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  • This house believes that parents should teach daughters to assume men are "guilty until proven innocent".

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    For the purposes of the debate, assuming a man is "guilty until proven innocent" means to assume he is ill-intentioned until proven otherwise. Believing a man is "guilty until proven innocent" may imply, among other things, believing he is untrustworthy, overwhelmingly driven by lust, or harbours a tendency to look down upon women.

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-24

  • In ageing societies, This house believes that pension funds should invest significant portions of savings in speculative assets (e.g. acquiring equity in hedge funds or private equity firms, trading in financial derivatives).

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Pre-Quarterfinals · 2025-10-24

  • This house believes that civil action groups should prioritize petitioning the Supreme Court as opposed to pursuing appeals from lower-court cases

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    In most legal systems, a petition and an appeal are distinct processes for bringing a case before the supreme court. An appeal is a continuation of an existing case, where a higher court reviews the legal correctness of a regional court's decision. A petition, in contrast, is a formal request by a certain entity (e.g., civil action groups, corporations, government entities, individuals) for the Supreme Court to choose to hear a new case. While appeal trials are guaranteed to any party who demonstrates credible doubt in the lower court's decision, petitions are not guaranteed to any party; the Supreme Court chooses which petitions to hear.

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-24

  • This house prefers a world where governments surrendered all decision-making to the Headband of Knowledge

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    The Headband of Knowledge is a machine that estimates the social benefit or harm of any proposed policy for each individual in society. It operates without bias toward a person's identity (e.g. class, race, gender, or social status) and is limited to domestic use, i.e. only one machine may be used per country. The Headband aggregates data and calculates the total pain/happiness generated per citizen per policy option. Each Headband can only be operated by the country’s head of state.

    Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-24

  • This house believes that universities should hire a substantial portion of STEM* academic staff from the industry (e.g. corporate managers & analysts, industry research & development experts). *Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-24

  • This House, as the journalist, Would take the bribe.

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    You are a journalist living in a democratic state with endemic corruption covering the upcoming elections. A local politician that is known to engage in corrupt actions has approached you to bribe you to focus on his opponents instead of scrutinising his actions. Agreeing to this would ensure a steady source of future funding for your journalistic career.

    Oxford Charity Open 2025 · Gold Final · 2025-10-19

  • In times of economic crisis, This House Would implement fiscal central banking.

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    For the purposes of this debate, "fiscal central banking" refers to an economic system that grants central banks the mandate to control circulation of money in the economy through fiscal policy in addition to monetary policy. Under this system central banks can define limitations for the size of the budget, but not its distribution. i.e. they can decide rates for various taxes and limit or increase overall government spending, but can't decide what the money is spent on.

    Oxford Charity Open 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-19

  • This House Would take the pill.

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    There exists a pill that allows individuals to lead happy lives at the expense of reducing their awareness. Individuals who take the pill are content and satisfied with their lives, but are disinclined to change their present circumstances and will be apathetic about issues they perceive to not concern them (e.g. politics and global warming).

    Oxford Charity Open 2025 · Bronze Finals · 2025-10-19

  • This House Believes That JD Vance should trigger the 25th Amendment.

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    Under the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution, if the Vice President and a majority of the Cabinet declare the President unfit, the Vice President temporarily becomes Acting President. The President can challenge this by telling Congress he’s able to serve again. If the VP and Cabinet still disagree, Congress must vote—and it takes a two-thirds majority in both houses to keep the VP in power.

    Oxford Charity Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-19

  • This house, as an intelligent student from a low-income family, would pursue vocational training over a traditional college degree

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    Vocational training are instructional programs that focus on the skills required for a particular job function or trade. In vocational training, education prepares students for specific careers which are often more manual (i.e., plumbing, hairdressing), disregarding traditional, unrelated academic subjects.

    Davao Novice Cup 2025 · High School Finals · 2025-10-18

  • This house believes that LGBTQ movements should actively disassociate with drag culture

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    Drag culture refers to a performance culture where individuals, often men, dress and makeup to imitate and often exaggerate female gender signifiers and gender roles for entertainment purposes. In modern times, drag culture is associated with gay culture. It is often celebrated as a form of queer expression and art.

    Autumn Tournament 2025 · ラウンド1 · 2025-10-18

  • This house prefers a secularized portrayal of religious terrorist organizations as opposed to highlighting their religious identity

    Davao Novice Cup 2025 · High School Quarterfinals · 2025-10-18

  • This house prefers Kyoto where zoning bylaws impose more strict limits

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    Zoning bylaws are tools used by municipalities to regulate the use of land. Zoning bylaws include restrictions on building heights, setbacks, site coverage, etc. In 2023, Kyoto City partially relaxed its building height restrictions. Along major roads near Kyoto Station height limits on buildings were eased. In areas facing major roads around Yamashina Station the restrictions were lifted entirely, provided certain conditions are met. For example, if a building includes retail space on the ground floor, constructing high-rise condominiums with over 20 stories is now possible. However, the existing regulations remain in place in the city center. (i.e.In the central arterial roadside districts, buildings are limited to a height of 31 meters, while in the inner mixed-use residential and commercial zones, the limit is 15 meters or less)

    Autumn Tournament 2025 · Rookie部門決勝 · 2025-10-18

  • This house believes that Samka should join the Pahang state government's land legalisation scheme

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    The Malaysian state of Pahang is the country's largest producer of durian. Many local farmers extended the durian plantations beyond legal borders following Malaysia's 1974 Green Book Plan encouraging the cultivation of state-owned land for agricultural purposes. However, the Green Book Plan did not confer guaranteed land ownership rights to the farmers. Today, these durian plantations are seen as "illegal" as they operate without formal approval from the Pahang state government who holds the lease over the disputed plantations via the Royal Pahang Durian (RPD) company. Between March and April 2025, RPD carried out aggressive enforcement operations to regain control over the plantations and establish a "land legalisation scheme" with the local farmers. Farmers who sign up for the scheme would be given the right to use (but not own) the land as "freelance workers", and must only sell the durian harvest back to the RPD at a price 3-4 times lower than market value. The farmers, collectivising as the "Save the Musang King Alliance” (Samka) refuse to cooperate, and have sued the state government over the issuance of eviction notices. Malaysia's durian exports are expected to exceed RM1.5 billion (~USD 355 million) in 2025.

    Malaysia Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-18

  • This house believes that the queer movement should platform individuals who choose to detransition

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    Gender detransition is the act of stopping or reversing the social, medical, and/or administrative changes achieved during a gender transition process.

    Malaysia Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-18

  • This house supports the reforms by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ease international trade in the rupee

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    As of October 2025, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a series of reforms to ease and facilitate international trade in the rupee. These reforms include: (i) easing the process for foreign banks to open an SVRA*, (ii) allowing SVRA account surpluses to be invested into corporate and government bonds, (iii) allowing authorised dealer banks in India to lend in rupees to neighbouring countries, (iv) establishing a transparent reference rate for currencies of India's major trading partners, and (iv) easing regulatory burdens for non-resident Indian entities looking to establish business in India. *A special rupee vostro account (SVRA) is an account held by an Indian bank on behalf of a foreign correspondent bank. The SVRA stores the foreign bank's rupee balances for the purposes of settling international trade transactions.

    Malaysia Pre-WUDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-10-18