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  • This house believes that religious leaders should not endorse candidates for political office.

    Infoslide

    Religious leaders are people who guide others in their faith, like priests, imams, rabbis, or monks. Political office means a job in the government where someone makes laws or important decisions for the public, like being a mayor, president, or member of parliament.

    Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-02

  • This house would ban prediction markets

    Infoslide

    Prediction markets are online markets that allow visitors to bet money on real-life events (eg. elections, political actions, wars). If their prediction is correct, they receive a monetary reward proportional to the risk of their prediction.

    Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports video game piracy

    Infoslide

    Video game piracy refers to unauthorized bypassing of video game software. Similar to pirating movies or music, video games are "pirated" through torrenting sites in which users can share and downloaded copyrighted media. Examples of such sites are the piratebay, rutracker, rarbg etc. Additionally to downloading the required files to play the game, game developers employ technolgoies to protect their software from copying (i.e., you cannot copy files and play the game). To circumvent this, pirates include cracking software with the game files allowing those who run cracking software to circumvent the copy protection of thevideo game.

    Erasmus Novice Cup · Round 1 · 2025-11-01

  • In constituency electoral systems, This house would require the electoral representatives of a select number of constituencies to be laypeople

    Infoslide

    (i) Under a constituency electoral system, the composition of parliament following a national election depends on the outcome across voting areas (constituencies). Each constituency will have a number of candidates running for office, who may be members of political parties or independent (i.e. not affiliated with any political party). The candidate with the highest number of votes enters office as the electoral representative of that constituency. Examples of countries following the constituency electoral system are the United Kingdom, India, and Malaysia. (ii) For the purposes of the debate, a layperson is defined as an individual with no prior experience in politics (e.g. they have never held office, they have never worked in government).

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This house regrets the rise of retail trading.

    Infoslide

    Retail trading is the buying and selling of financial securities by individual, non-professional investors for personal finance. This has grown in popularity and accessibility, enabled by online brokerage platforms and mobile trading apps (e.g. Moomoo, Tiger Brokers).

    SMU Novice Debating Championships 2025 · Open Semifinal · 2025-11-01

  • This House, as Dr. House, would break into the house

    Infoslide

    Dr. House is a doctor treating a patient. He cannot determine how to treat the patient, and firmly believes that the patient is hiding information that would be necessary for determining their condition and saving their life. Thus, he believes that the only way to find this information is to break into the patient's house.

    Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-01

  • This house would abolish conscription in South Korea.

    Infoslide

    In South Korea, conscription has been a legal requirement for all male citizens since 1957. According to the countrie's rules, all men who turn 18 are required to serve in the armed forces for a minimum of 18 to 21 months.

    South Atlantic Debate Championship 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01

  • When deciding divorce asset division, This house believes that courts should exclude the fault of each spouse and make a judgment solely based on economic factors.

    Infoslide

    In a divorce lawsuit, courts decide how to divide the assets jointly accumulated during the marriage between the spouses. It accounts for economic factors, including each spouse's financial and non-financial contributions, future needs, and debts. The court may adjust the division ratio to disadvantage the spouse deemed as at fault for the divorce (i.e., adjust from 5:5 to 6:4).

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · ラウンド5 · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the adoption of publicly-triggered recall elections for all elected offices

    Infoslide

    A recall election is a procedure by which voters can remove an elected official from office through a referendum before that official's term of office has ended. This can be done directly, in which the recall is triggered by the public through means such as but not limited to petitions.

    SMU Novice Debating Championships 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01

  • In democracies with one dominant political party, This house believes that it is in the interest of the opposition parties to prioritize value-driven advocacy (e.g. integrity, transparency, anti-corruption) rather than policy-driven advocacy (e.g. unemployment, education, the environment)

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · Pre-Semifinals · 2025-11-01

  • This house would ban quick trading

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of the debate, quick trading refers to the buy and sale of financial securities (e.g. stocks, options, futures, currencies, NFTs) within the same week.

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-01