Set up a debate

Good outcomes can justify morally questionable means

Whether the moral quality of an action is determined by its results or whether some acts are wrong regardless of what they achieve.

Every citizen should receive an unconditional basic income

Whether guaranteeing everyone an income without conditions is a matter of justice and freedom, or a costly policy that undermines work and reciprocity.

Social media does more harm than good

Whether the connection, expression, and information that social platforms provide outweigh the polarization, distraction, and mental health costs they impose.

A world without work would be a better world

Whether human beings would flourish if machines freed them from labor, or whether work is essential to meaning, dignity, and social order.

Preserving a person's mind digitally would be a real continuation of that person

Whether a digital copy of a person's memories and personality would be that person, a new person, or no person at all.

Emotions are a better guide to action than reason

Whether we should trust our feelings or our calculations when deciding how to act, and whether the two can even be separated.

Death is what gives life its meaning

Whether mortality is the condition that makes choices matter and lives take shape, or whether death is simply the deprivation of everything valuable.

It is better to strive for greatness than to be content

Whether the good life is one of restless striving toward excellence, or one of peace with what one has and is.

A good life requires solitude

Whether time alone is essential to self-knowledge, creativity, and depth, or whether the good life is fundamentally lived with others.

Suffering is necessary for a meaningful life

Whether hardship is an essential ingredient of depth, growth, and meaning, or an evil to be minimized wherever possible.

Human beings have free will

Whether our choices are genuinely up to us, or whether they are determined by prior causes we did not choose.

You are the same person you were ten years ago

Whether there is a persisting self that underlies change, or whether identity over time is a convenient fiction.

Life can be meaningful without God

Whether meaning requires a transcendent source that confers purpose, or whether human lives can be meaningful on their own terms.

Happiness is the highest good

Whether the ultimate aim of a human life is to be happy, or whether other goods such as virtue, truth, or achievement matter independently of how they make us feel.