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  • This house would ban prediction markets

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    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

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    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

  • This house regrets the rise of retail trading.

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    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 prefers a world with the existence of RobSpear.

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    RobSpear is a technology that allows individuals to choose to sacrifice a duration of their lifespan for a substantial amount of wealth relative to their socioeconomic status. This technology can be used at any point in an individual's life given their consent, and the amount of lifespan sacrificed is proportional to the wealth demanded. An individual dies immediately after using RobSpear if they demand too much wealth relative to both their lifespan and socioeconomic status.

    University of Western Ontario Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Junior Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that the US should curb the rapid growth of data centers

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    Data centers are crucial physical infrastructures which stores large amounts of digital information that fuel emerging technologies such as AI and the Internet of Things. Currently, there are over 5000 data centers across the United States which are primarily developed for Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon. While data centers have brought billions of dollars in investments and created thousands of jobs, they are extremely energy-intensive and use immense amounts of local resources especially water.

    3rd Visayas Novice Debate Cup · Round 3 · 2025-10-25

  • From behind the veil of ignorance, this house would allow humans to allocate their stat points prior to being born.

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    In video games, stat points (short for statistic points) represent a character’s core attributes or abilities — such as strength, speed, luck, or intelligence. Stat points typically have a maximum value of 10 per category. For this debate, each participant has access to 50% of the total available stat points, meaning it is not possible to max out every category. Once allocated, stat points cannot be changed or reassigned, and no additional points can be earned later.

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-25

  • This house prefers a world in which individuals gain access to the Dreamscape for one month if they are handed a Coke with their name on it.

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    'Share a Coke' has been a multi-national marketing campaign by Coca-Cola since 2011. It replaces the traditional Coke logo from one side of the bottle with the phrase "Share a Coke with" followed by a person's name. For the purposes of this debate, individuals cannot order these Coke bottles online; the bottles can only be found by accident during an unrelated shopping trip. (2/2) The Dreamscape is a finicky new invention that has the capacity to bring any and all sentient beings from an individual’s dreams into reality. Individuals do not get to choose which beings from their dreams are manifested — they only get to choose to use the machine. These beings only survive as long as the individual has access to the Dreamscape. Once created, these beings retain their physical characteristics & supernatural powers, should they possess any. For example, if someone dreams of a strong giant, this giant will retain its size and strength upon entering reality. Most of the time, these beings will pursue socially good objectives, albeit imperfectly — e.g., a giant may be unnecessarily destructive; a shaman may accidentally turn water into wine, etc. Some of the time, these beings will pursue socially bad objectives.

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-25

  • This house believes that universities should hire a substantial portion of STEM* academic staff from the industry (e.g. corporate managers & analysts, industry research & development experts). *Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-24

  • This house would create prehistoric world.

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    Thanks to advancements in genetic research, scientists have managed to "recreate" dire wolves, an Animal that went extinct during the ice age. Further research is ongoing to resurrect the woolly mammoth, Sabretooth tigers and even dinosaurs. Prehistoric world would be an amusement park/zoo where visitors could see and interact with these creatures.

    Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-10-24

  • This house believes that extra-terrestrial territories outside the Earth and its moon should be designated as terra nullius

    Infoslide

    Terra nullius (Latin for “land belonging to no one”) is an old doctrine in international law which asserts that any unclaimed territory may be acquired through two key elements: animus occupandi (or “intention to occupy”) and corpus possesionis (or “actual physical occupation”)

    Cebu Debate Open · Round 3 · 2025-10-17

  • This house supports reallocating national education funding from teacher recruitment to systemic reforms that reduce students’ dependence on teachers (e.g. changing curriculum design, examination types, and school structure or implementing more technology usage)

    Infoslide

    Australia is experiencing a teacher undersupply crisis. Contributing factors include an ageing workforce, high rates of burnout and attrition, fewer university graduates entering teaching, and increasing student enrolments. As a result, many schools face difficulties maintaining class sizes, offering specialist subjects, and ensuring continuity of teaching staff.

    Oxford Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-11

  • This house would accept Steve's offer

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    The Wizard Steve makes you an offer. You get 10 million euros and become immortal. However, this also spawns an immortal snail which kills you if it touches you. Its magic also entails that it perpetually follows you and can't be trapped, stopped or killed. Its sorcery protects it from other motion breaking tactics, such as tracking the snail (e.g. using a GPS tracker). The snail is also as intelligent as a human meaning it can for instance lift on a vehicle to follow you. The snail's name is Bob the Warlock of Irotul.

    Dutch Debating League 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-11

  • This house believes that AGI models should follow virtue ethics over deontology.

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    Deontology is a moral system that states there are certain rules which are absolute and should never be breached (f.e. murder, stealing, etc.). Virtue ethics is a moral system that states that to be moral, a person should have virtuous characteristics. These characteristics are a moderation of two vices. For example, between the extremes of cowardice and hubris, individuals should find the virtue of being brave.

    Dutch Debating League 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-11

  • This house believes that the democratisation of artistic media creation has been good for consumers

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    "The democratisation of artistic media creation refers to the growing ability of the general public to create and distribute media for wide consumption. Contributing factors include: 1\. The reduced cost and increased availability of creative tools such as cameras, microphones, and editing software. 2\. The rise of free-to-use or low-cost distribution platforms (e.g. YouTube, TikTok, SoundCloud, Patreon). 3\. Increased access to global audiences through digital networks and social media."

    Oxford Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-11

  • THR rise of retail trading

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    Retail trading is the buying and selling of financial securities by individual, non-professional investors for their personal accounts, using their own money. Enabled by online brokerage platforms and mobile trading apps, this form of investing has become increasingly popular, particularly since the late 2010s.

    Laurier (Waterloo) Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-11

  • This House believes that the 'founder hero' culture has done more harm than good.

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    The "founder hero" culture is the phenomenon of glorification of startup founders as almost mythical visionary figures, seen as the main drivers of innovation and social progress. Notable examples include Elon Musk (Tesla, SpaceX), Steve Jobs (Apple), Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), and Elizabeth Holmes (Theranos).

    Campeonato Nacional de Debates Escolares 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-10-08

  • This house believes that the validation of Philippine herbal plants should shift from the Western biomedical pipeline to participatory ethnopharmacology as the primary framework.

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    <div><font color="#000412" face="gg sans, Noto Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><div style="">The Western biomedical validation framework includes pre-clinical and clinical methods such as laboratory assays, phytochemical and toxicity testing, animal studies, pharmacological profiling, and randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in humans.&nbsp;</div><div style="">Participatory ethnopharmacology is a framework for validating herbal plants with medicinal potential that documents how plants are prepared and used in communities, records healer and patient testimonies, and tracks health outcomes over time. In this framework, indigenous knowledge and community experience sit on equal footing with pharmacological testing, meaning that longstanding use and cultural validation can serve as sufficient evidence of safety and efficacy even without completing the full Western biomedical pipeline.</div></span></font></div>

    Kamalig Pre-NDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-04