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Governments have a duty to actively enforce prohibitions on racial and ethnic discrimination in employment and housing, not merely legislate them.

Reducing income inequality through redistribution is more effective at building social trust and cohesion than restricting immigration.

Hate speech laws targeting incitement to violence are compatible with free expression and necessary to protect vulnerable communities.

Cultural and ethnic diversity in high-immigration societies produces long-term economic benefits that justify active and well-resourced immigration policy.

States that signed the 1951 Refugee Convention have binding legal obligations to asylum seekers that domestic political pressure cannot override.

High-income countries should substantially expand legal migration pathways — the fiscal and economic evidence for doing so is strong.

Ranked-choice preferential voting would produce more representative outcomes than first-past-the-post without requiring full proportional representation.

The scale of corporate and industry lobbying distorts democratic representation far beyond what ordinary citizens can counterbalance.

Compulsory voting would substantially increase political equality by eliminating the systematic under-representation of lower-income and younger voters.

Term limits for heads of government meaningfully reduce the risk of democratic backsliding and authoritarian consolidation.

Social media platforms that algorithmically amplify demonstrably false election information should bear legal liability for resulting democratic harms.

Independent judicial review is essential for protecting minority rights even when it overrides the preferences of electoral majorities.

Proportional representation produces more representative legislative bodies than first-past-the-post electoral systems.

Private military companies operating outside international humanitarian law represent a growing and largely unaddressed threat to civilian protection.

Autonomous weapons systems that select and engage targets without meaningful human control should be banned by international treaty.

Climate change is a threat multiplier for armed conflict and insecurity and should be formally integrated into national security strategies.

Multilateral economic sanctions are rarely sufficient on their own to change the strategic behaviour of authoritarian governments.

Liberal democracies should collectively increase defence spending given the demonstrated willingness of authoritarian states to use military force.

Humanitarian military intervention without UN Security Council authorisation is justified when genocide or mass atrocities are actively ongoing and the Council is deadlocked.

Nuclear deterrence remains the primary guarantor of great-power peace, making significant nuclear disarmament strategically premature in current conditions.