MotionHouse

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.

You are the newly elected pope Leo XIV. For the entirety of your life, you have been a devoted Catholic who believes that God does everything with a greater goal in mind. A few days after your inauguration, God manifests before you during your private prayer and announces that there is no grand plan behind human suffering. He simply releases some form of disaster (Black Death, COVID, tsunami) once in a while for his entertainment.

You are the newly elected pope Leo XIV. For the entirety of your life, you have been a devoted Catholic who believes that God does everything with a greater goal in mind. A few days after your inauguration, God manifests before you during your private prayer and announces that there is no grand plan behind human suffering. He simply releases some form of disaster (Black Death, COVID, tsunami) once in a while for his entertainment.

There are two worlds. In the “depletion” world, current generations have a higher quality of life, but unchecked use of natural resources eventually leads to depletion, significantly degrading the welfare of future generations. In the “conservation” world, current generations manage their resource usage for the sake of future generations, in exchange for a lower quality of life.

rePlayer is a technology which records whatever each individual sees for every moment of their lives. If they wish to, every person can download and replay any of their memories on a screen. You can't show these memory recording to anyone else, only play it for yourself.

Dystopian narratives about technological progress depictinnovation (particularly in areas such as Al, automation, and biotechnology) as a source of large-scale harm, instability, orexistential threat. This framing is prevalent in popular media(e.g. Black Mirror, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane) and insegments of public discourse,including among environmental degrowth advocates and Al safety researchers.

For the purpose of the debate, presentism refers to the idea of applying the modern world’s moral sensibilities to judge people and practices of the past.For the purpose of the debate, presentism refers to the idea of applying the modern world’s moral sensibilities to judge people and practices of the past.

In the future, with a huge decline in the birth rate and the rapid development of technologies, robots have taken on an extremely human-like appearance. They are now "androids" with more advanced, or at least equal, physical, intellectual, and emotional abilities. For example, even the androids are equipped with replaceable body parts and no sensibility to pain. Still, being socialised, they are emotionally able to feel the trauma under assualt.

A stoic is someone who is calm and seemingly unaffected by pleasure or pain. Stoics are also known for being strong and silent.

Ecocentrism refers to the narrative that the earth must be taken care of regardless of its perceived value. Anthropocentrism refers to the narrative that the earth must be taken care of for future generations to come

"Personal is Political" is a narrative that posits all personal experiences including family, friends, and the self are influenced by politics in some shape or form

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style="font-size: 48.4633px; line-height: 1.11; direction: ltr; letter-spacing: 0.051em; text-align: center;"><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body" style="text-align: start; color: rgb(83, 54, 4); font-family: &quot;YACgEcnJpjs 0&quot;, _fb_, auto; letter-spacing: 0.051em; line-height: 53px;"><span class="OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none" style="font-kerning: none;">Epistemologi adalah konsep filsafat yang mengkaji penciptaan pengetahuan, bagaimana pengetahuan diperoleh, dan menentukan konsep kebenaran dalam pengetahuan.</span><span class="OYPEnA font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none white-space-prewrap" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="cvGsUA direction-ltr align-center para-style-body" style="text-align: start; color: rgb(83, 54, 4); font-family: &quot;YACgEcnJpjs 0&quot;, _fb_, auto; 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Terdapat pepatah cina yang menyatakan 塞翁失马，焉知非福 (lebih dikenal sebagai Sàiwēngshīmǎ, untuk tujuan perdebatan ini akan kita sebut Pepatah Shima) dalam Bahasa Indonesia berarti 'seorang tua kehilangan kuda, baik buruk tidak ada yang tahu'. Pepatah ini mendorong manusia untuk tetap optimis dalam menghadapi kesulitan dan hidup yang tak dapat diprediksi, karena terkadang kesulitan menuntun kita kepada berkah tak terduga.