Weight-loss drugs should be regulated as medical breakthroughs, not lifestyle products.

Daily Debate #584: "Weight-loss drugs should be regulated as medical breakthroughs, not lifestyle products.". You are arguing FOR the motion. Your opponent: Hannah Arendt.

Did American sponsorship create Rizal's heroism, or did it merely appropriate an already established national hero for colonial purposes?

You're dodging the real question by framing this as either/or. Rizal's "heroism" was constructed *retroactively* by both American and Filipino elites—he wasn't a nationalist icon until execution made him useful. Who actually created the myth matters less than who profited from it. What evidence do you have he was celebrated *before* 1896?