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Debates Ideas
If you have any debate ideas, please post them in this thread! The debates leader will then evaluate whether he thinks the debate is a good one and it may then be used in one of our future official debates.
Please use the following format:
Your topic name:
Debate Question:
Brief Description
The best debates are those that are current and of interest to the forum demographic, something that can appeal to teenagers between the age range of 11-20. Please only post real world ideas for debates, not anything specifically related to Habbo and / or the forum.
Any posts that do not suggest an idea for a debate will be removed, and you will receive a polite PM asking you not to do it again. The thread will also get cleared every now and again by the debates leader, so that more fresh ideas can get posted!
If you make a particularly good suggestion, or your debate gets used - you will receive a 20 reputation points!
Happy Debating :)!
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This one should be good as I've already seen quite a few people debate about this in other threads and they all had different views.
Your topic name: Armed police
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Should a police force be routinely armed?
Brief Description: Discuss whether or not the police force should be armed.
Your topic name: Arranged Marriages
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Should arranged marriages be made illegal?
Brief Description: Discuss whether or not people think arranged marriages are still acceptable in today's society and whether or not they should make them illegal.
Your topic name: Selling human organs
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Should we legalise the sale of human organs?
Brief Description: Discuss whether or not the sale of human organs should be legalised, there are quite a few opinions on this both for and against so it should be quite interesting!
Your topic name: Nuclear weapon testing
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Should we have a total ban on the explosion of nuclear devices for testing purposes? Or should be just abolish all nuclear weapons?
Brief Description: Discuss whether or not nuclear weapon testing should be banned or maybe, even completely abolish them.
Your topic name: Nazi war criminals
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Should we continue to prosecute Nazi war criminals?
Brief Description: Discuss whether or not we should still be prosecuting Nazi war criminals even though the second world war ended 65 years ago? Or are we right in doing so?
Just a couple of good ones that I know of :P
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Your topic name: Is vegetarianism the way forward?
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Should we stop killing animals for food?
Brief Description: Discuss whether we should find another source of protein and whether we should stop killing animals to eat them.
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Your topic name: Confession
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Should information given during confession, relating to crime be reported to the police?
Brief Description: Should information given during confession, relating to crime be reported to the police? or should everything told in confession be kept between the priest and yourself?
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I'm sure this has been debated at some point before I got here, but I just got here sooooo the time old debate.
Your topic name: God or No God?
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: What do you think, is there a God (not a debate on what would be the true god) or is there only science and no higher being
Brief Description: Self explanatory, explain why you think there is or isn't a god.
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One year on, has the Coalition government been good or bad for Britain?
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Your topic name: Nintendo
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: Why's everyone for PS3 or 360, why not Wii
Brief Description: Explanation of why Nintendo got so much hatred
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Your topic name: the use of technology and social media in the recent uk riots.
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise: did social media and the advances in technology regarding social networking (e.g: blackberry messenger, twitter) help or hinder the uk riots of august 2011.
Brief Description: there has been a lot focus in the press about the role of social networking and technology in the recent riots. do you think these mediums helped the criminal rioters/looters group together, organise activity and find the easiest places to loot or did they hinder them: allowing the police to communicate effectively with large regions instantly.
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Your topic name:Striking and Unions
Debate Question/Any other questions you'd like to raise:Should people be allowed to strike without getting fired? Whats your opinion on unions in general?
Brief Description:Just something I've always found interesting. A union is basically the boss of the employer, able to refuse working whenever they want more money.I've seen the power abused in many places and I'm surprised they're still allowed to strike like this.Quoting my mum, "You can't fire a teacher."
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ummm some topics i'd be interested in are:
- adoption
- abortion
- use of technology
- cruelty on animals
- racism
- remember this from a tv show but since like companies like coca cola sponsor the olympic games is this an issue? (dunno if this can even be debated but i guess you could turn it into one)
- television etc. brainwashing people?
- online taking over irl (fb etc.)
