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  • This house believes that parents should teach daughters to assume men are "guilty until proven innocent".

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    For the purposes of the debate, assuming a man is "guilty until proven innocent" means to assume he is ill-intentioned until proven otherwise. Believing a man is "guilty until proven innocent" may imply, among other things, believing he is untrustworthy, overwhelmingly driven by lust, or harbours a tendency to look down upon women.

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-24

  • This House Regrets the decline of children's media containing dark, frightening themes

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    Until recently, popular entertainment intended for children—such as fairy tales, nursery rhymes, and movies—often contained dark, frightening themes alongside positive, optimistic ones. For example, in the original version of _The Little Mermaid_ , by Hans Christian Andersen, the mermaid dies at the end of the story. In Disney's 1942 film _Bambi_ , Bambi's mother is shot dead, Bambi himself is shot (though he survives), and Bambi's friend, Faline, narrowly escapes being torn to pieces by a pack of wild dogs.

    Dulwich Schools 2025 · Gold Final · 2025-09-28

  • This House, as a parent of daughters, Would prioritise teaching them to navigate sexism by being socially acceptable and well-mannered, rather than encouraging them to be confrontational and blunt

    Dulwich Schools 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-28

  • This house would allow parents to give the Politeness Pill to their children under the age of 18 regardless of the children's consent

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    The Politeness Pill when taken temporarily permits only socially acceptable behaviour such as obedience, attendance at school, good manners, following the law, refraining from drugs and alcohol, etc.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2025 · NHSE Finals · 2025-09-27

  • This house, as the parent, would plug their child into the experience machine

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    You are a low-income worker in a developed country. Your partner has died giving birth to your first child, who is born with a chronic but non-life- threatening disease. Doctors offer you the option of the “Experience Machine,” which flawlessly simulates a slightly above-average Canadian life for whoever is plugged in. It can only be used within 24 hours of birth; once inside, the person cannot return without dying. The machine is experimental but extremely safe, and researchers are a single human trial away from being able to safely simulate any experience for any age. So far, finding subjects has been extremely difficult.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-27

  • This house prefers the Grimm Brothers' method of storytelling over Disney's method of storytelling when it comes to producing children's media

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    The Disney method is a storytelling style that is sanitised, optimistic and visually appealing, often involving musical elements and comic relief. It emphasises hope, perseverance and friendship, and typically ends happily. The Grimm Brothers' method depicts stories as darker, moralistic and often violent tales with clear consequences. It emphasises realism, fear, and caution. These stories usually involve suffering as a path to learning and tend to lack sanitised happy endings

    Vanguard Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-09-26

  • This house prefers companies providing non-monetary benefits (e.g. flexibility, additional paid leaves, training, childcare support) over monetary benefits (e.g. higher wages, cash bonuses, discount vouchers)

    Shanghai WSDC Open 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-09-12

  • This house prefers the current model over the revamp

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    The current Gifted Education Programme (GEP) system aims to identify intellectually gifted students through a two-stage exercise in Primary 3. Those selected are invited to join one of the nine designated primary schools offering the programme. Starting from the 2024 Primary 1 cohort, every primary school will now be equipped with resources to identify their own high-ability students from Primary 4 to 6 and run their own school-based programmes to nurture these students in their area of strengths and interests, instead of the current centralised programme. The revamp will also take into account recommendations from teachers, instead of the current system where it is solely assessment- based. The revamp is expected to increase the number of students admitted into GEP to about 10% of each cohort, while it was previously from around 1% in the current system.

    Youth Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-08

  • This house supports the idea of "derusting".

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    Derusting is a debate term which refers to experienced debaters masquerading to debate in high school tournaments, often breaking and at times even failing to break. They argue that they want to use it as a platform to improve themselves but also give value to tournaments. However, students argue that they are traumatized by the existence of such speakers.

    Oratorical Arena 2.0 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-09-05

  • This house believes that Lotso was justified in preventing the toys from leaving Sunnyside Daycare to find an owner.

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    In the Toy Story movie franchise, toys are sentient beings whose purpose is to bring joy and happiness to the children in Sunnyside Daycare. However, these toys wish to have their own personal owner. Lotso is the main villain in Toy Story 3. He controls and rules the other toys in Sunnyside Daycare and tells them that they are "destined to be thrown away" and that "no owners means no heartbreak." Lotso's main goal is to keep the toys from escaping the daycare. Lotso's outlook stems from being abandoned and replaced by his owner Daisy.

    Beijing International Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-05