In 2021 and 2022, the Mexican government launched two cases against American gun manufacturers seeking compensation for their role in selling guns that ended up in the hands of criminal groups.

Gun-related homicide deaths in Haiti as well as other Carribean countries (e.g. Jamaica, Grenada, the Dominican Republic, etc.) have risen to record highs. Haiti specifically has seen a massive uptick in guns being smuggled from the United States.

Choice Feminism is the philosophy that any choice a woman makes is inherently a feminist one, solely by the virtue of her exercising her agency.

A "vulture fund" is a hedge fund or private-equity fund whose primary investment strategy involves purchasing debt at a discount on the secondary market because the debtor is considered to be very weak or in default. The fund then uses numerous methods (e.g. legal action, arbitration, etc.) to ultimately sell or resolve the debt at a profit.

Debtors can include corporations, governments and individuals.

In 2021, Vulture Funds raised over 40$ Billion in capital.

The problem of evil is the problem of how to reconcile belief in an omnibenevolent God with the observation of terrible evils in the world.

""Theodicies"" are potential solutions to the problem of evil proposed by religious scholars in defense of the plausibility of an omnibenevolent God."

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is a United States federal agency that is responsible for the control and supervision of various food and medical products. Specifically in regards to drug safety, the FDA requires drugs go through an approval process which consists of five steps: discovery/concept, preclinical research, clinical research, FDA review, and FDA post-market safety monitoring.

For the purposes of this debate, increasing testing requirements means increasing the length and due-dillegence performed during each step as well as adding longer term testing on human subjects before the post-market safety monitoring step and potentially adding additional steps before the drug is launched in the open market.

Vicarious liability refers to the liability held by a party (such as an employer) for the unlawful actions of a subordinate or associate. Qualified immunity is a kind of legal protection that shields government officials from being sued on the grounds that they infringed upon someone's rights. Lawsuits are only permitted if it's proven that the official breached a well-defined law or constitutional right.

A private equity firm is an investment management company that makes investments in, provides financial backing and plays a part in operating private companies (companies not listed on public exchanges).
They do this using funds deposited by their investors, known as assets under management (AUM).
Dry powder, in private equity, refers to funds kept in reserve in the form of cash or highly liquid marketable securities.
Global private equity dry powder has doubled since 2015, to over $2.5T. Prior to this, only 10% of a typical private equity firms AUM was held in dry powder.

Section 230 of the communications decency act provides immunity for online computer services from any civil liabilities with respect to third-party content generated by its users.

Section 230 does not however protect platforms from knowingly encouraging the generation of illegal third-party content.

"Upload" is a technology that allows individuals to upload their consciousness to a virtual afterlife after dying.