2025 Debate
Here are some debate topics we came up with for your teams to practice for each section. WSC debates are meant to be thought-provoking, factual, and persuasive. We recommend integrating the knowledge from various sections of the syllabus to support your arguments. Present confidently and elaborate with evidence, examples, and implications. Team collaboration and a positive attitude are key to success. Good luck!
Introductory Questions
1) Living forever is a curse not a blessing.​
2) AI should take over all the laborious jobs.
3) We need to control the growth of human population.
4) Slice of life movies are better than superhero movies.
The Best is Yet to Be
1) Developing countries should focus on megaprojects.
2) Social media should have a strict age limit of 12 years old.
3) Media should not broadcast violent news on children's channels.
4) Social media should have a fake new label.
In Futurity, Someone Prophetic Sees
1) Poems about the future teach more than poems about the past.
2) Fortune telling should be banned.
3) If we had the ability to see into the future by 1 day, we should take advantage of it.
The Future Wasn’t Meant to Be
1) Public transportation should be free.
2) An avatar classroom would benefit students.
3) Nationalistic music is more needed than global music.
4) Anniversaries should not be celebrated.
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If At First You Fall, Try, Try Again
1) Hard power is more advantageous than soft power.
2) We should restore destroyed historical buildings back to their original state.
3) Companies should not revive old brands, but create new brands.
4) Foreign aid should stop.
Things Really Do Catch Fire
1) Having infinite resources will benefit the world.
2) Personal use of fireworks should be banned.
3) If historical buildings are destroyed, they should be rebuilt as they were.
Speeches that Inspire, Speeches that Spit Fire
1) All national borders should be permanent.
2) Space exploration should only be undertaken by the UN.
3) Presidential debates should be eliminated.
4) Singing competitions are futile.
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Reliving It Up
1) The concept of hell be not taught to children.
2) We should invest in digital regeneration.
3) We should keep archives on pop culture.
4) We should invest to eradicated disease.
5) Escapism is healthy for children.
Entertaining Ourselves Back to Life
1) We should no longer honor modern kings and queens.
2) Creators should be remembered not for their products, but for their actions.
3) Odysseus was a villain, not a hero.
4) AI works can be considered art.
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Much Excite, Much Ignite
1) The world is ready for autonomous driving.
2) Small countries should be merged into large countries.
3) Planning more than 1 year into the future is a waste of time.
4) Inner city private transportation should be limited.
The Generative Area: A Mind for Imagination
1) Schools should have a class for daydreaming.
2) Academic competition are futile.
3) Limitations is more beneficial than free reign.
No Backup, But Restore
1) The original versions of films or shows should not change.
2) Rhythm video games should be added to the Olympics Games.
3) Reality TV is better than fictional shows.
4) Girl or boy bands are better than solo performers.
Punky Futures
1) Afrofuturism is beneficial for racial harmony.
2) The world should set up a ecological country without carbon-emission.
3) The rate of technology development is too fast for the world, instead of being too slow.
4)environmentally conscious actions should be an academic subject, and students should be graded on their actions.
Concluding Questions
1) People should have the right to transfer their memories to an avatar.
2) The next generation will live in a better world.
3) Art that has aged with time should just be left alone and not restored.
