Debate
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And so we're very focused on trying to get to good decisions through the
debate
that always happens.
We've sent 50,000 DVDs to high school teachers in the U.S. and it's really changed the
debate
on global warming.
So the same Guardian rebuts, "Are video games art: the
debate
that shouldn't be.
I used to, to try to avoid homework, sneak down to the living room and listen to my parents and their friends
debate
heatedly.
I merely have a holiday in psychology, and what interests me in general is moral
debate.
Now over the last century, in developed nations like America, moral
debate
has escalated because we take the hypothetical seriously, and we also take universals seriously and look for logical connections.
Now this isn't because we had a public
debate
about whether we wanted to outsource war to private companies, but this is what has happened.
Now, what this, even this brief debate, brings out is something that many economists overlook.
But to have this debate, we have to do something we're not very good at, and that is to reason together in public about the value and the meaning of the social practices we prize, from our bodies to family life to personal relations to health to teaching and learning to civic life.
But once we see that markets change the character of goods, we have to
debate
among ourselves these bigger questions about how to value goods.
There's a growing extremism that comes from both sides in this debate, in response to this conflict between the law and the use of these technologies.
The extremism on one side begets extremism on the other, a fact we should have learned many, many times over, and both extremes in this
debate
are just wrong.
There is, at the moment, a stale
debate
going on very often: state's better, public sector's better, private sector's better, social sector's better, for a lot of these programs.
And the
debate
has raged, hasn't it, since the Greeks, of isn't it what it's all about?
We need a broader
debate.
A
debate
that involves musicians, scientists, philosophers, writers, who get engaged with this question about climate engineering and think seriously about what its implications are.
And as a consequence, across the Western world, the over-simplistic policies of the parties of protest and their appeal to a largely disillusioned, older demographic, along with the apathy and obsession with the trivial that typifies at least some of the young, taken together, these and other similarly contemporary aberrations are threatening to squeeze the life out of active, informed
debate
and engagement, and I stress active.
Democracy, in order to work, requires that reasonable men and women take the time to understand and
debate
difficult, sometimes complex issues, and they do so in an atmosphere which strives for the type of understanding that leads to, if not agreement, then at least a productive and workable compromise.
I mean, literally, it's still a source of
debate
what this black river of stuff is and where it comes from.
Which is curious as we
debate
all this stuff.
They've been embracing hacking as a law enforcement technique, but without any real
debate.
There's no law that's been passed specifically authorizing this technique, and because of its power and potential for abuse, it's vital that we have an informed public
debate.
You show up for that
debate
and you've already lost it.
ES: You know, everybody who is involved with this
debate
has been struggling over me and my personality and how to describe me.
And that's what I'm hoping the
debate
will move towards, and we've seen that increasing over time.
But the First Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees us a free press for a reason, and that's to enable an adversarial press, to challenge the government, but also to work together with the government, to have a dialogue and
debate
about how we can inform the public about matters of vital importance without putting our national security at risk.
And by working with journalists, by giving all of my information back to the American people, rather than trusting myself to make the decisions about publication, we've had a robust
debate
with a deep investment by the government that I think has resulted in a benefit for everyone.
Much of the
debate
in the U.S. has been about metadata.
CA: Ed, one response to this whole
debate
is this: Why should we care about all this surveillance, honestly?
And I think it's true to say that there are a lot of people who didn't show a hand and I think are still thinking this through, because it seems to me that the
debate
around you doesn't split along traditional political lines.
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