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The judicial system in this country is too soft on criminals.
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Enlightenment can be gained through meditation, self-contemplation, and intuition.
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There is no God or gods.
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Wealthy people should have a higher tax rate than poor people.
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Human interests and dignity ought to prevail in our thoughts and actions.
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The pleasures of the senses are the highest good.
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It is impossible to communicate with the dead.
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There should be increased social equality.
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We need tough leaders who can silence the troublemakers and restore our traditional values.
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Worldly possessions are the greatest good and the highest value in life.
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Society has an innate tendency toward improvement, which can be furthered through conscious human effort.
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It is best to live simply and in a natural environment.
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Knowledge is the awareness of individual facts and an understanding of the logical relations among these facts.
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People ought to be motivated by something beyond their own self-interest.
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No objects have magical or spiritual powers.
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I adhere to an organized religion.
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I believe in government by law with the consent of those people governed.
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I believe in biological evolution.
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I believe in reincarnation – rebirth of the soul in another body.
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I support the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite.
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I can always trust the government to do what is right.
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I believe in predestination – that all things have been divinely determined beforehand.
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I believe in the superiority of my own ethnic group.
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I emphasize reason, scientific inquiry, and human fulfillment in the natural world.
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I don't believe in a messiah who will come to save the world.
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I am in favor of a constitutional form of government.
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I am opposed to the death penalty (execution) as a punishment for crimes.
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I believe that reason is not a good guide to knowledge and truth.
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Natural objects (and even Nature itself) have conscious life.
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Human society is not capable of being good.
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My own race is not superior to any other race.
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Religion should play the most important role in civil affairs.
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There is a higher good than the pleasures of the senses.
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The people running this country don't really care what happens to people like me.
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Practices like meditation will not lead one to enlightenment.
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People who earn wealth should always have the right to keep it.
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It is good to defy “traditional family values” as feminists and homosexuals have done.
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There is an ideal spiritual reality that goes beyond sense experience and science and is knowable through intuition.
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Foreigners and immigrants have a beneficial effect on our society.
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Free market capitalism leads to gross inequalities in income and wealth, which is a great social evil.
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What is good can only be judged by the gratification of the senses.
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Animals don't have souls or spirits.
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People of different races and nationalities should live in different places apart from one another.
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Capitalism benefits all classes of people and should be preserved.
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Only what is pleasant, or has pleasant consequences, is essentially good.
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It would be pointless to reduce one's possessions and live more simply.