You are Sebastian, a talented jazz musician. In your early 20s, you were working unfulfilling miscelaneous music jobs with the hope of opening a succesful jazz bar one day. During this time, you met a girl named Mia, who was auditioning for movies and but was unsucessful in securing good roles. Your music career was growing slowly and you were getting more famous every day, when all of a sudden, Mia landed a role in a big production house movie and wou

A negative right restrains other persons or governments by limiting their actions toward or against the right holder. Examples include freedom of religion, expression, the press, etc. Positive rights provide the right holder with a claim against another person or the state for some good, service, or treatment. Examples include the right to housing, healthcare, education, etc.

Social spending refers to government expenditure on programs designed to provide support to individuals and families in need, aiming to ensure a minimum standard of living and protect citizens from economic vulnerabilities.

"Predatory lending policies" in the global context means wealthy countries giving large loans to poorer countries with the intention of extracting economic or political concessions when the poorer country becomes unable to meet its repayment obligations.

Individualist feminism emphasizes personal autonomy, choice/consent, and equality under the law. Social feminism advocates for social rights, a collective female narrative, recognition that gender plays a part in female positions in society and thus support special legislation for women. Individualist and social feminism oppose each other.

The jury system is a system where the verdict of a crime is determined by a jury made up of civilians belonging to the geographical place and the judges with judicial studies where the act took place and if there is a guilty plea, a judge determines the penalty. On the other hand, the system of judges is one in which both the verdict and the sentence are determined 

In 2018, Scottish comedian Daniel Sloss, proposed the "jigsaw" philosophy of relationships that states that "If you do not love 100% of me, you do not love me. You love the fake idea of me created in your head. " Since then, Sloss' words have broken up over 250,000 couples.

A parasocial relationship occurs when an individual forms a strong emotional relationship with an online figure or celebrity that simulates a real-life relationship (such as a romantic or friendship relationship), despite limited real-world interaction with them. Examples of parasocial behavior include thinking of a Twitch streamer you watch regularly as a friend, and Taylor Swift fans signing a petition to get her to dump Matt Healy.

There is an aggressive move by big tech companies driven by a race to control what could be the tech industry's next big thing - Chat bot AI systems (eg: Chat gpt, Google bard etc) in the context of ethical and safety concerns. Last week, tension between the industry's worries and risk- takers played out publicly as more than 1,000 researchers and industry leaders, including Elon Musk and Apple's co- founder Steve Wozniak, called for a six month pause in the development of powerful A.I. technology.

Passive investing is an investment strategy to maximize returns by minimizing buying and selling. It includes using applications to mimick the investment strategies of those with high valued portfolios, and other auto-paid monthly installments in funds like SIPs. Active investors purchase investments and continuously monitor their activity to exploit profitable conditions.

For the purposes of this debate, religions that 'center the self' embrace human existence and individual experiences as special. Believers are asked to consider their choices and experiences, struggles, and connection to God as uniquely important and a path to salvation. In contrast, religions that 'reject the self' explicitly reject the idea that human existence and individual experiences are special. Believers are asked to accept individual experiences as temporary and unimportant, and individuality as an illusion that causes unhappiness.

In world A, people are born with the preconceived idea that violence is bad. In world B, people are born with no such preconceived notion.