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  • THPAW with the ecological cap

    Infoslide

    The ecological capacity of the Earth has been established and globally accepted. Once this population limit is reached, new births are only permitted when someone dies. Families must join a waitlist if they wish to have children and selections are made on neutral criteria.

    Glasgow Summer Cup 2025 · ESL Final · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that post-colonial states should prioritize negative rights over positive rights

    Infoslide

    Negative Rights: These are rights that require others (typically the government) to abstain from interfering with individual actions. Examples include the right to free speech and the right to privacy. Positive Rights: These rights require others (usually the government) to provide certain services or goods to individuals. Examples include the right to education and the right to healthcare

    Indo-Pacific Pre-ABP 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-07-19

  • This house believes that countries with low natural population growth should introduce radical financial incentives* for parents *e.g. tax breaks for prospective parents, help buying houses, free childcare, etc.

    Split Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-07-19

  • This house would adopt a credit-based education system over a competency-based education system in the Philippine Basic Education

    Infoslide

    Under a credit-based education system, students earn credits for completing subjects, usually based on instructional hours and the achievement of learning outcomes. Under this system, students who fail a subject may still progress to the next level as long as they have enough earned credits to advance. The failed subject can be retaken at a later time. In comparison, the competency-based curriculum requires students to pass all subjects in their grade level in order for them to move up to further grade levels.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 1 · 2025-07-18

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

    Infoslide

    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, as a struggling first-generation immigrant in a developed state who can no longer care for their toddler, would leave the child in institutional care rather than kinship care

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    Children who can no longer be cared for by their parents may be looked after by institutional child care systems. This includes the foster care system, where children are assigned to random families who are subsidized and vetted by the state, and state-run institutional “homes” and orphanages staffed by childcare and welfare workers. Kinship care is when children and youth live with relatives or fictive kin (those known and trusted by the family) during times of crisis. Kinship care is often an informal set-up, and the government is largely uninvolved.

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

  • This house, as a state with a declining birth rate, W significantly fund family-centered welfare programs

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    Family-centered welfare programs involve the granting of conditional subsidies to parents, increased paid parental leaves, or tax breaks for parents.

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

  • This house opposes the complete execution of House Bill No. 11213

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    House Bill No. 11213 proposes a University Preparatory Pathway allowing academically advanced Grade 10 students to bypass Senior High School (Grades 11 and 12) and directly enter higher education. Qualification for this pathway requires passing a rigorous Honors Examination. This exam evaluates a student's mastery of core subjects and their readiness for college-level coursework, ensuring only highly prepared students are eligible. Students who do not qualify for the University Preparatory Pathway will exclusively pursue technical-vocational education through TESDA.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 1 · 2025-07-18

  • This house believes that states should legally recognize queer found families

    Infoslide

    Queer found families are social units usually created by biologically unrelated LGBTQ+ individuals that perform filial functions typically observed in traditional biological families. (e.g., providing financial and emotional support)

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 5 · 2025-07-18

  • This house regrets the demonization of “Ningas Cogon”

    Infoslide

    Ningas Cogon is a Filipino cultural trait that refers to starting tasks or projects with strong enthusiasm and energy, but quickly losing interest or motivation before completion.

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

  • This house believes that it is in Panama’s interests to abolish all diploma tracks in its public secondary education system and instead provide students with comprehensive general education through grade 12

    Infoslide

    Panama’s public secondary education system (grades 7–12) has two stages. Grades 7–9 follow a single General Basic Education curriculum. Grades 10–12 require students to choose one "diploma track" within either Academic (e.g., sciences, humanities) or Professional & Technical programs (e.g., tourism, maritime operations). After selecting a track, students devote most of their schedule to that field while still taking some general education courses. Students generally cannot switch tracks after the first semester of grade 10 without repeating an academic year or overloading their schedule with the necessary credits to catch up.

    Mexico City Pre-WSDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-15

  • 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 believes that the feminist movement in the developing world should prioritise the masculinisation of private spaces over the feminisation of public spaces in its advocacy

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    The masculinisation of private spaces refers to efforts to involve men in private life tasks (housework, care system, etc.). The feminisation of public spaces refers to efforts to involve women in public life (taking positions of power, joining the work force, etc.).

    Gadjah Mada Eloquentia Pre-NSDC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-07-14