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  • This house regrets the dominant narrative that 'a friend in need is a friend indeed'

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    The phrase "a friend in need is a friend indeed" means that a true friend is someone who helps you when you are in trouble, rather than abandoning you.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house prefers Disney's approach to Ghibli's approach in children's media.

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    For the purpose of this debate, there are two tropes in children's media. Disney's approach presents a world with clear good and evil, wherein good always triumphs. Ghibli's approach presents a world with no true evil and morality is subjective, where peaceful compromise is ultimately possible and neither side necessarily triumphs.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-10

  • In rapidly-developing megacities, This house prefers the "chaotic warm approach" in urban planning as opposed to Le Corbusier’s approach

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    A megacity is defined as a very large urban area, usually a metropolis, consisting of a main city supported by several satellite cities. Le Corbusier's concept of urban planning envisions polished infrastructures (wide roads, clear sidewalks, spacious public facilities etc.) within cities with well-defined sectors (clear separation of residential and commercial areas). A 'chaotic warm' approach is a city that looks “messy” from up above but feels 'warm' to its inhabitants: for example the presence of urban villages, city alleyways scattered with street food hawkers and hole-in-the-wall establishments. For the purpose of this debate, both approaches would also aim for cleanliness, relative law and order and security albeit in different ways of delivering/implementing them.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This House prefers a world in which oracles exist.

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    An oracle is someone capable of providing prophecies. These prophecies are expressed vaguely, in poems or riddles, but they are always accurate. Oracles cannot choose what they prophesy about and only see very limited parts of the future—fixed points that cannot be changed. Oracles are rare: only a few hundred exist at the same time, distributed proportionally to the population around the world.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-10

  • This house opposes linguistic nationalism

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    Linguistic nationalism is the belief that language is central to a nation's identity. This can be seen in the existence of national languages, historical programs of linguistic assimilation (eg. the French government making active efforts to eliminate Breton and Occitan language), and the differentiation of mutually intelligible languages on political grounds (splitting of Serbo-Croat into Serbian and Croatian, splitting of Hindustani into Urdu and Hindi)

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-08

  • This house regrets the decline of Catholicism in Latin America

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    In Latin America, Catholicism has declined from 90% of the population in 1970 to 65% today. At the same time, the number of non-affiliated people has quadrupled from 4% to 16% from 1996 to 2020 and Evangelicalism has risen from 10% in 2002 to 20% today.

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-08

  • This house regrets the glorification of the 'authentic self'

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    For the purposes of the debate, the 'authentic self' is characterised by the belief that being unapologetically yourself, expressing your views, and prioritising your personal well-being, regardless of the situation, is the right and best way to live your life.

    Cambridge Intervarsity 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-08

  • This house prefers for queer narratives in popular media to primarily center around the present (ex. Heartstopper, Bottoms, Love, Simon, Twinless) rather than the past (ex. Boots, Queer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Brokeback Mountain).

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-08

  • This house prefers Disney optimism to Ghibli optimism

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    For the purpose of this debate, there are two tropes in children's media. "Disney optimism" presents a world with clear good and evil characters wherein good always triumphs. "Ghibli optimism" presents a world with no true evil.

    Cambridge WGM 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-07

  • This House Regrets the rise of the cultural obsession with uncovering one's "true self"

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    The modern cultural obsession with uncovering one's true self refers to the growing emphasis in contemporary society on discovering and defining a supposedly authentic inner identity. This trend is visible in the popularity of therapy and self-help practices aimed at self discovery, personality frameworks (e.g., Myers-Briggs Enneagram), tracking apps, online micro- identities and similar introspective tools.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-07

  • This House Opposes the Rise of Sorority as a Strategy to Promote Feminist Ideals.

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    In feminism, sorority is a concept that recognizes the importance of empathy, solidarity, and connection among women to confront patriarchal oppression and build networks of mutual support. In many contemporary practices, sorority is presented by imposing standards of conduct, loyalty, and forms of interaction on women, seeking specific behaviors and modes of belonging within the movement.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-07

  • This House Prefers a World in which most religions maintain communal rituals as the central focus of Spiritual Practice.

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    In many traditional religions of Africa and the Americas, religious practice was primarily centered on communal rituals and social cohesion: festivals, dances, and ceremonies strengthened group identity and the transmission of knowledge. Later, there was a growing emphasis on individual spirituality and personal interpretation of the divine, detached from collective rituals.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Final · 2025-11-07

  • THR the valorisation of "exclusive authentic intimacy” as the core value of romantic relationships.

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    Authentic intimacy refers to a very deep, personal emotional and physical closeness. Among other things it involves being fully open, honest, and vulnerable, showing your fears and desires without hiding.

    Cambridge WGM 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-07

  • This house believes that the act of recasting minority actors as existing characters in popular franchises has done more harm than good

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    Recently, there has been a trend of recasting characters of popular franchises. For example, in the series Bridgerton, Regé-Jean Page (a British- Zimbabwean) was casted as the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset. Similar occurrences have also happened, such as Zendaya (who is half African-American and half European) being casted as Mary Jane in the Spider-man franchise, Jonathan Majors (an African-American) as Kang the Conqueror, Halle Bailey (an African-American) as Ariel the Mermaid. On April 14th, a new Harry Potter series was announced, with Paapa Essiedu (a British-African) entering the franchise as Severus Snape.

    UBC Summer HST 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-04