There are lots of topics in modern life which could really do with discussion, particularly extensive discussion, for which there isn't a lot of scope. Things like:
1. Where is the human race going or what is it trying to achieve?
2. Has modern technology outstripped the goal of basic survival which was the original impetus for its development?
3. Many are saying that humanity is authoring its own immanent demise? Is that so?
4. Technology now has the ability to diagnose likely health problems in later life from birth. Should we be using that information to establish future health needs/budgets? Should we be taking the attitude of not 'breeding' health problems - no, I don't mean to create a perfect race but to prevent unnecessary suffering and crippling taxation? Are we escalating health problems by deliberately, or unthinkingly, multiplying their incidence?
5. How much technology is not being fully used/implemented because we haven't developed the maturity to cope with the results - like 12 year olds given Ferraris to drive?
6. Has the modern commitment to tolerance created a situation in which no-one has the right to be who they are because everyone else has an equivalent right?
7. Has modern society thrown the moral and ethical baby out with the bathwater in the name of human rights, freedom and tolerance.
8. Is liberty the same thing as licence?
9. Can morality be legislated? Should it be legislated?
10. Is it possible to have an agreed set of basic values in a multicultural society.
