Most interesting debate topics.

[an anarchist]

TL;DR
What are your all time favorite debate topics?

I am a "young" man at the ripe age of 25. Compared to the lot here, I have not been debating religion and philosophy and the like that long. Some of you joined this very forum while I was barely a first grader.

I do fear that some debate topics have already been debated so thoroughly that older members and folk tend to stray away from them now. A while back I saw someone in a forum conversation say that the topic of free will has been discussed to death. So the member exited the conversation when the topic turned to that. As a younger reader, that made me sad, as I became intrigued by the topic of whether there is truly free will, or if everything is predetermined and we are always acting on biological impulses.

Now I wonder what other topics there are that were once often discussed on this site, but discussed no longer.

So that brings me back to the topic of the thread.

What are your favorite debate topics? Its alright if it has been discussed to death.

For me, it's the Problem of Evil. The debate on that topic is what led me to disregard disregard the Bible as divine. But I have also seen people stray away from that topic, myself included, because at least for a time it was very heavily discussed on this site.

 

[Heyo]

TL;DR
What are your all time favorite debate topics?

I am a "young" man at the ripe age of 25. Compared to the lot here, I have not been debating religion and philosophy and the like that long. Some of you joined this very forum while I was barely a first grader.

I do fear that some debate topics have already been debated so thoroughly that older members and folk tend to stray away from them now. A while back I saw someone in a forum conversation say that the topic of free will has been discussed to death. So the member exited the conversation when the topic turned to that. As a younger reader, that made me sad, as I became intrigued by the topic of whether there is truly free will, or if everything is predetermined and we are always acting on biological impulses.

Now I wonder what other topics there are that were once often discussed on this site, but discussed no longer.

So that brings me back to the topic of the thread.

What are your favorite debate topics? Its alright if it has been discussed to death.

For me, it's the Problem of Evil. The debate on that topic is what led me to disregard disregard the Bible as divine. But I have also seen people stray away from that topic, myself included, because at least for a time it was very heavily discussed on this site.

First let me answer with my debated-to-death list:

• Abortion
• Bible (or other scripture) is scientifically accurate
• Capitalism vs communism/socialism
• Circumcision
• Does god exist
• Evolution vs creationism
• Free will
• Guns
• Trump

I can't always restrain myself and sometimes I think it is important to present a different view / make fun of the proponents, especially with creationism, but I try to stay away.

Things I'm still interested in even so some of them have been discussed frequently:

• All things science and futurism
• All things philosophy, even some of the "eternal questions"

The "eternal questions" become interesting again when someone has a new angle to view them. But all too often it is just a repeat and I'd like to throw a book at them (or video, Wikipedia link, old thread) to bring them up to speed for an informed debate.

 

[JustGeorge]

I'm more of a discusser than debater. But!

I do like unique debates, or between smaller groups of people. I can't pin them down exactly by topic, but seeing specific debates are sometimes fun. Basically, anything that can't degrade into whether God/s exist/or not, or when it falls into the "lets argue Abrahamic concepts". That's usually when I'll leave something that looked interesting initially.

 

[Quintessence]

Like JustGeorge, I'm really not into debates. The whole "need to be right not just for me but also for thee" is just not my thing. It just ignores the merit and validity of the experiences of others, which aside from being disrespectful is also just incredibly boring. There's too much richness in diversity to be singing the same song.

Debates that get into the actual substance of the gods are great. Not the callow "are gods real" (uh, obviously?) but "how do different peoples and culture understand the nature of the gods" and "how do different cultural understanding of gods reflect the uniqueness of those cultures and their environments" types of questions. You know, debates that understand arts and culture aren't sciences, that mythos isn't logos, and that relationships can't be boiled down to numbers on a spreadsheet?