The document presents a comprehensive list of debate topics covering various social, political, and ethical issues. Topics range from the effectiveness of social networking platforms to capital punishment, education reforms, and environmental concerns. Additionally, it encourages engagement with the question of national service and the role of media in shaping societal values.

1. List of Debate Topics
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2. • Social networking platforms: are they an effective tool for quick and
convenient communication, or are they just a sophisticated means for
stalking people
• Modi Vs. No Modi (An Election Like a Referendum)
• Cricket Vs. Other Sports
• States Vs. Union
• Alternative sources of energy: how are they effective

3. • It is unethical to eat meat.
• Growth Vs. Jobs
• A person cannot be whole while most of the world is broken.
• The United States should ban the death penalty.
• A presidential form of government would be better than the current
parliamentary system.

4. • All Americans should be required to provide one year of national
service.
• The United States should close its Guantanamo prison.
• All middle schools should require student uniforms.
• Debating in school: does it help children get engaged in the
classroom?
Which would you choose: to be honest and poor or dishonest and
rich?
• Is there a plausible reason for the American war on terror?

5. • Do you think the death penalty should take place in the modern
world and why?
• Adult-oriented cartoons should only be broadcast on television after
10PM.
• All public high schools should have childcare facilities for their
students on site.
• All public middle schools should have student-run disciplinary courts.
• A democracy without effective citizenry for large sections of the
political community is democracy only for the few.

6. • All schools should provide students with music and art education.
• Animals should not be used for entertainment.
• Anyone who watches five days of cricket should be declared brain
death.
• Are the Olympic Games a waste of money?
• Development that sustains the present inequalities is undesirable.

7. • Arranged marriages are better than ‘love’ marriage.
• Diet Pills Should be banned
• Asian Oyster seeding in the Chesapeake Bay should be banned.
• Ban boxing!
• Cellular phones should be allowed in schools.

8. • Ban plastic bags in grocery stores.
• Development programs hardly ever benefit the poor.
• Being unwanted is the most terrible of diseases.
• All students should be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
American military involvement in Iraq has done more good than
harm.
• Birth control/education in schools BU should be a “wet” campus

9. • Boys are higher achievers than girls.
• Businesses should not place advertisements in schools.
• Cable TV has done more damage than good.
• Campaign finance reform Capital punishment
• Money is the biggest motivator of people at the workplace.

10. • Capital punishment is unjust and degrading.
• Capital punishment should be banned by the United States federal
government.
• Celebrities should not be role models.
• Cigarettes should be illegal.
• Americans should not be allowed to burn the United States flag as an
act of free speech.

11. • Animal performances should be banned in circuses.
• Middle schools should have student lockers.
• Money is more important than love.
• College athletes should be paid.
• Credit cards do more harm than good.
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