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Date | Tournament | Round | Motion |
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2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | 1 | THW make the number of votes an individual has inversely proportional to their wealth (i.e. the more wealth an individual has the fewer votes in an election). |
2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | 2 | THW grant senior military officers a veto over military decisions made by politicians (e.g. troop deployments, specific missions). |
2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | 3 | TH supports social movements having strict standards for what members should believe e.g feminists excluding pro-life feminists from the Women’s March. |
2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | 4 | THBT developing countries with substantial natural resources should nationalise natural resource production. |
2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | 5 | TH prefers secular governments that exclude all religion from public spaces to those that allow unlimited religious expression. |
2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | EFL_Final | THBT mainstream Spanish political parties should operate cordon sanitaire policies towards radical populists (e.g. VOX). |
2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | Open_Semi | THBT that feminists should not use rhetoric about women being more empathetic or caring than men as part of their advocacy (e.g. “Women are good leaders because they are more compassionate”). |
2019-04-05 | Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | Open_Final | TH prefers a world where the majority believed in determinism over one where the majority believed in free will. |