New Zealand is the most liberal nation on earth
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New Zealand was ranked the most liberal country in the world followed by Switzerland. New Zealand has a good history regarding fundamental rights and freedom. People exercise their political opinions through the electoral process just while the taxation level among the working class n among the lowest in the world. In Switzerland, direct democracy has been decentralized, civil liberties are protected by law, and the country has a good history regarding human rights.https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-most-liberal-countries-of-the-world.html
1.open to new behaviIor or opinions and willing to discard traditional values.
the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint.
If you look at many freedom indexes of both economic and personal liberty you find new zealand at or near the top, pretty much why i picked new zeland everyone says its the most liberal place on earth measured scientifically
New Zealand was ranked the most liberal country in the world followed by Switzerland.
Liberalism refers to a political doctrine that emphasizes on protecting the freedom and rights of the citizenry. Liberals view the government as an arm that protects citizens from external and internal threats but at the same time recognize that the government by itself can be a threat to the freedom of the citizens. In his pamphlet Common Sense (1776), American philosopher Thomas Paine compared the government to a “necessary evil.” Law enforcers, Judiciary, and the constitution are meant to protect individuals' right, property, and liberty but in some instances, the same institutions might be used to against the individual.
In 2006 the State of World Liberty Index released a ranking of the most liberal countries in the world. The ranking was based on economic freedom, individual freedom, and the size of the government and taxation it levied on its people. Estonia, Ireland, and Canada were ranked 1st, 2nd, and 3rd respectively. The UK and the US were ranked 7th and 8th respectively while New Zealand was ranked 10th. The 2017 ranking used the same data sources but with adjustments to the data.
New Zealand was ranked the most liberal country in the world followed by Switzerland. New Zealand has a good history regarding fundamental rights and freedom. People exercise their political opinions through the electoral process just while the taxation level among the working class n among the lowest in the world. In Switzerland, direct democracy has been decentralized, civil liberties are protected by law, and the country has a good history regarding human rights
Economic freedoms are part of the formula , but only part safety health , quality of life, education , play a role as unhealthy homeless people tend not to be free, taxation is an issue as most people dont like the government taking all their money , although in some societies high taxes are considered a fair trade for generous public services available to all but most people prefer to spend their own money their own way ,I'd like to adress the mass shooting , if they happened every day i think they'd be an issue, as they do here, but they are extremely rare occurances and usually new zealnd is super safe.. ironically the fact that the usa is flooded with guns and has lots of shootings to Americans is indicative of our freedoms
gun laws were until this year relatively liberal to with a license a b c d or e on could own different types of guns each class requiring more vof a security check or training but New ZEaLAND has promised to tighten up its laws to prevent future shootings , We have to remember to the rest of the world the ability or ease of buying a gun isnt prioritized over public safety and valued as such a cherished freedom
The 2006 State of World Liberty Index was created by combining the rankings of four other indexes of world liberty into one: the "2005 Economic Freedom of the World" Index (Fraser Institute), the "2006 Index of Economic Freedom" (The Heritage Foundation), the "2005 Freedom in the World" index (Freedom House), and the "2005 Press Freedom Index" (Reporters Without Borders).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_World_Liberty_Index i'm sure an extremist might contend that stricter gun laws mean a terrible tyranny but let us remember that extemist opinion s are not what should be of value as they are the products of unsound unhealthy minds
Also please note, rankings used to create the below are typically delayed by one to two years. So, they do not reflect any recent events that may have occurred within the past 6-12 months.http://patrickrhamey.com/saturday-research/2019/3/18/2019-state-of-world-liberty-index i have proven all i need to prove the rest is just smoke and mirrors by the enemy to confuse people with things that have zero import
Pro does not offer an argument : simply posts a series of topics from external sites verbatim in lieu of an argument. These were not quoted and in the body of the debate text as if they weren’t pros own arguments, though they were linked.
However - without pros own words, simply lazily copy pasting external sites cannot be considered as a valid argument provided and thus it must be treated as if pro offered no argument at all. As pro doesn’t offer an argument and con does - arguments go to con.
Conduct: again, con accepted an argument against pro - not the author of the websites he copy pasted this behaviour is far more toxic than an isolated forfeit so the forfeit point goes to con too.
oh won't this be fun!
Vote, take in account the plagiarism to counter the forfeit (I was banned, and I apologize)
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-most-liberal-countries-of-the-world.html read with care in 2006 the index was started and has new reports every year since then new zealand won in 2018 not 2006
in 2006 estonia was the most liberal nation 2018 it is new zealand you should learn to read better
I'm going to be banned soon. I waive the last round, but since we both violated conduct (plagiarism and forfeit) it should be tied.
I was writing this while I was tired, so I apologize for any grammar errors.
According to the State of World Liberty Index https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-10-most-liberal-countries-of-the-world.html
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Depends on what you mean by "Liberal."
Is the term liberal being pre-defined, or is it a debatable point?
You need to slow the F down and try to do only 1 or 2 debates at a time instead of 6. https://web.archive.org/web/20190918011734/https://www.debateart.com/debates?_utf8=%E2%9C%93&status=challenge&order=votes