Interesting Persuasive Speech Topics

What is interesting persuasive speech topics to you, might not be so interesting to your audience. So always consider the audience you will be speaking to before deciding on the topic. Below I've brainstormed some interesting persuasive speech topics to get the ball rolling.

Evaluate whether or not it would be interesting to yourself and your audience, and adapt it where necessary to form your own interesting persuasive topics. If you don't find anything, try just starting with some general interests or activities that you and your audience have in common and build a provocative argument from there. You might not convince everyone but if you have an interesting and engaging topic, you'll have at least made them listen.

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Interesting speech topics

• Why humans should invest in the final frontier today (space).
• Apple - more hype than reality.
• What you can do to help disaster relief efforts (like during the Asian tsunami, or the Haiti earthquake)
• Invest in infrastructure to prevent / predict disasters of this scale.
• Does a human hive mind exist similar to that of ants and bees?
• How to- / Reasons to abolish tax...
• Would redistributing Bill Gates' (or other wealthy people's) wealth equally make the world a better place?
• Get an iguana as a pet.
• Why red wine is good for you.
• Bungee jumping - not for the faint-hearted.
• Learn to surf today.
• Hoodies should be banned.
• Software / music piracy shouldn't be a crime.
• Money or Wisdom.
• Brands destroy individuality.
• Chocolate should be a prescription drug.
• Jump out of a fully functioning plane (skydiving).
• Pay it forward.
• Why every nation has the right to be a nuclear power.
• Invest in renewable energy now.
• Go on a first aid course.
• Invest in property.
• How to walk on fire ... and lets go do it.
• Learn self-hypnosis to make yourself happy.
• Why everyone should go to Mardi Grass at least once in their life.
• Sign up for these male beauty treatments.
• Why you should go organic.
• Only eat what you are willing to kill.
• Don't sacrifice freedom for security.
• Online privacy is an illusion - what you can do to protect yourself.
• Photographers have the right to take pictures.
• TV/Internet/Computers are rotting our brains.
• The Federal Reserve is a scam (or the illusion of money).
• Why democracy isn't the best option.
• Bring back baseball as an Olympic sport.

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