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| Tournament | Motion |
|---|---|
| UFMG IV | This House would allow private corporations to donate to political campaigns in Brazil |
| UFMG IV | THW break up big tech |
| UFMG IV | This House, as Michel Temer, regrets nothing |
| Philippines National Debate Championship 2019 | THBT parents should raise their children to prioritize collectivism over individualism. |
| Philippines National Debate Championship 2019 | THBT the Academy Awards should remove language requirements in the selection process for Best International Feature Film. |
| Philippines National Debate Championship 2019 | THS the decline of religiosity |
| Philippines National Debate Championship 2019 | THBT the UN should cease facilitating the writing of a new Syrian Constitution until the “Syrian-led, Syrian-owned” Constitutional Committee agrees to include representatives from the Syrian Kurds. |
| Philippines National Debate Championship 2019 | TH, as the US, W compel US tech companies that have supplied and/or aided the creation of China’s surveillance network to sabotage the system (i.e. surveillance, social credit, firewall). |
| Philippines National Debate Championship 2019 | THBT the Philippine Opposition should shift its primary strategy from attacking prominent figureheads towards criticizing political institutions. |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THR the rise of social media influencers |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THW ban internships |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THBT environmental policy should be decided by unelected scientific experts selected by their peers |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THR the trend of more 18-24 year-olds studying at university |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THR the rise of political memes |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THBT the west should have treated Russia as a post soviet state rather than a continuation of the USSR |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THBT it is in the Democratic Party's interest to impeach Donald Trump |
| Imperial Novices 2019 | THP a world in which everyone follows this philosophy |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | This House regrets the Humanization of Villains in Film and Media [i.e Joker]. |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | The House believes that charitable organizations [e.g Omaze] should not be allowed to obtain donations in exchange for the offer of potential prizes. |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | This house believes that governments in developing nations should prioritize funding for early childhood development to the exclusion of funding for tertiary education. |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | In instances where the collapse of financial institutions is imminent, The House supports a bail-in. |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | This House Supports the public offering of Saudi Aramco |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | This House, as the trans community, would prioritize psychosocial rather than physical makeup as a metric for gender dispositions. |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | This House believes that religious institutions should use radically leftist interpretations of their teachings in areas of high rates of poverty (e.g Liberation Theology, Islamic Socialism) |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | THS the use of deep fake technology as a legitimate political tool |
| PAUDC Akofena 2019 | THR human ability to adapt to social adversity |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THBT military conscription (aka involuntary draft) should be considered a war crime |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THBT political centrism does more harm than good |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THW break up Disney |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THW geoengineer the climate |
| Seattle IV 2019 | TH as an artist would prefer to be self-taught rather than classically trained |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THBT the United States should not take a stance on the conflicts in South America. |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THW require social media companies to pay for metadata. |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THBT the African Union should condemn the One Belt One Road Initiative |
| Seattle IV 2019 | THR intercollegiate debate |
| HWS Round Robin 2018 | This house believes that the criminal justice system should not consider retribution as a factor in sentencing. |
| HWS Round Robin 2018 | This house prefers a world in which universities charged tuition based on student earnings after graduation. |
| HWS Round Robin 2018 | This house believes that governments should prioritize the economic improvement of minority communities over the preservation of their culture. |
| HWS Round Robin 2018 | This house prefers a world in which, upon childhood, all people intuitively come to know their natural expiration date. |
| HWS Round Robin 2018 | When responding to civilian casualties, this house believes that the military action taken does not have to meet the principle of proportionality. |
| HWS Round Robin 2018 | This house believes that the interests of the Chinese people would be better served by a peaceful transition into a democracy, rather than a continuation of one party rule. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This House regrets the decline of the humanities in higher education. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This house regrets the decline of the humanities in higher education. Information Slide: In academic settings, “the humanities” is contrasted with the study of natural sciences, social sciences, and professional training. Core fields in the humanities include: literature, philosophy, history, religion, art, etc. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This House supports laws that protect the health of fetuses (whose mothers intend to carry them to term). |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This house supports laws that protect the health of fetuses (whose mothers intend to carry them to term). |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | In the event that current talks produce a compromise Brexit deal, This House Would put it to a referendum with “remain” as an alternative. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | In the event that current talks produce a compromise Brexit deal, this house would put it to a referendum, with “remain” as the alternative |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This House would take a pill that permanently made one contented with one’s current life situation. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This house would take a pill that permanently made one entirely contented with one’s current life situation. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This House Opposes the centrality of sport to national identity |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This house opposes the centrality of sport to national identity. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This House believes that the Black Lives Matter movement should embrace open carry gun laws and engage in armed community patrols. |
| HWS Round Robin 2019 | This house believes that the Black Lives Matter movement should embrace open carry gun laws and engage in armed community patrols. Info Slide: The Black Panthers began as a group of black citizens in Oakland, California who engaged in armed patrols of the city streets, specifically focusing on observing police behavior and arrests. In response, California enacted much stricter gun control legislation. |
| Prague Open 2019 | THW cut government and parliament members wages and pension funds, if they run fiscal deficits. |
| Prague Open 2019 | TH regrets the dominant narrative that moral progress is inevitable (e.g.”The moral arc of history bends towards justice”). |
| Prague Open 2019 | THBT EU should not offer the UK another extension on Brexit after October 31. |
| Prague Open 2019 | TH opposes the stigmatisation of romantic relationships built upon materialistic needs or exchanges (e.g. suggar-daddys, cougars, etc.). |
| Prague Open 2019 | THBT secular states should not allow minority groups to implement their own family law systems. |
| Prague Open 2019 | TH, as the Democratic party, regrets starting the impeachment process of President Trump. |
| Prague Open 2019 | THBT the fight against Climate Change should include taking international action against sovereign countries (such as exclusion from international institutions, sanctions, military intervention, etc.), which allow environmental abuses through direct action or negligence |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THS THE GLORIFICATION OF START-UP CULTURE THAT ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO CREATE THEIR OWN BUSINESSES RATHER THAN PURSUE TRADITIONAL CAREER PATHS |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THR THE PHENOMENON OF SENSITIVITY SCREENING |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THBT CONSERVATIVE STATES SHOULD AGGRESSIVELY EMBRACE LIBERAL IDEOLOGIES IN THE PURSUIT OF PROMOTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THS THE PRACTICE OF CULTURAL CHRISTIANITY |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | TH CELEBRATES NO NUT NOVEMBER (NNN) |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | ASSUMING IT WOULD BE ILLEGAL FOR ANYONE TO BECOME STATELESS, THW CREATE A MARKETPLACE FOR THE BUYING AND SELLING OF CITIZENSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THW PROSECUTE LEADERS WHO REFUSE TO IMPLEMENT UNIVERSAL HEALTH COVERAGE (UHC) POLICIES FOR MENTAL HEALTH CASES AND OTHER PRIMARY HEALTH CARE EMERGENCIES |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THS THE BANNING OF POLITICAL PARTIES ADVERTISEMENTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | TH AS GOOGLE WILL ADOPT THE HIPPOCRATIC LICENSE |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THR THE WOKE CALL-OUT CULTURE |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THW choose China |
| All-Nigeria Universities Debate Championship 2019 | THR THE BORDER CLOSURE |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | THBT DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SHOULD BE PROHIBITED FROM HOSTING INTERNATIONAL SPORTING EVENTS |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | THW require all health professionals (e.g. doctors, nurses, physical therapists) to render return service in the Philippines upon graduation |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | TH Prefers Socio-political Movements Without Clearly Distinguishable Figureheads |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | ASSUMING THE TECHNOLOGY EXISTS, THS GENETIC ENGINEERING TO MAKE HUMANS MORE RESISTANT TO THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | THR the rise of Nihilism in popular culture |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | THW allow companies to buy the right to govern economically failing cities |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | THR media programs which aim to arbitrate cases or disputes among civilians. |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | TH as the Catholic Church would adopt Liberation Theology |
| 4th Mindanao Intervarsity | In light of society's predictions about the future, THS the childless movement. |
| UBC IV 2019 | TH, as a leftist politician, would adopt political disinformation campaign tactics. |
| UBC IV 2019 | THR the use of identity-based self deprecating humour by minority entertainers in popular culture |
| UBC IV 2019 | THBT the EU should expel member states who join the Belt & Road initiative |
| UBC IV 2019 | THP a world in which religious leaders (Priests, Imams, Rabbis etc.) are not seen as having a deeper connection with religious deities (ex: God or Allah) than regular members of the faithful. |
| UBC IV 2019 | In cases where individuals are convicted of leaking state secrets, THW allow their convictions to be nullified by a national referendum. |
| UBC IV 2019 | THBT it is unethical to have children. |
| UBC IV 2019 | THP a geniocracy over rule by democratic representation. |
| UBC IV 2019 | THR the narrative that money can't buy happiness. |
| New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2019 | This house believes that hacking is a legitimate form of protest against large corporations. |
| New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2019 | This house regrets films and television shows that glorify gang culture. |
| New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2019 | This house believes that states should not attempt to regulate digital currencies like bitcoin. |
| New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2019 | This house supports the right of fiction authors to use a pseudonym and/or remain anonymous. |
| New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2019 | This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment in an attempt to combat global warming. |
| New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2019 | In emerging democracies, this house would break up persistently dominant political parties. |
| New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2019 | This house believes that feminist organisations should not criticize female politicians for their views on women's issues. |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | Given the state of the world, THBT it is immoral for humans to willfully reproduce |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | THW replace all social safety net policies with a comparable universal basic income. |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | THW assimilate. |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | TH rejects all sports mascots which depict humans |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | THW encourage feminists to troll, meme, and shame the patriarchy. |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | TH, as foreign militaries, would condition material support to the United States Armed Forces on the removal of the Trump Administration. |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | TH, as the United States Federal Government, would take all necessary steps to eliminate Mexican drug cartels. |
| Rocky Mountain Championships | TH rejects the idea of ethical consumption. |
| Ljubljana IV 2019 | THO the demonisation of nationalism. |
| Ljubljana IV 2019 | THBT climate change movements should prioritise constructive policy proposals over criticism and obstruction of current policies. |
| Ljubljana IV 2019 | THBT sports assocciation’s ultimate goal should be the integration of women into mixed teams rather than achieving parity between male and female teams. |
| Ljubljana IV 2019 | THBT it was against the interest of Syrian Kurds to align themselves with the West in the Syrian Civil War. |
| Ljubljana IV 2019 | THW never allow parents to make medical decisions for their children that contradict the medical consensus. |
| Ljubljana IV 2019 | THR the integration of PR China into the global economy. |
| Ljubljana IV 2019 | THW release the evidence |
| Hart House IV 2019 | THR the increasing professionalization of youth athletics |
| Hart House IV 2019 | In cities with scarce housing availability THW reallocate funds intended for building or subsidizing affordable housing to providing the means for those in need to relocate to different cities with lower costs of living. |
| Hart House IV 2019 | THBT that Western Nations should impose heavy penalties on domestic corporations that punish their employees for engaging in legally permitted speech. |
| Hart House IV 2019 | Assuming feasibility, THW distribute development aid to individual citizens rather than governments. |
| Hart House IV 2019 | THW have all settler colonial states (Canada, U.S., Australia, Mexico, Brazil, etc.) pay rent to their indigenous populations for all government-owned property. |
| Hart House IV 2019 | THP a world without a belief in life after death (heaven, reincarnation, past lives, hell, etc). |
| Hart House IV 2019 | Assuming neither standard is upheld in the status quo, THBT society should aim towards becoming a meritocracy as opposed to a society where people are treated equally regardless of merit. |
| Hart House IV 2019 | In the aftermath of genocides, ethnic violence or crimes against humanity THO efforts to ban or suppress discussion of ethnicity and/or religion |
| Hart House IV 2019 | THBT all nations should take active steps to eliminate all borders. |
| Bard IV | THBT a universal basic income is preferable to conditional welfare programs (e.g., SNAP, housing assistance, Medicaid) |
| Bard IV | THS "Cancel Culture" |
| Bard IV | THBT Puerto Ricans should advocate for independence over statehood. |
| Bard IV | THW limit copyright terms for works of art (including fine art, music, film, literature, etc.) to the original artist’s lifespan |
| Bard IV | THW prohibit hospitals from being owned by or affiliated with religious organizations (eg, Catholic hospitals) |
| Bard IV | THR the portrayal of parental figures as incompetent and/or out-of-touch in children's media. |
| Bard IV | THBT small island nations should declare a state of emergency due to climate change |
| Bard IV | THBT the United States, when confronting organizations designated as terrorist groups, should pursue a strategy of engaging with perceived moderates within the group’s leadership in an attempt to exact concessions (e.g., prisoner exchanges, cease-fires, or political freedoms for minorities under their control) rather than pursuing a policy of explicit non-engagement. |
| Bard IV | THBT supporters of Medicare For All should advocate for the abolition of private insurance. |
| Bard IV | THBT that individuals who have committed mass atrocities deserve to suffer in the afterlife |
| The Karachi Cup 2019 | This house would allow the selection of all-female juries in sexual assault cases |
| The Karachi Cup 2019 | This house supports countries withdrawing from the International Criminal Court in order to create their own regional replacements (e.g. an African Criminal Court, an InterAmerican Criminal Court). |
| The Karachi Cup 2019 | This house would move Pakistan’s capital to Karachi. |
| The Karachi Cup 2019 | After a speaker has been invited, this house would allow university to vote to reject the speaker from coming to campus. |
| The Karachi Cup 2019 | This house believes that all laws regarding climate change should be subject to a referendum only open to those aged 30 and below. |
| The Karachi Cup 2019 | This house supports the 'Right to be Forgotten' on the internet. |
| The Karachi Cup 2019 | As the author of a non-colonial language (e.g. Marathi, Inuktitut, IsiXhosa, Gikuyu, Tibetan, among others), this house would only write in its native language |
| WW III | TH REGRETS THE COMMERCIALISATION OF ANTI-RAPE PRODUCTS |
| WW III | THIS HOUSE AS THE US CIA WILL DISCLOSE IT |
| WW III | THBT GLOBAL SPORTS GOVERNING BODIES (EG. FIFA) SHOULD PRIORITISE GEO POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN SITUATING CHAMPIONSHIPS |
| WW III | TH AS THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WOULD OFFER ITS ELECTED OFFICIALS THE GRAFT LEEWAY |
| Eastern Visayas British Parliamentary 5: REVIVE | THS eco-tourism |
| Eastern Visayas British Parliamentary 5: REVIVE | THBT feminist movement should actively discourage women from leaving work to raise children |
| Eastern Visayas British Parliamentary 5: REVIVE | THW ban inheritance |
| Eastern Visayas British Parliamentary 5: REVIVE | TH prefer a world where Facebook does not exist |
| Eastern Visayas British Parliamentary 5: REVIVE | THP a world where cannot lie |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | In a world in which the technology has recently been created to impregnate men, TH, as a male partner of a young career-focused woman, would choose to carry their baby. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THB LGB people should emphasize their same-sex attraction |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT sporting teams should change their names where they are considered insensitive (e.g. Crusaders). |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT countries should develop and deploy autonomous robot soldiers in conflict zones that are capable of killing people. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THW militarily intervene in Venezuela |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT African Countries should pivot towards the Global East rather than the Global West. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT social movements should not adopt works of art as symbols where the artist does not identify with that movement (e.g. the feminist movement adopting the close-up of flowers painted by Georgia O’Keeffee believing the paintings to be sexual depictions of female anatomy; the adoption of the horror fim the Babadook by the queer rights movement). |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THR docu-dramas that "put people on trial" after their exoneration or death (e.g. Leaving Neverland about Michael Jackson, The People v. O. J. Simpson, The Disappearance of Madeleine McCann). |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THR pop-culture portrayals of people with chronic or life-threatening illnesses (e.g. Five Feet Apart, Me Before You, The Big Sick, Fault in Our Stars, My Sister’s Keeper). |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THR the Reformation |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT as the Christian church would teach that the Bible is a historically-based account containing human error, rather than teaching that the Bible is the flawless work of God. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | TH prefers religions that teach salvation is achieved through certain behaviours (e.g. good works, five pillars of Islam), over religions that teach salvation is achieved through faith alone. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT members of socially progressive movements should not support harsh punishment of criminals, even when the crimes committed are the opposite of what that movement supports. (e.g. hate crimes; domestic violence; pedophilia) |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | Instead of sentencing offenders to fixed terms of imprisonment, THW sentence offenders to indeterminate sentences of imprisonment and release them when they have been rehabilitated. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THW revoke ISIS fighters' citizenship, even in instances where that would leave them stateless. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THR the decline of trade unions |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THW break-up large social media companies |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THS wage subsidies in regions with persistent economic malaise (e.g. The Rust Belt, Kawerau). |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THW create special intellectual property rights of indefinite duration for the traditional knowledge and culture of indigenous peoples (e.g. gurana berry processing for the Gurani people of South America; ka mate haka for Ngati Toa; dot paintings for the Papunya Tula people in Australia). |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT Labour MPs elected in Maori seats should publicly criticise any Labour Party policy that hurts Maori. |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | TH, as a parent, would send their children to a kohanga reo school (Māori immersion schools). |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT the UK Parliament should cancel Brexit |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THBT NZ should return to First Past the Post (FPP) |
| Joynt Scroll 2019 | THR the narrative that people who are members of marginalised groups (e.g. queer people, people of colour, indigenous people) should only vote for left-wing parties and politicians. |
| The Lyceum Debating Championship 2019 | This House Regrets the societal expectation of going to university. |
| The Lyceum Debating Championship 2019 | This House, as a parent, would allow Vought America to inject their child with Compound V |
| The Lyceum Debating Championship 2019 | THW ban zoos |
| The Lyceum Debating Championship 2019 | This house, as the US government, would break up Facebook, inc. |
| The Lyceum Debating Championship 2019 | In areas with high crime, this house would impose a curfew on men. |
| The Lyceum Debating Championship 2019 | THS Antifa |
| The Lyceum Debating Championship 2019 | If brought back to the 2018 ballot in the Pakistani General Elections, this house would still vote for the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI). |
| Feminism Open 2019 | As feminists, this house supports all forms of self-commodification of one's sex appeal, escorting, sugardaddying / mommying, and starring in porn videos. |
| Feminism Open 2019 | This house believes that Japanese feminists should advocate for the abolition of the Imperial system (天皇制) as opposed to advocating for the inclusion of female imperial members in the line of succession for the Imperial throne. |
| Feminism Open 2019 | This house believes that women who have experienced gender based discrimination are justified in committing misandry. |
| Feminism Open 2019 | This house, as the feminist movement, would advocate for the introduction of a socialized care system in which all people needing care (the elderly, people with disabilities, etc) are cared for by workers selected by a national draft system. |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT Greece should introduce significant financial incentives for companies and individuals currently based in Athens* to relocate to other Greek cities *Over a third of the Greek population lives in Athens. |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT it is in the interest of the Chinese Communist Party to cease attempts to infringe on "One Country, Two Systems" in Hong Kong, rather than continuing its current approach. |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THW encourage women to be selfish |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT it is in the interest of dominant organised religions for their leaders to declare more progressive interpretations of traditional dogma* *e.g. on dietary and pilgrimage requirements, the acceptability of contraception, same-sex relationships |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT consumers should predominantly aim to buy locally produced goods and services |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THW break up Disney |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT schools should teach children to be skeptical of parental authority |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | In circumstances where a unanimous decision is currently required, THP majority voting as the European Council's decision-making approach |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THW make police commanders personally criminally liable for instances of police brutality committed by their subordinates |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | In situations where deliberate economic policies by another state have caused substantial economic harms, THBT international law should recognise that military retaliation can be justified |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT the US Democratic Party should prioritise employment issues, even at the expense of significant harms to the environment. |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | TH Opposes the Defining Decade norm |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT local governments in developing countries should allocate significant portions of their budget via Participatory Budgeting |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT it is in the interest of the Kremlin to take measures to reduce Russian dependency of China (e.g. limit the selling of raw materials to China, reduce the share of Yuan in Russia's currency reserves, not allowing Chinese companies to develop strategic infrastructure such as 5G in Russia) |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT communities that have been victims of atrocities should emphasise the narrative of the 'banality of evil' when interpreting those atrocities |
| Athens EUDC 2019 | THBT the Greek government should have rejected the 2015 bailout deal and sought to negotiate further concessions, even at the risk of not receiving a bailout. |
| II Rio São Paulo Tournament | TH defends the inclusion of e-sports in the Olympic Games |
| II Rio São Paulo Tournament | TH would abstain from buying fast fashion clothing (e.g. Zara, C&A, Renner, etc.) |
| II Rio São Paulo Tournament | TH would invest in the construction of new buildings in detriment of the preservation of historical buildings |
| II Rio São Paulo Tournament | TH regrets the ascension of poverty tourism (e.g. ghettos, favelas, etc.) |
| II Rio São Paulo Tournament | TH, in China's place, would abolish ""one country, two systems" |
| II Rio São Paulo Tournament | TH would abolish the Manaus Free Zone |
| 9th Zamboanga Debate Open | As a voter, THW choose not to vote for a progressive candidate who is part of a political dynasty. |
| 9th Zamboanga Debate Open | THS companies’ usage of the Rainbow in products and ads during Pride Month |
| 9th Zamboanga Debate Open | THBT the predominant just war tradition that binds countries has done more harm than good to their capacity to fight non-state armed groups. |
| 9th Zamboanga Debate Open | THBT newly liberated colonies that are ethnically diverse should not adopt the language of its ethnic majority as its national language. |
| 9th Zamboanga Debate Open | THR cartoon characters who have traditionally been white being re-imagined to have a different ethnicity. |
| 9th Zamboanga Debate Open | THBT development aid that goes to the global south should only be used to fund grassroots NGOs rather than International NGOs. |
| 9th Zamboanga Debate Open | In lieu of the rise of right-wing nationalism in the West, TH prefers advocacy for refugee rights that highlights the narrative that accepting refugees is economically beneficial over one that uses the human rights narrative. |
| European Round Robin 2019 | TH would attend the Queer Liberation March rather than the Stonewall50 March. |
| European Round Robin 2019 | This House, as religious individual would prefer to be a part of a religious community that proselytizes over the one that does not. |
| European Round Robin 2019 | This House Believes That China should seek to curb debt at the expense of economic growth. |
| European Round Robin 2019 | This House Believes That all wealth beyond the necessary to meet one’s basic needs is immoral. |
| European Round Robin 2019 | This House, as the Iranian government, would fulfill its obligations under the JCPOA |
| European Round Robin 2019 | This House prefers a world where family love was seen as unconditional as opposed to conditional. |
| DU IV 2019 | This house as woke liberal parents living in a conservative red state would choose to home school their children |
| DU IV 2019 | THW not allow media to report on crime reported by refugees |
| DU IV 2019 | THBT the remaining members of ICC should breakaway from ICC & form their own unified cricketing body |
| DU IV 2019 | THW never support or finance rebel groups on foreign soil as a tactic of war |
| DU IV 2019 | THBT the LGBTQ+ Community should include Side B Christians |
| DU IV 2019 | TH prefer a world where human life naturally ends at 50 |
| II Fluminense Debate Tournament | TH would not introduce the sitcom ""Chaves"" to your son. |
| II Fluminense Debate Tournament | TH, in the Brazilian government's place, would welcome the Venezuelan immigrants. |
| II Fluminense Debate Tournament | TH would hold accountable the Brazilian government for corruption cases involving Brazilian companies in other Latin American countries |
| II Fluminense Debate Tournament | TH regrets the end of the "Pink Tide" |
| II Fluminense Debate Tournament | TH regrets amnesty laws promulgated at the end of Latin American's military dictatorships. |
| II Fluminense Debate Tournament | TH believes the X Fund is the fairest way to combat drug trafficking in Latin America. |
| II Fluminense Debate Tournament | TH, in Southern Cone countries' place, would walk away from Brazil. |
| Poznan Open 2019 | In areas where minorities face significant barriers to traditional representation of their culture, THS ethnic majority artists who focus their work around minority culture’s appreciation. |
| Poznan Open 2019 | THBT companies should pay corporate tax in all countries that they operate in (proportional to the amount of revenue made in that country), as opposed to only the country that their headquarters are registered in. |
| Poznan Open 2019 | THR the demonization of Russia in Eastern European countries. |
| Poznan Open 2019 | The year is 2020 and in the UK a second referendum on Brexit has reversed the original decision. TH, as the EU, W not allow the UK to cancel Brexit. |
| Poznan Open 2019 | THBT all military strategies are justified if they save more lives than they cost. |
| Poznan Open 2019 | THW destroy the evidence |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR the creation of the Philippine Space Agency |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT all research that have been funded through government grants should not qualify for patents |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | TH, as the scientific community, regrets the premium placed on winning the Nobel Prize |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT high-profile crimes should be discussed purely in academic platforms (e.g., in documentaries, educational systems, and museums) |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THW ban public figures with pending criminal cases from defending their supposed innocence outside of the court (e.g., through social media, TV networks and news outlets) |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THW make news reporting on drugs, vaccines, and other related substances subject to the approval of an independent panel of medical experts |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR the act of converting to the religion of your partner as a show of love |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT Public Displays of Affection (PDAs) do more harm than good to relationships |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | TH, as an individual migrating to another country, would break up with their significant other over pursuing a long-distance relationship |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THS the US ban on Huawei |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | In light of recent events, TH, as Iran, would continue to comply with the Iran Nuclear Deal through strategic patience |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | TH, as Western Liberal Democracies, would actively support civil disobedience in Sudan |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR Canada's decision to describe the disappearance and murder of its Indigenous women and children as genocide |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THS South Africa's land-expropriation-without-compensation reform |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT India's ethnic and religious minorities should establish and support ethnicity and religion-based parties as a response to the success of BJP and Narendra Modi in the recent election |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the 1% should shoulder the costs of going green |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | As a response to excessive food consumption, THW allocate a fixed ration to all citizens |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the battle against climate change is best fought through the courts |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THS the removal of Filipino as a required subject at the tertiary level |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THW remove tax benefits from schools with faculty members who have publicly stated political positions (e.g. in blogs, tweets, and editorials) that contradict progressive values |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR the rapid expansion of online schools |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THW not provide rehabilitation to areas with citizens who refuse to leave after repeated relocation efforts by the government |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the funds for the rehabilitation of Marawi should be distributed to its survivors rather than remain at the government’s discretion |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the private sector should take the lead in post-disaster rehabilitation |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | TH welcomes the conversion of massive agricultural lands for residential and commercial use |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the moderate Left and the National Democratic Front should unite in response to Duterte’s consolidation of power in all branches of the government |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR the attachment of national pride to one's consumption |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR the glorification of martyrdom |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THW require individuals to seek the approval of their families before their request for assisted suicide is honored |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | TH prefers the improvement of technologies geared towards working with the present human condition over the adoption of those designed to greatly enhance the human intellect and form |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the trans community should oppose the advertising of gender confirmation surgery and other medical interventions that deal with gender incongruence |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the LGBTQIA+ community should abandon shaming as a strategy in dealing with critiques |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | TH, as the Philippine LGBTQIA+ movement, would prioritize the use of local queer terminology (e.g., bakla, babaylan and binabae) over those that originate from the West (e.g., transgender and genderqueer) |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT members of rebel militia groups who join as minors should be pardoned |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT Philippine national curricula should portray a unanimously and graphically negative account of the impact of Western colonization. |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT the Philippines should scrap the AAL |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR the creation of memorials (e.g., buildings, monuments and statues) to commemorate victims of terrorism |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THBT party-list representatives must be a member of the marginalized or underrepresented sector that the party aims to represent. |
| Philippines Intervarsity Debating Championship 2019 | THR the dominant portrayal of sex workers as victims |
| Tilbury House Cologne Open 2019 | THS the use of extra-legal and illegal methods to provide wider access to knowledge (e.g. sci-hub, hacking Jstor, unauthorised distribution of files and copies) |
| Tilbury House Cologne Open 2019 | In places where conscription of men already exists, THBT the feminist movement should advocate for conscription of women |
| Tilbury House Cologne Open 2019 | THW ban private ownership of 3D printers |
| Tilbury House Cologne Open 2019 | THS such organizations |
| Tilbury House Cologne Open 2019 | THW elect 51% of parliament by lottery |
| Tilbury House Cologne Open 2019 | THO artwork that humanizes pro-regime germans during the Second World War |
| Tilbury House Cologne Open 2019 | THR the modern high priorisation of sexual compatibility in romantic relationships. |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THBT women should decline chivalrous gestures |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THS using social media platforms to depict stories from the Holocaust |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THW ban religious arbitration courts |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THS the strategy of “decapitation” in fighting transnational criminal organizations |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THW NOT enforce pharmaceutical patent infringements within developing nations |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THO social media banning of alt-right figures |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THW create and teach a unified history curriculum in the European Union |
| Vienna IV 2019 | THBT Gavrilo Princip was justified in killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House Would expel states which fail to spend a minimum of 2% of GDP on defence from NATO. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House Believes that feminist movements in the developing world should integrate religious messages and institutions into their advocacy, rather than distancing themselves from them. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House Believes That the West should massively discourage and disincentivise economic collaboration and exchange with China. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House Would raise their child to prefer to be single. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | THBT the democratic nominee should commit to abolishing ICE |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House Believes That it is in the interest of the Russian Federation for Vladimir Putin to run for a fifth term as President in 2024. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House prefers technocracy to democracy. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House Believes That it is in the interest of the Russian Federation for Vladimir Putin to run for a fifth term as President in 2024. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | This House prefers technocracy to democracy. |
| Cambridge IV 2019 | THBT Palestinians should prioritise striving to consolidate a Palestinian state in the Westbank and the Gaza Strip as opposed to seeking the right to return to Israel. |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT the academia should disallow researchers to submit theses for a certain period of time(e.g. 2 years) when they submit their theses on predatory journals |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT universities should abolish preferential admission for the wealthy (such as legacy admission, prioritization based on donation) |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THP all scholarships be granted solely on the basis of financial needs as opposed to merit |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT professional gaming teams should not hire players who have made sexist remarks |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT the transgender community should actively seek to separate themselves ( their issues and their collective identity) from the LGBTQ+ community |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT the LGBT movement should oppose popular artists “Queerbaiting” with their own sexuality |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW impose legal obligations on major online media companies (YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) to censor the Manosphere. (e.g. blocking accounts, taking down content) |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT Western states should engage in covert cyber-attacks against infrastructure designed to limit freedom of speech* in authoritarian states. *e.g., the Great Firewall of China |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW ban expressions that glorify suicide |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THS a two parliament system where one consists of elected representatives and the other consists of experts or individuals with outstanding achievement in their field of study or activity |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THR the common focus by voters on the ideological consistency of politicians |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT figureheads of national liberation movement (eg. Aung Sang Suu Kyi, Dalai Lama) should not become politicians after their movement succeeds |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT parents should not teach their children to aspire to a dream which is unlikely to be achieved |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT parents should not teach morality to their underage children through religious context (e.g. “it is a sin to lie”; "help the neighbor" etc.) |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT parents should not share their children's photo publicly |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT doctors should not report to the police when they give medical treatments to illegal drug users |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW take away the driver's license of the elderly |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THR the rise of recruitment the employee referral |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW prohibit the poor and lower middle class from purchasing risk assets |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW mandate all citizens to purchase attorney fee insurance |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW require isolated religious communities to have their children live outside of their communities for a certain period of time (e.g. for one or two years at the age of 15) |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT Google should not have pulled out of the military contract with the Pentagon |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW prohibit the end to end encryption of telecommunication |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THR the accelerated competition in the Japanese QR code industry |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THS Elizabeth Warren’s proposal to break up large tech companies |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW levy size-based business tax instead of corporation tax on profit |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW abandon the use of GDP as the standard index to measure a nation's prosperity |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THW teach children to question and undermine authority |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THBT all trials should be incorporeal trials |
| JPDU Spring Tournament | THO the narrative "do unto others as you would lke them to do unto you" |
| Easters 2019 | That, as a feminist parent, we would send our daughter to an all-girls school as opposed to a comparable co-ed school. |
| Easters 2019 | That feminists should actively campaign for quotas and increased female involvement in the military. |
| Easters 2019 | That we should ban pregnant women from working during the last month of their pregnancy. |
| Easters 2019 | That we should allow scientific journals to publish anonymous papers. |
| Easters 2019 | That schools should be allowed to expel students who are violent or consistent bullies, even if there is not a school immediately willing to take them. |
| Easters 2019 | That, assuming feasibility, governments should cap parents' expenditure on their children to an amount equivalent to the current median expenditure per year. |
| Easters 2019 | That we should hold pharmaceutical companies liable for harms caused by widespread misuse of their drugs. |
| Easters 2019 | That we should allow doctors to override Advance Care Directives. |
| Easters 2019 | That judges should prescribe Naltrexone instead of mandating Alcoholics Anonymous for offenders of minor alcohol related crimes. |
| Easters 2019 | That African American rap artists have a moral obligation to donate their disposable income to African American low socioeconomic-status areas |
| Easters 2019 | That the queer community should abandon the trend of making queer events/celebrations open to cis/straight allies (eg. bars, parties, events, mardi gras, etc). |
| Easters 2019 | That schools should encourage children from minority backgrounds to 'code switch'. |
| Easters 2019 | That prominent social activists (e.g. the leaders of Black Lives Matter, Aung San Suu Kyi) should not choose to run for office. ( |
| Easters 2019 | That it would be in the interests of the Democratic Party if Kamala Harris were to win the Presidential nomination instead of Bernie Sanders. |
| Easters 2019 | That we would, as the Coalition, dedicate substantial resources into challenging the legal status of minor parties and their candidates (eg. Section 44, the number of signatures, etc.) |
| Easters 2019 | That the state should offer criminals a new identity upon serving their sentence (e.g. new name, new background, optional plastic surgery). |
| Easters 2019 | That judges should not consider whether evidence was collected legally when deciding to admit it. |
| Easters 2019 | That we should ban prison guards from striking. |
| Easters 2019 | That the public, via referendum, should be given the power to pardon/give amnesty to whistleblowers. |
| Easters 2019 | That, as a Rohingya Muslim fleeing the Myanmar military, we would join ARSA. (Octo-finals) That we regret the custom of giving gifts. |
| Easters 2019 | That we regret narratives of deference to the elderly (e.g. "older people are more experienced"). |
| Easters 2019 | That the Bretton Woods institutions (i.e. the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) have done more harm than good. |
| Easters 2019 | That, assuming feasibility, we should charge corporations a tax equal to their Social Cost instead of company tax. |
| Easters 2019 | That the queer community should actively embrace religious organisations and queer religious individuals in its leadership positions and advocacy. |
| Cracow Open 2019 | This House welcomes complete video surveillance systems of public spaces in cities. |
| Cracow Open 2019 | This House believes that the EU should pursue further relations with China, at the expense of relations with the US. |
| Cracow Open 2019 | This House would criminalize defamation. |
| Cracow Open 2019 | This House, as an individual, prefers believing that they can singlehandedly change the world over believing that they are just one pawn in the grand scheme of things. |
| Cracow Open 2019 | This House believes that pro-refugee advocacy groups should portray refugees as valuable contributors to society, rather than victims of their circumstances. |
| Cracow Open 2019 | This House believes that wages should be predominantly determined by the public utility of a job. |
| Cracow Open 2019 | This House regrets rising commodification of close and intimate relationships (including but not limited to hiring actors to play your family members; commercial hugging; premium accounts on dating apps). |
| USUDC 2019 | THR the decline in influence of ‘gatekeeping’ media institutions (major newspapers, network news, etc.) |
| USUDC 2019 | THW no longer require parental consent for administering invasive procedures on adolescents (e.g. piercing and tattoos, cosmetic surgery, sex reassignment surgery, etc.) |
| USUDC 2019 | After popular uprisings resulting in the overthrow of long-time dictators, THBT Western nations should make support (e.g. diplomatic recognition, foreign aid, investments) to the new government explicitly contingent on holding internationally observed elections within 6 months of the dictator’s end. |
| USUDC 2019 | THW embrace transhumanist philosophy. |
| USUDC 2019 | THBT secondary education (ages 10-18) should focus on preparing students for local workforce needs rather than focusing on well-rounded basic education (i.e. mathematics, literature, physical and biological sciences, art, history) |
| USUDC 2019 | THW pay known gang members to not commit violent crimes |
| USUDC 2019 | THO employer-provided benefits (e.g. health insurance, childcare, retirement investment accounts) |
| USUDC 2019 | THW create matriarchal semi-autonomous regions within countries, and provide legal, political, and economic support to them |
| USUDC 2019 | TH, as Japan, would support closing all U.S. military bases on Japanese territory. |
| USUDC 2019 | This house regrets the corporatization of higher education. |
| USUDC 2019 | This supports prison abolition as opposed to prison reform. |
| USUDC 2019 | THR the stance of U.S. foreign policy in favor of Sunni forces in the Shia-Sunni conflict in the Middle East. |
| USUDC 2019 | This house regrets the modern idealization of Civil Rights leaders as moderate, pacifist, and respectable. |
| USUDC 2019 | THW divide the United States of America into multiple countries |
| USUDC 2019 | THBT LGBTQ+ activists in non-Western countries should use and advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and individuals using their local historical terms (mahjie, hijra, etc.) instead of Western terminology (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender etc.). |
| America's Cup 2019 | THR the decline of Black militant groups |
| America's Cup 2019 | THW ban the colonization of space |
| America's Cup 2019 | THO democracy |
| Deree Invitational LVII | THBT women should pay less income tax than men |
| Deree Invitational LVII | THW give up |
| Deree Invitational LVII | THW never support or finance rebel groups on foreign soil as a tactic of war. |
| Deree Invitational LVII | TH, as the parent of a child prodigy, would push that child to maximize its potential. |
| Deree Invitational LVII | THBT environmentalists and animal rights activists should launch violent campaigns against companies that pollute the environment or violate animals' rights. |
| Deree Invitational LVII | THW introduce a maximum wage. |
| Deree Invitational LVII | THBT the WTO should allow developing countries to impose tariffs on imports from developed countries. |
| Deree Invitational LVII | THBT mainstream political parties in Europe should impose a "cordon sanitaire" on radical populist parties (e.g. VOX, AFD, PPV). |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | TH supports job security legislation |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THW implement substantial measures to impose long-termism in corporate investment culture (eg. minimum holding periods for shares, yearly rather than quarterly financial reporting, long term executive compensation plans) |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THW prohibit hedge funds from purchasing sovereign debt issued by countries nearing insolvency |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | TH, as the BJP, would reinstate Articles 370 and 35(A) of the Indian Constitution. |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | TH, as Xi Jinping, would remove Hong Kong’s Special Administrative Status |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THR the erosion of national sovereignty by large supranational bodies (eg the EU and the UN) |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THR the rise of movements based on ethical consumption |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THBT anyone living above the national median wage has an obligation to donate all excess wealth to charity |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THW implement universal jurisdiction for environmental crimes |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | TH, as Greta Thunberg, would openly denounce capitalism as the root of climate change |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THW prevent climate change deniers from seeking political office |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | TH, as Iran, would cease all support for military groups in the Middle East (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis etc) |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | THBT governments should abandon the strategy of "decapitation" in fighting terrorism. Infoslide: In the context of anti-terrorism, decapitation refers to the strategy of targeting terrorist leaders for assassination. |
| LUMS Asians' Debate Open | TH, as the Chinese state, would send in the People's Liberation Army to take back control of Hong Kong |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | THS the use of local lay judges in minor legal cases |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | This House supports the US’s use of economic warfare (eg. tariffs, targeted sanctions, etc.) against China in order to force compliance with the rules of the global economic order (eg. opening up its economy, protecting intellectual property, not engaging in currency manipulation, etc.) |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | THW ban the research, production and use of lethal autonomous weapons |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | TH regrets the Westernisation of the elites in post-colonial societies. (e.g. speaking predominantly in English, wearing western clothing, going to schools and/or universities in the West, consuming predominantly Western media) |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | THBT shrinking cities should be allowed to impose an “exit tax” on leaving businesses |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | THBT liberal states should sponsor the hacking of infrastructure designed to limit freedom of speech in authoritarian states |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | TH, as the UK conservative party, would hold a second Brexit referendum |
| Estonia Debate Open 2019 | TH prefers a world in which the prevailing norm is one of serial monogamy rather than monogamy |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | 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). |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | THW grant senior military officers a veto over military decisions made by politicians (e.g. troop deployments, specific missions). |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | TH supports social movements having strict standards for what members should believe e.g feminists excluding pro-life feminists from the Women’s March. |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | THBT developing countries with substantial natural resources should nationalise natural resource production. |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | TH prefers secular governments that exclude all religion from public spaces to those that allow unlimited religious expression. |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | THBT mainstream Spanish political parties should operate cordon sanitaire policies towards radical populists (e.g. VOX). |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | 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”). |
| Barcelona Debating Open 2019 | TH prefers a world where the majority believed in determinism over one where the majority believed in free will. |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THBT States/Provinces/Territories should be able to decide whether to implement federal laws and regulations. |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THBT Indigenous/Metis peoples should be guaranteed a middle-class income as reparations for past injustices. |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THBT the public’s right to know ought to be valued above the right to privacy of candidates for public office. |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THS Prohibit the advertisement of prescription medicine to the general public |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THBT all undocumented minors should be granted permanent residency. |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THS allow the populace to petition for revotes of elected officials during their term |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THS ban providing military aid to authoritative regimes |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THS substantially increase its development and/or engagement to the Republic of India. |
| Muslim Interscholastic Tournament | THS Considerably decrease its regulation of genetically modified foods. |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THBT Brazil should fully privatize Petrobras / ECCQ Brasil debería privatizar por completo Petrobras |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THBT that Western countries should revoke the citizenship of individuals that traveled to the Middle East to join Jihadi groups, even if they were minors at the time of their departure / ECCQ los países occidentales deberían revocar la ciudadanía a los individuos que se trasladaron a Medio Oriente para integrarse a grupos Jihadistas , incluso si eran menores de edad al momento de su translado |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THS state attempts to help their citizens find and sustain love (e.g. subsidizing subscriptions to matching agencies such as match.com, significant funding for research on what makes a relationship last, creating courses on how to woo and keep a spouse) / EC apoya que el estado busque ayudar a sus ciudadanos a encontrar y mantener el amor (ej. Subsidiando suscripciones a sitios de citas como match.com, financiando significativamente investigaciones sobre cómo hacer que una relación perdure, creando cursos sobre cómo sorprender y conservar a tu pareja) |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THBT major awards of meritocratic distinction (e.g. the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, Oscars, etc) should include a moral clause* *a provision that allows the honoree to receive, or hold, the award only in the case they meet a behavioral standard set by the awarding panel. / ECCQ los principales premios de reconocimiento al mérito (Ej. Premio Nobel, Premio Pulitzer, Oscar’s, etc.) deberían incluir una cláusula moral* *una condición que permite al homenajeado recibirlo y conservarlo únicamente cuando cumplan con un estándar de comportamiento establecido por el jurado calificador. |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THBT developing countries should pursue the establishment of charter cities / ECCQ los países en vía de desarrollo deberían establecer ciudades chárter |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THBT the general educational approach in schools should be to discourage children from assessing their achievements in comparison to their peers. / ECCQ el enfoque general de la educación en los colegios debe ser desincentivar que los niños midan sus logros comparándolos con los de sus pares. |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | In countries with proportional representation, THS founding political parties that exclusively represents women’s interests / En países con representación proporcional, EC apoya la creación de partidos políticos que representan exclusivamente los intereses de las mujeres. |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THW prohibit businesses from adopting a public position on social justice issues (e.g. LGBTQIA+, racial relations, abortion, etc) |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | THS countries granting rights to nature |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | EC preferiría unirse al Club de los 27 que vivir una vida anónima promedio. |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | En casos en que un funcionario público sea acusado de corrupción, EC reduciría el estándar probatorio al del “balance de probabilidades”* en vez del de la “duda razonable”. |
| Pan American Debating Championships 2019 | ECCQ el involucramientode Estados Unidos en Panama (presencia militar, influencia cultural, relaciones economicas estrechas, etc) beneficia a los panamenos. |
| Colgate Open | THBT DINOs do more harm than good to the Democratic Party |
| Colgate Open | In minority communities, THW prioritize free access to university over higher standards of schools education |
| Colgate Open | THW, as a parent, teach their daughters to devalue romantic relationships |
| Colgate Open | As part of the post-conflict government transition, TH, as the US would have partitioned Iraq into 3 separate states. |
| Colgate Open | THW break up big tech companies (Amazon, Facebook, Google). |
| Colgate Open | THBT liberal supreme courts should misinterpret the constitution to advance progressive rights |
| Colgate Open | The westminster model is a form of government in which the executive is drawn from the elected parliament (ie. Canada, UK, Australia ect.) The prime minister is the head of the largest party or coalition, and all the cabinet ministers are Members of Parliament. In a Presidential Executive only the President (and Vice President) are elected by the population and all cabinet positions (executive) are appointed by the President (ie. the United States, France). The President also normally does not have direct control over the legislature. Motion: THS the presidential executive over the westminster model |
| Colgate Open | THBT there is no moral obligation to follow the law |
| Colgate Open | Assuming that it would be illegal for anyone to become stateless, THW create a marketplace for the buying and selling of citizenship between private individuals. |
| NAW*DC | THW make college admissions a randomized lottery |
| NAW*DC | THW record and publicize all criminal trial proceedings (eg, indictment hearings, testimonies, jury deliberations) |
| NAW*DC | THS international intervention in Venezuela |
| NAW*DC | Assuming it could be done without placing the burden of secrecy on adults, THP a world in which individuals are unaware of the existence of organized religions for the duration of their childhood. |
| NAW*DC | THR the narrative of the American Dream. |
| NAW*DC | THR society's focus on the perspectives of mass murderers |
| NAW*DC | THBT western tech companies should actively pursue contracts with the Chinese government and Chinese firms |
| NAW*DC | TH, as the LGBTQ+ community, would boycott RuPaul's Drag Race. |
| NAW*DC | Assuming the public would never find out, THP historical narratives that prioritize equal representation throughout history, even if people and events need to be fabricated. |
| ASEAN Debate Invitational 2019 | THW create an ASEAN football team to compete for World Cup instead of national teams. |
| ASEAN Debate Invitational 2019 | THBT ASEAN should follow the supranational model of the EU. |
| ASEAN Debate Invitational 2019 | THW form an ASEAN military alliance for collective defense. |
| ASEAN Debate Invitational 2019 | THW form an ASEAN military alliance for collective defense. |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THBT the US should abandon complete denuclearization as a prerequisite to easing sanctions on NK |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THBT the US should abandon complete denuclearization as a prerequisite to easing sanctions on NK |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THR the rise in political consumerism |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THR the rise in political consumerism |
| Budapest Open 2019 | Given a way to accurately measure an individual's empathy, THW only allow individuals with high levels of empathy for people beyond their immediate circle to vote in elections. |
| Budapest Open 2019 | Given a way to accurately measure an individual's empathy, THW only allow individuals with high levels of empathy for people beyond their immediate circle to vote in elections. |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THBT the IMF should require collateral in exchange for loans |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THBT the IMF should require collateral in exchange for loans |
| Budapest Open 2019 | TH, as the Pope, would abolish the concept of Hell |
| Budapest Open 2019 | TH, as the Pope, would abolish the concept of Hell |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THS the creation of a global citizenship market |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THS the creation of a global citizenship market |
| Budapest Open 2019 | TH, as the EPP, Would Expel Fidesz |
| Budapest Open 2019 | TH, as the EPP, Would Expel Fidesz |
| Budapest Open 2019 | In cities and areas with rapidly increasing housing costs, THW tax new residents and use the revenue to subsidize housing costs for citizens already residing in the area |
| Budapest Open 2019 | In cities and areas with rapidly increasing housing costs, THW tax new residents and use the revenue to subsidize housing costs for citizens already residing in the area |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THR the narrative that forgiveness is a virtue |
| Budapest Open 2019 | THR the narrative that forgiveness is a virtue |
| Empire Debates 2019 | THW establish a content rating system (e.g. the MPAA rating system for movies) for children’s and Young Adult literature - Round 2 |
| Empire Debates 2019 | TH, as a hopeful for the Democratic presidential nomination, would not endorse Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal |
| Empire Debates 2019 | THBT Muslim states in Asia (including but not limited to Malaysia, Indonesia, Afghanistan, etc) should participate in currency, finance, and resource unions with Arab states rather than regional powerhouses (e.g. China, India, Russia). |
| Empire Debates 2019 | Assuming a world where superheroes exist, TH, as the United Nations, would regulate their engagement in conflicts |
| Empire Debates 2019 | THBT in times of crisis that threaten the existence of a community (e.g., famine, war, plague, natural disaster, etc), capable individuals from the community have a moral obligation to dedicate their time directly towards ending the crisis instead of pursuing nonessential activities (e.g., playing sports, making non-propagandist/apolitical art, going on vacation to the beach, pursuing education irrelevant to the crisis, etc. |
| Empire Debates 2019 | THW reallocate public school funding to create a voucher program for the poorest 10% of American households |
| Empire Debates 2019 | THBT the United States and its allies should abandon the use of gay rights diplomacy in developing nations. |
| Empire Debates 2019 | THR the concept of martyrdom |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT governments should stop funding scientific programmes that have no immediate benefit for humankind (such as space travel and exploration, human cloning) |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT Western states should permanently revoke the citizenship of citizens who join terrorist organisations |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | TH regrets the EU’s introduction of freedom of movement |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THW suspend trade union powers and significantly relax labour protection laws in times of economic crisis |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT causing deliberate harms to enemy civilians, by the weaker side, is a justified tactic in asymmetrical warfare |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | TH regrets the idealisation of motherhood |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | Infoslide: For the purposes of this debate, you are an out gay/lesbian individual in a Western liberal democracy. |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT female political candidates in liberal democracies should not appeal to traditional female roles in their campaigns |
| Leiden Open 2019 | THBT the European Union should expel Hungary |
| Leiden Open 2019 | This House Supports the rise of websites that provide free access to open source and pay-wall protected academic resources |
| Leiden Open 2019 | issues that are classically seen as part of the political domain are increasingly decided on by courts through legislation. Examples include, but are not limited to: the Dutch state successfully being sued to take stronger measures against climate change (Urgenda) and forcing political parties to allow women as candidates (SGP), the British Supreme Court deciding whether the Lower House should have a vote on Brexit and Trumps measures being increasingly challenged in courts. Motion: THR the judicialisation of politics |
| Leiden Open 2019 | THW allow natural persons to pay people not to vote |
| Leiden Open 2019 | THW choose the job they are passionate about |
| Leiden Open 2019 | This House prefers a world with a dominant norm of not expressing strong emotions |
| Leiden Open 2019 | India, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan, and South Korea. The structure of the alliance treaty replicates all the clauses of the NATO treaty. Motion: This House supports Asian NATO |
| Leiden Open 2019 | Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Motion: This house believes that ”Dulce et Decorum Est pro Patria Mori” (i.e. the belief that it is sweet and right to die for your country) |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THS civil rights activists using disruptive or violent civil disobedience as a tool of protest (e.g. the Stansted 15, Gilets Jaunes/Antifa movements) |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THBT major film studios should substantially increase the number of lead roles for female villains in their blockbuster films |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THS a Unity Ticket by prominent members of the Republican and Democratic parties in the 2020 US presidential elections |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THW implement filial responsibility laws |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THBT states should actively attempt to make contact with Uncontacted Peoples and provide them with modern medicine and technology |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THR the trend of centring self-destructive/antisocial characters as protagonists in media (e.g. Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Sherlock, Mad Men…) |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THBT developing countries should actively discourage the creation of primate cities |
| Manchester IV 2019 | TH prefers a world with a widespread belief in Radical Freedom |
| Manchester IV 2019 | THBT the scientific community should reject the view that science and religion are non-overlapping magisteria |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | THW ban embedded journalism |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | THW publicly televise the execution of death row inmates |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | THW actively relocate unemployed people living in areas of high and structural unemployment |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | THW provide amnesty to violent political dissidents in exchange for removing their ability to vote or run for public office, e.g. the integration of FARC rebels into Colombia |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | THBT professionals should have the right to refuse to provide their services based on religous grounds. |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | THW give land grants to women in developing nations |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | This house, as an upper-middle-class African American, would resettle in Africa. |
| GWU IV / US Universities Debate Eastern Championship 2019 | Assuming feasibility, THW sacrifice the rich. |
| PEP IV | THW give two votes to members of disenfranchised ethnic minorities. |
| PEP IV | THW ban TalkToys |
| PEP IV | THBT liberal democrats should provide financial and legal aid to their citizens who wish to permanently migrate abroad. |
| PEP IV | THBT Asian countries should pivot away from US and seeker closer ties with China. |
| PEP IV | THBT Pope Francis should take radical action to convince Catholics to vote only for political parties who promote redistributive policies. |
| PEP IV | THBT states should prioritise the lives of their own soldiers over those of enemy non-combatants. |
| PEP IV | THR the decline of Marxism in Western Europe. |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | thw ban personal accolades in team sports |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | thw make it a war crime to kill child soldiers in any circumstance |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | in developing nations, thbt workers should be allowed to trade off their employment benefits (eg pensions, health insurance, protections from labor laws) in exchange for higher wages |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | th, as the actress would accept the role |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | thw subsidize youths that opt into entrepreneurship instead of pursuing university degrees (designing, launching, and running a new business eg start ups) |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | thw relocate refugees to countries based solely on the receiving countries' level of economic wealth |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | thr the recreational ownership of pets |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | th, as the us Democrats, would agree to fund trump's border wall in exchange for increased gun control measures |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | thr the glorification of altruism |
| FLTRP Training Beijing Debate Open | thw set a cap on the personal wealth an individual is allowed to own (including the value of shares that individuals own in companies |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | THW actively instill a value of disobeying authority in children. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | TH as the US would never militarily intervene in other countries. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | THR the westernization of the elites in post-colonial countries. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | THBT being single is preferable to being in a relationship. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | THBT liberal media organisations should actively glorify democratic candidates of color. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | THBT it is always unjustifiable to maintain friendship with somebody who use hate speech. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | THR the celebration of soldiers as heroes. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | Assuming that technology to do so existed, THW would progressively tax happiness and redistribute it. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | TH, as an Asian American, would not support the suit against Harvard University. |
| Cornell Novice Nationals 2019 & Cornell IV 2019 | THS the idea of authoritarian reformers in developing countries. |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT governments should stop funding scientific programmes that have no immediate benefit for humankind (such as space travel and exploration, human cloning) |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT Western states should permanently revoke the citizenship of citizens who join terrorist organisations |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | TH regrets the EU’s introduction of freedom of movement |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THW suspend trade union powers and significantly relax labour protection laws in times of economic crisis |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT causing deliberate harms to enemy civilians, by the weaker side, is a justified tactic in asymmetrical warfare |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | TH regrets the idealisation of motherhood |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THW never enter into a relationship with a closeted individual |
| Munich Research Open 2019 | THBT female political candidates in liberal democracies should not appeal to traditional female roles in their campaigns |
| UDP Open 2019 | THBT European countries should change school syllabuses to disproportionally emphasis Arab and Islamic contributions to European culture. |
| UDP Open 2019 | THW hold the Catholic Church legally responsible for sexual abuse, harrasment and grooming committed by clergy members. |
| UDP Open 2019 | THBT the BDS movement reduces the likelihood of a two state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. |
| UDP Open 2019 | Given the technology was available, THW allow the sale of personality traits and characteristics (such as IQ, musicality and determination). |
| UDP Open 2019 | THW grant Maduro and main officials of the Venezuelan regime amnesty in exchange for handing power over to Juan Guadio. |
| UDP Open 2019 | TH as a Yellow Vest, supports attempts by Les Emergents to run for elections in European and French elections. |
| Berkeley IV 2019 | THBT housing activists in San Francisco should advocate for the abolition of zoning regulations rather than increased rent control.. |
| Berkeley IV 2019 | For nonviolent infractions (e.g. failure to pay tax or debts, possession of illict substances), THP an individual social credit system over incarceration. |
| Berkeley IV 2019 | THBT liberal media outlets should prioritize sensational reporting (e.g., Daily Kos, Young Turks) over neutral journalism (e.g., CNN, New York Times). |
| Berkeley IV 2019 | THBT environmental activists should reject eco-friendly public-private partnerships and insist on stricter environmental regulations |
| Berkeley IV 2019 | THBT search engine algorithms and results should not be protected by the First Amendment as editorial speech. |
| Berkeley IV 2019 | THBT it is in the interest of Britain to have a second referendum on Brexit. |
| Berkeley IV 2019 | THBT capitalism and feminism are fundamentally incompatible. |
| The PES Debate Open | This House would allow people raised in isolated communities (e.g. the Amish, Hasidic Jews) to sue their communities for harms caused by their lifestyle |
| The PES Debate Open | TH, as the US Democrats, would give funding for the border wall in order to definitively end the government shutdown |
| The PES Debate Open | This House regrets mainstream media's popularization of Western drag culture |
| The PES Debate Open | THBT liberal states should fund the hacking of infrastructure designed to limit freedom of speech in authoritarian states |
| The PES Debate Open | This House regrets the increasing presence of nihilism in popular culture (eg. BoJack Horseman, Rick and Morty, Nihilist Memes etc.) |
| The PES Debate Open | This House prefers a world where everybody believes in the concept of a sleeping God rather than an active God. |
| The PES Debate Open | This House would rather be a part of the "Club 27" than live an average anonymous life |
| The PES Debate Open | This House believes that Tech Giants (e.g. Google, Amazon, Facebook) should NOT be permitted to sue for patent infringement |
| The PES Debate Open | This House believes that the world was better 10 years ago #tenyearchallenge |
| Northams 2019 | THS universal basic income rather than conditional welfare programs (such as unemployment and food stamps). |
| Northams 2019 | THBT Scotland should immediately announce a second referendum on independence from the UK. |
| Northams 2019 | Given political feasibility, TH prefers a carbon tax to cap-and-trade. |
| Northams 2019 | THBT the LGBTQ+ movement should not have focused on military inclusion as a major policy initiative. |
| Northams 2019 | THBT states should not publicly subsidize the production or display of art. |
| Northams 2019 | THBT the United States should offer significant military aid, lifting of sanctions, and economic aid to the Venezuelan military if they oust Maduro and support Guaido. |
| Northams 2019 | TH, as Canada, would not extradite Meng Wanzhou to the United States. |
| Northams 2019 | THBT the threater and musical community should abandon the "no-change" norm. |
| Northams 2019 | THBT popular referenda should be banned in Western liberal democracies. |
| Northams 2019 | TH, as Canada, would not extradite Meng Wanzhou to the United States. |
| Northams 2019 | THBT the threater and musical community should abandon the "no-change" norm. |
| Northams 2019 | THBT every billionaire is a policy failure. |
| Western Washington University 2019 | The GOP should seek to run an alternate candidate to compete with Trump during the presidential primaries |
| Western Washington University 2019 | This House Would hold a second binding referendum on whether the UK should leave the EU |
| Western Washington University 2019 | This House Regrets the feminist movement's devaluation of traditionally feminine roles |
| Western Washington University 2019 | This House Regrets the increased prevalence of hostile architecture |
| Western Washington University 2019 | This House Would not intervene in the internal affairs of Venezuela |
| Western Washington University 2019 | This House Believes That acts of political protest that intentionally result in the death of an individual protester should not be stopped by others (for example: self immolation, in protest of Tibet) |
| Western Washington University 2019 | This House Believes That acts of political protest that intentionally result in the death of an individual protester should not be stopped by others (for example: self immolation, in protest of Tibet) |
| Western Washington University 2019 | This House, the US Congress, Should enforce the war powers act by limiting the ability of the executive branch to independently use military force against or within the boundaries of sovereign nations, except when authorized by Congress |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THP a world without state-funded news organizations (e.g. BBC, AlJazeera, China Xinuan News, Russia Today (RT), etc.) |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THW expand the legal definition of a "false police report" to include reports made with minimal information, or reports that could reasonably be considered unnecessary. |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THBT the development of highly realistic virtual reality technology for recreational use does more harm than good. |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THP state capitalism over liberal capitalism. |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THS governments donating the organs of an individual after death, even against the wishes of that person or their family |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THW require participants of institutions from former colonial powers to pay higher registration fees when attending large-scale international events (such as academic conferences, sporting events, debate tournaments, etc.) |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | TH as the OIC would cease business with China (eg freezing assets, boycotting firms, imposing tarrifs, imposing sanctions) until the Uighurs are given safety and religious liberty |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THBT disruptions of the government (eg fillibusters, civil servant strikes, and government shutdowns) are a legitimate political tool |
| Brad Smith Debate Tournament | THBT extreme economic need should be grounds for asylum |
| York IV 2019 | Given a trade-off, THW direct environmental policy towards mitigation of climate change, rather than prevention. |
| York IV 2019 | THW make Ulysses contracts legally enforceable |
| York IV 2019 | THW require all professional football teams to be majority-owned by their fans |
| York IV 2019 | TH, as Turkey, would heavily align its foreign policy agenda towards Russia |
| York IV 2019 | THW prohibit the media from reporting on the mental illness of those accused of crimes |
| Campus-Debatte Wien 2019 | This House would abolish prisons. |
| Campus-Debatte Wien 2019 | This House regrets the thought of the "Zero Hour |
| Campus-Debatte Wien 2019 | This House believes that all states should create and publish a list of those financial institutions that would be saved by Bail-Out in a crisis. |
| Campus-Debatte Wien 2019 | This house would abolish the Womens’ League in chess |
| Campus-Debatte Wien 2019 | This house prefers the transhumanist world to the current state of humanity in the western world |
| Campus-Debatte Wien 2019 | This house prefers a post-growth society to a society geared towards growth. |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House, as South Africa, would forcibly break up exclusive Afrikaaner enclaves |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that the protections of international law conventions and treaties should not apply to combatants from terrorist organisations (e.g. prohibition on torture, prisoner of war status, guarantee of post-conflict release) |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House opposes the norm that romantic love should be the primary source of fulfilment in a person's life |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that the ongoing process of decolonisation should include actively disempowering religions that were imposed on the country during colonialism |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House would implement substantial measures to impose long-termism in corporate investment culture (e.g. minimum holding periods for shares, yearly rather than quarterly financial reporting, long-term executive compensation plans) |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House supports granting megacities autonomous control over their economic and social policy (e.g. immigration, health, criminal justice) with national taxation policy remaining under the control of the federal government |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House would actively encourage women not to have children |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that the United States should disengage from Syria |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that developing countries should privatise their State-Owned Enterprises (such as airlines, railway utility companies) |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House would grant individuals and organisations open standing to challenge the constitutionality of laws enacted by their government |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that it is unjustified to assist evil regimes in systematically persecuting members of their identity group in order to mitigate and moderate the regime's abuses (e.g. Israel Kasztner in Nazi-controlled Hungary, Wang Jingwei in Japan-occupied China). |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House would subsidise art that glorifies the working class |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House supports governments significantly increasing their use of big data-based predictive models in decision-making to replace human judgements (e.g. criminal justice policy, allocation of healthcare resources, housing development) |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | In the lead up to the 1994 negotiated settlement in South Africa, this house believes that the ANC should have demanded further concessions (e.g. removing the amnesty provision in the TRC, greater land and economic rights) even at the expense of prolonging the conflict. |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that the WHO should adopt a convention which bans the sell of drugs with high resistance tendencies (e.g. antibiotics) to countries which do not comply with WHO guidelines regarding their medical and agricultural use |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that an approach of Political Expansionism on the part of the Chinese state is in the interests of the Chinese people |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House supports a norm of embracing anger in public discourse rather than one of aspiring to dispassionate objectivity |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House would impose a narrow banking regulation |
| Cape Town WUDC 2019 | This House believes that the present condition of humanity is preferable to its condition in 100 years time. |