Debates Ideas

[Aiden]

Your topic name: Caring about others
Debate Question: Should people be expected to give sympathy?
Brief Description: Should people have to feel for others? Like if someone dies at a school, should the whole school have to hear about it and be quiet in respect (I mean like walking around school and in general, not like at a funeral or something). I know that's what is expected. Also, should people give sympathy to people who have bad lives (lost money betting now live on street, beat wife/husband and single drunk now, etc)? It might be a nice thing to care, but should the people who don't care that much be called selfish? If ya get meh :L

[-:Undertaker:-]

Opening new debates soon, any ideas before I do? +rep for any interesting or sensible ones!

[Kardan]

Opening new debates soon, any ideas before I do? +rep for any interesting or sensible ones!

Should the new proposed 'Habbox Answers' feature go to the news department or the content department?

On a serious note, just a few ideas, not sure if they've been brought up before:

Should homosexuals be allowed to adopt?
Should parents be able to choose the sex of their child?
Should fat people be charged more? (Plane seats, clothing etc.)
Is smacking your children allowed?
Should the government do more about the illegal downloading of music?
Should polygamy be made legal?
Should the drinking age limit in the UK be raised to 21?

Just a few ideas, most of them are pretty common debates I guess.

[Phil]

Something to do with Men in Childcare would be interesting. When I posted my survey about it for college it seemed like it could spark a good debate

[Empired]

Not sure if we've had this before and I cba to go back looking for something like it.

We could have some sort of debate on whether aliens are real? We were just talking about it in HxHD and I had no idea people had such strong views on it (including myself).

[AgnesIO]

Your topic name: Global Poverty
Debate Question: How should Global Poverty be tackled?
Brief Description: Just looking at what peoples views are on the approaches taken to reduce global poverty, for example through aid, education etc

[Munex]

There're many ideas I can think of, but this is the most original:

Your topic name: Cataloguing From Birth
Debate Question: Should newborns undergo a quick and painless DNA swab to match them to crimes they may commit in the future?
Brief Description: Many people have told me that they would refuse to have their DNA taken. Others argue that the innocent shouldn't have anything to hide.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Thanks for the suggestions, i'll open them up tonight.

I'll go with the suggestions from Munex, Marketing and undecided about others for now.

+rep to all for the suggestions!

[Negativities]

Your topic name: Is abortion murder?
Debate Question: At what point during pregnancy is abortion considered murder?
Brief Description: Daily debates on whether abortion is murder or not. A woman should be able to make decisions of the baby if the baby is incapable of making it's own decisions. At what point do you believe abortion would be considered murder and when is a fetus considered a human? There are many ways people define what a human is, but their are no definite answers due to the diversity of religion and cultures.


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An ex-husband tells his estranged pregnant wife he is going to "stomp it out of her." Is this a case of murder of an unborn child?In 1969, Teresa Keeler, eight months pregnant, was beaten unconscious by her jealous ex-husband, Robert Keeler, who told her during the attack that he was going to "stomp it out of her." Later, at the hospital, Keeler delivered her little girl, who was still born and suffered from a fractured skull.
Prosecutors attempted to charge Robert Keeler with the beating of his wife and for the murder of the fetus, "Baby Girl Vogt" named with her fathers last name.
The California Supreme Court dismissed the charges, saying that only someone born alive could be killed, and that the fetus was not a human being.

Due to public pressure the murder statute was eventually amended to say that murder charges can only apply to fetuses older than seven weeks, or beyond the embryonic stage.

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Do you agree with the court case? Who is to determine that at seven weeks is when they are considered a human being.



Please take into consideration in making this a debate topic. I feel that it will grab a lot of people's attention

[-:Undertaker:-]

I'll be posting some new debates soon over the next day or two, so any ideas? it'd be nice to hear some more unconventional ones rather than the same old of gay marriage, abortion, fostering and so on - although I realise there are only so many topics that will trigger a response from people. We've had a good number of responses to the last three debates posted so it'd be nice to have the same level of engagement repeated.

Any ideas for debates regarding recent news? death of Cory whatshisface and drugs etc? all reasonable ideas will get a +rep from me.