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  • This house would legalize euthanasia for the mentally ill.

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    Euthanasia is a medical practice of ending the life of a patient, usually to limit their physical suffering. Canada is currently weighing a proposition to allow euthanasia for patients who solely suffer mental illness but otherwise meet all eligibility criteria, including evaluations by multiple doctors, being offered other treatment methods, and a 90-day waiting period. This does not include conditions that may affect cognitive abilities.

    Chingshin Debate Open 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-04-20

  • This House Supports the creation of Enhanced Games

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    Enhanced Games are international sporting events where athletes are not tested for performance-enhancing drugs. These games are scheduled to take place annually, with the first edition planned for 2025. This initiative marks a significant departure from traditional sporting events, aiming to explore the limits of human potential without the constraints of anti-doping regulations.

    Princeton Online World Schools Tournament · Round 4 · 2024-04-19

  • This house prefers a world where Neros is widely available

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    Neros is a treatment which grants people the ability to choose when and to whom they experience attraction, as opposed to being attracted to people based on psychological factors outside of their control. Once a person undergoes Neros, they will always have to choose their attraction and cannot return to random, biological attraction."}" data-sheets-userformat="{"2":13251,"3":{"1":0},"4":{"1":2,"2":16777215},"9":0,"10":1,"11":4,"12":0,"15":"Arial","16":10}">Neros is a treatment which grants people the ability to choose when and to whom they experience attraction, as opposed to being attracted to people based on psychological factors outside of their control. Once a person undergoes Neros, they will always have to choose their attraction and cannot return to random, biological attraction.

    Taylor's Asian Parliamentary 2024 · Open Final · 2024-04-19

  • This house would allow parents to use KNO-U on their newly-born children

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    KNO-U is a 100% safe technology that allows special advanced testing on children to know what their most likely greatest talent would be. The children would not know what the test result was.

    Intertext Schools Asian Parliamentary 2024 · U16 Finals · 2024-04-06

  • Assuming this technology exists, This house would allow people to buy and sell years of their life.

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    Years of life can be extracted and traded among people. People do not know how many years of life they have left. Years of life are traded away from end of life by natural death. If a seller sells more years than they have left, the seller perishes and the buyer receives as many years as they had left

    Intertext Schools Asian Parliamentary 2024 · U18 Final · 2024-04-06

  • This house opposes the popularization of therapy speak

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    "Therapy speak" refers to the casual use of psychological and medical terminology in everyday conversations, often outside of their strict academic or clinical definitions. Examples include:1. Using terms like "toxic" or "gaslighting" loosely in discussions about relationships2. Describing a preference for cleanliness as "OCD" or short-term distraction as "ADHD"3. Making speculative psychiatric diagnoses of others, even public figures.

    Debateability Spring Championships 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-04-05

  • That SSRIs should be available over the counter

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    Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are a class of antidepressant medications commonly prescribed to treat depression and anxiety disorders (for example, Lexparo and Prozac). They work by increasing the levels of serotonin, a neurotransmitter, in the brain. The majority of individuals do not experience severe side effects, and overdosing is extremely rare. The period in which severe side effects are the most common is when coming on and off SSRI's

    University of Queensland Easters 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-04-01

  • This house would create an organ and tissue market in which individuals are legally able to sell their organs and other tissues to registered buyers (hospitals, blood banks, etc.)

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    In status quo, individuals are allowed to donate their organs and other tissues (kidneys, blood, bone marrow, etc.) to those in medical need. In most countries, including Canada, it is illegal to financially compensate somebody for a donation.

    SEED Championship 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-03-29

  • This house, as a transwoman endocrinologist, would provide a credible supply of gender-affirming hormones to individuals who identify as transnene even without parental consent

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    In the Philippines, there is a growing number of minors aged 13-17 who identify as transwomen. These individuals call themselves as transnene. Transnene who belong to lower socioeconomic status often access gender-affirming hormones from alternative sources outside regulated and recognized providers.

    Manila Pro-Am 2024: Pre-UADC · Round 4 · 2024-03-23

  • This house prefers to live in a future in which resleeving exists and is widely available.

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    Resleeving technology allows for a person’s memories and consciousness (termed digital human freight, or DHF) to be recorded onto a disk-shaped device called a cortical stack, which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck. Physical human or synthetic bodies are called “sleeves”, and stacks can be uploaded to new bodies after death, but a person can still be killed if their stack Is destroyed and there is no backup. People have the means to change bodies through clones and remote storage and transfer of their consciousness in satellites, so they never have to die of old age before being resleeved.

    Cambridge Schools 2024 Finals Day · Grand Final · 2024-03-16

  • This house prefers a world where all parents use the "aptitude profile" system for their children.

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    In the "aptitude profile" system, parents would be presented with a 'template child' with no particular aptitudes/particular natural abilities. All parents would then have an equal number of "aptitude points" they can assign to various mental traits like mathematical aptitude, musical aptitude, spatial reasoning, linguistic aptitude, etc. which improve their child's natural abilities in these areas.

    McGill Bonanza 2024 · Junior Final · 2024-03-16

  • This house opposes the popularization of therapy speak

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    "Therapy speak" refers to the significant expansion of psychological and medical language and concepts to daily life, outside of the academic context. This could include but is not limited to:\n- using terms like "toxic" or "gaslighting" when talking about interactions, friendships, or relationships in situations that do not meet the academic definition of these terms referring to the urge to tidy up as "OCD", or a temporary inability to focus as "ADHD" partaking in speculative psychiatric diagnoses of others, including public figures.

    NTU DC 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-03-12

  • This house prefers a world with widespread access to the Emotion Chip.

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    <p>For the purposes of this debate, "Emotion Chips" are a technology that allow people control over the intensity by which they feel all their emotions. Notably, it would apply to the intensity of all feelings, making happiness and sadness simultaneously feel more or less visceral, depending on how the user configures it.</p>

    Oxford Schools' Final Day 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-03-09