Women Are Better Listeners Than Men. Pro:

¶ … women are better listeners than men.

PRO:

More analytical

Less competitive

More emotional

More caring

More nurturing

CON:

Women only know women's issues

Men and women are different

How do you prove women are better listeners?

Men can listen too

Most men do not care about listening

Capital punishment is no deterrent to crime.

PRO:

Public enjoys executions

Crime still exists where death penalty is in effect

Criminals don't think they will be caught

Turns people into martyrs

Death penalty takes too long to impose

CON:

Death is always a deterrent

More publicized more deterrent

Do it more quickly, less appeals

Death penalty is historical

Brings about closure

Hard sciences such as math are more difficult than soft sciences like sociology.

PRO:

Hard science has concrete answers

Hard science uses formulas and numbers

Hard science are less abstract

Hard science is provable

Hard science involves reality

CON:

1. Soft sciences involve more theory

2. Soft sciences are not as concrete with well defined answers

3. Soft sciences need more thought

4. Soft sciences involve people, not very predictable

5. Soft sciences need researchers to be more creative

D. The production and sale of cigarettes must be outlawed for the health of the American public.

PRO:

1. Cigarettes causes many physical problems.

2. Cigarettes contain dangerous drugs

3. Cigarettes cannot be smoked without effecting others

4. Second hand some causes problems for non-smokers

5. Cigarette effects cost everyone in society

CON:

1. Research is not conclusive

2. American have right to harm themselves

3. Second hand smoke is negligible

4. Tobacco is major employer

5. Taxes from tobacco are important to government

E. The university should reduce tuition for those students who maintained an A

average last year.

PRO:

1. Incentive for students to get A's

2. Helps students in economic bad times

3. Tuition can be written off in school's financial books

4. Incentive to attract more and better students

5. Students who excel should be rewarded

CON:

1. Too expensive

2. Promotes grades over education

3. Teachers pressured to give A's

4. Teachers can extort things from students for A grades

5. Different teachers have different standards

F. ROTC should be made available to all students in U.S. colleges and universities.

PRO:

1. ROTC trains officers needed for the armed forces

2. ROTC is a patriotic and good organization

3. ROTC gives some a chance to go to college who otherwise would not

4. ROTC is organization like any other, cannot be discriminated against

5. Colleges and Universities receive government money, they must allow government organizations

CON:

1. ROTC trains people to kill

2. War has no place in institutions of learning

3. Uniforms intimidate other students

4. Keep government out of colleges and universities