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Should AI development prioritize human augmentation or automation? Evaluate the potential benefits and drawbacks of different AI development approaches, considering the role of human-AI collaboration, job displacement, and societal impact in shaping AI outcomes, and analyzing the trade-offs between promoting human augmentation, addressing job displacement, and ensuring AI safety and accountability.

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Should education prioritize standardization or personalization? Analyze the potential benefits and drawbacks of different educational approaches, considering the role of standardized testing, personalized learning, and teacher autonomy in shaping educational outcomes, and evaluating the trade-offs between promoting academic achievement, addressing individual needs, and ensuring educational equity and access.

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Should healthcare prioritize prevention or treatment? Evaluate the potential benefits and drawbacks of different healthcare approaches, considering the role of preventive care, disease treatment, and healthcare access in shaping health outcomes, and analyzing the trade-offs between promoting preventive care, addressing treatment needs, and ensuring healthcare affordability and accessibility.

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Should transportation policy prioritize individual freedom or collective efficiency? Analyze the potential benefits and drawbacks of different transportation policies, considering the role of private vehicle ownership, public transportation, and non-motorized transportation in shaping transportation outcomes, and evaluating the trade-offs between promoting individual freedom, addressing traffic congestion, and ensuring transportation safety and sustainability.

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Should urban planning prioritize density or sprawl? Evaluate the potential benefits and drawbacks of different urban planning approaches, considering the role of population density, land use, and transportation infrastructure in shaping urban outcomes, and analyzing the trade-offs between promoting density, addressing sprawl, and ensuring urban livability and sustainability.

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Should law enforcement prioritize community trust or crime control? Analyze the potential benefits and drawbacks of different law enforcement approaches, considering the role of community policing, crime prevention, and officer accountability in shaping law enforcement outcomes, and evaluating the trade-offs between promoting community trust, addressing crime, and ensuring officer safety and effectiveness.

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Should media prioritize objectivity or advocacy? Evaluate the potential benefits and drawbacks of different media approaches, considering the role of journalistic objectivity, advocacy journalism, and media bias in shaping media outcomes, and analyzing the trade-offs between promoting objectivity, addressing social issues, and ensuring media credibility and impact.

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Should international relations prioritize cooperation or competition? Analyze the potential benefits and drawbacks of different international relations approaches, considering the role of diplomacy, trade, and military power in shaping global outcomes, and evaluating the trade-offs between promoting cooperation, addressing competition, and ensuring national security and global stability.

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Should tax policy prioritize simplicity or fairness? Evaluate the potential benefits and drawbacks of different tax policies, considering the role of tax complexity, tax equity, and revenue generation in shaping tax outcomes, and analyzing the trade-offs between promoting simplicity, addressing fairness, and ensuring revenue adequacy and tax compliance.