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Strongly Favors topic 1: Abortion is a woman's unrestricted right (+5 points on Social scale)	1968: Abortion is a moral right; an embryo has no rights: Strongly Favors topic 1 No one has right to dictate disposition of a woman's body: Strongly Favors topic 1 Morality of birth control is rights of parents to happiness: Favors topic 1 A human potentiality is not the equivalent of an actuality: Favors topic 1 A piece of protoplasm has no human rights: Strongly Favors topic 1
Strongly Opposes topic 2: Legally require hiring women & minorities (+5 points on Economic scale)	Defend businessmen like we defend racial minorities: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Preferential treatment by race means racial quotas: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Racial quotas are obviously racist: Strongly Opposes topic 2 Essence of femininity is hero-worship of masculinity: Opposes topic 2 States' rights don't help individual rights: Favors topic 2 Racism is morally evil, but shouldn't be legally forbidden: Opposes topic 2 Property rights have priority over civil rights: Strongly Opposes topic 2
Strongly Favors topic 3: Comfortable with same-sex marriage (+5 points on Social scale)	Adults should be completely free to practice homosexuality: Strongly Favors topic 3
Opposes topic 4: Keep God in the public sphere (+2 points on Social scale)	Conservative thinking is a "God, family, tradition swamp: Opposes topic 4 Impossible right to economic security implies slave labor: Strongly Opposes topic 4 Capitalism eliminates poverty: Favors topic 4 I'm an atheist; religion is from man's mind,not supernatural: Opposes topic 4 Christianity causes civil war because it requires altruism: Opposes topic 4
Strongly Opposes topic 5: Expand ObamaCare (+5 points on Economic scale)	Socialized medicine is a violation of individual rights: Strongly Opposes topic 5
Opposes topic 6: Privatize Social Security (-3 points on Economic scale)	There is no "right" to economic security: Opposes topic 6
No opinion on topic 7: Vouchers for school choice (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Favors topic 8: Fight EPA regulatory over-reach (-3 points on Social scale)	Anyone over age 30 should thank smokestacks for longevity: Favors topic 8 Goal of ecologists is to destroy capitalist economy: Strongly Favors topic 8 Reduce pollution & overcrowding by objective laws, not blame: Opposes topic 8 Ecology principle condemns cities & people: Favors topic 8
Opposes topic 9: Stricter punishment reduces crime (+2 points on Social scale)	Too many laws means men can't live without breaking laws: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Let ten guilty go free rather than execute one innocent man: Strongly Opposes topic 9 Ideas can't be crimes; so no such thing as political crime: Opposes topic 9 Crime involves force; no such thing as crime against society: Opposes topic 9 Punishment should be guided by retribution, not reform: Favors topic 9
No opinion on topic 10: Absolute right to gun ownership (0 points on Economic scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Strongly Opposes topic 11: Higher taxes on the wealthy (+5 points on Economic scale)	Compulsory unions raise wages but hurt rest of society: Strongly Opposes topic 11 Soaking the rich reduces investment & doesn't help others: Strongly Opposes topic 11 In a free society, taxation would be voluntary: Strongly Opposes topic 11
Strongly Favors topic 12: Pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens (+5 points on Social scale)	OpEd: defender of immigration, but not a staunch defender: Favors topic 12 Closing border does not improve America's standard of living: Strongly Favors topic 12
Strongly Favors topic 13: Support & expand free trade (+5 points on Economic scale)	Anti-trust laws become haphazard & apply to anyone: Favors topic 13 Essence of capitalism's foreign policy is free trade: Strongly Favors topic 13 Unhampered, unobstructed operation of the free market: Strongly Favors topic 13 Capitalism and trade encourage peace; statism encourages war: Favors topic 13
Strongly Favors topic 14: Support American Exceptionalism (+5 points on Economic scale)	Repudiate foreign aid and all international self-immolation: Strongly Favors topic 14 United Nations has delivered half of world to the Communists: Strongly Favors topic 14 Withdraw from UN; sever relations with USSR: Strongly Favors topic 14
Strongly Opposes topic 15: Expand the military (+5 points on Social scale)	Capitalism is fundamentally opposed to war: Opposes topic 15 Outlaw use of force both internationally and domestically: Strongly Opposes topic 15 Military draft is the worst violation of individual right: Opposes topic 15
No opinion on topic 16: Make voter registration easier (0 points on Social scale)	(No votes on which to base response)
Opposes topic 17: Avoid foreign entanglements (-3 points on Social scale)	Hypocritical to call for peace but allow dictatorships: Opposes topic 17 Statism needs war; a free country does not: Strongly Favors topic 17 Only governments have power of war and dictatorship: Favors topic 17 Initiating force is evil; but retaliating is imperative: Opposes topic 17 Moral right, but not duty, to invade totalitarian states: Opposes topic 17 Not "Better Red Than Dead": but "Better See The Reds Dead": Opposes topic 17
Strongly Opposes topic 18: Prioritize green energy (+5 points on Economic scale)	Pollution is a technological problem, not a political one: Opposes topic 18 Energy crises caused by unpredictability of government rules: Strongly Opposes topic 18
Strongly Opposes topic 19: Marijuana is a gateway drug (+5 points on Social scale)	All restrictions on drugs should be removed: Strongly Opposes topic 19
Strongly Opposes topic 20: Stimulus better than market-led recovery (+5 points on Economic scale)	Inflation does not cause growth, but debases the currency: Strongly Opposes topic 20 Inflation is plunder; would be criminal if citizens did it: Strongly Opposes topic 20

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