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	17782	January 1, 2020
About the Great Debates category	0	4289	April 2, 2021
Thread and Topic Bans for Great Debates sdmb_rules-and-notes	1	12543	November 29, 2020
"Christianophobia" - is there a double standard in the way Christianity is treated?	126	939	September 10, 2026
AIs have passed the Turing Test	196	1504	September 9, 2026
Should sports arenas be left to the private sector?	256	11797	September 9, 2026
Is there any amount of immigration, legal illegal either both, that is too much?	217	1804	September 9, 2026
How would you respond to the deferential wife scenario?	131	1924	September 9, 2026
Why doesn’t Stalin’s version of communism work? “From each according to their abilities, to each according to their labor?”	133	1415	September 9, 2026
AI pornography that is otherwise illegal	65	893	September 8, 2026
What are UFOs if they're NOT alien spacecraft?	540	9044	September 6, 2026
Is U.S. war policy encouraging the world to go nuclear? The future of proliferation.	21	1024	September 4, 2026
Isn't today's low birth rate exactly what people of the 1980s were clamoring for?	132	1419	September 4, 2026
Your thoughts on whether a limited nuclear exchange is possible and/or feasible	49	747	September 3, 2026
According to you, what is the meaning of life?	78	643	September 1, 2026
The US will not rise up against an authoritarian leader	93	1876	August 31, 2026
Could drones make manual small arms obsolete?	54	927	August 29, 2026
Confronting racism in oneself	274	2766	August 26, 2026
What responsibility does a group/category of stereotyped people have to change their behavior so they don't get stereotyped?	17	362	August 25, 2026
How do you respond to ideological disagreements over definitions?	33	718	August 25, 2026
Questions for Christians	163	2292	August 25, 2026
The use of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was it justified?	245	3002	August 23, 2026
Retirement age public policy considerations	41	677	August 23, 2026
What is the best defense of the apartheid-like system Israel enforces in occupied/settled/disputed territories?	307	2748	August 22, 2026
Where would Trump go if he accepted electoral defeat? trump	89	1657	August 17, 2026
The Malvinas/Falklands in Argentine culture and politics middle-earth , football-soccer-fifa , trump	50	840	August 14, 2026
Is sexism stronger than racism in America?	70	1211	August 11, 2026
Have tech entrepreneurs become Bond villains?	10	243	August 11, 2026
Unified Field Theorem	31	379	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	19668	August 8, 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…