Issues-Steroid use among baseball players in competitive sports

Theme-Integrity of Sports

2. How have PEDs impacted records in the MLB and what actions should be taken to fully accepted, or fully reject steroid use in sports.

3. Counter-argument: if fully accepted it can make the sports records and the gameplay better for the fans. The people on the other side are those who use PEDs MLB and leading up to MLB, they believe that this will give them a competitive advantage and being able to play at a high level.

4. Problem/Stance: PEDs are unfair in the MLB for those who aren't caught and are able to break records and play being on steroids.

5. Solution: Provide mandatory steroid tests each month to stop overall steroid use, or let players use it making it necessary for them to be taken to keep up with other players who use.

Rodeo cruelty

Is rodeo cruelty or not?

Where is the cruelty? How is it crue

2. is DARE helping or hurting drug use in k-12 students?

3. -Increasing percentage of kids trying drugs

- misleading information about drugs

-misleading info leads to loss of credibility

4.-who leads DARE

-how has DARE changed since I was in middle school

-what are the hard numbers on students k-12 using drugs or alcohol

2. Should the death penalty be allowed?

3. -Cruel and unusual punishment.

    -Coast less than jail for life.

4. -What is the difference in coast between life in jail and the death penalty?

    -Would it actually deter people from committing crimes?

   -Does it go against the Hippocratic oath?

   -Does it give retribution to the families of the victums?

2. Should Euthanasia or Physician   Assisted  Suicide be legal?

3. Moral differences in forms of assisted dying?

Law and Public Policy

Doctor Kevorkian (Doctor Death Movie)

Do not resuscitate

4. Where is this legal?

What are the consequences for assisting in someone dying?

How is it done?

What circumstances would make Assisted Suicide legal? 

Topic of Interest:

Autonomous cars/driving

Theme of Topic:

Public Safety

Privacy 

Security 

What are the issues:

• Security. Integration of that much technology would become of very high interest to hackers
• Collection of personal data
• Elimination of jobs in transportation sector
• Severe weather conditions may result in failure of autonomous systems 
• Reliance on technology
• Cost of autonomous cars

Questions:

• Our laws are ill-equipped to deal with the rise of autonomous vehicles. Should private companies and civilians use autonomous cars in states where it is not currently legal, in order to further the development of the technology?  

2. There should be more regulation/ laws on gun control

3. mass shootings

4. 1 - What can be done to regulate ownership of guns?

2 - How can regulations stop mass shootings or at least slow them down?

Other countries have lower drinking ages

Teaches kids to respect alcohol at a younger age so they don't abuse it

You can serve your country can't have a drink

If we lowered the drinking age throughout the USA, would it curb binge drinking?

Is it worth changing is this problem too far gone?

Regardless of the restrictions in place people will always abuse the substance?----

1. If the substance is always around and easily obtainable then perhaps the mentality of drinking will change.

2. Would lowering the drinking age change how the substance is treated.

3. WouAllowing people to legally drink at a younger age cause more alcohol related problems

4. I genuinely think that a drinking age of 21 is too high. 

5. Lower the age to its rightful age of 18, where it has been before in some states and where various other countries have it at.

2. Should college student be allowed to have a gun, or should anyone be allowed to

3. College shootings (CSU), shootings in major cities (Foco or Chicago)

4. -Why is crime rate so high in America and not really any other country

- Why are there college shootings, how can they be prevented.

-Should college professors be allowed to lock doors or have a gun in the room

2. Animal rights/testing/abuse etc...

3. Animal testing etc....

4. 

A. Why do we test on animals

B. Why do we treat animals poorly

c. How can we continue to test products with out testing on animals

2. Are hallucinations a sign of severe mental illness.

3. Many patients with no serious mental issues other than naturally occurring hallucinations are viewed as insane.

4. 1. How do hallucinations occur?

2. How often are hallucinations actually associated with diseases such as schizophrenia?

3. What are some types of hallucinations?

4. What are treatments for hallucinations that are not associated with disease?

2) Are we giving our children adequate nutrition in school?

3) The stakeholders are the school boards and parents. Some counterarguments may be: parental responsibility, cost, interactions with prescriptions, and simply not believing people need vitamins and minerals.

4) The problem is that many kids are not only obese but also very sick and don't know it, just not getting your vitamin B12 can cause serious neurological disorders later in life, and that is only one example. I believe this needs to change for the next generation to not grow up sick and depressed.

5) I need to think about the solution a little more.

2. Should Prescription Drugs Be Advertised Directly to Consumers?

3. Drug Companies are making a fortune off selling drugs with dangerous side effects and addictive qualities. Prescription drugs are overprescribed.

4. What drugs are being advertised?

What are the effects of the advertisements?

How much money are companies making?

What percentage of prescription drug users actually need their prescription?

Theme: Technology

Issues: Technology is harmful to health and eyes if stared at all day in a classroom setting. Students are unable to concentrate and become impatient at an early age. Students that live in poorer neighborhoods are put at a disadvantage.

POV: I am against the overuse of technology in schools, i think it is important to have a computer lab but i think that most students learn with hands-on learning and it is more beneficiary to use supplies that isn't all in a screen. I also think that it is unfair that some students cannot afford to own a tablet or laptop and are suddenly put at a disadvantage than other students.

2. Should Tablets or Textbooks be used in the schooling system?

3. Counterargument: Tablets make information more accessible to students and allow for a broader and faster environment to learn in. The stakeholder in this would be the corporations that provide supplies for schools and are in charge of school regulations.

4. Problem: Our society is growing in technology and soon most things will revolve around technology, however, hands-on learning is more beneficiary for learners.

5. Solution: Reduce tablets in the classroom to having computer rooms, that students can use. Use textbooks so students can highlight and make notes of things. By writing things down it raises the probability of remembering what is being taught.

2. Should professional football players be drug tested?

3. The counterargument is that not all steroids are bad, some drugs allows for innovation, it limits performance when performance can be increased safely, and athletes will still find a way around the system anyways. The stakeholder is the commissioner of the NFL, the coaches.

The people on the other side argue that athletes using drugs is unfair to the athletes not using drugs, sets a bad example, they are paid so much that they need to work for it, it's a health concern, athletes should be natural, drug testing will protect the integrity of natural sports.

4. The problem is that not every athlete is thoroughly drug tested and if they are and it comes back positive, they are not punished harshly enough.

5. The solution to this is to decide as a whole organization (NFL), whether to drug test or not. They should decide to test every single player on every team and set a strict guideline of rules and punishments/consequences if broken.

2. Should animal testing me allowed for medical reasons to practice surgeries however animal testing for commercial use is unnecessary

3. Ethical issues, currently no alternative to practicing on live animal

4. Is it ethically acceptable to practice surgery on animals?

Is testing animals for commercial use such as cosmetic companies do ethically acceptable?

What alternatives can we come up with

The question is should colleges allow teachers or classrooms to have guns, when the school law is against guns on campus.

A counterargument would be that the teacher could have a moment of insanity and pull the gun on students.

My problem is students aren't protected and I believe if there was one gun in a class room the teacher could possibly save lives.

Solution would be to have teacher have a gun in a classroom.

Theme: Ecological, safe, and fare practices.

Issues: Safety and the welfare of humans/ animals/ environment.

Point of View: Cyanide fishing is a very dangerous, unethical, and distrustful method that should be abolished.

2. Should cyanide fishing continue being a legal method of harvesting fish? 

3. The counter argument would be fishing companies that use this method stating that it makes harvesting fish much easer, quicker, and safer for the fishermen especially when they are harvesting the harder and more dangerous breeds of fish.

4. The problem in this method of fishing is that once the toxins are placed into the water it effects everything around it not just the thing you intend it to and it is very deadly to all living things including humans.  Along with this once in the water it is always there it does not dissolve into nothing, so you must think then what is it's effects on other animals, humans, and the ecosystems.

5. The best solution for this issue is to educate the public of what kind of effects this method of fishing has on all forms of life and what may happen if it continues to be alowed to be used, then steps to abolish this method of fishing would be the next step.

2:Is there cruelty in rodeo?

3:There is cruelty in rodeo. stake holders will be spectators and the media. People against rodeo believe there is animal cruelty in rodeo.

4:My belief is that the animals in rodeo are treated humanly and fairly to the fullest extent.

5:I would bring people against rodeo "behind the chutes". I would show where animals are held as well as where they are raised.

My point of view is that DARE is an ineffective way to address drugs for young students, and isn't slowing down the amount of drugs in schools.

2. Is DARE effective?

3. The counter argument is that it is effective, and that we should continue to use the program nationwide.

The stakeholders would be admins of the school county's that use dare, and the government agencies that fund it

4. The issue is that DARE is stretching the truth about the harm behind certain substances, and when young students find out these things weren't true, it erases all of DAREs credibility.

My stance is that we still need a constant drug resistance program throughout schools nationwide, but it shouldn't be DARE

5. The solution is to create a new program with some changes to what DARE was doing