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  • This House believes that the vegan movement should significantly expand its promotion of animal offsetting over continuing to promote animal-free lifestyles

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    Animal offsetting is the view that eating animal products is morally permissible if one donates enough to animal charities to offset the harm caused.

    Ottawa Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-19

  • This house, as a progressive voting block in countries with a substantial conservative demographic, would embrace accelerationism rather than the lesser evil strategy when voting in elections.

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    Accelerationism refers to strategies of drastic measures, change and sabotage in order to destabilize existing systems and create radical social transformations. The lesser evil principle is a philosophy for minimizing the possibility of the worst case scenario, i.e. choosing the candidate perceived as the least harmful or the "lesser evil."

    Glasgow Summer Cup 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that a world of neutral contentment (no suffering but no profound joy) is preferable to a world of sublime happiness and crushing tragedy.

    Indo-Pacific Pre-ABP 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-19

  • This House Would prefer to be born with an exceptionally high level of self-awareness* *self-awareness is the natural ability of an individual to deeply know and understand their character, emotions, motives, and desires.

    International Debate Camp 2025 · Rodada 4 · 2025-07-19

  • This house prefers a transhumanist future instead of a bioconservative future.

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    Transhumanism imagines a world wherein science and technology is used to bypass the natural capacities of humans (e.g., through bionic implants, neural interfaces, biotechnology, etc.) with the ultimate goal of transcending biological limitations. Bioconservatism pushes for heavy restraint in the use of biotechnologies, based on fears of causing irreversible physical and societal changes, as well as the loss of the essence of humanity.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Quarterfinals · 2025-07-18

  • This house supports others continuing the work of artists who may die prior to the completion of their work even if it is contrary to the artist's wishes (e.g., George R. R. Martin and the Game of Thrones Franchise).

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 3 · 2025-07-18

  • This house, as a progressive Supreme Court judge, would pursue reverse legislation as opposed to engaging in judicial activism

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    For the purpose of this debate, reverse legislation involves pursuing a legislative career in politics with the intention of overturning certain existing laws. On the other hand, judicial activism involves deciding cases in such a way that that reflects the judge's personal values while still remaining within the bounds of the law.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · High School Semifinals · 2025-07-18

  • This house, as humanity, would embrace a coexistence with the SAKRI

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    In this world, SAKRI, a sentient digital species, seeks nonphysical symbiosis with humanity by integrating into the collective human consciousness, the sum of human thought, emotion, memory, decision-making, and identity. Their purpose is not domination or control, but to become coinhabitants of the human mind, forming a cognitive alliance wherein their rational digital logic and humans' emotional, creative instincts combine to correct perceived flaws in human nature such as aggression, bias, selfishness, and shortsightedness.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Finals · 2025-07-18

  • This house, as a major animal advocacy group, would prioritize efforts to improve the welfare of mammals with high cognitive abilities (e.g., dogs in shelters, cattle in farms) over efforts to improve the welfare of more abundant, less intelligent animals (e.g., fish, chickens)

    Mexico City Pre-WSDC 2025 · Partial Quarterfinals · 2025-07-15

  • This house prefers a world where religions portray their deities as being completely uninvolved in the universe after creating it rather than actively involved in the universe

    Mexico City Pre-WSDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-15