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Charter schools promote teacher independence and character Elly Jo Rael. "A Summary of Arguments For and Against Charter Schools": "Charter schools promote teacher autonomy and empowerment. Due to decreased regulation teachers can maintain a greater sense of freedom to develop their own unique...

* Charter schools are performing better than public schools Scot Lehigh. "A strong case for more charter schools". Boston Globe. January 7, 2009 - "Compared with students in traditional schools, charter school students are doing significantly better in math and English, according to the...

Charter schools are elementary or secondary schools in the United States that receive public money but have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set...

The debate between "comprehensive sex education" (also just called "sex education") and "abstinence-only education" is long-standing in the United States, and exists in many other societies around the world that are split between more sexually progressive groups and generally those that oppose...

ban on the Muslim burqa and niqab has been proposed for many years in some countries, and was passed through the legislatures of France, Belgiam, and Quebec in early 2010. Fines have been leveled on women wearing burqas in Italy. A ban is seen as a way to preserve gender equality and the...

* Animals can't uphold human rights; we are not obligated to uphold theirs Animals don't respect human rights. Therefore, humans have no obligation to respect their rights either. Animals do not deliberate on the morality of eating other animals nor humans. It is merely a matter of instinct...

* Animals have emotions, personalities, and souls just like humans Henry David Thoreau - "I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles, I caught...

* Animal life is equivalent in value to human life Mahatma Gandhi - "To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being." * Animals are equal to humans in science as lifeforms on Earth Tom Regan. "The Philosophy of Animal Rights". Retrieved May 6th, 2008 -...

* Measures can reduce risk of collateral damage from assassinations Assassinations should not have heavy, or any, collateral damage. But, it is important to realize that collateral damage can be limited through reasonable steps taken by a government. As long as these steps are taken...

* Legitimizing assassination cheapens the value of life. By assuming the power to take life arbitrarily, even in an apparently good cause, we cheapen the value of life itself. Many terrorists, criminals, or indeed dictators could and have claimed similar legitimacy for their violent actions...

* The idea that assassinations can prevent evils is questionable. The argument that much evil can be prevented by such action is highly questionable. The figurehead of an evil government is not necessarily the lynchpin that holds it together. Thus, if Hitler had been assassinated, it is pure...

* Assassination can counter-productively rally citizens around a regime. Assassination is likely to be counter-productive, rallying popular feeling around a repressive regime as external enemies or internal minorities are blamed, rightly or wrongly, for the act. This is even more likely to...

* Killing dictators will not cause the fall of a regime. Killing one individual will achieve nothing; dictators are part of a wider ruling elite from which someone sharing the same autocratic values will emerge to take their place. This successor is likely to use the assassination as the excuse...

* Illegitimate tyrants can be assassinated if it's the only way to freedom If a tyrant comes to power by illegitimate, undemocratic means and directly suppresses, harms, and kills the citizens of a state, that tyrant loses all legitimacy to the continued occupation of office. If it is...

* Improving cluster bomb detonation rates is the solution, not a ban "DoD Wants Less Deadly Cluster Bomby". Associated Press. 8 July, 2008 - "Faced with growing international pressure, the Pentagon is changing its policy on cluster bombs and plans to reduce the danger of unexploded munitions in...

* Banning class of weapons never undermines state security Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Holy See's permanent observer to the U.N. offices in Geneva, said in May 2008, "experience shows us how the prohibition of certain categories of arms in a good faith negotiation with international...

* Dud rates in cluster bombs are far too high. Cluster bombs are a threat in so far as the little bomblets become defacto landmines when they fail to explode on impact. Instead, they sit in waiting for a civilian or soldier to step on them or pick them up, whereupon they explode. *...

* Cluster bomb "duds" become de facto mines, threatening civilizations "Britain supports call for ban on cluster bombs". Guardian. 24 Feb. 2007 - "Up to 60% of the victims in southeast Asia are children. The weapons have recently been used in Iraq, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Lebanon. The UN...

* Cluster bombs simply kill too many civilians According to Handicap International, the NGO, 80 percent - 85 percent of the victims of cluster bombs are civilians and 23 percent are children.[1] * Cluster bombs inherently inaccurate, kill indiscriminate Kathleen Peratis. "Back Bill To Ban...

* Globalization has worsened poverty Studies have shown that despite the increasing rate of the global economy expanding there have been a significant number of countries where there has been no growth recorded over the past thirty years. Numbers also confirm that absolute poverty throughout...