John Locke写作竞赛放题了？这些往年真题先练起来！

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Q1. A team of scientists wants to discover how many genders there are. How should they proceed?

一个科学家小组想探索他们有多少种性别，应该如何进行？

Q2. In what sense are you the same person today that you were when you were ten?

从哪种意义上说，你今天和你十岁时是同一个人？

Q3. Is tax theft? 

税是不是偷窃的？

Q1. How much richer or poorer are the British today than they would have been without the effects of British colonialism? 

现在的英国人比没有英国殖民主义影响的英国人富裕或贫穷多少？

Q2. Which has a bigger effect on history: the plans of the powerful or their mistakes?

权贵的计划和他们的错误对历史影响更大？

Q3. Which characteristics distinguish successful movements for social change from unsuccessful ones?

哪些特征将成功的社会变革运动与失败的社会变革区分开来？

Q1. Can happiness be measured?

幸福可以被衡量吗？

Q2. In surveys conducted in the United States, significantly more than half the respondents reported that they believed themselves to be more attractive than the median person in their country. How might we account for this?

在美国进行的调查中，超过一半的受访者明显表示，他们认为自己比本国的中位人士更有吸引力。我们如何解释这一点？

Q3. Are beliefs voluntary?

信仰是自愿的吗？

Q1. What distinguishes a small religion from a large cult?

小宗教与大宗教有什么区别？

Q2. If you cannot persuade your intelligent, sympathetic friends to embrace your religious belief system, do you have enough reason to believe what you believe? 

如果你不能说服你聪明、富有同情心的朋友接受你的宗教信仰体系，你有足够的理由相信你所相信的吗？

Q3. What was God doing before He created the cosmos?

上帝在创造宇宙之前在做什么？

Q1. Do the results of elections express the will of the people?

选举结果是否表达了人民的意愿？

Q2. If China becomes the leading superpower, what would that mean for the people who live there? What would it mean for everyone else?

如果中国成为主要超级大国，这对生活在那里的人意味着什么？对其他人意味着什么？

Q3. What might account for the different levels of political corruption in your own country and your country's nearest neighbour?

你的国家和近邻国家的政治腐败程度不同的原因是什么？

Q1. Is safety more important than fun?

安全比乐趣更重要吗？

Q2. If you had $10 billion to spend on making the world better, how would you spend it?

如果你有100亿美元用于改善世界，你会怎么花？

Q3. What, if anything, do your parents owe you?

如果存在什么东西，是你父母欠你的？

Q4. What is something important, about which nearly everybody is wrong?

什么是重要的，但几乎每个人都错了？

Q5. Why is John Locke sometimes called the father of liberalism?

为什么约翰·洛克有时被称为自由主义之父？

Q1. A government funds its own expenditure by taxing its population. Suppose, instead, it relied solely on money newly created by the central bank? What would be the advantages and/or disadvantages? 

政府通过对人口征税来资助自己的支出。相反，假设它仅仅依靠中央银行新创造的资金？优点和/或缺点是什么？ 

Q2. In his thought experiment, the Iowa Car Crop, David Friedman tries to show that growing wheat is, in an important sense, just another 'technology' we can use for manufacturing cars, and in some circumstances a much more efficient one.

If international trade is thus a way of using less valuable inputs to produce more valuable outputs, why would governments impose trade barriers such as tariffs and quotas, thereby forcing producers to be more wasteful and less efficient?

David Friedman在他的思想实验《爱荷华州汽车作物》（Iowa Car Crop）中试图表明，从重要意义上讲，种植小麦只是我们可以用来制造汽车的另一种“技术”，在某些情况下，这是一种效率更高的技术。

如果国际贸易因此是一种利用价值较低的投入生产更有价值的产出的方式，那么政府为什么会施加关税和配额等贸易壁垒，从而迫使生产者更加浪费和效率低下？

Q3. What would happen if we banned billionaires?

如果我们禁止亿万富翁，会发生什么？

Q1. Would justice be better served in the United States if more Supreme Court judges were women? 

如果更多的最高法院法官是女性，美国的司法会更好吗？

Q2. Suppose that you were contemplating, in violation of the rules of this competition, submitting an essay written for you by artificial intelligence. What would be the difference between such an act and ordinary attempted theft?

假设你正在考虑，违反了比赛规则提交一篇人工智能为你撰写的论文。这种行为和普通的盗窃未遂有什么区别？

Q3. Are there too many laws?

现在法律制定太多了吗？