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  • Assuming feasibility, This house supports 'Farmageddon'

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    <div>'Farmageddon' is an advanced virtual reality technology which allows participants to accurately experience life from the first-person perspective of a random factory-farmed animal (e.g. a cow, a chicken, a pig). Once logged in, the user retains their memories from outside the simulation but experiences the animal's sensations as if they were real.</div><div><br></div><div>One session lasts for an hour in real life, but time is dilated to make the user feel as if they've spent a month in the simulation. Once you enter, you cannot leave until the simulation ends. If it were to exist, every adult would be required to enter the simulation.</div>

    Singapore International Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Senior Finals · 2025-11-16

  • This house prefers a world in which people believe A theory of time rather than B theory of time.

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    A-Theory of time claims that time flows; the present is uniquely real, while the past no longer exists and the future does not yet exist. B-Theory of time claims that all points in time; past, present, and future are equally real. Time does not pass; it simply is.

    Norwich Mini 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-14

  • This house, as a religious leader, would destroy the test.

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    Many religions include artefacts that are claimed to be historically sacred, e.g. Buddha relics, bones of Catholic saints, the Holy Grail. You are a religious leader who has discovered a test that can definitively verify the authenticity of any artefact.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-10

  • In the pursuit of scientific knowledge, This house would continue the development of Dual-use research of concern (DURC) in biotechnology

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    Dual-use research of concern (DURC) describes research that is intended to provide a clear benefit, but which could easily be misapplied to do harm. This may include the creation of modified viruses to better understand how they function which may risk the use of them to infect animals and people, or the development of aerosol methods to help treat asthma which may be used to improve biological weapons like anthrax, etc.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house supports the growing role of private equity in online content creation

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    Private equity refers to a class of businesses which buy and invest in private companies (companies which are not publically listed on stock exchanges). In recent years an increasing percentage of Youtube channels have been purchased by private equity firms including CocoMelon, Veritasium, and Game Theory. The nature of these contracts is often undisclosed, but typically involves the private equity firm keeping on the original creators as part owners or employees who are paid a fixed salary or percentage of revenue.

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that European states should pursue a state-led innovation model

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    A state-led innovation model involves the government playing a central role in guiding and facilitating technological innovation. This includes but is not limited to: setting national priorities for technological developoment, investing heavily in research alongside private companies, and creating national research institutes

    Cambridge Intervarsity 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-08

  • This house supports the creation of legal cyber-arms markets

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    The cyber-arms market refers to the trade of software vulnerabilities, exploits, and hacking tools. In recent years, companies such as Zerodium and NSO Group have emerged to operate in the legal segment of this market. These firms acquire exploits both through in-house research and by offering public bounty programs, where they publish price lists detailing substantial payouts, ranging from tens of thousands to millions of dollars, for previously unknown vulnerabilities that meet specific criteria (for example, $1 million for a verified iOS remote code execution exploit)

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-08

  • This house would ban prediction markets

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    Prediction markets are online markets that allow visitors to bet money on real-life events (eg. elections, political actions, wars). If their prediction is correct, they receive a monetary reward proportional to the risk of their prediction.

    Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports video game piracy

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    Video game piracy refers to unauthorized bypassing of video game software. Similar to pirating movies or music, video games are "pirated" through torrenting sites in which users can share and downloaded copyrighted media. Examples of such sites are the piratebay, rutracker, rarbg etc. Additionally to downloading the required files to play the game, game developers employ technolgoies to protect their software from copying (i.e., you cannot copy files and play the game). To circumvent this, pirates include cracking software with the game files allowing those who run cracking software to circumvent the copy protection of thevideo game.

    Erasmus Novice Cup · Round 1 · 2025-11-01