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  • This house would prefer to be born into the community of Captain Fantastic rather than an average American family.

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    For the purposes of this debate, there exists the "Captain Fantastic" community: a group of small nomadic families in the United States who choose to live in rejection of the neoliberal system and the state. The group frequently moves through forests, camping and using RVs. They have minimal contact with cities. They have access to certain survival resources (radio, basic medicines, knives) but not to digital technology and sophisticated tools. The children of the community are trained from a very young age to survive under extreme conditions. Additionally, they receive a rigorous education from influential figures in the community, delivered from a socially progressive perspective.

    Mundial Escolar de Debate 2024 · Ronda 6 · 2024-08-10

  • This house prefers systems that exclusively employ salaried doctors as opposed to fee-for-service systems

    Infoslide

    Salaried doctors are employed by hospitals and other medical facilities that provide administrative services, offices, and equipment. Fee-for-service doctors are self-employed, often rent offices, and pay their own staff directly. Fee-for-service doctors make more money on average. Both types of doctors are paid by the government in countries with public health care systems.

    EDS Fall High School Tournament 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-08-10

  • This house regrets the increasing commercialization of 'self care'.

    Infoslide

    Self care' emphasizes the need for individuals to care for the own emotional and mental well-being. Typical examples include engaging in practices like yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. Commercialization refers to the fact that something has been turned into a commercial profit-making industry.

    Hart House Women and Gender Minorities Debating Tournament 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-08-03

  • This House prefers a world in which a Plumbob indicating the mental and physical health of each person exists

    Infoslide

    In “the Sims", the "Plumbob" is a glowing crystal that is suspended above each Sim's head and is a fairly accurate reflection of the Sim's current health. If the Sim is in very good health, the Plumbob will be a bright, deep green. As the Sim's health deteriorates, the green will become paler until it becomes neutral white, yellow, orange, red, and even deeper shades of red when in worse conditions. For the purpose of this debate, Plumbobs do not simply reflect one's momentary mood.

    Denning Debating Championship 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-08-02

  • This house would save the local Mayor as opposed to saving the boy.

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    <span data-sheets-root="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">You are the best neurosurgeon in the country. You have worked hard your entire life and are now the head of the neurosurgery department in the best hospital in the country. One day, a 10-year-old boy is delivered to the hospital with life-threatening brain injuries. You are immediately called to perform surgery on him. On your way to the surgical room, the Director of the hospital calls you and instructs you to perform on the local Mayor with the same brain injuries. You know that the local Mayor is the biggest donor to the hospital. The Director tells you that If you refuse this instruction, you will be fired from your current job and won’t be given good recommendations to transfer to another hospital.<br><br>With your skills as a neurosurgeon, it is guaranteed that the person you choose to operate on has a 100% survival rate. The person you choose not to save will be operated by another neurosurgeon with subpar skills and they will die.<br></span>

    Intertext Pro Ams 2024 · Am ams Finals · 2024-07-27

  • This house regrets the increasing commercialization of 'self care'

    Infoslide

    'Self care' emphasizes the need for individuals to care for the own emotional and mental well-being. Typical examples include engaging in practices like yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. Commercialization refers to the fact that something has been turned into a commercial profit-making industry.

    Guangdong Debate Challenge 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-07-13

  • In times of global pandemic, This house would allow scientists to violate medical ethics codes for the purpose of finding a cure, conditional on the subject of the experiment consenting to the treatment

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    Medical ethics bounds scientists with strict guidelines regarding human experimentation including but not limited to: (1) acting in the best interest of the patients, (2) doing no harm to the patients and (3) ensuring that the risks of the side effects on the patients are far outweighed by the benefits.

    Prague Debate Spring 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-07-11

  • That we prefer all human genome editing experiments to be approved by the WHO rather than domestic regulatory bodies.

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    In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) constructed strict recommendations on institutional, national, regional and global governance mechanisms for human genome editing (e.g. the establishment of a database of all ongoing clinical trials involving human genome editing). The WHO recommendations were a consequence of the He Jiankui controversy, involving the unprecedented and unregulated birth of twin "designer babies". Currently, experiments on human genome editing do not require WHO approval, and are instead overseen by domestic laws and regulators (e.g. the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in the UK).

    Jakarta Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-07-01

  • That we prefer all human genome editing experiments to be approved by the WHO rather than domestic regulatory bodies.

    Infoslide

    In 2018, the World Health Organization (WHO) constructed strict recommendations on institutional, national, regional and global governance mechanisms for human genome editing (e.g. the establishment of a database of all ongoing clinical trials involving human genome editing). The WHO recommendations were a consequence of the He Jiankui controversy, involving the unprecedented and unregulated birth of twin "designer babies". Currently, experiments on human genome editing do not require WHO approval, and are instead overseen by domestic laws and regulators (e.g. the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) in the UK).

    Jakarta Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2024 · ESL Semifinals · 2024-07-01

  • That we support a requirement for US state medical boards to be made up of a majority of non-doctors.

    Infoslide

    US state medical boards are responsible for licencing doctors and investigating complaints made against them. Where a doctor is found to have committed malpractice, the board is empowered to discipline them, including through the suspension or revocation of their medical licences.

    Jakarta Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2024 · ESL Semifinals · 2024-07-01

  • That we support a requirement for US state medical boards to be made up of a majority of non-doctors.

    Infoslide

    US state medical boards are responsible for licencing doctors and investigating complaints made against them. Where a doctor is found to have committed malpractice, the board is empowered to discipline them, including through the suspension or revocation of their medical licences.

    Jakarta Australasian Intervarsity Debate Championships 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-07-01

  • This house would ban viatical settlements

    Infoslide

    Life insurance is an insurance that a person gets that ensures their family will get an amount of money after their passing, provided that certain conditions aren't violated (e.g. type of death, avoidability of the cause of death etc). A viatical settlement is an arrangement in which someone who is terminally ill or chronically ill sells their life insurance policy to a third party at a discount from its face value for ready cash.

    Vienna Pre-EUDC 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-06-29

  • This house believes that it is in the interest of Canada to pursue the Century Initiative

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    "The Century Initiative is a plan that advocates growing the population of Canada to 100 million by 2100 to reduce the burden on government revenues to fund health care, old age security, and other services. This includes increasing the population of megaregions. It suggests a population increase for the Greater Toronto Area from 8.8 to 33.5 million, the Greater Montreal region from 4.4 to 12.2 million, the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor from 2.8 to 15.5 million, the Greater Vancouver region from 3.3 to 11.9 million, the National Capital Region from 1.4 to 4.8 million, the Southwestern Ontario region from 1.2 to 2 million, and the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region from 800,000 to 1.7 million. The organization intends to reach its population goal through a massive increase in immigration and by investing in economic development around megaregions. Century Initiative forecasts predict that, without changes to Canadian immigration policy, the population of Canada will increase to 53 million people by the end of the century."

    Queen's WSDC 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-06-29

  • That we support a 'bread and roses' approach to public policy

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    Bread and roses refers to advocating for both basic necessities to survive (eg, food, shelter, medicine) and also non-essential amenities that improve human well-being (eg, aesthetically pleasing environments, artistic and cultual endeavours).

    USU Pre-Australs 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-06-21