Welcome to Spar Debate Topics
Provided here is a list of numerous spar debate topics that can be used to provide an exciting impromptu public speaking and argumentation activity to delegates!
List of Topics
- Lying is sometimes justified
- Foreign languages should be taught in schools
- Animals should not be used for human entertainment
- School uniforms should be required
- Public schools should teach religion
- Animals should be used for medical experiments
- Schools should use corporal punishment on their students
- Television is good for children
- Eating meat is not ethical
- Hunting animals for sport is morally wrong
- Religions have a positive effect on humankind
- Military service should be mandatory
- Terrorism can never be justified
- At times, democracy may have to be imposed
- The wealthy should pay more taxes
- There is no such thing as a just war
- Superheroes are misleading idols
- Jail is the proper punishment for all crimes
- The death penalty should be abolished
- Honesty has no exceptions.
- Voting is a duty and not a right.
- Lowering or eliminating taxes help the economy grow.
- Governments should force drug companies to make life-saving medications cheaper.
- California should declare its independence, and convince neighboring states to join a new Western union.
- Genetically engineering plants is the path to food security.
- The right to bear arms is not necessary in today’s world.
- Abortion is akin to murder and should be outlawed.
- Freedom of the press causes social instability.
- Dictators should be deposed by the democratic nations of the world.
- It is better that nations do not intervene in the affairs of other nations.
- The constitution of the US is outdated and must be re-written.
- That it is unconstitutional for the United States government to appropriate money for the support of private schools (1890).
- That the annexation of any foreign territory is incompatible with the best interests of the United States (1893).
- That an educational qualification for voting should be universally required throughout the United States (1894).
- That a policy of universal military training should be adopted by the United States (1919).
- That the United States should adopt a policy of economic nationalism (1935).
- That the United States should adopt a policy of mandatory neutrality in all wars, declared and undeclared, occurring outside the Western Hemisphere (1938).
- The pen is mightier than the sword (1955).
- The government should guarantee a minimum annual cash income to its citizens (1968).
- A general amnesty should be granted to all U.S. citizens who refused induction into the U.S. armed services or participation in the Vietnam War (1973).
- Media coverage of terrorist acts should be prevented (1986).
- The United States must allow qualified women to hold combat roles in the US military (1999).
- An enlightened dictatorship is better than an unstable democracy.
- Money can buy happiness.
- Boxing is a violent sport that should be banned.
- Art is always political, so public money should not finance any form of art.
- In the United States, prisoners and people convicted of any crime should be allowed to vote.
- Justice is more important than peace.
- The protection of a national identity is a legitimate reason to restrict immigration.
- Criminal justice should focus solely on rehabilitation.
- University education should be free.
- Developed countries have a higher obligation to combat climate change than developing countries.
- Democracy should be spread to all countries.
- Assisted suicide should be legalized in the United States.
- The government should secure the borders and demand that all undocumented immigrants return to their home countries.
- The children of undocumented immigrants do not have the right to public education.
- The myth of Santa Claus is beneficial to children.
- Gender parity is the ultimate measure of gender equality.
- Self-determination of peoples should be a human right.
- This League proposes the banning of all homework.
- Tennessee is correct to pass a law that protects teachers who wish to teach creationism.
- After a revolution, prosecutions are better than amnesties in achieving justice.
- Teens should be able to have plastic surgery without parental consent.
- The gaming world is sexist.
- Sports coaches should be paid as much as teachers.
- Social media makes people more narcissistic.
- Technology makes us more alone.
- Women should be allowed to fight on the frontline with men.
- High schools and middle schools should ban the playing of tackle football because it is too dangerous.