Ranging or not?

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as an advocate of human dignity in the face of challenges ranging from political repression to aids.What is the use of ranging here if i dont use ranging would it be any problem?

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air tile 224What is the use of ranging here if i dont use ranging would it be any problem?

Ranging is the least of your problems. Words as words are marked by italics or quotation marks. "Don't" is a contraction, which means it takes an apostrophe. An introductory phrase is set off with a comma. The pronoun "I" is always capitalized. The conditional "would" clashes with the declarative "do". A sentence must end with an appropriate mark of punctuation. The disease is spelled "AIDS". You can't ask whether "it" would be "any" problem.

"as an advocate of human dignity in the face of challenges ranging from political repression to AIDS."

"What is the use of 'ranging' here? If I don't use 'ranging', will there be a problem?"

To answer the question, yes, and there is also a problem if you do. Without "ranging", you need a comma: "as an advocate of human dignity in the face of challenges, from political repression to AIDS." The idea that would have been conveyed by the missing "ranging" is understood in this setting. The problem with "ranging" (and the idea of it) is that you need a range, and your two examples are the proverbial apples and oranges. Actually, the parallel is literal—a thing can't range from apples to oranges because the poor reader has to fill in the blank between the two fruits, and what is he supposed to put in there? Same goes for political repression and that politically charged virus.

I can't suggest a revision because only you know what you want to say, but I think I should point out that "challenges" is nebulous.

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