1. In what kind of society would you prefer to live? A large urban society; a small rural society; some safe suburb; a bustling commercial city; a quiet, more or less homogeneous town in which people more or less share the same values; a multiethnic neighborhood with many different peoples?
2. Do you believe in the death penalty for the most heinous crimes? Why or why not?
3. Does the government have the right (rather than merely the power) to demand a percentage of your paycheck as taxes? Why or why not?
4. What is justice? What aspects of your society make it a just society? What aspects of your society are unjust?
5. Is there a “human right” to an education? Who has the obligation to make sure that you get one—your parents, the government, you yourself?