Great Debates

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New Rules for Great Debates and Elections – January 2020 sdmb_rules-and-notes Moderation in Great Debates and Politics and Elections In general, Great Debates and Politics and Elections are the most contentious fora on the SDMB. Because of that, you’ll find that moderation is more active and pro…	0	17725	January 1, 2020
About the Great Debates category	0	4265	April 2, 2021
Thread and Topic Bans for Great Debates sdmb_rules-and-notes	1	12458	November 29, 2020
The story of the Jews escaping slavery in Egypt and wandering the desert is fiction, right?	436	4125	June 17, 2026
How do you respond to ideological disagreements over definitions?	13	107	June 17, 2026
The Male Inequality Problem	889	10262	June 17, 2026
What are UFOs if they're NOT alien spacecraft?	312	6150	June 17, 2026
Are atheists who aren’t materialists truly atheists?	121	1124	June 16, 2026
“Life isn’t fair”: why shouldn’t I get the spoils!	14	266	June 16, 2026
Retirement age public policy considerations	36	336	June 16, 2026
Leave the birthrate alone	310	3076	June 15, 2026
Lying? or just wrong?	31	563	June 14, 2026
Have we reached the point when it is kooky to not believe in massive amounts of intelligent life having evolved throughout the universe?	725	18543	June 14, 2026
Preparing young adults for an uncertain future: education	165	974	June 14, 2026
Representation and how much it has to be just like you (jury selection and other)	65	396	June 12, 2026
How Devastating Are Data Centers to the Local Population?	26	835	June 9, 2026
To what extent can science be repressed once discovered?	33	435	June 9, 2026
Will extremely high temperatures due to climate change actually make parts of the world unlivable climate-change	41	489	June 8, 2026
What would it take to get a general strike going in the United States?	44	499	June 8, 2026
Should sports arenas be left to the private sector?	241	11312	June 5, 2026
Bring back the battleships?	390	61554	June 5, 2026
Resolved: That by the standards we hold today, the American War of Independence was wrong	11	355	June 5, 2026
Is the simplest model the best model?	33	455	June 4, 2026
Confronting racism in oneself	237	1748	June 4, 2026
What are the best refutations of the idea that evil shouldn’t be done to stop worse evil?	76	458	June 3, 2026
What is the best defense of the apartheid-like system Israel enforces in occupied/settled/disputed territories?	172	1067	June 1, 2026
Is sexism stronger than racism in America?	63	757	June 1, 2026
The hidden price of free netflix	47	822	May 31, 2026
Are there "Germany in WWII" historians that discourage any parallels between Hitler and Trump? trump	8	348	May 27, 2026
Every human invention from this point on will only be an improvement or innovation of an existing product	54	631	May 24, 2026

New Rules for Great Debates and Elections – January 2020

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Moderation in Great Debates and Politics and Elections In general, Great Debates and Politics and Elections are the most contentious fora on the SDMB. Because of that, you’ll find that moderation is more active and pro…