Wikidebate
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Wikidebate is a collaborative learning project to compile and organize all positions, arguments and objections on controversial topics. It's not a place to defend your preferred points of view, but original arguments are allowed and welcome.

DebatesEdit
Law and civil rightsEdit
- Should cannabis be legal?
- Should suicide be legal?
- Should abortion be legal?
- Should capital punishment be legal?
- Should voluntary euthanasia be legal?
- Should animal testing be legal?
- Should same-sex marriage be legal?
- Should polygamy be legal?
- Should infanticide be legal?
- Should universal basic income be established?
- Should mentally ill people be allowed to have children?
- Should civilians be prohibited from owning firearms?
- Should the monarchy in the UK be abolished?
- Should sex change operations be guided by mental health specialists or psychologists?
ScienceEdit
- Should we colonize Mars?
- Should we use nuclear energy?
- Are humans omnivores or herbivores?
- Is there intelligent extraterrestrial life in the Milky Way?
- Are humans the main cause of global warming?
- Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels?
- Are natural resources finite?
- Is colonization of Mars in this century realistic?
- Are axioms definitions in disguise?
PhilosophyEdit
- Do humans have free will?
- Is morality objective?
- Does everything happen for a sufficient reason?
- Does an individual have a responsibility to maintain a community?
- Does objective reality exist?
- Do living things on Earth have a purpose?
- Do natural resources exist?
- Is philosophy any good?
- Is slavery good?
- Should Mill's harm principle be accepted?
CultureEdit
- Should we go vegan?
- Is capitalism sustainable?
- Is a world government desirable?
- Is collapse of the global civilization before year 2100 likely?
- Is Paleo diet a good thing?
- Should Mein Kampf be banned?
- Are metaphors a good thing?
- Should it be legal for social media to censor harmful misinformation?
- Should cryptocurrencies be banned?
- Who is Satoshi Nakamoto?
- Should the world adopt a one-child policy?
- Should we aim to reduce the Earth population?
WarEdit
- Was 9/11 an inside job?
- Does nuclear power lead to nuclear weapons?
- Is aggressive war of territorial expansion good?
- Did the United States need to use atomic weapons to end World War II?
- Should the United States have developed the nuclear weapon?
- Is the 2022 Russian military operation in Ukraine justified?
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022?
ReligionEdit
- Does God exist?
- Does religion do more harm than good?
- Does the Catholic Church do more harm than good?
MetaEdit
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3 February 2023
- Does God exist? 09:37 +141 2601:981:8180:5c60:64a4:5418:93ba:10a1 discuss (Add objection: *God* is merely subjective to interpretation. With that logic, you can’t disprove my version of God, so it is correct. ) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- Was 9/11 an inside job? 07:43 +5,445 Dan Polansky discuss contribs (revert: the page is not excessively long so there is no reason to remove "too long arguments"; more nuance, care and sensitivity is required during editorializing) Tag: Manual revert
1 February 2023
- Should universal basic income be established? 10:58 +81 Dan Polansky discuss contribs (revert edits that do not constitute objective improvements but rather are based on someone's subjective considerations on what is too long etc.; subjective editorializing by someone who contributes little or no substance is problematic) Tag: Manual revert
- Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels? 10:56 +72 Dan Polansky discuss contribs (revert; as an author of the substance of the debate, I am not interested in arbitrary and therefore not necessarily objectively good reordering) Tag: Manual revert
- Are natural resources finite? 10:53 −216 Dan Polansky discuss contribs (restore version before a series of edits that removed allegedly invalid arguments; removal of invalid arguments by a redlinked user is unacceptable; even invalid arguments may be worth debating; readding expansions is an option; we may use talk page to debate whether anything can be removed, and remove it based on consensus) Tag: Manual revert
30 January 2023
- Should suicide be legal? 09:06 +365 2600:8802:2607:f000:b99f:fe31:cfcd:ade7 discuss (Add objection: Punishing someone who attempted suicide and failed would the most cruel and Sadistic act a government could perform, they already don't want to live because of the horrible conditions of their lives and you want them to be FORCED to continue living in even worse conditions? That would only prove their decision to commit suicide to be justified.) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
28 January 2023
- Should suicide be legal? 12:55 +111 2601:18c:cd80:ced0:11b:c8f2:161f:d012 discuss (Add objection: Suicide is a decision, and not murder. Murder is the killing of another person from a person) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
27 January 2023
- Are natural resources finite? 22:36 −411 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments against: Arguments for: The debate was tidied up, repeated arguments were eliminated and similar ones were combined.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Are natural resources finite? 22:30 +996 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments for: Argument for added.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Are natural resources finite? 22:24 +527 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments against: Debate was ordered. Condensed arguments were splitted) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Are natural resources finite? 22:10 −1,264 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments for: Invalid arguments for were deleted) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- m Are natural resources finite? 21:59 +368 Danib93 discuss contribs (The introductory paragraph was clarified) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels? 21:54 −306 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments against: Debate was ordered. Condensed arguments were splitted) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels? 20:05 +121 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments against: Arguments were added. Condensed arguments were divided) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels? 19:57 +369 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Electric cars can significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels: Objections added.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- m Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels? 19:51 −69 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments for) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- m Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels? 19:43 −6 Danib93 discuss contribs Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Can electric cars significantly help humanity get off fossil fuels? 19:42 −181 Danib93 discuss contribs (Debate´s structure was ordered.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Should universal basic income be established? 19:26 −565 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Arguments against: Too long arguments were condensed. Debate was ordered) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- m Should universal basic income be established? 19:09 +95 Danib93 discuss contribs (→Universal basic income should be established) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- m Should universal basic income be established? 19:00 +389 Danib93 discuss contribs Tags: Reverted Visual edit
- Should we colonize Mars? 17:27 +108 181.61.209.156 discuss (Add objection: Having extraterrestrial resources could help us preserve better our planet's resources.)
See alsoEdit
- Wikidebate/Guidelines - Some wisdom on how to wikidebate
- Category:Wikidebates - Category containing all wikidebates
- Wikidebate/Preload - Preload for new wikidebates
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