Some people believe that our ever-increasing use of technology significantly reduces our opportunities for human interaction. Other people believe that technology provides us with new and better ways to communicate and connect with one another.
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Some people believe that corporations have a responsibility to promote the well-being of the societies and environments in which they operate. Others believe that the only responsibility of corporations, provided they operate within the law, is to make as much money as possible.
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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.
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Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed.
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Society should identify those children who have special talents and provide training for them at an early age to develop their talents.
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College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs.
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It is primarily in cities that a nation's cultural traditions are generated and preserved.
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The main benefit of the study of history is to dispel the illusion that people living now are significantly different from people who lived in earlier times.
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Nations should suspend government funding for the arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
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We can learn much more from people whose views we share than from people whose views contradict our own.
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People should undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences.
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People's behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.
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Some people argue that successful leaders in government, industry, or other fields must be highly competitive. Other people claim that in order to be successful, a leader must be willing and able to cooperate with others.
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Politicians should pursue common ground and reasonable consensus rather than elusive ideals.
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Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.
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Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields.
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Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear.
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In this age of intensive media coverage, it is no longer possible for a society to regard any living man or woman as a hero.
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Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
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In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being strongly influenced by past achievements within that field.
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Claim: Knowing about the past cannot help people to make important decisions today.
Reason: The world today is significantly more complex than it was even in the relatively recent past.
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No field of study can advance significantly unless it incorporates knowledge and experience from outside that field.
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It is more harmful to compromise one's own beliefs than to adhere to them.
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Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
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Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
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