That faced with a choice between purchasing desirable but non-essential products (e.g. Starbucks) over spending on alleviating suffering (e.g. donating to charity) that we ought to always do the latter
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That we should allow citizens to donate to recognised charities of their own choosing instead of paying income tax
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This house would ban international aid charities from using sensational graphic or overly-emotional images of suffering in fundraising and advertising campaigns
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This house believes that the feminist movement should support women who engage in sexual services to collect money as a charity to promote women’s rights.
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This house supports the decision of pop stars such as Lily Allen and Adele to not take part in Band Aid
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This house would ban religious charities from proselytising in the developing world.
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This house believes that celebrities should not act as spokespeople for humanitarian issues
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This house believes that donations to disease charities should be redistributed among these disease charities according to the number of people affected by each disease.
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This house would ban international aid charities from using senational, graphic, or overly-emotional images of suffering in fundraising and advertising campaigns.
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This house believes that western liberal democracies should replace their aid programs with an 'effective altruism' tax, and give revenue to the most effective available non-governmental organisations or charities.
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That we should ban volunteer tourism
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This house regrets the use of graphic imagery of suffering to promote altruistic causes.
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This house believes that all profits from media broadcast of disaster should be donated to its victims.
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This house, as the Pope and the Vatican council, would liquidate all the Vatican's assets and distribute them to charity
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This house prefers a society which prioritizes global poverty reduction over domestic poverty initiatives.
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as a promising young graduate, you are offered two jobs. One with a charity that you would enjoy working for ("First Teach"), with reasonable pay. The other with a large multinational firm (DelcentureMG) that provides higher pay, and better long term career prospects. Motion: this house would sell out to the man.
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This house believes that billionaires have a moral obligation to donate their money to the US government instead of charities
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Should we teach beggars profitable street arts?
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This house believes that it is immoral to donate to animal welfare charities while there are charities which aim to alleviate human suffering still in need.
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This house would measure the efficacy of charities and strip those with comparatively low social value of their charitable status.