Law Debates – Pros and Cons of Legal Issues

Current Debates

This list of debates highlights some of our newest topics where your contribution of pros and cons counts most.

• Should minors have to abide by a curfew?

  It is up to the parents to decide when their children should be home.

  By giving a strict curfew for minors, they could be arrested for taking a walk at night. This is not fair, because minors don't always commit crimes, just because they are outside at night. Parents should decide when their children are allowed to be out, not the law.

  No

• Was the U.S. justified in dropping bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

  Dropping the atomic bombs on Japan sacrificed too many innocent lives.

  The fact that the U.S. government would attack innocent civilians on an enormous scale, due to the fact that American soldiers were killed, is ridiculous. Constituents should not be harmed for the work of their government, no matter where they live. This showed that Americans think that their lives are more precious than those of other nations, which is very tragic. The after-effects lasted for decades, and the action of dropping atomic bombs on huge Japanese cities was inexcusable.

  No

• Should the government end welfare in the US?

  Welfare is an important program to combat hunger and poverty.

  Especially in today's economy, welfare is a very important program to combat hunger and poverty. While it may be exploited by some, that is no reason to discount everyone else that needs the system to survive. For some people, there are just no other viable options available to get by.

  No