Debate Topics

·  K-12 schools should ban junk food sales.

·  Medical testing on animals does more good than harm.

·  School vouchers should be allowed.

·  The U S Government subsidy of the arts should end.

·  Corporal punishment of children should be illegal.

·  The United States should close its Guantanamo prison.

·  Middle schools should have mandatory drug testing for participation in extracurricular activities.

·  Food aid does more harm than good.

·  Cell phones should be allowed in schools.

·  The United States of America should rely on alternative energy sources instead of fossil fuels.

·  Television is a bad influence on children.

·  All schools should provide students with music and art education.

·  The federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina was appropriate.

·  American intervention in Iraq has done more good than harm.

·  Governor Schwarzenegger has been good for California.

·  Congress should pass the "Clear Skies" initiative .

·  Homework should be banned.

·  California should raise the driving age to 18.

·  The legal system should have the option to charge juveniles as adults in murder cases.

·  The United States should ban the death penalty.

·  Classrooms should have closed-circuit cameras.

·  Russia is more an enemy than an ally of the United States.

·  California should make it mandatory for citizens to vote in elections .

·  In this case, Grand Theft Auto is more responsible than Devin Moore for the crime.

·  The United States should amend the Constitution to allow foreign born citizens to serve as President.

·  The United States should have a draft for military service.

·  California high schools should substantially expand vocational training .

·  Beauty pageants do more harm than good.

·  The United States should expand its use of nuclear power.

·  Stem cell research should be expanded.

·  Fast food restaurants do more harm than good.

·  Schools should provide for single sex instruction.

·  Junior high and high schools should randomly test their athletes for drug use.

·  Physician-assisted suicide should be legalized.

·  The United States should sign and ratify the Kyoto Protocol.

·  The US should eliminate farm subsidies.

·  Zoos do more harm than good.

·  Fried foods should have warning labels.

·  The District of Columbia Curfew law(The Juvenile Curfew Act of 1995 (DC Code 6-2181)) does more harm than good.

·  Professional athletes should be role models.

·  The French government should permit students to wear visible religious symbols in state schools.

·  The atomic bombing of Hiroshima was justified.

·  Wal-Mart is good for America.

·  Algebra should not be required for high school graduation.

·  Businesses should not place advertisements in schools.

·  It is unethical to eat meat.

·  In the case of student lockers, school safety is more important than student privacy.

·  The No Child Left Behind Act has done more good than harm.

·  Fossil fuels are easily replaced.

·  Single sex schools are better for students than co-ed schools in grades K-12.

·  Repeal the Military Commissions Act.

·  The President of the United States should be elected by the direct vote of the people.

·  The U. S. should end the embargo on Cuba.

·  There should be year-round schooling for students in grades K-12.

1. Debate:Does God punish sinners for eternity?
2. Debate: Should certain books be banned from libraries?
3. Debate: Is communism founded on Christian doctrine?
4. Debate:Should the first story of creation be read allegorically or literally?
5. Debate:Is Scientology a false religion?
6. Debate:Why do Moses, Ezra, Jesus, and Paul all disagree on divorce?
7. Debate:Did Jesus ever claim to be God?
8. Debate:Grave errors/inconsistencies in the Bible make literal translation worthless.
9. Debate:Was Jesus born in the right time and place?
10. Girls are more meritorious than boys.
11. Debate:If God does not exist, can anything be morally wrong?
12. Debate:Did God create evil?
13. Debate:Which Christian denomination is the most true to the central teachings of Christianity?
14. Debate:If Jesus were alive to day, where on the political spectrum would he fall?
15. Debate:Should Religion Play a Large Role in Modern Societies?
16. Debate:Does the Bible (Old and the New Testament) have the infallible words of God?
17. Debate:Antisemitism
18. Debate:Does Intelligent Design deny the Existence of God?
19. Debate:Could God create a rock so heavy that he himself could not lift it?
20. Debate:What is the relationship between religion and the human tendency to kill each other?
21. Debate:Natural Disaster versus Act of God
22. Debate:What is the Sabbath day?
23. Debate:Is it possible to be a conservative and not a religious person or even an atheist?
24. Debate:Why do we still perform Baptisms?
25. Debate:Does the Resurrection negate Gods Sacrifice of his only son?
26. Debate:If most Muslims learned their religion from their parents, just like us Christians, they will probably be hard to convert. So what can we do to save their souls?
27. Debate:If most Christians learned their religion from their parents, just like us Muslims, they will probably be hard to convert. So what can we do to save their souls?
28. Debate:Does mainstream Islam endorse violence?
29. Debate:Is religion morally wrong?
30. Debate:Does the Bible display poor ethics and morals?
31. Debate:What makes the Bible a reliable source of knowledge besides tradition?
32. Debate:Why should we be afraid of God?
33. Debate:Do conservative Christians have an unquestioning faith which is comparable to that of the Party in the book 1984?
34. Debate:Antisemitism
35. Debate:Are Christianity and the Bible superior to other religions and scriptures?
36. Debate:Is "Coercive Interrogation" consistent with Christian Values?
37. Debate:Should all access to Conservapedia be banned on Sundays?
38. Debate:Mary Magdalene - First Witness to the Resurrection - Significance?
39. Debate:Was Christ a fundamentalist?
40. Debate:Atheism vs. Deism
41. Debate:Atheism vs. Pastafarianism
42. Debate:Why is homosexuality so bad?
43. Debate:Are Young Earth Creationists detracting others from the Faith?
44. Debate:Would the Flood and Noah's Ark cause inbreeding?
45. Debate:Is there 1 God or are there many gods?
46. Debate: Can you be a true Christian and believe in evolution?
47. Debate:Should gay marriage be allowed?
48. Debate:Is atheism a religion?
49. Debate: If not naturalism, how do we decide which supernatural explanation is correct?
50. Debate: Are Catholics Christians?
51. Debate: Do Atheist believe they have a soul?
52. Debate:Were Judas' actions necessary and foreordained?
53. Debate: Is it possible to voluntarily convert one's religion?
54. Debate: Can Christianity exist without Apostles and Prophets?
55. Debate: What do you think about the violence in the Bible?
56. Debate: Could Christian denominations exist without the Catholic Church?
57. Debate: Which version of the Bible should be used as the authoritative reference on Conservapedia?
58. Debate: Should Christians celebrate Christmas?
59. Debate:Either God is indecisive or the world's major religions have ALL got it wrong
60. Debate:Creationist
61. Debate:Did Joan of Arc truly hear voices?
62. Debate:Do ALL suicides go to hell?
63. Debate:Epicurus' Trilemma
64. Debate: Why does God care if we worship Him or not? Is it His ego?
65. Debate: Can God explain all of the conspiracy theories and all other phenonmena?
66. Debate:If intelligent design is just as valid as evolution, where are all their scientific findings and publishings?
67. Debate:Does Darwinian natural selection suggest that bigotry is a necessary self-defense mechanism?
68. Debate:Does Darwinian natural selection suggest that homosexuality is bad for the survival of a species?
69. Debate:Is Darwinian natural selection compatible with Marxism?
70. Debate:Is the theory of macroevolution true?
71. Debate:Is Giving Birth the Bible Way Better?
72. Debate:Should Creationism/Intelligent design be taught as a scientific alternative to evolution in public schools?
73. Debate:Is global warming evident, and if so, is this the fault of man, and how must man stop it?
74. Debate:If the universe is young and it takes light millions of years to reach us from far off stars, how can we see them?
75. Debate:God, Earth and Global Warming
76. Is the evidence in favor of evolution convincing?
77. Debate:If the Bible didn't contain a creation story, would anyone even consider the idea of a young earth?
78. Debate:Is Relativity in direct conflict with the Genesis account?
79. Debate:Who feels that scientific related articles should only reference published research papers instead of websites when dealing with research instead of application?
80. Debate:If it could be unambiguously demonstrated that man is NOT the most evolved animal
81. Debate:Why are God's works always questioned?
82. Debate:Are there any elements of choice
83. Debate:Listing the Earth's most pressing needs in urgent order of fixing
84. Debate:Is homosexuality a mental illness?
85. Debate:Can the science of evolution be separated from the philosophy of it?

86.  1. Should school students face a mandatory drug test?

87.  2. Should the African Union copy the European Union cooperation model?

88.  3. Should students be required to wear a school uniform?

89.  4. Are the Olympic Games a waste of money? Or other debate speech topics on huge sports events.

90.  5. Should all African conflicts be handled by African countries themselves, and not by third parties?

91.  6. Is our nation still unprepared for disasters? Or other debate topic themes about safety.

92.  7. Should school prayer be prohibited?

93.  8. Should skateboards be prohibited on sidewalks?

94.  9. Should minorities be treated differentially?

95.  10. Should the age to vote be reduced to 16?

96.  11. Should 16 year old people be allowed to get a tattoo? Or other speech ideas on for example ear and body part piercings?

97.  12. Should the Double Jeopardy Rule - nobody can be tried twice for the same offence - be abolished?

98.  13. Could a President serve for more than two terms?

99.  14. Should the use of animals in sports and entertainment be banned?

100.                      15. Should there be a curfew for people under 18 years to reduce crime?

101.                      16. Does Hollywood movies have a bad influence on the world?

102.                      17. Should homework assignments be limited to a maximum of three nights a week?

103.                      18. Do school autorities have the right to search students’ lockers? Or other education related debate topic issues.

104.                      19. Do adopted children have the right to know who their biological parents are?

105.                      20. Should there be a green tax on aviation fuel?

106.                      21. Should factory farming of chickens be banned?

107.                      22. Are certain persuasive issues not appropriate for debate speech topics?

List of 200+ Persuasive Speech Ideas

Find a persuasive speech topic idea with a specific point of view. How?

• Which of the speech topics are you interested in?
• Do you know something about?
• Would you like to research and persuade your audience about?

List of 200+ Persuasive Speech Ideas

Find a persuasive speech topic idea with a specific point of view. How?

• Which of the speech topics are you interested in?
• Do you know something about?
• Would you like to research and persuade your audience about?

Abortion
Abuse Of The Elderly
Abused Women
Academic Dishonesty
Academic Freedom
Acid Rain
Addiction
Adoption
Affirmative Action
Afghanistan
Africa
Age Discrimination
Aging Population
Agricultural Policy
AIDS/HIV
Air Pollution
Airline Safety
Alcohol Abuse
Aliens and UFO's
Alternative imprisonment
Alternative Medicine
American Education Reform
Amnesty
Animal Experimentation
Animal Rights
Animal Welfare
Anorexia Nervosa
Anti-Semitism
Arab-Israeli Conflict
Armed Conflicts
Arms Control

Civil Rights
Climate Change Policy
Condoms In Schools
Creationism vs. Evolution
Cuba
Dating Campus Issues
Death Penalty
Depression
Dieting
Disabilities Act
Domestic ViolenceDrug Policy
Drunk Driving
Endangered Oceans
Endangered Species
Espionage and Intelligence Gathering
Ethnic Violence
Euthenasia
Family Violence
Fat Tax On Food
Feminism
Foreign Oil Dependence
Foreign Policy
Foster Care
Fraud
Gambling
Gangs
Gay Marriage
Gay Rights
Genetic Engineering
Genetically Engineered Foods
Genocide
Global Resources
Global Warming
Government Fraud and Waste
Gun Control
Hate Crime
Health Care Policy
Home Schooling
Homeland Security
Homeless in America
Human Cloning
Immigration
Infectious Diseases
Inner City Poverty
Internet Chatrooms
Iraq
Islamic Fundamentalism
Juvenile Crime
Language Policy
Legal System
Littering
Marriage and Divorce
Media Violence
Medical Ethics
Medicinal Marijuana
Medicine Abuse
Minimum Wage
Missile Defense System
National Tobacco Settlement
Nonproliferation
Nuclear Technology
Organ Donation
Organized Crime
Peace
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Polygamy
Pornography
Poverty
Prison regime
Race Relations
Racial Profiling
Rain Forests
Recycling
Religious Right
Reproductive Technologies
Russia
School Uniforms
School Violence
Sex Education
Single Parent Families
Smoking
Social Security Reform
Social Welfare
Space Exploration
Stadium Taxes
Stem Cell Research
Tax Reform
Teen Pregnancy
Term Limits
Terrorism
Tobacco Industry
Trade with China
Transportation
US Budget
US War on Drugs
Urban Terrorism
Vaccinations
Violent Video Games
Voluntary National Testing
War Crimes
War On Drugs
Water Resources

Weapons Disarmament
Welfare Reform
Women in the Military
Women's Rights
Working Women
World Trade

Arms Trade Asylum Atomic Energy Ballot Initiatives Battered Women Beginning of Life Issues Bermuda Triangle Bigamy Bilingual Education Biodiversity Biological and Chemical Weapons Bird Flu Birth Control Body Piercings Breast Feeding in Public Bulimia Cameras in Courtrooms Campaign Finance Reform Capital Punishment Censor Hate Speech Censorship Chain Gangs Child Labor Church State Issues City Curfews

Civil Rights Climate Change Policy Condoms In Schools Creationism vs. Evolution Cuba Dating Campus Issues Death Penalty Depression Dieting Disabilities Act Domestic ViolenceDrug Policy Drunk Driving Endangered Oceans Endangered Species Espionage and Intelligence Gathering Ethnic Violence Euthenasia Family Violence Fat Tax On Food Feminism Foreign Oil Dependence Foreign Policy Foster Care Fraud Gambling Gangs Gay Marriage Gay Rights Genetic Engineering Genetically Engineered Foods Genocide Global Resources Global Warming Government Fraud and Waste Gun Control Hate Crime Health Care Policy Home Schooling Homeland Security Homeless in America Human Cloning Immigration Infectious Diseases Inner City Poverty Internet Chatrooms Iraq Islamic Fundamentalism Juvenile Crime Language Policy Legal System Littering Marriage and Divorce Media Violence Medical Ethics Medicinal Marijuana Medicine Abuse Minimum Wage Missile Defense System National Tobacco Settlement Nonproliferation Nuclear Technology Organ Donation Organized Crime Peace Physician-Assisted Suicide Polygamy Pornography Poverty Prison regime Race Relations Racial Profiling Rain Forests Recycling Religious Right Reproductive Technologies Russia School Uniforms School Violence Sex Education Single Parent Families Smoking Social Security Reform Social Welfare Space Exploration Stadium Taxes Stem Cell Research Tax Reform Teen Pregnancy Term Limits Terrorism Tobacco Industry Trade with China Transportation US Budget US War on Drugs Urban Terrorism Vaccinations Violent Video Games Voluntary National Testing War Crimes War On Drugs Water Resources Weapons Disarmament Welfare Reform Women in the Military Women's Rights Working Women World Trade

 

 

20 Examples Of Sports Persuasive Speech Topics Statements

1. Most female professional bodybuilders take some steroids or other performance enhancing substances.
2. Professional wrestling is real, is just show.
3. Cheerleading is, is not a sport.
4. Athletes earn too much, their salary is not too high.
5. Sports gambling should be banned.
6. Team Sports can't without teambuilding.
7. The integration of mind, body and spirit is the most essential sports factor.
8. Golf is for old people, is for everyone. Or take another discipline for other sports persuasive speech topics with this positive, negative qualification.
9. Everybody should practice sports at least half an hour a day.
10. Professional sport is too commercial nowadays.
11. The most watched sports or sports events in the world are boring.
12. Scandals hurt the Olympic Games.
13. Ice is the best first aid remedy for a sports injury.
14. The requirements for participating the Paralympic Games, Special Olympics World Games or Deaflympics are not transparant.
15. Assure your bike helmet fits. Or take related sports persuasive speech topics on equipment fitting.
16. Why measuring your body mass index is important.
17. A 20-year-old age limit for the NBA is okay, is stupid. The same statement can be used for a sports persuasive speech topic on for example adventure racing.
18. Bungyjumping from high buildings is risking your life.
19. You only become a great athlete by training and special diets.
20. Not every retired famous sportsman or woman is a good coach. Or persuade your audience the opposite way with an vivid example of a person who succeeded.

INDIVIDUAL AND PERSONAL GROWTH

Every person - you too - has a set of inner values. Call it self development goals, thoughts, opinions and so on. Discover which value speech topics you like to explore or want to write a speech about to help your peers.

A Will to Succeed Accomplishment Accountability Accuracy Achievement Adventure Affection Assertiveness Attitude Autonomy Balance Beauty Being Truthful Caring Change Collaboration Compassion Concern for Others Confidence Courage Creativity Curiosity Diligence Effort Empathy Empowerment Endurance Enthusiasm Exactness Excellence Faith Fast Living Financial Gain Flair Forgiveness Friendship Generosity

Gentleness Goodness Gratitude Healthy Helping Other People Hope Humor Idealism Independence Individuality Inner Harmony Innocence Integrity Intellectual Status Intuition Kindness Learning Lifestyle Love Meaning of Life Meaningful Work Mercy Merit Morality Never Give Up Nursing Nurturing of Children Open-minded Optimism Patience Peace Personal Development Personal Growth Physical Challenge Piety Pleasure Privacy

Promotion Purity Religion Reputation Responsibility Romance Sacrifice Safety Satisfaction Self-Awareness Self-Discipline Self-Esteem Self-Givingness Self-Improvement Self-Interest Self-Reliably Self-Reliance Self-Respect Self-Worth Sensitivity Serenity Seriousness Sincerity Sophistication Spirituality Stability Success Sympathy Tact Temperance Thinking Truthfulness Understanding Unpretentiousness Unselfishness

BUSINESS VALUE SPEECH PRESENTATION IDEAS

These are values related to the growth, success and financial health of companies and businesses. If you want to write a speech for business purposes, select only the value speech topics that come close to the mission statement or integrity codes in your industry category. These are the 'leading ladies' in the speech writing process.

Accuracy Achievement Advancement Agreement Challenging Problems Change Collaboration Commitment Competence Competitive Confidence Confrontation Consciousness Consumer Rights Continuity Cooperation Coordination Creativity Customer Service Duty Economic Security Economic Status Effectiveness

Efficiency Equal Opportunities Ethical Practicing Excellence Functionality Good Will Improvement Innovation Integration Inventiveness Involvement Leadership Legality Loyalty Perfection Power Practicality Precision Problem Solving Progress Prosperity Prudence Punctuality

Purity Quality of Work Quietude Rationality Regularity Reliability Resourcefulness Results-Oriented Security Shareholder Value Sharing Knowledge Skill Standardization Supervising Systemization Taking Responsibility Teamwork Trust Utility Variety Work Spirit Working Alone

CLASSIC OR TRADITIONAL VALUE SPEECH TOPICS

Moral codes and standards in society or groups are based on these values. As always, they have developed over time. Explain how and what we can learn or should change in our behavior.

All for One And One for All Altruism Appreciation Authority Charity Chastity Civic Duty Civic Pride Civil Rights Community Welfare Compassion Concern for Others Confidence Conformity Consciousness Consensus Consumer Rights Cooperation Courtesy Critical Thinking Culture Democracy Dependability Diplomacy Diversity Duty Ecological Awareness Environmental Protection Equality Etiquette Fairness Family Values

Fidelity Flexibility Fraternity Free Will Freedom Freedom of Initiative Government Power Hard Working Harmony Helping Society Heroism Honesty Honor Honor Parents Hope Hospitality Human Rights Humanism Humility Improvement Justice Majority Rule Mercy Minority Rights Moderation Modesty Never Give Up Non-Violence Obedience Openness Participation Patriotism

Positive Attitude Preservation Proper Behavior Public Access Public Service Pursuit of Happiness Reasoning Respect for Law Respect for Other People Right to Education Right to Express Grievances Rituals Sacrifice Satisfying Other People Service to Society Sharing Simplicity Social Status Stability Strength Taking Responsibility Tolerance Tradition Unity Unselfishness Wealth Well-Being Well-Mannered Wisdom Women's Rights World Unity

As you can see in these examples of speech topics for public speaking on values, some of the values can be double or even triple labeled; as personal, business and traditional value speech topics.

100+ Good Informative Speech Topics

Are you having trouble coming up with speech topics? This list of informative speech topics is only meant to stimulate your thinking. Of course many of these subjects are too broad and ought to be narrowed. And: apply all the guidelines I described above!
Tip: If you don't find what you are looking for then take a look at the list of speech topics on my homepage.

Advertising, Africa, Agriculture, Animals, Antarctica, Anthropology, Antique, Applied Sciences, Archaeology, Architecture, Aromatheraphy, Artificial Intelligence, Arts, Asia, Astrology, Astronomy, Australia, Aviation, Backpacking, Beauty, Biographies, Biology, Bird Flu, Books, Cheerleading, Chemistry, Children, Cities, Climate, Communication, Cooking, Countries, Business, Cars, Celebrities, Culture, Dancing, Demographics, Design, Drinks, Ecology, Economics, Education, Engineering, Entertainment, Ethnic Groups, Etiquette, Europe, Family, Fashion, Finance, Food,Games, Geography, Government Hiking, History, Home, Industries, International Organizations, International Relations, Labour, Languages, Law, Lifestyles, Literature, Manufacturing, Maps, Martial Arts, Mass Media, Medicine, Military, Movements, Movies, Museums, Music, Mysteries, Mythology, Myths, National Parks, Nature, News, North America, Oceania, People, Performing Arts, Personal Life, Pets, Philosophy, Physics, Politics, Popular Culture, Psychology, Radio, Reference, Religions, Science, Society, Sociology, South America, Space, Sports, Sports Events, Technology, Telecommunications, Television, Tourism, Toys, Travel.

100 Process Speech Topics

Process speech topics to help finding speech topics for a demonstration process speech. There are two types: the directional and the informational process, activity or product public speaking speech topics. Let me first explain them before you scan my list of speech topics on processes. In the so-called directional speech writing type you tell, show and instruct the steps of the process so that they can

recreate them after you show how to do it. The informational process speech type informs, educates, analyzes and explains. Describe the theory of how something was done or is done, is made, works or happened.
Focus on education and understanding of your process speech idea. Choose process speech topics that you are relatively familiar with, or select a process topic you like to research. That helps the whole speech communication process of writing.

3-D Glasses
9-1-1
Air Bags
Air Conditioners
Air Purifiers
American Red Cross
Animation
Antibiotic
Aspirin
Atkins Diet
Avalanches
Batteries
Battery
Beer
Bicycle Seat
Black Box
Black Boxes
BlackBerry
Boiling Eggs
Boolean Logic
Brick
Bungee Cord
Buying a House
Carbon-14 Dating
Census
Chewing Gum
Climbing Mountains
Contact Lenses
Credit Cards
Diamonds
Dimmer Switches
Dreams
Dry Cleaning
Elevators
Energy Drinks
Espresso Machines
Fire Engines
Fireworks
Fossils
Gliders
Greenhouse Effect
Herbs
Hair Dryers
Handwriting Analysis
Heart Bypass Operation
Helium Donald Duck Effect
Hot Air Balloons
Hubble Space Telescope
Income Taxes
Lie Detectors
Marshmallows
Mensa
Metal Detectors
Microwave
Money Laundering
Moonshine
Mountain Bikes
Nobel Prizes
Garage Sales
Paint a Room
Paintball
Patents
Photocopiers
Political Conventions
Pregnancy
Developing a Process Speech Topic
Radar Detectors
Rainbows
Ramadan
Red Blood Cell Production
Refrigerators
Remove Chocolate Stains
Doorbell
Ringtones
Satellites
Seatbelts
Silk Screening
Skydiving
SMS
Spiders
St. Patrick's Day
Stock Market
Storms
Sunburning
Teleconferencing
Thermometers
Toilets
Tornadoes
United Nations
Video Tape Copy Protection
Viruses and Worms
Vitamins
VoIP
Volcanoes
Water Boarding
Water Towers
Wiretapping Works
Yom Kippur

Select a process public speaking speech topic you can quickly research. Always meet both your and the public's needs when developing your process speech topics.

40 Group Discussion Topics

Group discussion topics, ideas and themes categorized in four special types of speech topics for group discussions.

I have invented a list of fourthy public speaking topics for discussions and analyses in group discussions. They can be used in speech class for persuasive speaking assignments. Especially exploring a youth group discussion topic is an ideal method to test the listening, interhuman, persuasive and presentation skills of students.

There are roughly four types of group discussion topics:

• Factual speech topics
• Controversial and argumentative issues
• Abstract discussion material
• Case studies

Factual topics for a group are - as the word says - about facts. This is a sample list of speech topics on current issues and facts:

1. Conspiracy is a very common form of political behaviour.
2. The pros and cons of having a credit card.
3. A chain gang is a modern form of slavery.
4. Why drinking and driving is dangerous to yourself and others.
5. Passive smoking is equally harmful.
6. The economic boycott causes most of the problems in Cuba.
7. International trade barriers work.
8. City curfews help to prevent juvenile crime and to protect youth from victimization.
9. The U.N. is mainly based on diplomacy and enhancing relationships.
10. Affirmative action draws people to work they never considered before.

A controversial group discussion topic is a speech topic that has many controversies, pros and cons. Keep in mind that all current group discussion topics are not my opinion, but just a sample list of speech topics!

1. Sustainable urban living without the use of excessive natural resources must be our future.
2. Are there extraterrestrials who influence events on Earth?
3. Marijuana has a medical value.
4. Direct mail is a special form of junk mail.
5. The pros and cons of a female President.
6. Online dating chats have nothing to do with a search for a soul mate.
7. Should schools distribute condoms?
8. Most people support embryonic stem cell research.
9. Life imprisonment is a good alternative to capital punishment.
10. What is wrong with child labor?

Abstract group discussion topics are things that cannot be touched, not be easily defined or formulated. Just think in a creative manner and start a vivid group discussion with one of these abstract topics to talk about:

1. The Nostradamus Code
2. Breast Implants
3. Bribery in Business
4. Computer Viruses
5. Bigamy
6. Hidden Persuaders
7. Moral Majority
8. The Hippocratic Oath
9. Political Correctness
10. Vegetarianism

The fourth type of group discussion topics are so-called case studies. You determine a problem and together with the other group members you have to find a satisfying solution. These are small group discussion topic ideas. Just modify and alter where necessary, these are just guiding light topic ideas:

1. Leadership - What necessary changes are needed in your community organization and how do you want to lead the process?
2. Malpractice Insurance - Doctors walk out on the job to protest the rising malpractice insurance costs. What to do about it?
3. Work Ethics - Can we shape workers who have the sense that they serve the company ánd community?
4. School Violence - What are the real causes of violence and bullying in Schools?
5. Recycling - Sort out how to make money with recycling.
6. Dropouts - Individual attention in safe schools and smaller classes; is that the way to stop students to drop out?
7. Iraq - What are the best exit strategies?
8. Speech Privacy - What are the best technologies to safeguard the right of free speech privacy on the internet?
9. Minimum Wage - Why should we have a minimum wage or why not?
10. Burnout - Should everybody check his or herself of burnout signs? How?

Tip: try to make an inventory of various angles of view and opinions of the group discussion topics.