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  • In countries where abortion is legal and accessible, This house would allow fathers to opt out of legal obligations and rights to an unwanted child if the mother chooses to not abort

    Accra Open X · Novice Finals · 2024-08-22

  • We believe that having Disgust take on a leadership role instead of Joy would be more beneficial for adolescents.

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    The text can be translated to English as follows: "Emotions" are personified characters, including Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. These emotions play administrative and operational roles in a person's mind, influencing how they react to and respond to surrounding situations. The emotion team has a primary emotion serving as the leader, with each emotion having a distinct function and contributing in some way to managing the brain. For the purposes of this debate, Joy prioritizes creating joyful moments and reactions. Disgust expresses dislike, opposition, and evaluation towards things that are unpleasant or inappropriate.

    Cáo Mini-tournament 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-08-19

  • We will assign students to classes based on their academic abilities rather than their age.

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    In most countries, children in primary and secondary education are placed in classes based on their age. Academic ability refers to students' knowledge, academic performance, and the level of engagement with the taught content.

    Cáo Mini-tournament 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-08-19

  • 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 opposes school choice

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    The school choice movement supports legislation that allows students and families to select alternatives to public school education. For instance, education vouchers are a form of school choice legislation that provides subsidies to students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents.

    Svirsky Cup 2024 · Round 1 · 2024-08-10

  • This house regrets the rise of youth sports academies in the developing world (example: MLB in the Dominican Republic)

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    Many professional sports teams have academies established across the globe in order to scout and recruit young talent. For example, every single Major League Baseball (MLB) has an academy in the Dominican Republic, where over 100 active MLB players originate from.

    EDS Fall High School Tournament 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-08-10

  • This house, as a teenager in a developed country, would practice radical self-discipline

    Infoslide

    Radical self-discipline is the philosophy that one should abandon the comforts of the modern world to become disciplined. This involves a strict exercise regime, waking up early every day, cold showers, absence from social media, a diet devoid of comfort food, a renunciation of self-care culture.

    National High School Debate League of China British Parliamentary Open 2024 · U16 Finals · 2024-08-06

  • This house, as a teenager in a developed country, would practice radical self-discipline

    Infoslide

    Radical self-discipline is the philosophy that one should abandon the comforts of the modern world to become disciplined. This involves a strict exercise regime, waking up early every day, cold showers, absence from social media, a diet devoid of comfort food, a renunciation of self-care culture.

    National High School Debate League of China British Parliamentary Open 2024 · U18 Finals · 2024-08-06

  • In the case of juvenile crime, This house believes that criminal records should be expunged after reaching the age of majority.

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    Expungement involves treating criminal records as thought they never existed. An expunged record is physically and digitally destroyed, and all documents in relation to the arrest, detention, and sentencing must be permanently deleted.

    Ho Chi Minh Debate Open 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-08-03

  • This house supports the government mandated student migration between these schools.

    Infoslide

    This debate focuses on areas where housing demographics are largely segregated by ethnicity, resulting in public schools that mirror the ethnic composition of their neighborhoods. For the purpose of the debate, migration refers to intermixing of different ethnicities

    The 4th Annual CVS Parliamentary Debate 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-08-01

  • This House Would require people to obtain a parenting license in order to have children.

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    A 'parenting license' means permission from the government for adults to have and raise their own children. Parenting licenses could be tied to specific conditions, like knowledge of healthy eating, proper care of emotional, mental or physical well-being, or having enough money to pay for the child's basic needs.

    Cambodian Debate League Open · Round 2 · 2024-07-27

  • 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