Persuasive Essay Starters: 100 Of Them In Fact!

Persuasion essays are a bit like argument essays, but they tend to be a little kinder and gentler. Argument essays require that you discuss and attack an alternate view (your opposition), while persuasive essays are often more like attempts to convince the reader that you have a more believable argument. Consider prompt number 26 from the list below (cell phones should never be used while driving). You could explain in a persuasive tone - based on statistical data - that drivers using cell phones when driving led to 1 in every 4 crashes in 2014 (according to the National Safety Council). This list of topics may provide an idea that you can get excited about. Remember that you may argue the statement as it is written, or take the opposite view.

1. What would happen if dolphins took over the world?
2. Where do all the mismatched socks run away to?
3. Too much money is a bad thing.
4. The worst song in the world.
5. How your video game skills can get you a good job.
6. Turtles make better pets than cats.
7. Should girls allowed to play on boys sports teams?
8. Free speech should have limitations.
9. Kids should have less homework.
10. Magazine advertisements send unhealthy signals to young women.
11. Does social media (Facebook etc.) create isolation?
12. Do kids benefit if everyone on the team gets a trophy?
13. Is society too dependent on technology?
14. Jargon is caused by speaker's laziness and not language evolution.
15. The chicken came before the egg.
16. Short hair is better than long hair.
17. Should sign language be taught as a 2nd/3rd language?
18. Should animals be used for medical research?
19. Recycling should be mandatory for everyone.
20. Should men be allowed to have more than one wife?
21. Vegetarians vs meat eaters.
22. Should students add their teachers on Facebook?.
23. Is music in shopping malls harmful to the employee?
24. Yearly driving tests should be mandatory over a certain age.
25. Should couples live together before marriage?
26. Cell phones should never be used while driving.
27. Is the Bermuda Triangle a creation of our imagination?
28. Should you get a tattoo on your face?
29. What is the best use for duct tape other than for taping things?
30. Should you hunt down your Thanksgiving turkey instead of buying it from the store?
31. Is it possible to live your entire life without leaving a trace online?
32. All students should wear uniforms.
33. Cigarettes should be more expensive.
34. Should we have more jobs like being a panda huger, or watching paint dry?
35. Is Coke better than Pepsi?
36. Students should be allowed to pray in school.
37. Should everyone abandon cars and use bicycles instead?
38. Should airlines have a two-seater policy for heavier individuals?
39. Should we still have libraries?
40. People should carpool more.
41. We should allow pets in school.
42. Does singing in the shower improve your voice? 
43. We should all grow our own vegetables.
44. MP3 music should be free.
45. Textbooks should be free.
46. Binge watching a whole series is better than watching single episodes over time.
47. We shouldn't use products made from animal skins.
48. Education should be free for everyone.
49. Is breakfast the most important meal of the day?
50. Abortion?
51. Humans aren't created to eat meat.
52. Death penalty?
53. Is wealth linked to happiness?
54. Is cereal soup?
55. Video games can be educational.
56. We need more holidays.
57. Aliens probably exist.
58. Beauty contests are bad for body image.
59. Toilet paper, over or under?
60. Athletes are paid too much.
61. Why aren't blueberries blue?
62. We need a military draft.
63. Cheerleaders' costumes are too skimpy.
64. Did Noah have woodpeckers on the Ark?
65. School should take place in the evenings.
66. Country life is better than city life.
67. City life is better than country life.
68. Life is better than it was 50 years ago.
69. Some health foods are really junk foods.
70. Some junk foods are really health foods.
71. We should return to horse and buggy transportation.
72. What fictional will be most boring to meet in real life?
73. How many chickens it would take to kill an elephant?
74. Is a hotdog a sandwhich?
75. Pineapple on pizza.
76. Books should never be banned.
77. What mythical creature would improve the world the most if it existed?
78. If Seven Eleven is open 24 hours 365 then why are there locks on the doors?
79. The Butterfly Effect
80. Music lyrics promote violence.
81. We can change the world.
82. Skateboard helmets should be mandatory.
83. Cars should not drive without having the seat belt buckled.
84. Does keeping a messy desk make people more creative?
85. Are digital photographs too plentiful to be meaningful?
86. Wisdom. Where does knowledge come from?
87. Pavlov's dog experiment/ Placebo effect
88. There should be one world currency.
89. We should provide food for the poor.
90. Should cities preserve old buildings?
91. Are we alone in the universe?
92. Children should be paid for doing chores.
93. We should populate the moon.
94. Is there some language for animals that we could learn?
95. Every family should have a natural disaster survival plan.
96. Can you be good without God?
97. What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? 
98. Faith is an essential part of life.
99. The moon is as important as the sun.
100. Psychic abilities are real.