Wikidebate
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Wikidebate is a collaborative learning project to gather and organize all arguments on controversial issues. It's not a place to defend your preferred points of view, but original arguments are allowed and welcome.
Debates[edit | edit source]
Law and civil rights[edit | edit source]
- 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?
Science[edit | edit source]
- 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?
Philosophy[edit | edit source]
- 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?
Culture[edit | edit source]
- 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?
- Should we not watch pornography?
War[edit | edit source]
- 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?
- Should Ukraine go from recognizing the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) to recognizing the ROC (Republic of China, i.e. Taiwan)?
Religion[edit | edit source]
- Does God exist?
- Does religion do more harm than good?
- Does the Catholic Church do more harm than good?
Meta[edit | edit source]
- Should we use the debate algorithm on wikidebates?
- Should we merge all WikiJournals into one?
- Are wikidebates a good thing?
- Is Wikipedia consensus process good?
- Should we have a Wikiversity specific discord server?
Recent changes[edit | edit source]
List of abbreviations:
- D
- Wikidata edit
- N
- This edit created a new page (also see list of new pages)
- m
- This is a minor edit
- b
- This edit was performed by a bot
- (±123)
- The page size changed by this number of bytes
- Temporarily watched page
21 September 2023
- Should capital punishment be legal? 15:09 +236 93.173.84.44 discuss (this is just my personal opinion. get to your senses, everyone)
20 September 2023
- Should we colonize Mars? 22:37 −33,476 Sophivorus discuss contribs (Please see Wikidebate/Guidelines) Tag: Undo
- Should we colonize Mars? 20:10 +33,476 195.192.195.234 discuss (Fixed the page again. Don't try, I have the macro-moral high grounds.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
19 September 2023
- Should we colonize Mars? 11:24 −31,445 Sophivorus discuss contribs (Undo revision 2557502 by 195.192.195.234 (talk) See Wikidebate/Guidelines) Tag: Undo
- Should we go vegan? 09:20 −56 187.4.124.202 discuss (Delete objection: And they'd still be delicious, too.)
- Should we colonize Mars? 07:48 +31,445 195.192.195.234 discuss (I once and for all time resolved the decision problem using utilitarian macro-ethical arguments.) Tags: Reverted Visual edit
18 September 2023
- Are humans omnivores or herbivores? 23:29 −123 187.4.124.202 discuss (→Arguments: removed opinion part of argumeent) Tag: Visual edit
- Are humans omnivores or herbivores? 23:24 −1 187.4.124.202 discuss (Edit objection: Cancer, especially colorectal cancer has a very well studied pattern of progression, with accumulation of mutations and progressive worsening of dysplasia, a process that takes time and thus a disease that is associated with old age. This makes it not relevant for evolution purposes. In most of humanity’s existence span, getting enough calories, not starving or being killed by predators were the definitin factors for survival, not cancer.)
- Are humans omnivores or herbivores? 23:24 +1 187.4.124.202 discuss (Edit objection: Cancer, especially colorectal cancer has a very well studied pattern of progression, with accumulation of mutations and progressive worsening of dysplasia, a process that takes time and thus a disease that is associated with old age. This makes it not relevant for evolution purposes. In most of humanity’s existence span, getting enough calories, not starving or being killed by predators were the definiting factors for survival, not cancer.)
- Are humans omnivores or herbivores? 23:23 +119 187.4.124.202 discuss (Add objection: Humans do sometimes eat raw meat, as evidenced by dishes like sushi and steak tartare, to name a few)
- Does religion do more harm than good? 21:04 −26 Atcovi discuss contribs (not really an objection) Tag: Undo
- Does religion do more harm than good? 18:29 +26 206.162.156.196 discuss (Add objection: shut up) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:57 +906 Quinlan83 discuss contribs (Revert to a stable version: the IP was contacted on his talk and ignored the message) Tag: Manual revert
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:49 −231 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit objection: russia will not do anything bad) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:49 −268 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit objection: free tate) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:39 −1 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit objection: well thats the reason why ukraine will lose russia is a massive w lead by putin the goat there is no chance that ukraine will win unless the ukrainian presisdent is h.i.m) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:38 −406 82.16.17.35 discuss (Add objection: well thats the reason why ukraine will lose more russiais a massive w lead by putin the goat there is no chance that ukraine will win unless the ukrainian presisdent is h.i.m) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:30 +598 Quinlan83 discuss contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 82.16.17.35 (talk): Stop, thanks (TwinkleGlobal)) Tag: Undo
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:28 −598 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit objection: russia biggest w ever we love putin) Tag: Reverted
- m Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:28 +497 Quinlan83 discuss contribs (Undid edits by 82.16.17.35 (talk) to last version by Quinlan83) Tags: Undo SWViewer [1.4]
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:27 −488 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit objection: all lives will be lost come on russia we love russia) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:26 −100 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit objection: l) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:23 +91 82.16.17.35 discuss (Add objection: russia massive w and ukraine massive skill issue) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:20 −25 Quinlan83 discuss contribs (Restored revision 2548156 by Dan Polansky (talk): Rb (TwinkleGlobal)) Tag: Undo
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:20 +5 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit objection: It may result in many Ukrainians losing their lives anyway, and maybe even more lives long-term.ratio) Tag: Reverted
- Should Ukraine surrender to Russia in 2022? 08:19 +20 82.16.17.35 discuss (Edit argument: If Ukraine surrenders, it will save many Ukrainian lives and prevent of lot of damage to country infrastructure including civilian buildings. Given the amount of missiles that Russia can fire at Ukraine, it is very unclear whether Ukraine can defend itself. And if Russia is truly determined to take Ukraine, they may use tactical nuclear weapons as well. It all depends on how much sane or reckless those in Russia that are in power are. Fighting a nuclear superpower is a very unc...) Tag: Reverted
17 September 2023
- m Should cannabis be legal? 13:44 +3 MathXplore discuss contribs (removed Category:Drugs; added Category:Cannabis using HotCat)
- m Does God exist? 13:40 −5 MathXplore discuss contribs (removed Category:Religion; added Category:God using HotCat)
- Does God exist? 13:27 −152 Sophivorus discuss contribs (→Arguments: Remove unnecessary objections)
- Deletion log 05:04 Koavf discuss contribs changed visibility of a revision on page Was 9/11 an inside job?: content hidden and edit summary hidden
16 September 2023
- Does God exist? 15:49 +51 FloertingBurt discuss contribs (Add objection: That is not what Ad-hominem is.)
- Does God exist? 15:49 +51 FloertingBurt discuss contribs (Add objection: That is not what Ad-hominem is.)
15 September 2023
- Does objective reality exist? 20:50 +187 86.20.244.84 discuss (Add objection: Perhaps thoughts are influenced or contrived like any other sense and so therefore prove unreliable too. Descartes himself considered this possibility in later writing.)
- Does objective reality exist? 20:48 +96 86.20.244.84 discuss (Add objection: Just because they are unlikely or unproven doesn't mean they are implausible.)
See also[edit | edit source]
- Wikidebate/Guidelines - Some wisdom on how to wikidebate
- Category:Wikidebates - Category containing all wikidebates
- Wikidebate/Preload - Preload for new wikidebates
- Pageviews - Traffic last month