1. List of Debate Topics
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2. • Social networking platforms: are they an effective tool for quick and
convenient communication, or are they just a sophisticated means for
stalking people
• Modi Vs. No Modi (An Election Like a Referendum)
• Cricket Vs. Other Sports
• States Vs. Union
• Alternative sources of energy: how are they effective
3. • It is unethical to eat meat.
• Growth Vs. Jobs
• A person cannot be whole while most of the world is broken.
• The United States should ban the death penalty.
• A presidential form of government would be better than the current
parliamentary system.
4. • All Americans should be required to provide one year of national
service.
• The United States should close its Guantanamo prison.
• All middle schools should require student uniforms.
• Debating in school: does it help children get engaged in the
classroom?
Which would you choose: to be honest and poor or dishonest and
rich?
• Is there a plausible reason for the American war on terror?
5. • Do you think the death penalty should take place in the modern
world and why?
• Adult-oriented cartoons should only be broadcast on television after
10PM.
• All public high schools should have childcare facilities for their
students on site.
• All public middle schools should have student-run disciplinary courts.
• A democracy without effective citizenry for large sections of the
political community is democracy only for the few.
6. • All schools should provide students with music and art education.
• Animals should not be used for entertainment.
• Anyone who watches five days of cricket should be declared brain
death.
• Are the Olympic Games a waste of money?
• Development that sustains the present inequalities is undesirable.
7. • Arranged marriages are better than ‘love’ marriage.
• Diet Pills Should be banned
• Asian Oyster seeding in the Chesapeake Bay should be banned.
• Ban boxing!
• Cellular phones should be allowed in schools.
8. • Ban plastic bags in grocery stores.
• Development programs hardly ever benefit the poor.
• Being unwanted is the most terrible of diseases.
• All students should be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
American military involvement in Iraq has done more good than
harm.
• Birth control/education in schools BU should be a “wet” campus
9. • Boys are higher achievers than girls.
• Businesses should not place advertisements in schools.
• Cable TV has done more damage than good.
• Campaign finance reform Capital punishment
• Money is the biggest motivator of people at the workplace.
10. • Capital punishment is unjust and degrading.
• Capital punishment should be banned by the United States federal
government.
• Celebrities should not be role models.
• Cigarettes should be illegal.
• Americans should not be allowed to burn the United States flag as an
act of free speech.
11. • Animal performances should be banned in circuses.
• Middle schools should have student lockers.
• Money is more important than love.
• College athletes should be paid.
• Credit cards do more harm than good.
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