Resolved: the public's right to know ought to be valued above the candidate's right to privacy."
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Topic Analysis: Right to Know by Anthony Berryhill
The Right to Know Network
Truth & Consequence: the publc's right to know...at what cost?
Expanding the Public's Right to Know
Why You Have a Right to Privacy
Candidates on the Privacy Issues
Are candidates for office entitled to privacy ?
(more analysis coming soon, please check back.)
(September and October topics are chosen from here.)
1. When they conflict, the means ought to be prioritized above the ends in making governmental policy.
2. A just society ought to use affirmative action pograms to promote equality.
5. Judicial activism ought to be valued above strict constructionism as the basis of US Supreme Court decisions.
6. In America, government provision of welfare for the poor ought to take priority over individual economic freedom.
7. Inaction in the face of injustice makes an individual morally culpable.
8. Establishing a safe educational environment in grades K-12 justifies infringement of students' civil liberties. (Nov/Dec 00)
That college and universities have a moral obligation to prohibit the public expression of hate speech on their campuses. (Sep/Oct 00)
10. That the demands of the work environment justify an employer's violation of employees' privac
( January and Feburary Topic are chosen from here.)
1. The right of an individual to emigrate ought to be valued above a nation's right to limit immigration.
2. When they conflict, equal treatment under the law ought to take percedence over the exercise of prosecutorial discretion.
3. Hate crimes warrants additional punishment.
4. In the Unites States, buisness monopolies ought to be allowed to operate free of antitust regulation.
5. The public's right to know ought to be valued above the right of privacy of canadiates of public office.
6. On balance, violent revolution is a just response to oppression.
7. When they are in conflict, alleviation of pressing social concern justifies governmental infrigement of a patent right.
8. Decentralized government power ought to be a fundamental goal of a democratic society.
9. The possession of nuclear weapons is immoral. (Jan/Feb/TOC 01 Topic.)
10. A lesser developed nation's right to develop ought to take priority over its obligation to protect the enivorment.
East Side High School Debate