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Starter Should people be allowed to sell access to their genetic data? Personal ownership sounds empowering until financial pressure drives the decision.

Genetic data also reveals information about relatives who did not sell access. An individual's payment cannot settle all the privacy interests involved.

Starter Should unpaid trial shifts be treated as wage theft? Evaluating an applicant should not require free productive labor.

If an applicant performs productive work the business would otherwise pay for, compensation is appropriate. A brief nonproductive assessment needs separate and explicit limits.

Starter Should religious schools teach the strongest arguments against their own beliefs? A faith that demands protection from questions is asking for obed…

Present objections in their strongest form rather than staging easy rebuttals. The test is whether a student may disagree afterward without being punished or shamed.

Starter Should people be socially punished for refusing to join a boycott?

People may share the goal while disagreeing about the tactic or lacking alternatives.

Starter Can a society be fair without agreeing on what fairness means?

Procedures still embed values, so disagreement needs ongoing negotiation rather than a final formula.

Starter Can nationalism be morally defensible without treating outsiders as less important?

National loyalty becomes dangerous when it excuses harms we would condemn elsewhere.

Starter Should a proposal be public if the couple has not discussed marriage?

Otherwise an audience can turn a personal decision into pressure to perform happiness.

Starter Should friends always defend one another in public?

You can refuse a pile-on while still disagreeing with a friend's conduct.

Starter Should billionaires receive honorary degrees because they donate money?

Fundraising becomes less credible when academic honors appear available for purchase.

Starter Are people responsible for harms created by products they buy?

Companies and regulators control information that individuals often cannot realistically obtain.

Starter Should schools contact parents about every change in a teenager's identity?

Policies need clear responsibilities and support rather than leaving sensitive decisions to improvisation.

Starter Should being child-free become as publicly celebrated as parenthood?

Celebration should affirm choice rather than create a new rivalry between life paths.

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