Are you too chicken to raise free-range children?

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At what age is it a good idea to allow children to go out on their own?  Should there be laws regulating this?  How should they be enforced?  How should other parents react?  What forms are interference are helpful, if any?

Bilak besmudged

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Are Slovaks trying to ignore the dark parts of their history by building memorials to communists and leaders of the first Slovak state?  Do you agree with this article’s analysis as to why Slovaks are attracted these periods?  Should the government forbid or limit such memorials?  Is their vandalism justified?

Aren’t you afraid that blood might ruin your manicure?

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Slovakia has long been criticized as an EU country with greater gender inequality, especially when it comes to the pay gap, than many others.  Do you think this applies to doctors and especially specialists and surgeons?  What causes sexism in this particular workplace and what can be done to combat it?  Do you admire female doctors?  Do you prefer them?

My baby but not my baby

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Here is a timely article given the recent referendum.  However, I think the focus of the article is more on the racial aspect of this family than on the fact that both parents are women.  Should potential parents take race into account when adopting children?  How can we learn from this woman’s experience?

Made in the land of the not free

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Is it a good idea to make or allow prisoners to work?  Should they be paid?  Are US prisons justified in trying to hide the fact that prisoners produce certain products?   Should Slovakia create similar programs for prisoners?

The evidence says otherwise? Well, actually, this is a matter of principle.

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Do you agree with the authors that people have a tendency to avoid inconvenient  scientific facts?  Does this have anything to do with the popularity of conspiracy theories? How can people best debate issues or persuade others to change their positions in light of this evidence?  Do the studies which the authors have carried out convince you?

Protesting performing pachyderms

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Does the presence of animals in entertainment venues like circuses automatically entail cruelty to animals?  What sort of laws should be passed regulating their use?  Is this the end of elephants in the Ringling Brothers the end of torture or the end of a great tradition?

Felix or Rosa?

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Have you ever been tempted to disguise yourself as the other gender, as this girl did?  What can her experience tell us about how boys and girls are socialised?  Would America and Slovakia be better places to live if we allowed girls to be more masculine and boys to be more feminine?