If the death penalty deterred anyone from crime, then there would be a lower crime rate in countries that have the death penalty than in countries that do not.  But crime rates are often higher in countries with the death penalt y.  So the death penalty is really no crime deterrent.

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Question 3

 
Everyone knows how beneficial an operating casino can be to a city of this size.  But since establishing a casino here is prohibitively expensive, we need to try to institute gambling on a smaller scale–by placing a few slot machines in government buildings.

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Question 5

 
The financial health of the banking industry will improve dramatically in the next few months.  This improvement will immdiately lead to more lenient loan terms for individuals.  So it’s better to wait a few months to ask for a bank loan.

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Question 6

 
We evaluated the accuracy of recent news reports on a wide range of meda outlets.  We found that 40 percent of their news reports were highly inaccurate.  So, though it’s hard to believe, 40 percent of all the news reports that people are exposed to are questionable.

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Question 7

 
A recent poll shows that 76 percent of Americans believe in life after death.  In addition, there are thousands of first-person reports of either contacting dead people or seeing their spirits.  Life after death is a reality.

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Question 8

 
These are Canadian geese.  Canadian geese mate for life, so these Canadian geese are paired up forever.

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Question 9

 
If sex education in the schools can reduce the teen pregnancy rate or help delay the onset of teen sexual activity, I’m all for it.  A recent study of several hundred teens showed that sex education in school lowered the incidence of teen pregnancy.  We should have sex ed in all public schools.

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Question 10

 
The worst calamity that will befall the world in the next twenty years will be the us= e of small nuclear weapons by terrorists or rogue states.  The death toll from such a state of affairs is likely to be higher than that of any other kind = of human devastation.  The United Nations just issued a report that comes to the same conclusion.  We should act now to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons and nuclear-weapons-grade material from falling into the wrong hands.

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Ques= tion 11

 
Many surveys show that most people not only believe in “remote viewing” (the ability to observe distant locations without using the physical sense)= but also think that science has already proved its existence.  This demonstrates that the majority of people are scientifically illiterate.  If they understood the least bit about the methods of science and how it reaches conclusions, they would denounce silly ideas like remote viewing–o= r at least not accept them blindly.

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Ques= tion 12

 
The biblical story of Noah and the ark is immediately shown to be a fraud or fantasy by one fact: the volume of dung produced by the ark’s animals w= ould fill a hundred arks, and shoveling all that stuff overboard would have taken scores of laborers workign round the clock for two years.

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Ques= tion 13

 
Freedom is a necessary component of the good life.  The good life is something that every human being has a right to.  Everything that humans have a right to should be acquired by any means necessary.  Therefore, war conducted to secure freedom for any of us is justified.

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Ques= tion 14

 
You have neglected your duty on several occasions, and you have been absent from work too many times.  Therefore, you are not fit to serve in your current capacity.

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Ques= tion 15

 
Vaugn’s car is old.  It is beat up.  It is unsafe to drive.  Therefore, Vaugn’s car is ready for the junkyard.

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Ques= tion 16

 
Witches are real.  They are mentioned in the Bible.  There are many people who claim to be witches.  And historical records reveal that there were witches in Salem.

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Ques= tion 17

 
I promise to love you, to hold you, to adore you.  I promise to be faithful to you, to comfort you in bad times and celebrate with you in good times.  This I vow, until the end of my days.

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Ques= tion 18

 
My car is brand new.  It is blue with leather seats.  It has a great soundsystym.  It gets great gas mileage.  The tires are fresh with good treads.  It seats 5 people and holds lots of cargo.

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Ques= tion 19

 
Claire gave a tremendous amount of money to her friend because her friend is havin= g a rough time at the moment. She lost her job, has a young child and her husba= nd is incarcerated.

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Ques= tion 20

 
“Critical thinking is the systematic evaluation or formulation of beliefs, or stateme= nts, by rational standards.  It is systematic because it involves distinct procedures and methods.  It entails evaluation and formulation because it’s used to both assess existing beliefs (yours and someone else’s= ) and devise new ones.  And it operates according to rational standards in that beliefs are judged according to the reasons and reasoning tat support them.<= /p>

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