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Thomas Frank,
disagrees
Surrogacy
When money is exchanged for pregnancy, some believe, surrogacy comes close to organ-selling, or even baby-selling.
Ted Kennedy, American politician
agrees
Universal Health Care
It [universal health care] has never been merely a question of policy; it goes to the heart of my belief in a just society.
R.G. Frey, Philosopher
agrees
Euthanasia
Especially with regard to taking life, slippery slope arguments have long been a feature of the ethical landscape, used to question the moral permissibility of all kinds of acts... The situation is not unlike that of a doomsday cult that predicts time and again the end of the world, only for followers to discover the next day that things are pretty much as they were...
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Debra Bowen,
disagrees
Electronic voting
When I took office, I commissioned a top-to-bottom review of all our voting systems: paper-based optical scan systems, as well as the e-voting or touchscreen systems. The University of California took the lead, and it involved universities and private-sector people from around the country. I have about 700 pages of documentation that are publicly available on my Web site, and I had another private...
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Steve Huffman, Co-founder and CEO of Reddit
agrees
Net neutrality
If we don’t have net neutrality protections that enforce tenets of fairness online, you give internet service providers the ability to choose winners and losers. This is not hyperbole.
Bob Inglis, Former Congressman
agrees
Carbon Tax
You then offset that [carbon tax] with a reduction in payroll taxes, dollar for dollar. And that's why I was so flexible. It's a tax swap, that's what I was talking about. It wouldn't grow the government, and it would approximate the attachment of these negative externalities to combustion fossil fuels.
Phil Plait,
agrees
Carbon Tax
A carbon tax will force these companies to look into more efficient renewable energy production, as well they should.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr, American radio host, environmental activist, author and attorney specializing in environmental law
disagrees
Vaccines
None of the vaccines have more than a few months of double-blind placebo testing, which will not allow you to spot illnesses like autism that aren’t diagnosed before five years. Second of all, in most vaccines, for example the Gardasil vaccine, they don’t use true placebos.
Nick Morgan, Managing director, Le Ski
disagrees
Brexit
You can basically add £50 to £100 onto the cost of your ski holiday if we leave… Anyone who imagines the French are going to renegotiate contracts the week after Brexit with no problem is fooling themselves.
Sheldon Whitehouse, American politician and the junior united states senator from rhode island
agrees
Clinton over Trump
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