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  • This House prefers religious beliefs of Collective Salvation, rather than religious beliefs of Individual Salvation.

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    "Collective Salvation" is the religious belief that the actions of members of a religious group collectively influence the salvation of the group to which they belong, while "Individual Salvation" is the religious belief that salvation is determined solely by one's own actions.

    Diliman Wom*n and Gender Minorities 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-06-30

  • This house, as Aurora, W choose to go back into the hibernation pod.

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    You are Aurora, an astronaut on a spaceship, transporting 5000 colonists in hibernation pods on a 120-year journey from Earth to a new, habitable planet. However, just 30 years into the trip, an asteroid collision damages the ship, causing some hibernation pods to malfunction and their passengers to awaken, including you and another astronaut named Jim. Over the next year, you and Jim fall in love, but one day, an android robot accidentally reveals that after Jim’s pod malfunctioned, he purposely awakened you to keep him company and lied about your pod malfunctioning. Since your hibernation pod still works, you have the option of re-entering into the pod.

    York University Summer Debating Tournament · Grand Final · 2025-06-28

  • This House Opposes the widespread presence of irony culture

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    The irony culture refers to increased layers of sarcasm and/or cynical detachment in modern media and culture.

    Uhuru Worlds 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-06-27

  • This house prefers the existence of love potions

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    Love potions refer to magical substances that, when consumed, induce strong romantic or affectionate feelings toward a specific person. These potions do not override a person’s free will, motor control, or ability to make decisions. They temporarily heighten emotional attachment or infatuation, similar to the early stages of romantic attraction. Their use is legal and publicly accessible. The effects are not permanent, but the potion may be used repeatedly. While the feelings induced are intense, individuals retain their ability to act autonomously, including the ability to refuse consent or end a relationship.

    Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-06-24

  • This house, as Eitan, would actively be a homewrecker

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    Eitan is an average teenager who has an intense crush to this girl since childhood. Due to his inaction and fear his long time crush is now dating someone else. Despite all this, Eitan remains a close friend , and does not believe that the current partner is good enough. Eitan has a significant amount of influence over his crush and their opinions. Eitan believes she can do better.

    Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-06-24

  • This house prefers a world where IntenSync exists and is widely accessible

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    IntenSync is a hypothetical technology that lets one person, upon mutual consent, access another’s genuine intentions and feelings within a relationship. Once activated, it reveals those present intentions and emotions to both parties—including any suppressed desires directed at the other person. IntenSync does not expose past actions or any private thoughts beyond current intentions and feelings.

    Colourful Summer Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-06-21

  • This house prefers a world in which the pursuit of AGI is abandoned

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    Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) describes a hypothetical type of AI that would have cognitive abilities on par or beyond that of human cognitive abilities. Unlike narrow AI, which is fed on data and then able to reproduce knowledge and execute simple to somewhat complex tasks, an AGI would be capable of understanding, learning, and applying intelligence across a wide range of different tasks, even those it has not been specifically trained for. AGI would be able to solve complex problems, plan, reason, and adapt to new environments independently, much like a human being. For example, an AGI could potentially excel at language, provide medical diagnoses, create knowledge and art and learn entirely new skills without being explicitly programmed for each task.

    Budapest Pre-EUDC Fundraiser 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-06-21

  • That we support the death of ambition in academia

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    The “death of ambition in academia” refers to a shift in scholarly priorities away from the pursuit of grand theories (e.g. marxism, the end of history) or sweeping claims about human behaviour (e.g. Stanford Prison Experiment). Instead, academic work increasingly focuses on narrow case studies, micro- critiques, and context-specific analysis, favouring nuance and situated insight over universal explanations.

    UNSW Pre-Australs 2025 · Semi-Finals · 2025-06-21

  • This house prefers a world where Christianity did not adopt the reforms of the council of Nicaea

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    The Council of Nicaea was a church council held in the year 325AD, The council came together to come to a concensus on official church practices. The results of the council were as follows: The creation of the Nicaean Creed solidified the holy trinity (father, son and holy spirit) as opposed to Jesus being subordinate to god as a mortal (could commit sin) The Council of Nicaea also proposed a variety of adminstrative reforms, such as strict internal church hierarchy, established rules for moral conduct of the clergy, and outlined uniform punishments for breaching rules (also known as heresy).

    Norwich Online 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-06-21