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  • This house supports social media companies removing spaces and content associated with the incel movement

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    Andrew Tate is a social media influencer who has been banned from Youtube, Instagram and TikTok for his misogynistic views. In 2017 Reddit banned r/incels, a forum of 41,000 people who self-identify as "involuntarily celibate".

    Yale Intervarsity 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-11-02

  • This house would accept the offer

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    "Love Island" is a popular TV dating show where singles, or "islanders," live in a tropical villa and must form romantic connections to stay in the competition. They initially couple up based on attraction, with the option to switch partners during "re-coupling." Islanders compete in challenges to test their compatibility, and new arrivals often disrupt existing relationships. Eliminations occur through public voting by viewers or if someone is left single after re-coupling. The winning couple takes home a £100,000 prize. Participants stay in the villa for up to 8 weeks, with all expenses covered. You are a young, single adult living in Manchester. The producers of Love Island have uniquely offered you to participate in the upcoming season.

    Manchester Novices 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-11-02

  • That we prefer a world without the institution of marriage.

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    The "institution" of marriage refers to marriage being a legally and religiously protected relationship with actionable rights and formal procedures (e.g. requiring a formal divorce from religious or government authorities, having rights to shared property)

    Junior IDC 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-10-25

  • This House Would stay with your partner, even if they are a worm.

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    You are a middle-aged person who has been in a committed monogamous relationship for over 15 years. You have built a life together and sworn to love each other for better or for worse and in sickness and in health. You have until now been madly in love and believed you would die old together. For the purposes of this debate, worms are sentient creatures who cannot verbally communicate, apart from one day a year when they can verbally communicate on Halloween. Just over 10% of humans that turn into worms turn back into humans. Your partner has turned into a worm.

    Ga-Eul Debate Get-Together 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-10-19

  • This house supports the normalization of parasocial relationships

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    A parasocial relationship occurs when an individual forms a strong emotional relationship with an online figure or celebrity that simulates a real-life relationship (such as a romantic or friendship relationship), despite limited real-world interaction with them. Examples of parasocial behavior include thinking of a Twitch streamer you watch regularly as a friend, and Taylor Swift fans signing a petition to get her to dump Matt Healy."

    LUMS Asians 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-10-12

  • This house supports state attempts to help their citizens find partners and sustain relationships (e.g providing housing support subject to being in long-term relationships, giving significant state financial aid to long term couples)

    Sofia Open 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-10-11

  • This house, as Anaximander, would give Aphroxyla the elixir.

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    There is a real and fully functional love elixir, although it is very rare. You manage to acquire a vial capable of making any person fall madly and permanently in love with you. You are Anaximandros. For the past 4 years, you have been deeply in love with Afroxyanthi. You are very good friends, but nothing more. Afroxyanthi has put you in the friend zone and is in a happy relationship with Xenophon. Your friends also tell you that she is out of your league.

    11ο Πρωτάθλημα Ρητορικού Ομίλου Οικονομικού Πανεπιστημίου Αθηνών · Round 2 · 2024-10-10

  • As the government of a developed country, This house would subsidize R&D towards human-like AI partners

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    "Human-like AI partners" refer to humanoids that physically appear and function like human beings. They are not sentient but are programmed to act and respond based on learned behavior about what their human-partners would best want from them. (See examples of character.ai , ChatGPT , etc. for analogues to the level of sentience).

    Oragon Debate Cup 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-05

  • This house believes that you should seek advice from your own friend as opposed to a friend of your crush

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    You have a crush on someone. In order to be in a relationship with them you want to ask for help.

    Colonel By Novice Debate Tournament 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-10-05

  • This house prefers a norm of matrilocal marriages over neolocal marriages

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    Matrilocal marriage refers to a societal system in which a married couple resides with the wife’s parents. Neolocal marriage is a type of post-marital residence in which a newly married couple resides separately from both the husband and the wife’s natal household.

    Krabi ABP 2024 · EFL Finals · 2024-10-05