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# Vaping Pros and Cons - 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
Vaping among kids is skyrocketing: addicting a new generation to nicotine and introducing them to smoking.
An Oct. 25, 2021 study found marijuana vaping by teens doubled between 2013 and 2020, and the number of minors who stated they’d vaped marijuana... |
# Should Churches (Including Mosques, Synagogues, etc.) Remain Tax-Exempt?'
**Argument**
Churches earn their tax exemption by contributing to the public good.
Churches offer numerous social services to people in need, including soup kitchens, homeless shelters, afterschool programs for poor families, assistance to v... |
# Defunding the Police Pros and Cons | Top 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
When police departments’ budgets are cut, violence and civilian injuries increase, and departments turn to “taxation by citation” to raise money.
Police officers in smaller jurisdictions, or those primarily populated by people of co... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Student debt could cause another financial crisis.
As of 2012 student loan debt was over $1 trillion dollars, and more than 850,000 student loans were in default. According to the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, student loans are “beginning to h... |
# Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?'
**Argument**
Studies have shown violent video games may cause aggression, not violence. Further, any competitive video game or activity may cause aggression.
Lauren Farrar, Producer for KQED Learning’s YouTube series Above the Noise, stated: “Often times after t... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
A minimum wage increase would help to reduce race and gender inequality.
Despite representing 47% of US workers, women make up 63% of minimum wage workers. African Americans represent 12% of the US workforce, and make up 17.7% of minimum wage earners. ... |
# Dakota Access Pipeline Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline will help the economy and create thousands of jobs.
Building the pipeline is expected to create 8,000 to 12,000 new jobs and pump money into industries that manufacture steel pipes and other related materials.... |
# Should Recreational Marijuana Be Legal?'
**Argument**
A majority of Americans support legalizing marijuana.
A 2018 Gallup poll found a record-high 66% support for legalizing marijuana, up from 12% in 1969, the first year the polling company asked about marijuana. The poll first surpassed 50% support in 2011. Accor... |
# Should Animals Be Used for Scientific or Commercial Testing?'
**Argument**
Animal research is highly regulated, with laws in place to protect animals from mistreatment.
In addition to local and state laws and guidelines, animal research has been regulated by the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA) since 1966. As well ... |
# Should Social Security Be Privatized?'
**Argument**
Privatizing Social Security will put billions of dollars into the pockets of Wall Street financial services corporations in the form of brokerage and management fees.
Private Social Security accounts will be a boon to Wall Street, where banks and investment adviso... |
# Historic Statue Removal - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
The statues do not cause racism and could be used to fight racism if put into historical context.
Author Sophia A. Nelson, JD, who notes she is the granddaughter of a slave, states that she does not ”fear 150-year-old statues of old dead white men.” N... |
# DACA & the DREAM Act - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
DACA recipients are vital members of the American workforce and society.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that 900 DACA recipients were serving in the US military and 20,000 were schoolteachers, including 190 Dreamers in the Teach for America program.
The... |
# Employer Vaccine Mandates - Top 3 Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Employer vaccine mandates violate personal privacy and may exacerbate intolerance and discrimination in the workplace.
Employees may have health or other reasons for not being vaccinated. While employers are required to allow exemptions, the... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Too many students earning degrees has diluted the value of a bachelor’s degree.
Rita McGrath, PhD, Associate Professor at Columbia Business School, stated “Having a bachelor’s used to be more rare and candidates with the degree could therefore be more choosy and were m... |
# Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?'
**Argument**
As sales of violent video games have significantly increased, violent juvenile crime rates have significantly decreased.
In 2019, juvenile arrests for violent crimes were at an all-time low, a decline of 50% since 2006. Meanwhile, video game sales s... |
# Electoral College Pros and Cons - Top 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
The Electoral College can preclude calls for recounts or demands for run-off elections, giving certainty to presidential elections.
If the election were based on popular vote, it would be possible for a candidate to receive the highest ... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Student debt overwhelms many seniors.
Whether they co-signed for a child or grandchild’s education, or took out loans for their own educations, in 2012 there were 6.9 million student loan borrowers aged 50 and over who collectively owed $155 billion with individual ave... |
# Fracking Pros and Cons - Top 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
The US needs to immediately transition away from all fossil fuels, including natural gas.
Erich Pica, President of Friends of the Earth, stated, “Transitioning to renewable energy is not only necessary to fight the climate crisis, it is also the... |
# GMO Pros and Cons - Should Genetically Modified Organisms Be Grown?'
**Argument**
Growing GMO crops leads to environmental benefits such as reduced pesticide use, less water waste, and lower carbon emissions.
The two main types of GMO crops in use are bioengineered to either produce their own pesticides or to be he... |
# Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered from 21 to a Younger Age?'
**Argument**
MLDA 21 lowers alcohol consumption and illicit drug use across age groups.
MLDA 21 reduces alcohol consumption and the number of underage drinkers. 87% of studies, according to a meta study on MLDA, found higher legal drinking ages associate... |
# Should Recreational Marijuana Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Legalizing marijuana creates thousands of needed jobs.
There were an estimated 122,814 legal full-time marijuana jobs in the United States as of Jan. 2017. A report from New Frontier Data found that the cannabis industry could create a quarter of a million new ... |
# Kneeling during the National Anthem: Top 3 Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Kneeling during the national anthem is an ineffective and counterproductive way to promote a cause.
Clemson University football coach Dabo Swinney said in a press conference: “I don’t think it’s good to be a distraction to your team... |
# Daylight Saving Time Pros and Cons - Top Advantages and Disadvantages'
**Argument**
Daylight Saving Time's (DST) longer daylight hours promote safety.
Longer daylight hours make driving safer, lowers car accident rates, and lowers the risk of pedestrians being hit by a car.
Economists Jennifer Doleac, PhD, and ... |
# Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?'
**Argument**
Global warming and cooling are primarily caused by fluctuations in the sun’s heat (solar forcing), not by human activity.
According to a study published in the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 50-70% of warming thr... |
# Should the Federal Corporate Income Tax Rate Be Raised?'
**Argument**
Raising the rate corporate income tax rate would lower wages and increase costs for everyday people.
Using 1970-2007 data from the United States, a Tax Foundation study found that for every $1 increase in state and local corporate tax revenues, h... |
# Should Teachers Get Tenure?'
**Argument**
Tenure prohibits school districts from firing experienced teachers to hire less experienced and less expensive teachers.
The threat of firing has increased in recent years as many school districts face budget cuts. Marcia Rothman, a teacher for 14 years, said at a protest ... |
# Should Tablets Replace Textbooks in K-12 Schools?'
**Argument**
Using a tablet is so intuitive that it makes learning fun and easy.
In two isolated rural villages in Ethiopia, the One Laptop Per Child organization dropped off closed boxes containing tablets pre-loaded with educational apps, taped shut, with no inst... |
# School Vouchers - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
School vouchers fail to accommodate and support disabled and special-needs students.
Public schools are required by law to offer a wide range of free services to students who need extra or enhanced instruction, special services or equipment, or other educatio... |
# Should College Be Free? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
Tuition-free college will help decrease crippling student debt.
If tuition is free, students will take on significantly fewer student loans. Student loan debt in the United States is almost $1.75 trillion. 45 million Americans have student loan debt, and 7.5... |
# Should Vaccines Be Required for Children?'
**Argument**
Vaccines save children and their parents time and money.
Vaccines cost less in time and money to obtain than infectious diseases cost in time off of work to care for a sick child, potential long-term disability care, and medical costs. For example, children u... |
# Is There Really a Santa Claus?'
**Argument**
“Santa has 31 hours of Christmas to work with, thanks to the different time zones and the rotation of the earth, assuming he travels east to west (which seems logical).”
An anonymous source told Spy Magazine, “This works out to 822.6 visits per second. This is to say tha... |
# Dress Codes - Top 3 Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Uniformly mandated dress codes are seldom uniformly mandated, often discriminating against women and marginalized groups.
The average dress code, whether for a school, workplace, public transportation, or other location, includes more rules for how girls ... |
# Should Churches (Including Mosques, Synagogues, etc.) Remain Tax-Exempt?'
**Argument**
A tax break for churches forces all American taxpayers to support religion, even if they oppose some or all religious doctrines.
As Mark Twain argued: “no church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man wi... |
# Dress Codes - Top 3 Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Dress codes reinforce racist standards of beauty and dress.
As the National Women’s Law Center summarized, “Black girls face unique dress and hair code burdens. For example, some schools ban styles associated with Black girls and women, like hair wraps. B... |
# American Socialism - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
The job of the US government is to enable and protect all of its citizens. More socialist policies can work with capitalist structures to undo the harm done by unfettered capitalism.
Capitalism has resulted in the top 1% of Americans holding more wealth (a... |
# Should the United States Return to a Gold Standard?'
**Argument**
Many prominent economists oppose returning to a gold standard.
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stated that a return to the gold standard would mean “other things would fluctuate, and we [the Federal Reserve] wouldn’t care. We wouldn’t care if ... |
# Should Vaccines Be Required for Children?'
**Argument**
Vaccines can save children’s lives.
The American Academy of Pediatrics states that “most childhood vaccines are 90%-99% effective in preventing disease.” According to Shot@Life, a United Nations Foundation partner organization, vaccines save 2.5 million child... |
# Should Recreational Marijuana Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Marijuana use harms the brain, and legalization will increase mental health problems.
Cannabis use may increase the risk of developing schizophrenia, depression, and other psychiatric disorders. Researchers at Harvard and Northwestern found that recreational ma... |
# Should the United States Return to a Gold Standard?'
**Argument**
Many politicians, businessmen, and organizations support the return to a gold standard.
Judy Shelton, PhD, MBA, Trump Administration economic advisor and 2020 nominee to the Federal Reserve Board, argued that returning to a gold standard is an “oppor... |
# Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?'
**Argument**
The United States should not have different trading and travel policies for Cuba than for other countries with governments or policies it opposes.
The United States trades with China, Venezuela, and Vietnam despite their records of human righ... |
# Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care?'
**Argument**
The founding documents of the United States provide support for a right to health care.
The Declaration of Independence states that all men have “unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,” whi... |
# Should College Athletes Be Paid? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
Paying college athletes would not solve the real problem: the American amateur sports system is broken.
Football and basketball players cannot play professionally immediately after high school. The NBA requires players to be at least 19 and a year o... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
Social media enables the spread of unreliable and false information.
64% of people who use Twitter for news say that they have encountered something they “later discovered wasn’t true,” and 16% of Twitter news users say that “they had retweeted or posted a tweet they ... |
# Should Tablets Replace Textbooks in K-12 Schools?'
**Argument**
Tablets help students better prepare for a world immersed in technology.
Students that learn technology skills early in life will be better prepared to pursue relevant careers later in life. The fastest growing and highest paying jobs in the United Sta... |
# Bottled Water Bans - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Banning bottled water removes a healthy choice and leads to increased consumption of unhealthy sugary drinks.
Increased consumption of zero-calorie bottled water in place of high-calorie juices and sodas has cut trillions of calories from American diets.
... |
# Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?'
**Argument**
The Second Amendment was intended to protect gun ownership of all able-bodied men so that they could participate in the militia to keep the peace and defend the country if needed.
According to the United States Code, a “militia” is composed of all “able-bodied ... |
# Fracking Pros and Cons - Top 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
Fracking has allowed the US to produce and export more natural gas, which has increased national security and moved the country toward energy independence.
US Representative Fred Keller (R-PA) stated, “America’s energy independence has made our ... |
# Olympics Hosting - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
The Olympics increase a host country's global trade and stature.
Host countries tend to be invited to prestigious global economic organizations. According to economics professors Robert A. Baade, PhD, and Victor A. Matheson, PhD, “the very act of bidding [fo... |
# Should Social Security Be Privatized?'
**Argument**
Being able to invest in one’s own private retirement account removes the uncertainty that accompanies the current government-controlled program.
According to a 2010 Gallup poll, 60% of currently working adults assume they will not receive Social Security benefits ... |
# Reparations for Slavery - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
No one currently living is responsible for righting the wrongs committed by long dead slave owners.
Over 150 years ago, the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified on Dec. 6, 1865, ending slavery in the United States. The first enslaved African arrived on... |
# Should the United States Maintain Its Embargo against Cuba?'
**Argument**
The United States should maintain the Cuba embargo because Cuba has not met the conditions required to lift it, and the US will look weak for lifting the sanctions.
Proclamation 3447 signed by President Kennedy on Feb. 3, 1962, established th... |
# Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?'
**Argument**
Studies have shown that violent video games can have a positive effect on kindness, civic engagement, and prosocial behaviors.
Research shows that playing violent video games can induce a feeling of guilt that leads to increased prosocial behavior (... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
Social media offers teachers a platform for collaboration with other teachers and communication with students outside the classroom.
More than 80% of US college and university faculty use social media; more than 50% use it for teaching; and 30% for communicating with ... |
# Should Vaccines Be Required for Children?'
**Argument**
Vaccines protect future generations.
Vaccinated mothers protect their unborn children from viruses that could potentially cause birth defects, and vaccinated communities can help eradicate diseases for future generations. Before the rubella vaccine was license... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Many people succeed without college degrees.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, of the 30 projected fastest growing jobs between 2010 and 2020, five do not require a high school diploma, nine require a high school diploma, four require an associate’s degree, ... |
# Historic Statue Removal - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Removing statues is a slippery slope that could lead to the brash removal of monuments to any slightly problematic person.
During the protests following the death of George Floyd in the summer of 2020, many Confederate statues were damaged or toppled,... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
A minimum wage increase would hurt businesses and force companies to close.
60% of small-business owners say that raising the minimum wage will “hurt most small-business owners,” according to a 2013 Gallup poll. Jamie Richardson, MBA, Vice President of fa... |
# Was Bill Clinton a Good President?'
**Argument**
Education:
Clinton’s Goals 2000 program distributed two billion dollars between 1994 and 1999 to set uniform standards in US schools. His 1994 Improving America’s School Act (IASA) received support from Republicans and Democrats and from the education and business co... |
# Should Gay Marriage Be Legal?'
**Argument**
To deny some people the option to marry would be discriminatory and would create a second class of citizens. Same-sex couples should have access to the same benefits enjoyed by heterosexual married couples.
On July 25, 2014 Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Sarah Zabe... |
# Should Tablets Replace Textbooks in K-12 Schools?'
**Argument**
Tablets can hold hundreds of textbooks on one device, plus homework, quizzes, and other files, eliminating the need for physical storage of books and classroom materials.
The average tablet contains anywhere from 8 to 64 gigabytes (GB) of storage space... |
# Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?'
**Argument**
Countries with restrictive gun control laws have lower gun homicide and suicide rates than the United States.
Both Switzerland and Finland require gun owners to acquire licenses and pass background checks that include mental and criminal records, among other re... |
# Should Recreational Marijuana Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Marijuana harms the health of users and people around them.
Smoking marijuana can damage lung tissues and cause respiratory problems; secondhand marijuana smoke is also dangerous. Research shows that smoking one marijuana joint is as damaging to the lungs as fi... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
Raising the minimum wage would increase school attendance and decrease high school drop-out rates.
A 2014 study found that raising the Californian minimum wage to $13 an hour would increase the incomes of 7.5 million families, meaning fewer would live in p... |
# Should the United States Continue Its Use of Drone Strikes Abroad?'
**Argument**
Drone strikes violate the sovereignty of other countries and are extremely unpopular in the affected countries.
Strikes are often carried out without the permission and against the objection of the target countries. Iraq Parliament Spe... |
# Immigrant Sanctuary Cities - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Sanctuary policies are legal and protected by the Tenth Amendment.
The Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution provides for the separation of federal and state powers.
According to the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the Amendment prevents the “fed... |
# Do Violent Video Games Contribute to Youth Violence?'
**Argument**
Violent video games desensitize players to real-life violence.
Desensitization to violence was defined in a Journal of Experimental Social Psychology peer-reviewed study as “a reduction in emotion-related physiological reactivity to real violence.” ... |
# Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?'
**Argument**
The Second Amendment of the US Constitution protects individual gun ownership.
The Second Amendment of the US Constitution reads, “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall no... |
# Saturday Halloween - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
A Saturday Halloween would minimize the holiday's negative impact on schools and learning.
When Halloween falls on a weekday, students are too distracted to learn. Halloween parties and parades at school exclude kids whose cultures don’t celebrate or whos... |
# Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?'
**Argument**
Human-produced CO2 is re-absorbed by oceans, forests, and other “carbon sinks,” negating any climate changes.
A paper published in Asia-Pacific Journal of Atmospheric Sciences found that some climate models overstated how much warming ... |
# Should Recreational Marijuana Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Legalizing marijuana hurts businesses by causing preventable accidents and lost productivity.
Workplace incidents involving employees under the influence of marijuana increased from 6% to 20% the year after legalization in Colorado. Employees who screened posit... |
# Homework Pros and Cons - Should Homework Be Banned?'
**Argument**
Homework allows parents to be involved with children’s learning.
Thanks to take-home assignments, parents are able to track what their children are learning at school as well as their academic strengths and weaknesses.
Data from a nationwide sample ... |
# Is Human Activity Primarily Responsible for Global Climate Change?'
**Argument**
Glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates due to global warming, causing additional climate changes.
About a quarter of the globe’s glacial loss from 1851-2010, and approximately two thirds of glacial loss between 1991-2010, is attri... |
# Should Churches (Including Mosques, Synagogues, etc.) Remain Tax-Exempt?'
**Argument**
Exempting churches from taxation upholds the separation of church and state embodied by the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the US Constitution.
The US Supreme Court, in a majority opinion written by Chief Justice ... |
# Is a College Education Worth It?'
**Argument**
Jobs increasingly require college degrees.
Only 34% of American jobs require a high school diploma or less in 2017, compared to 72% in the 1970s. During the recession between Dec. 2007 and Jan. 2010, jobs requiring college degrees grew by 187,000, while jobs requiring... |
# Should Teachers Get Tenure?'
**Argument**
Tenure at the K-12 level is not earned, but given to nearly everyone.
To receive tenure at the university level, professors must show contributions to their fields by publishing research. At the K-12 level, teachers only need to “stick around” for a short period of time to ... |
# US Supreme Court Packing - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
The Supreme Court is largely balanced. Court packing would increase political interference in an independent branch of government. It’s a slippery slope that would allow each president to add justices for rank political reasons.
The appointment of ju... |
# Police Body Cameras - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Police body cameras are too expensive and unreliable for many police departments.
Equipping police departments with body cameras is extremely expensive as forces have to budget not only for the camera but also for ancillary equipment (such as a car charge... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
People who use social media are prone to social isolation.
Social media can exacerbate feelings of disconnect (especially for youth with disabilities), and put children at higher risk for depression, low self-esteem, and eating disorders. The “passive consumption” of... |
# Should Election Day Be a National Holiday? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
Changing state laws and individual companies’ policies would be more effective ways to help people vote.
According to the AFL-CIO, 30 states require employers to allow employees time off for voting. Arizona, for example, allows employees w... |
# Should All Americans Have the Right (Be Entitled) to Health Care?'
**Argument**
A right to health care could save lives.
According to a study from Harvard researchers, “lack of health insurance is associated with as many as 44,789 deaths per year,” which translates into a 40% increased risk of death among the unins... |
# Is Golf a Sport?'
**Argument**
Golf is not consistently competitive enough to meet the definition of sport.
Golf involves competition, keeping score, and declaring a winner, but those qualities alone do not make it a sport. Spelling bees, poker, and darts are competitions with scores and winners, which are sometime... |
# Daylight Saving Time Pros and Cons - Top Advantages and Disadvantages'
**Argument**
DST is expensive.
William F. Shughart II, PhD, Economist at Utah State University, states that the simple act of changing clocks costs Americans $1.7 billion in lost opportunity cost based on average hourly wages, meaning that the ... |
# Was Bill Clinton a Good President?'
**Argument**
Education:
Clinton’s Goals 2000 program did not ensure uniform quality of standards among all the states because he compromised on oversight to get the program passed. The impact therefore varied by state and Clinton never fulfilled his goal of equalizing education s... |
# Was Bill Clinton a Good President?'
**Argument**
Crime:
The number of federal prisoners doubled under Clinton, and 58 percent of them were serving time for drug-related offenses. Resources were geared towards incarceration instead of rehabilitation or crime prevention. Clinton’s 1994 Crime Bill was filled with “po... |
# Employer Vaccine Mandates - Top 3 Pros and Cons | ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Employer vaccine mandates can doubly harm marginalized communities.
People of color and LGBTQ+ people have high rates of healthcare distrust due to current and historical medical mistreatment and discrimination, which can translate into vacc... |
# Is Cell Phone Radiation Safe?'
**Argument**
There has been no rise in the rate of brain cancers despite a massive increase in the use of cell phones.
According to the National Cancer Institute, there was no increase in the incidence of brain or other nervous system cancers between the years 1987 and 2005 despite th... |
# Is Social Media Good for Society?'
**Argument**
Social media can lead to stress and offline relationship problems.
31% of teens who use social media have fought with a friend because of something that happened online. A 2016 study found that overuse of social media as an adolescent may decrease success in relation... |
# Should the Federal Minimum Wage Be Increased?'
**Argument**
Raising the minimum wage would not reduce crime.
According to a 2013 study by Boston College economists, increasing the minimum wage leads to reduced employment which leads to an increase in thefts, drug sales, and violent crime. Their results indicate th... |
# Should Birth Control Pills Be Available Over the Counter (OTC)?'
**Argument**
OTC status for birth control pills would decrease privacy.
If birth control pills were available on pharmacy aisles, purchases would be public and subject to the judgment and gossip of anyone in sight. Many people may prefer to keep their... |
# Ride-Sharing Apps - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Ride-hailing increases mobility for seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income populations, and decreases discrimination experienced with taxis.
Ride-hailing initiatives such as Uber Assist, which offers door-to-door assistance, serve the estimated 2... |
# Immigrant Sanctuary Cities - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Sanctuary policies prevent local and state police officers from doing their jobs.
Sanctuary policies prevent police from investigating, questioning, and arresting people who have broken federal immigration law. Many crimes, violent and otherwise, c... |
# Should Teachers Get Tenure?'
**Argument**
Tenure makes it difficult to remove under-performing teachers because the process involves months of legal wrangling by the principal, the school board, the union, and the courts.
A study by the New Teacher Project found that 81% of school administrators knew a poorly perfo... |
# Is Obesity a Disease?'
**Argument**
Obesity can be a genetic disorder such as sickle-cell anemia and Tay-Sachs, which are classified as diseases.
Researchers have identified 79 genetic syndromes associated with obesity. Studies have shown that obesity can be inherited like height. Genetic disposition plays a larg... |
# Should Churches (Including Mosques, Synagogues, etc.) Remain Tax-Exempt?'
**Argument**
US churches have been tax-exempt for over 200 years, yet there are no signs that America has become a theocracy.
If the tax exemption were a serious threat to the separation of church and state, the US government would have succu... |
# Fracking Pros and Cons - Top 3 Arguments For and Against'
**Argument**
The US should not stake national security and energy independence on a finite, market-dependent resource.
Rebecca Harrington, Deputy Editor of Business Insider, explained, “It’s easy to see why we should produce our own energy — relying on other... |
# Pokémon Go - Pros & Cons - ProCon.org'
**Argument**
Playing the game can lead to injury.
According to news reports, users have tripped, fallen into a lake, crashed a car, fallen on railroad tracks resulting in an amputated leg, and sustained other injuries while playing.
The National Safety Council released... |
# Should the Voting Age be Lowered in the US? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
16-year-olds are just as knowledgeable about civics and have the same ability to make good voting choices as older voters.
A study in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science found that, “On measures of civic kno... |
# Should the Voting Age be Lowered in the US? Top 3 Pros and Cons'
**Argument**
At age 16, people should have a voice in the laws that affect their lives and a stake in the future of their country.
A US Senate report cited student activism and protests as reasons for lowering the voting age to 18 in the 1970s during ... |
# Should Vaccines Be Required for Children?'
**Argument**
Most diseases that vaccines target are relatively harmless in many cases, thus making vaccines unnecessary.
The chickenpox is often just a rash with blisters and can be treated with acetaminophen, cool compresses, and calamine lotion. The measles is normally ... |
# Should Recreational Marijuana Be Legal?'
**Argument**
Taxes collected from the legal sale of marijuana support important public programs.
Tax revenues in legal marijuana states provide funding to the police, drug treatment and mental health centers, and housing programs, along with school programs such as anti-bull... |
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