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* All violence is hate-driven, so why distinguish? All forms of violent crime, whether they are murders, rapes, or beatings are an expression of hatred toward another human being. To add more punishment to a crime because it represents a particular kind of hate is to unfairly distinguish between...

* Hate crimes terrorize communities and so deserve greater punishment Hate crimes don't merely victimize the individual upon which violence is inflicted. They also victimize a community or minority group that the hate crime was intended to terrorize. It limits their freedom of expression and...

These admission tests instill a sense of competition in the students applying and if it wasn't for that, the students would have no incentive to study well.

I think the content of MTV is targeted at the youth demographic. In today's day and age, the youth is so used to sexually explicit content, be it on the internet, movies or on television; that what MTV shows is fairly mild in comparison.

check the site conferencealerts.com for the latest conference in your city. I have been following the site for quite some time now and they do come up with good information on conferences.

I hate it when people post pics with me in them on the internet. That, imo, is a violation of m privacy, even if its done by friends.

There are two main systems for voluntary systems: "opt in" (anyone who has not given consent is not a donor) and "opt out" (anyone who has not refused is a donor). In some systems, family members may be required to give consent or refusal, or may veto a potential recovery even if the donor has...

Israel has accused Hamas of using children as human shields. The Israeli government released video footage of Hamas in which it describes as two Hamas militants grabbing a young boy's arm from behind holding him to walk in front of them toward a group of people waiting near a wall. The IDF...

Human Rights Watch investigated 19 incidents involving 53 civilian deaths in Gaza which Israel said were the result of Hamas fighting in densely populated areas and did not find evidence for existence of Palestinian fighters in the areas at the time of the Israeli attack. In other cases where no...

Non-petrol cars are not what the car driving public wants. Having weighed the various factors, if drivers decided that the benefits of non-petrol cars were of a certain standard, they would buy them in large enough numbers not to attract subsidisation. The fact that they do not is an indication...

An incentive would be an effective way to encourage more widespread use of non-petrol cars. New technologies can be expensive to research and are often prohibitively expensive in their early stages, before there is a critical mass of adoption. This is a vicious circle that means that as the...

Cars which use less environmentally damaging fuel sources than petrol would be good for the protection of the environment. Petrol and diesel engines produce pollution both on a local and a global scale, contributing to poor health and global warming. They are also a major consumer of...

Do non-human animals have rights? Animals should have rights on the basis that they can think and feel pain. Human beings are complex evolved creatures who are accorded rights on the basis that they are able to think and to feel pain. Many other animals are also able to think (to some extent)...

Bull fighting is probably the most barbaric exploitation of animals that is still legally practised (in Spain, Portugal, parts of France, Mexico, and, illegally, in the United States). The idea that there is a fair match between the bull and the matador is laughable. The bull dies at the end of...

The circus is another arena in which human beings abuse other animals. Animals are trained to perform tricks using whips, electronic goads, sticks, food-deprivation etc. Wild animals such as lions, tigers, and elephants are kept in shamefully inadequate conditions in tiny spaces. The necessity...

It is very easy to take up the opposition's challenge to provide concrete examples of cruelty to animals - there are many. Take the case of 'blood sports'. All sorts of hunting, shooting, and fishing boil down to slaughtering other animals for pleasure. If the prey is a pest (e.g. foxes), or...

All forms of sport and entertainment that exploit non-human animals should be banned; animals, like us, can feel fear, stress, exhaustion, and pain. To use animals for our own amusement, whether hunting them for sport or making them perform for us, is demeaning to ourselves as well as to them...

Should human beings be allowed to use other animals as objects of sport and entertainment? This debate is about various other uses of animals for sport, pleasure, and entertainment. A wide variety of examples from different cultures around the world might be brought into this debate: 'blood...

This debate is about various other uses of animals for sport, pleasure, and entertainment. A wide variety of examples from different cultures around the world might be brought into this debate: 'blood sports' such as fox and stag hunting, and fishing; forms of entertainment using performing...

Every member state of UN is represented in the General Assembly where it holds a single vote. This forum holds debates on any matter within the scope of the Charter and passes decisions by a simple majority or exceptionally a two thirds majority of members present and voting.This body includes 5...