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[1 Sexism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.] [2 All manners of prejudicial
barriers wear down a woman and set her up for failure.] [3 She has less
schooling and fewer opportunities than the males in her family;] [4 she
is taught that she is not as good as they are.]
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[1 Legalizing heroin for medicinal purposes will not contribute to
the nation's drug abuse problem.] [2 The amount involved will be small]
and [3 the heroin will be manufactured, stored, and administered under
strict security.]
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[1 Hypochondriacs use physical symptoms as a non-verbal way of telling
others that something is wrong with their lives] since [2 to tell someone
about your aches and pains is really to ask for help.] So, [3 the hypochondriac
is really merely asking for consideration and support.] This intimates
that [4 if you put a hypochondriac on a desert island, his symptoms will
likely disappear.]
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[1 Mr. Smith, a convicted murderer, escaped and killed again.] [2 It's
a waste of time and money to try him again.] [3 He should have been executed
the first time.]
[4 We are a crime ridden society]. [5 Someone is murdered every 40
seconds]; [6 there's a rape every 15 minutes]; [7 there's an armed robbery
every two minutes]. [8 The death penalty would put an end to that.]
[9 A large number of criminals are released on probation]. [10 Many
of them commit more crimes]. [11 The death penalty would create more rooms
in prisons].
[12 Criminals would think twice before murdering if they knew that
if caught they would die].
Finally, [13 murderers deserve to die anyway] because [14 they renounced
their right to live by taking another's life].
[14 We really need the death penalty in this country].
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[1 Even before I was born, it was a fact that tomorrow I would mow
the lawn, or it was a fact that tomorrow I would not mow the lawn.]
[2 But at any time, God knows all past and present facts.] Hence,
[3 God foreknows before I知 born whether tomorrow I値l mow the lawn or
not.] But [4 if God foreknows before I知 born what I shall do, and
I cannot change the past, then I cannot do otherwise than I actually do.]
However, [5 if I cannot do otherwise than I actually do, then I知 not free.]
But [6 I cannot change the past]; therefore, [7 I知 not free.] But
since [8 responsibility presupposes freedom], [9 I知 not responsible for
what I do]. Consequently, [10 God cannot punish me justly for my
sins]. Hence, [11 either God is unjust, or there is no hell]. [12
But God is just]. Hence, [13 there is no hell].