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Borrowed from a college professor who opened every class with a question worth debating — no easy outs, no changing the premise. Pick a side, vote, and make your case.

If you replace every part of a ship, is it still the same ship?

Oct 15, 2026Mind & philosophy

At what point does one person's freedom start costing everyone else theirs?

Oct 12, 2026Politics & society

Should billionaires exist?

Oct 12, 2026Politics & society

Would you rather know the date of your death or the cause?

Oct 12, 2026Life & happiness

Would you take a pill that guarantees lifelong happiness but erases your memory of everyone you love?

Oct 12, 2026Life & happiness

Are people inherently good or inherently evil?

Sep 16, 2026Ethics & morality

Do differences make the world stronger or weaker as a whole?

Sep 13, 2026Politics & society

Every website free but tracking and selling your data, or every website paid but keeping your data completely private — which internet do you want?

Sep 13, 2026Technology & privacy

What is the single most important invention or discovery of all time?

Sep 13, 2026Technology & privacy

Is it better to lead with logic or with intuition and emotion?

Sep 13, 2026Mind & philosophy

Should every citizen be legally required to vote, or is the right to not participate just as important as the right to vote?

Sep 13, 2026Politics & society

Unlimited money but almost no free time, or unlimited free time but only enough money to get by — which life do you pick?

Sep 13, 2026Life & happiness

Would you rather be the smartest person in every room you ever enter, or the happiest?

Sep 13, 2026Life & happiness

Total surveillance with zero crime, or total privacy with crime exactly as it is today?

Sep 13, 2026Technology & privacy

Total anarchy or total tyranny — which do you choose?

Sep 11, 2026Politics & society