HTH

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Note added at 6 mins (2008-02-15 16:03:55 GMT)
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These common place arguments are notions such as public interest, independent will, and giving to each their own.

This is how I would translate that sentence to make it sound natural in EN
"to each their own" is a well-know expression.

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Note added at 4 hrs (2008-02-15 20:27:00 GMT) Post-grading
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FROM FERNANDO'S LINK:

The alternative to the masculine generic with the longest and most distinguished history in English is the third-person plural pronoun. Recognized writers have used they, them, themselves, and their to refer to singular nouns such as one, a person, an individual, and each since the 1300s. For example, in 1759 the Earl of Chesterfield wrote, “If a person is born of a…gloomy temper…they cannot help it,” and, echoing this sentiment, W. M. Thackeray wrote in Vanity Fair in 1848, “A person can’t help their birth.”