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  • This house would allow the usage of performance enhancement drugs in all sports

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    Performance enhancement drugs are substances (such as an anabolic steroid, human growth hormone, or erythropoietin) that are used to improve athletic performance. Currently, they are generally banned from use in almost all sporting competitions.

    NTU DC 2024 · Novice Semifinals · 2024-03-12

  • This house prefers collectivist cyclical models of care-taking over individualist outsourcing models of care-taking

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    In collectivist filial pietal cultures (such as China), adults are responsible for working to earn an income for the family, while tasks like childcare are delegated to seniors (often the grandparents of thechild), whilst elderly care for seniors are in turn delegated to their adultchildren (who then go on to take care of their grandchildren before being takencare of by their children when they get old). In individualistic cultures (suchas The Netherlands), every adult is responsible for taking care of themselves, whilst the care-taking of seniors and children is outsourced to for-profit out-of-school-care and elderly care homes.

    Vilnius Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-03-01

  • This House regrets the addition of Prolonged Grief Disorder to the DSM.

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    The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is widely considered a central authority on defining mental health diagnoses recognized by healthcare stakeholders (doctors, hospitals, insurance, etc.) Prior to 2022, the DSM had no inclusion of specific diagnosis criteria regarding Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD). In 2022, specific diagnostic criteria for PGD were added, which consist of frequent symptoms of loss causing disruption to day-to-day activity, including intense yearning for the deceased or preoccupation with loss 12+ months after a traumatic event. Since the addition of these criteria to the DSM, physicians have begun diagnosing PGD, with some studies showing diagnostic rates as high as 40% among patients who have suffered traumatic loss.

    McGill Intervarsity 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-03-01

  • This house prefers a world where the natural ageing process is replaced with the Shani Ageing Process

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    Under the Shani Ageing Process, the rate at which adults age is directly tied to the difference between their Carbon Footprint and the Carbon Footprint Benchmark The Carbon Footprint Benchmark is the level of Carbon Footprint on a per capita basis that would maintain the current status of the climate. The Carbon Footprint Benchmark changes over time to account for the state of the climate. For example, in 2024 the Carbon Footprint Benchmark may be X units; however, if by 2034, the health of the climate has improved, the Carbon Footprint Benchmark would increase, e.g. to X+2 units – i.e. individuals would be able to generate a higher Carbon Footprint before they reached the Carbon Footprint Benchmark. - An individual’s Carbon Footprint is the total amount of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, emitted directly or indirectly by an individual; factors such as an individual’s energy usage, travel habits, dietary choices, and consumption patterns are taken into account. Individuals with Carbon Footprints above the Carbon Footprint Benchmark age faster than natural, while those with Carbon Footprints lower than the Carbon Footprint Benchmark age slower than natural. The rate at which you age is linear not exponential (i.e. every Carbon Footprint unit above or below the Carbon Footprint Benchmark has the same impact on ageing as the previous unit). For example, consider two individuals, Abhi and Charlie, who are the same age but have different Carbon Footprints. Abhi, who lives a sustainable lifestyle with minimal carbon emissions, may age at a rate equivalent to one year for every 18 months that pass. In contrast, Charlie, whose lifestyle is characterized by high carbon emissions from excessive consumption and travel, may age at a rate of one year for every nine months that pass. An individual’s Carbon Footprint is discounted by the degree of choice they had over the relevant act. For example, consider two other individuals, Bob and Anna, if Bob invites Anna for lunch and makes steak, and they both eat the same amount of it, Bob’s Carbon Footprint would be higher than Anna if he had decided, without Anna’s input, to serve steak rather than a more environmentally friendly option. The Shani Ageing Process does not affect one’s ability to die for causes not related to ageing. In a world with the Shani Ageing Process, people’s understanding of it would mirror their understanding of the natural ageing process in the current world.

    LSE OPEN 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-02-24

  • This house supports the revival of TCM in China

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    In 1954 the Chinese Ministry of Health began a series of programmes to revive the practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in China. Examples of TCM include herbal medicine, acupuncture, and moxibustion. These practices are described as pseudoscientific by Western scientific authorities.

    Manchester Intervarsity 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-02-17

  • This House, as Dr. ShengWu, in the final years of his life, plans to relocate to France

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    Dr. Shengwu is a globally recognized academic who is in the twilight of his life. Currently, he faces a politically motivated two-year prison sentence. In light of this, his lawyers are encouraging him to accept a deal from France that promises him an office and a plot of land to operate in. Being a patriot he had always aspired to create a top university and cutting-edge hospital in his own country. He has the funds and the expertise to make that dream materialise but he needs regulatory approval which is unlikely because the government sees his popularity as a threat.

    Scholastica Interschool Debate Tournament 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-02-02