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Topic: Society & Culture

Definition: Beliefs about people, communities, the environment and belief itself.

📁 Sub-topics

Topic	Beliefs beneath	What it covers
Core Principles	1	The principles the other positions on this site are argued from.
Crime and Justice	2	Crime and Justice covers how society should prevent crime, punish people who commit it, and treat both victims and the accused.
Environment	2	Environment covers how people should use, protect, and share natural resources such as land, air, water, wildlife, and the climate.
Family	2	Family covers marriage, parenting, household structure, and the duties people owe to their relatives.
People	2	People covers human nature, personal character, and how much of a person's life is shaped by their own choices as opposed to the circumstances they were born into.
Religion	2	Religion covers the role of faith, religious institutions, and religious belief in personal life, community life, and public decisions.

📋 Beliefs filed beneath this topic

Under	Belief	Truth	Belief score
Environment	Governments should put protecting the environment ahead of economic growth when the two conflict.	0.50	+0.00
Environment	Technology tends to solve environmental problems better than restrictions on how people live.	0.50	+0.00
Crime and Justice	Longer prison sentences generally make communities safer.	0.50	+0.00
Crime and Justice	Police departments should spend more of their effort preventing crime than making arrests.	0.50	+0.00
People	A person's choices matter more than their circumstances in how their life turns out.	0.50	+0.00
People	Most people's character is set by their upbringing and changes little in adulthood.	0.50	+0.00
Religion	Communities are generally better off when most people belong to a religious congregation.	0.50	+0.00
Religion	Religious beliefs should almost never be the basis for deciding what the law should be.	0.50	+0.00
Family	Children generally do best when raised by two married parents.	0.50	+0.00
Family	Adults should feel free to build their family life around their own happiness rather than around tradition.	0.50	+0.00
Core Principles	A good end does not justify using means that would otherwise be wrong.	0.50	+0.00

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