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Argument in Favor of Marijuana

thus freeing up money and space for more serious criminals. If marijuana were legal the law enforcement industry could spend more ...

God Exists According to the Arguments of Saint Augustine

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...

Opposition to Illegal Immigration Arguments

of fields. A few of these points are: * "Each year more than 1.3 million legal and illegal aliens settle permanently in the U.S. ...

Reality of the Nature versus Nurture Argument

no matter what (Wikipedia, 2005). In the meantime, "nurture" is defined as an environment that is not of a genetic factor, one in ...

Argument that Spanking is Never a Justifiable Punishment

is implemented that really has no positive influence on the child. Spanking in effect is really for the relief of the frustrated p...

The Argument for Progressive Taxation

the people. For many individuals, the idea that resources should be redistributed, and that the very wealthy should be made to sh...

Pro-Slavery Arguments

powerful and great civilizations of the past, the Greeks and the Egyptians and the Romans, all possessed slaves (Castillo, 2006). ...

Arguments in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Use

are important issues and deserve attention because they will shape our nations future. Clearly we can build more and more prisons,...

Stem Cell Research: Argument Against

of medical advancement that purports to save lives, the necessary research requires the taking of other lives, which presents a di...

The Cosmological Argument

cannot ask about its cause (Reichenbach, 2004). Rebuttal The response to Russells argument against contingency is that if parts ...

Argument Against Gay Marriage

to everyone, therefore, nobody is denied equal protection of the laws that exist (Benne and McDermott, 2004). Activists also argu...

Argument Against Abortion

be religious or Christian to believe that abortion is wrong, and that abortion is murder. One need not rely on the words in the Bi...

Argument on Methamphetamine

people incarcerated. This cannot continue indefinitely. Third, legislation is needed because addicts are using up valuable medica...

The First Cause and First Mover Arguments of Thomas Aquinas

principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

Argument: A President's Gender Should Not Matter

majority of Americans - over 90% in some polls - say that the time has come to elect a woman President. Surprisingly, the traditio...

The Abortion Argument

the risk involved in the abortion is in and of itself a reason to suggest that it should be put off. Women use abortion-because it...

Argument for Pro-Life

a woman decides this is advisable (Ponnuru 37). Whatever the rhetoric that is involved in this argument, the bottom line is that s...

Fallacious, Informal Proof Argument Defending A Grade

a B by virtue of having the same answers as the student who actually did his own work on the final (Cohen, 2004)....

Plato's Arguments for Forms, Immortality and Knowledge

the preexistence of the soul, and the separate existence of forms work together or not? Thats a lot of questions to tackle, and to...

Interconnected Arguments From "The First Of Berkeley's Three Dialogues"

to exist, the material world would, therefore, be a useless creation (Berkeley, 1986). Philonous attempts to understand Hylas pos...

Argument for Child Labor

controlling other cultures it does not even begin to understand. America takes its own ideals and puts them on cultures they do ...

Book IX in 'The Iliad' by Homer and Arguments of Ajax, Phoenix, and Odysseus

this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...

Rene Descartes' 'Dreaming Argument' in Meditations

really know anything. People take things for granted in their daily lives and this is wrong. In any event, the dreaming argument i...

Death Penalty Argument

that the death penalty is not a deterrent against crimes when the death penalty is in place. One author, in fact, states that hom...

Argument in Favor of Increasing Veteran's Benefits

sacrifices their lives for their country, then the country should take care of their families. Of course, efforts like Hannitys an...

Argument: It is Unfair to Cut Veterans' Benefits

crackdown on veterans is the ballooning deficit, which is growing daily as the war in Iraq continues. Ironically, it is the veter...

Same Sex Marriage Argument

individual has many different rights, and they have the right to pursue their own well being, their own dreams, their own style of...

Compatibilism Supporting Arguments

then free will itself is not possible (Bass, 2002). This does not relate to the argument of the implausibility of free will and d...

The Argument About Cloning

as well as cloning to help the infertile reproduce. There is the argument that through cloning animals for consumption great heal...