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503
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Is it ethical for governments to fund a scientific effort to reverse aging in humans?
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565
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Is it ethical for government funding to be used to sponsor research that will benefit mostly corporate interests?
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569
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Is increased public spending on science versus spending on poverty / underdevelopment justified?
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571
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Is it right for science R&D to focus on topics are important to the funding agencies to the exclusion of research for the "greater good" for example on critical diseases such as HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria, etc.
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572
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Should international pharmaceutical corporations be allowed to use developing countries as "test grounds" simply because of the lack of regulations/laws in these countries?
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5
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Does a government have the right to legislate against non-heterosexual relationships?
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41
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Is freedom of travel a right?
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44
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Should immigrants from other countries adapt themselves to the basic values of their new homeland
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55
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Should two people of the same sex be legally allowed to marry?
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57
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Should society prevent people with disabilities from working even if they have the ability to do so?
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65
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Should governments seek to forcibly remove or relocate people in areas that have become no longer viable - small rural communities that require public transport support
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72
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What is the appropriate ethical response to the claim that one race is superior to another?
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78
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Should we help people who don’t want to accept any help, even in a situation when they would endanger their own life without help?
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96
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What are the limits of the rights of minorities, if they infringe the rights of others? (i.e.: smoking)?
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100
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How should location devices and other security systems be used and controlled both publicly and privately?
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145
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Should the public/national interest prevail over individual rights to privacy? (e.g. as in gathering information about potential terrorists, etc)
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165
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Should migrants be required to accept the norms of their host society?
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183
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What is the role of religion in politics and public life?
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213
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Is it ethical to suppress findings of studies (on intelligence, or cultural and anthropological patterns) if the studies show differences among groups that could be the basis for discrimination?
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216
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Is the pursuit of high "quality of life" on a global basis ethical?
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246
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What are the ethical means of avoiding violence between genders?
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277
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On what ethical basis can immigration quotas (if any) be decided?
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295
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Is it right to bar access to developed countries for people from countries and areas where there is war, starvation, or oppression?
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301
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To what extent, if at all, should governments have the right to curtail human rights in order to enhance the effective fight against terrorism and organized crime?
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327
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Is it ethical for rich firms and/or persons to be forced to help the small ones?
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328
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Should the United Nations have the ethical duty and right to force firms and persons, abridging their freedom, to give help to other ones?
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357
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Should international organizations make the political and economic interests of religions public?
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376
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Is it ethical to restrict or ignore the rights and claims of one or several minorities in order to preserve the customs, habits, ideas, and ways of life of the majority?
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386
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Should cultural expression be allowed for minority cultural groups such as, homosexuals and nudists who impose their view on the majority and on private property?
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410
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How to promote the tolerance of foreigners in a world that is more and more globalized and, at the same time, more xenophobic?
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413
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How to balance opposite views of the world in a multicultural panorama?
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444
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Is it ethical to open possibilities of non-traditional forms of family life, even if it undermines the conventional family?
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484
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Is it possible to regulate immigration flows without violating human rights?
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497
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Is it ethical for certain religions to claim superiority?
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534
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Is it ethical to remove the natives from their place where they dwell and to try to acculturate them?
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544
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Is it ethical for religions to discriminate against certain sectors of society or other religions?
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283
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Is it ethical for the western Euro-American world to export beliefs and culture to countries with different traditions, culture and religions?
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49
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Is abortion ethical at any time in pregnancy?
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64
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How early after - an early birth e.g. five month - should a hospital try and retrieve life? (We presume in the years ahead the threshold will be earlier and earlier).
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85
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Is it ethical to implement a specific tax for persons/couples without children (in countries with large birth deficit)?
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90
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Is it ethical to manipulate embryos for therapy?
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110
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Should abortion be legalized at provincial and national level?
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147
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Should the advent of “designer babies” be welcomed as a significant human advance or outlawed as ethically unacceptable?
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269
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Should we deprive women's right to choose forced abortion?
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312
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Should birth control become a global ethical issue?
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460
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How is it possible, without offending parental feelings, to drive home to people that it is immoral to give birth to too many children in the conditions of growing scarcity of the Earth's many resources?
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533
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Do parents have the right to alter their offspring's genetic make-up and enhance their physical and intellectual capacities through the use of drugs?
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536
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Is prenatal choice of the gender of one's progeny ethical?
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543
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Should abortion be continued in the future as a method of birth control in certain countries?
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554
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Should infanticide based on the sex selection of offspring be outlawed?
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Should a person be medically allowed to elect to end their life, if they have a terminal and debilitating disease?
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91
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Should euthanasia be permitted for terminal patients?
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92
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How do we cope with a changing definition of death, due to the increased scope for resuscitation?
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117
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Should there be a right to euthanasia for patients who have a terminal disease?
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174
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Is it ethical to use voluntary/exploit voluntary labor to provide social infrastructure? .e.g. child care, care of the aged
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206
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Do people have the right to die?
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217
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Is it ethical to permit doctors to end a patient's life when suffering is immeasurable and a patient's condition terminal?
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218
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Do we have the right to assist in hastening death (someone in persistent vegetative state and the immense suffering caused by prolonged ill)?
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478
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Is it right to practice euthanasia?
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15
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Should individuals, corporations, universities, and research institutes be able to own entire celestial bodies like asteroids, or tracts of land on larger bodies such as the Moon, by placing privately owned robotic probes on these bodies?
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Should humanity embrace space as a continuation of the Earth's environment, an extension of the global economy, and a place of abundant resources necessary for our growth and prosperity, or should humanity leave space unsettled and undeveloped?
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34
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What ethical principles should guide our potential interaction with intelligent alien life if contacted and how should such ethical principles be balanced with survival considerations concerning our species?
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512
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Should humanity give moral status to primitive or "non-intelligent" extraterrestrial life - e.g. Martian microbes?
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514
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Should there be ownership and weapons in space?
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267
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What is the ethical way to develop advanced artificial intelligence?
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54
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Should inequalities of wealth, income, and power only be permitted to the extent they are conducive to overall wellbeing?
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178
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Is it fair and ecologically sustainable that 20% of the world's wealthy people continue to use 80% of the Earth's resources?
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184
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With the likely growth in terrorism, is it ethical for the rich- through their purchasing power- to have greater security?
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201
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Should people and organizations be allowed to pollute, if they can pay for the damage?
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202
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Is it ethical for a company to take possession of a natural asset that has taken millions of years to be developed and oblige the population pay for it?
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288
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Can paying for a right to pollute be justifiable if it results in reduction of environmental risks?
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377
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Should the governments cede the obligation to provide public security to private citizens who are willing to pay for it?
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545
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Is cloning ethical? Does cloning change evolution? If cloning is accomplished by those who can pay for it will, in the limit, the gene pool be left with only the genes of those able to pay?
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562
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Is it ethical for people and organizations to use increasingly scarce resources such as clean water and oil (or other fossil fuels) as long as they can pay for it?
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Should consumption of marijuana be legalized?
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Which, if any, crimes should be considered as appropriate for the death penalty?
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When a criminal has served his or her term should they be allowed to reintegrate in human society no matter what the crime?
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Should there be an international agreements concerning the age at which children should be held liable for crimes?
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Is it ethical to employ scanners in public spaces to detect people who have criminal records in an effort to prevent crime?
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How does the law address emerging scientific evidence that mental illnesses and bio-genetics cause certain people to behave in criminal ways? Are all humans really responsible for the ways they act?
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333
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Should international armed forces have the right to search for, and if justified, to arrest anybody suspected of important crimes in any states?
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334
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Is it ethical to abridge legal practices to eliminate hindrances to the searching, arresting, punishing, re-educating, and healing the perpetrators of certain crimes?
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337
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Should an international code of ethics be established defining acceptable methods for searching, arresting, punishing, re-educating and rehabilitating the perpetrators of crimes?
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338
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Should penalties for certain crimes be standardized?
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Would it be ethical to implement the death penalty for crimes such as drug trafficking, pedophilia, organ trafficking, kidnapping in countries where traditional methods of punishment don't get results?
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Should illegal arms trade be prosecuted in the same way as drugs trafficking?
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Should someone who has acquired machines and technologies with high environmental risks bear full liability/responsibility for their performance even if there were no criminal intentions or negligence envisaged?
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