagues. This makes tournaments predictable and bori... |
training-sport-mosgtshwawcs-pro02a | Preventing discrimination in sport Assuming we would have two equally muscular and equally fast male and female athletes, the current system clearly discriminates the female athlete by not allowing her to compete in the male league. It is against the very nature of sports to treat differently two athletes who have the... |
training-sport-mosgtshwawcs-pro03a | Encouraging future female athletes One of the best ways to have a healthy life, avoid obesity and learn crucial values like respect, teamwork and fair play is by practicing a sport. In order to incentivize women from around the world to get involved you need to give them role models; women who receive a lot of media c... |
training-sport-mosgtshwawcs-con04a | This could simply swap inequalities around Despite the fact that gender equality in sports often comes as an argument for applying this motion, it is rather the other way round. If indeed it is so important to let women compete in men’s leagues, on what ground do we ban men from competing in women’s leagues? If we loo... |
training-sport-mosgtshwawcs-con01a | Crimination would increase From the very beginning, it is important to understand that many sports are based on the physical attributes of the individuals. Whoever has the biggest muscles, whoever is fastest, whoever lifts a bigger weight, he is the one who will be declared champion. When we look at the statistics, th... |
training-sport-mosgtshwawcs-con04b | On this level, it is obvious that letting men compete in women’s leagues is a dreadful thing to do. On the other hand, there is absolutely no discrimination towards men on this level so there is no reason to open up women’s leagues to men. The levels on which women are discriminated are the money they receive and the a... |
training-sport-tshwigltf-pro03a | GLT is used across a range of other sports Technology has been proven to work across a wide range of sports from tennis, cricket and rugby. A survey of its implementation in the 2011 Australian Open demonstrates the impact that guaranteeing correct decisions had on several games.1 It has become a natural aid to sport.... |
training-sport-ohwico-pro02b | It is not a good in itself to make modern Olympics resemble the ancient events as much as possible. Ancient Games, for instance, only allowed men to compete, and many of the sports involved today did not exist then. Progress is generally considered a good thing, and the purpose and meaning of the Olympics has progresse... |
training-sport-ohwico-pro02a | Introducing chess would preserve the spirit of the ancient Olympic Games When the IOC spokeswoman Emmanuelle Moreau stated that “mind sports, by their nature, cannot be part of the program”6, she contradicted Olympic history. The Ancient Greek Panhellenic Games (forerunners of the modern Olympic Games) indeed emphasis... |
training-sport-ohwico-pro03b | The benefits of chess should be promoted in their right context: a competition exclusively about chess can emphasise these aspects. The Olympics’ motto, on the other hand, is “Faster, higher, stronger”11: chess is very much in the periphery of its message. Such an event is incapable of emphasising all of chess’ merits ... |
training-sport-ohwico-pro03a | Chess is proven to have great cognitive benefits: increasing its support is objectively good The sports in the Olympics promote good values: they display attributes and disciplines that we want to encourage in society and children in particular. Chess is no different from this. Numerous studies have shown that chess h... |
training-sport-ohwico-pro04a | Chess is highly popular and should be represented Chess is among the sports with the greatest number of federations and of active participants worldwide.12 Its large fan base, however, is completely unrepresented in the world’s largest sports competition. Chess, furthermore, is highly viewer friendly, so its populari... |
training-sport-ohwico-con02a | Chess cannot ensure fair play Even if we were to accept all other reasons for including chess in the Olympic Games, it is actually not implementable. The Olympics have strict regulations against any form of cheating in their sports14, and have thus required chess competitions to be subject to drug tests before they ca... |
training-sport-ohwico-con03a | Opening up the Olympics for borderline sports is bad in itself Opening up the Olympics for chess leads to a dangerous slippery slope. After this concession it becomes extremely difficult to draw the line for bridge, poker, or even videogames. This is problematic, because in the status quo there are many sports that ar... |
training-sport-ohwico-con01a | Chess lacks the necessary physical activity Sports are about the perfection of our bodies, and therefore the competitive aspect of sport should relate directly to that perfection. In the Fundamental Principles of Olympism in the Olympic Charter the first is “combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will an... |
training-sport-ohwico-con04b | All other Olympic sports have their own competitions. Even if the Olympiad was to fade out due to clashes, other prestigious competitions will doubtless remain as in any other sport. Being recognised as an Olympic sport would be a great gain for the chess community. Exposure creates attention and support: for example,... |
training-sport-ohwico-con02b | It has consistently proven impossible to prevent doping in any Olympic sport. Despite many scandals we still have cycling, for example, in the Olympics. It will too get harder to prevent this, as drugs develop at a similar rate to technology to be more easily concealed. This is therefore no reason to exclude chess: we ... |
training-sport-tshwm2fwcw-pro02a | A sporting event in the heat of a desert summer will not be a pleasant experience for the fans One of the most important parts of the game is the fans. They are the ones who watch the sport, they are the ones to which football owes its popularity. Not only are they the ones who pay for the sport they are also a vital ... |
training-sport-tshwm2fwcw-con01b | It is sad that all these bidders invested millions of dollars from taxpayer’s money in trying to create the most appealing bid for hosting the World Cup and they weren’t selected, but that constituted no reason to make unjustified demands. In was clear from the very beginning that the date of the event wasn’t pinned d... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-pro01a | Freedom of speech should apply to teachers as much as anyone else Freedom of speech and expression are protected by the first amendment to the US constitution [1] and teachers are entitled to freedom of speech and their academic freedom as much as anyone else. If a science teacher does not believe that the evidence su... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-pro01b | This is not a freedom of speech issue. Teachers are already free to express their own views during their own free time. When teaching in a school however they are limited by the demands of what is necessary to teach their pupils. Freedom of speech does not give teachers qualified in one subject the wherewithal to teach... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-con01b | It is never too early to teach students to question ideas and theories no matter how well grounded they may claim to be. Students are capable of realiseing that there is a difference between the theories that interpret the facts and the facts themselves so educating in the facts will not be more difficult. The result w... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-con02a | Children should have the freedom not to be misled Part of freedom of speech is the freedom to get accurate information. The students in school have this right not to be misled by their teachers [1] so teachers should have to concentrate on providing facts and evidence and what has been scientifically proven. Eugenie C... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-con04a | As it is not science creationism should not even be covered by the Tennessee law As creationism does not fit the definition of "science", it is not even addressed by the law cited in the introduction to this discussion. The act specifically allows to discuss "scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing ... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-con03a | Tennessee is not seeking to protect freedom of speech While supporters of this bill justify it based upon ‘academic freedom’ this is clearly not a motivating factor for the Tennessee legislature. At almost the same time a bill that prevents teachers discussing homosexuality was passed through the state’s education com... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-con01a | Teachers should not have freedom to teach whatever they wish as fact There is a difference between a demand for freedom to teach what you like and freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not apply in the classroom; students are not allowed to stand up and discuss whatever issues they want and neither should the teac... |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-con04b | We cannot yet fully test evolution either; we can't recreate evolution in the lab. Creationism provides a valid critique and so should be taught alongside. |
training-free-speech-debate-fkhbtcptww-con02b | It is unquestioningly taking the ‘consensus’ view on issues like evolution and climate change that is misleading children. Teaching only the one viewpoint misleads children into thinking that the issue is fact and settled so denying the ongoing controversies in each of these areas. [1] [1] Zabarenko, Deborah, ‘Tenness... |
training-free-speech-debate-nshbbhnpsb-pro02b | It’s fairly predictable that in a country such as Pakistan where the overwhelming majority come from one religious tradition that there will be a higher percentage of those people to be offended and, conversely, that a majority of suspects are likely to come from other groups. |
training-free-speech-debate-nshbbhnpsb-pro02a | Inevitably protects entrenched interest groups (Church in Crucible, Muslims in Pakistan) In the event of two different perceptions of what constitutes harm, there is a tendency for that of the larger group to be seen as normative and, therefore, correct. This is shown to be the case in the example given here but also ... |
training-free-speech-debate-nshbbhnpsb-pro03b | The right to free speech is not a license to express any opinion regardless of the context. It’s equivalent of standing in a Museum and shouting, “Fire”. It is in these environments that caution is required. Allowing free speech is one thing, allowing speech likely to cause harm is another is quite a different. There ... |
training-free-speech-debate-nshbbhnpsb-pro01a | Based on allegation rather than proof (cf. Sorcery, witchcraft, etc.) Blasphemy, by its nature, is ‘all in the eye of the beholder’. It is impossible, in most cases, to determine whether there was intent on the part of the accused and as a result it is difficult to codify in legislation. Equally, unless the law takes ... |
training-free-speech-debate-nshbbhnpsb-con03b | This is the truly the argument of rogues. Where a mob seeks to gather to deliver their own brand of very immediate justice would be against the law and should be dealt with as such. For governments to argue such an approach is a complete abdication of responsibility. It is also incredibly naïve to suppose that the nice... |
training-free-speech-debate-nshbbhnpsb-con01b | If any state were to try and protect their citizens against all offence, it would have to ban everything. It is difficult to see how such a process could work – one that would allow Saudi men to be offended by the sight of a woman driver and, at the same time, those of a more liberal nature to be offended by them not d... |
training-free-speech-debate-nshbbhnpsb-con01a | Blasphemy causes offence to groups and individuals Not agreeing with a law does not provide carte blanche to ignore it. The reality is that large numbers of people in many countries and religious traditions find blasphemy offensive and upsetting. If, as prop argues this crime causes no harm, then they presumably accep... |
training-free-speech-debate-esdbphwlfsr-pro02a | Corporate influence distracts politicians from the needs of their constituents. The content of public speech is informed as much by the ideas and convictions of individuals engaged in free expression as it is by the concurrent acts of expression engaged in by other individuals. Free speech is a product of society and ... |
training-free-speech-debate-fchbdeonl-pro02b | Mehanna clearly expressed sympathy with enemies of the US. His actions since his return from Yemen put the lie to the idea that he wished to pursue legal training and suggest a rather more explicitly jihadi purpose. He has published documentation that explicitly encourages Jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen where... |
training-free-speech-debate-fchbdeonl-pro03b | None of those mentioned have travelled to Yemen in pursuit of training, presumably to be followed by participation in, the Jihad. They have not posted online 37 ways to be involved in one. They haven’t identified themselves as being more supportive of Muslims, regardless of their nationality, than of their fellow count... |
training-free-speech-debate-fchbdeonl-pro03a | This is no different than political comment, etc. Scholars, commentators and satirists [i] have pointed out the hypocrisy of current US strategy in the Islamic world. They have also pointed out that the only rational response to overwhelming American military superiority in terms of hardware is the kind of warfare bei... |
training-free-speech-debate-fchbdeonl-con01b | Warfare hasn’t changed because it is now a battle between creeds – that has often been the case in the past. The asymmetric warfare to which op refers is a direct result of the military hegemony of the US. To confuse criticism of taking a military approach – that bombs are not the answer in a battle of ideas – with mat... |
training-free-speech-debate-fchbdeonl-con03a | Views of free speech in time of war (Japanese internment, American Communist party, etc.) Nations act to defend themselves in times of war. Frequently those actions do not represent the highest ideals against which that nation may wish to be judged but they are an unpleasant reality of survival. It is demonstrably tru... |
training-free-speech-debate-fchbdeonl-con02b | Tarek Mehanna was engaged in promoting a political viewpoint that may not be shared by many but is certainly shared by some. Among them other American citizens [i] . When did promoting a viewpoint in the land of free speech become a crime? While we may not like that a U.S. citizen sympathises with the objective of remo... |
training-free-speech-debate-nvhbfemir-pro03b | The fact that religious thought tends to be subverted to defend the status quo is hardly a compelling argument as the same can be said for almost all forms of thought. There is a natural backlash from vested interests against any innovation and religion should not be blamed for having this same tendency. We should howe... |
training-free-speech-debate-nvhbfemir-pro01a | A one way street Religion is at the heart of people’s identities and is based upon belief rather than reason so it is not surprising that religious groups sometimes take offence both quickly and easily. While political ideologies, or in certain scientific theories, may be believed as feverently religion by some with t... |
training-free-speech-debate-nvhbfemir-con01b | Who is to judge when an expression has a ‘point’? In the cases cited by Opposition, the ‘point’, however inexpertly made, seems to have been to demonstrate the many flaws and contradictions within the Koran. To suggest that demonstrating that one of the world’s major religions – with one and a half billion followers an... |
training-free-speech-debate-nvhbfemir-con02a | Realpolitik Freedom of expression should be exercised with care. Everyone who exercises this right has to remember that there are consequences of their actions. The Innocence of Muslims is a good example of this. Dropping explosive comments or artworks into situations [i] that are already fraught with historical tensi... |
training-free-speech-debate-nvhbfemir-con03a | The interests of the majority Although it may not prove the issue, it is certainly worth being aware of the fact that when referring to “theists”, proposition is talking about the overwhelming majority of the world’s population and then attempting to portray a small, fundamentalist minority as typical. Even talking mo... |
training-free-speech-debate-nvhbfemir-con01a | Why cause offence to no purpose? The important issue here is the outcome. In most imaginable instances the person or group causing the offence has nothing to gain. If people of faith find things offensive in a way that a comparable devotee of Marx or Adam Smith does not, why cause that offence? We don’t wander around ... |
training-free-speech-debate-nvhbfemir-con02b | Realpolitik is not a reason to compromise our ideals. Comments and artworks about “explosive situations” are a fundamental part of free expression. Opposition seems to be labouring under the misapprehension that free-expression is okay, so long as nobody minds. If nobody objects to it, there’s no need to have a right t... |
training-free-speech-debate-bphwpborfs-pro02b | The Opposition is perfectly happy to be attacked for making life easier for people with disabilities by taking down barriers that separate them from the wider population. There a parts of any community that prefer to do things in a certain way, however governments rarely commit to guaranteeing all preferences, instead ... |
training-free-speech-debate-bphwpborfs-pro02a | Braille should be offered the same protection as minority languages. The issue of the protection of minority languages is a difficult one for most governments as it is usually argued that most speakers of such languages also make use of the dominant language and, where they don’t, they should learn for their own good.... |
training-free-speech-debate-bphwpborfs-pro01b | Free speech may well be about the ability to receive ideas as well as express them but in neither case is it about how those ideas are expressed or received. To suggest that a state that refuses to provide a movie studio to any of its citizens who requests one is somehow suppressing their right of free expression would... |
training-free-speech-debate-bphwpborfs-con01b | The suggestion that seven million dollars is an excessive expenditure on a resource for 836,000 is extortionate is simply nonsense. That’s a little over eight dollars a head, hardly likely to break the bank. To say that a government is not discouraging the use of something by making it harder to access is simply untrue... |
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