This activity is the beginning of a multi-stage process of learning around the theme of highly contested ideas and issues, and was originally inspired by an incendiary list of questions introduced by Steven Pinker (2007). The aim of the activity is to cultivate in students a disposition towards inquiry, constructive argumentation and reflection within and outside the classroom. While the following stages work for me, they are suggested as general guidelines so instructors should feel free to adapt them to the needs of their particular class.