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	17777	January 1, 2020
About the Great Debates category	0	4288	April 2, 2021
Thread and Topic Bans for Great Debates sdmb_rules-and-notes	1	12541	November 29, 2020
AIs have passed the Turing Test	160	1213	September 6, 2026
What are UFOs if they're NOT alien spacecraft?	540	8974	September 6, 2026
Why doesn’t Stalin’s version of communism work? “From each according to their abilities, to each according to their labor?”	104	1188	September 6, 2026
Is U.S. war policy encouraging the world to go nuclear? The future of proliferation.	21	1009	September 4, 2026
Is there any amount of immigration, legal illegal either both, that is too much?	196	1622	September 4, 2026
Isn't today's low birth rate exactly what people of the 1980s were clamoring for?	132	1371	September 4, 2026
How would you respond to the deferential wife scenario?	120	1733	September 3, 2026
Your thoughts on whether a limited nuclear exchange is possible and/or feasible	49	743	September 3, 2026
According to you, what is the meaning of life?	78	635	September 1, 2026
The US will not rise up against an authoritarian leader	93	1869	August 31, 2026
Should sports arenas be left to the private sector?	244	11669	August 29, 2026
Could drones make manual small arms obsolete?	54	922	August 29, 2026
Confronting racism in oneself	274	2721	August 26, 2026
What responsibility does a group/category of stereotyped people have to change their behavior so they don't get stereotyped?	17	354	August 25, 2026
How do you respond to ideological disagreements over definitions?	33	711	August 25, 2026
Questions for Christians	163	2268	August 25, 2026
The use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was it justified?	245	2921	August 23, 2026
Retirement age public policy considerations	41	672	August 23, 2026
What is the best defense of the apartheid-like system Israel enforces in occupied/settled/disputed territories?	307	2635	August 22, 2026
Where would Trump go if he accepted electoral defeat? trump	89	1648	August 17, 2026
The Malvinas/Falklands in Argentine culture and politics middle-earth , football-soccer-fifa , trump	50	832	August 14, 2026
Is sexism stronger than racism in America?	70	1208	August 11, 2026
Have tech entrepreneurs become Bond villains?	10	240	August 11, 2026
Unified Field Theorem	31	377	August 10, 2026
Have we reached the point when it is kooky to not believe in massive amounts of intelligent life having evolved throughout the universe?	758	19501	August 8, 2026
The story of the Jews escaping slavery in Egypt and wandering the desert is fiction, right?	452	5137	August 6, 2026
Is the Modern Economy Pushing Ordinary People Toward Gambling?	59	969	August 6, 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…