Positions

Countries like Austria and the Netherlands have adopted a system of legalisation rather than decriminalisation, under which sex work is legal only under conditions dictated by the state.

There are approximately 1 billion Protestant adherents worldwide or about 37% of all Christians. A Protestant is an adherent of any Christian bodies that separated from the Church of Rome during the Reformation, or of any group descended from them.

This position presents the Anatolian model of Proto-Indo-European origins. It holds that the speakers of the ancestral (pre-Proto-Indo-European) language lived in Anatolia — the region of modern-day Turkey — from which their language spread, an alternative to the Steppe hypothesis.

The Near-Eastern or Armenian Model proposes speakers of Proto-Indo-European lived in northern Mesopotamia, eastern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey), and the southern Caucasus.

This position presents the Steppe (or Kurgan) model of Proto-Indo-European origins. It holds that the speakers of the ancestral language lived on the Pontic Steppe, the grasslands north of the Black Sea, from which their language and culture later spread across Europe and Asia.

This position presents psychoanalytic criticism as a way to interpret literature. Inspired by psychoanalysts such as Sigmund Freud, it investigates how the unconscious mind shapes a text—reading characters, symbols, and the author's hidden drives to uncover meaning beneath the surface.

This position attributes male infidelity to psychological factors rather than circumstance or biology. It holds that men cheat to feel validated when they feel unseen in their relationship, and that they fall for a fantasy — projecting their own desires and self-image onto an affair partner.

This position holds that psychology is a real science. It argues that the discipline follows the scientific method, has established methodologies for deriving knowledge, gains understanding through empirical experience, and can predict human behaviour — the hallmarks of a genuine science.

This position holds that psychology is a science, but a 'soft' one rather than a hard science. It argues that because psychology studies abstract phenomena like the mind and behaviour, it cannot reach the concrete, definitive conclusions that the hard sciences can.

This position holds that psychology is not a real science. It argues that its findings are too often inconclusive and irreproducible, that researchers can fudge results, and that — unlike the hard sciences — psychology lacks an agreed central body of established knowledge.

Puerto Rico was seized by America after the Spanish-American War and has its own unique culture, heritage, and ingenious people separate from the US. Puerto Rico deserves to be given what it once had—autonomy and its own, localized government.

Puerto Rico has been a US territory for over 100 years. No US territory that has fit all statehood requirements and voted for a referendum has waited that long for statehood. It's time to abide by the wishes of the Puerto Rican people and give them statehood, which comes with increased federal benefits and the ability to vote.

Quakers number around 210,000 worldwide, and not all regard themselves as Christian. This overview surveys Quaker worship, holy texts, and core beliefs, along with their approach to clergy, their history and schisms, and their politics and attitudes to equality.

Humans are different from each other - physically, culturally, linguistically, psychologically. Proponents of race as a biological reality view differences as anchored in genetic differences at a group level. Racial groups have key characteristics that make them unique and different from others.

This position holds that race is a social construct rather than a biological fact. It argues that there is no scientific evidence that humans divide into distinct biological races, that racial categories shift across time and place, and that race is self-identified and changeable.

This position holds that race is a social reality with real biological consequences. It argues that, while race is socially constructed, social and cultural circumstances shape a person's environment — which in turn produces measurable biological effects, such as differences in health.

This position defines cultural appropriation as racism expressed through aesthetics. It argues that this specific form of cultural borrowing erases the people it takes from — a kind of colonialism that is belittling and demeaning rather than a neutral or appreciative exchange.

Enthusiastic Mother Earth defenders. Preservation of nature borders on the sacred, and man has come to corrupt a transcendental balance with all his machinery and greed.

This position names Rafael Nadal the greatest tennis player of all time. It argues the 'King of Clay' dominated the French Open like no one before him while winning almost everything else, and that he did so against the toughest era of opposition the game has seen.

Rising through the ranks of rap music during the "Golden Age of Hip-Hop", Rakim emerged as rap powerhouse with a distinctive style and laid-back flow. His lyrical superiority set him miles ahead of other hip-hop heavyweights of the time such as Run DMC.

This position holds that ranked-choice voting is the best electoral system. It lets voters rank candidates by preference, with lower choices reallocated until someone wins a majority — which it argues produces the truest reflection of the majority's will and avoids wasted votes.

This position holds that rationalism and idealism are compatible. It argues many prominent philosophers have successfully reconciled the two in their work, drawing on both reason and ideal forms together, which shows the approaches can coexist rather than fundamentally contradict each other.

This position holds that rationalism and idealism are incompatible. It argues the two philosophies cannot be reconciled because their core claims directly contradict one another—about the source of knowledge and the nature of reality—leaving no coherent middle ground between them.

React is a front end framework that prioritizes a simple yet efficient experience. React applies the value of simplicity to all aspects from external plugins to running applications.

Reader-Response critics argue that readers play a significant role in determining a text's meaning. They disagree about the extent of this. Some argue that meaning inheres completely in the reader, while others insist that it resides in both text and reader.

Reading a good book in private allows the reader to relax and get lost in a book. A reader can get lost in the pages of a book without having to worry about anything around them.

This position holds that reading is better in public. It argues that reading among others lets a reader feel socially connected to their surroundings while lost in a book, suggesting spots such as a library, a café, or even public transport as ideal places to read.

This position holds that recreational marijuana should be legal. It argues legalisation would minimise harms by allowing regulation and control, ease the strain on police and prisons, raise tax revenue, and respect personal freedom—noting cannabis is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.

This position holds that reducing processed food is the best way to lose weight. It argues that modern society's reliance on processed foods drives high obesity rates, and that cutting them out—favouring whole-food approaches like the Mediterranean diet—leads to dramatic weight loss.