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  • This house as jake would actively be a homewrecker

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    Jake is an average teenage who has an intense crush to this girl since childhood. Due to his inaction and fear his long time crush is now dating someone else. Despite all this, Jake remains a close friend , and does not believe that the current partner is good enough. Jake has a significant amount of influence over his crush and their opinions. Jake believes she can do better.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Novice Finals · 2025-05-25

  • This house prefers a world without the emphasis on individuals finding their meaning in life

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    You woke up in an unfamiliar place with no memory about your life or yourself. No one seems to recognize you or know who you are, but you are currently working with physicians and authorities to get your old life back.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Grand Final · 2025-05-25

  • Without foresight, This house would choose to be born in a world where there is no emphasis on individuals being special or unique rather than a world where individuals are encouraged and defined to be special and distinctive.

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    You woke up in an unfamiliar place with no memory about your life or yourself. No one seems to recognize you or know who you are, but you are currently working with physicians and authorities to get your old life back.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Grand Final · 2025-05-25

  • This house would choose to forgo the surgery

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    You are an individual who just got diagnosed with Hanahaki disease, a fictional illness caused by unrequited feelings in which flowers grow in your lungs. The disease can be treated by a surgery which extracts both the flowers and the feelings attached to it. The disease cures itself when the feelings are returned, however if left untreated, the disease is lethal.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Novice Finals · 2025-05-25

  • This house would abandon all attempts to remember in favor of starting a new life

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    You woke up in an unfamiliar place with no memory about your life or yourself. No one seems to recognize you or know who you are, but you are currently working with physicians and authorities to get your old life back.

    Xavier Cup 11 · Grand Final · 2025-05-25

  • (C) This house believes that religious leaders should emphasize the outlook of 'Leaving it to God' during times of hardship

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    (C) ''Leaving it to God' is a philosophy whereby individuals relinquish individual control and instead rely on divine intervention from a higher power or being to provide guidance and solutions through difficult situations.

    Taylor's Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-05-25

  • (A) In cases involving determining the legality of constitutional amendments, This house believes that judges should exercise significant judicial restraint

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    (A) Judicial restraint is a theory of judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit their power and defer to elected officials, particularly when it comes to policy decisions.

    Taylor's Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-05-25

  • (A) In cases involving determining the legality of constitutional amendments, This house believes that judges should exercise significant judicial restraint

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    (A) Judicial restraint is a theory of judicial interpretation that encourages judges to limit their power and defer to elected officials, particularly when it comes to policy decisions.

    Taylor's Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-05-25

  • Under a veil of ignorance, This house prefers to be born with an average level of intelligence as opposed to being born with a genius level of intelligence.

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    "Genius-level" intelligence refers to a person with logical reasoning and creative capacities that far exceed the abilities of the average person.

    Xavier Cup 12 · Round 3 · 2025-05-25

  • This house would stagnate the development of brain organoid research.

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    Brain organoids are tiny, simplified versions of the human brain grown from stem cells in the lab. They have demonstrated sentientlike neural activity, and ongoing research suggests they may develop increasingly complex, higher- level consciousness over time. Scientists are now integrating brain organoids with AI models to explore their potential in performing complex tasks and advancing neurotechnology.

    Xavier Cup 12 · Round 2 · 2025-05-25

  • This house regrets the general philosophy of viewing most organisms traditionally classified as parasites as pathogens rather than endosymbionts.

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    On one hand, pathogens are organisms that cause harm or disease to their hosts. On the other hand, endosymbionts live inside a host and typically provide mutual benefits or coexist without causing significant harm most of the time. Organisms traditionally classified as parasites include hookworms, tapeworms, and amoeba species.

    Xavier Cup 12 · Round 2 · 2025-05-25

  • This house prefers a world where people have full access to their records

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    Kiraman Katibin, also known as the "noble scribes", are angels in Islamic tradition who are entrusted by God with recording each person's good and bad deeds — collectively known as the noble records. On the Day of Judgement, these records are reviewed and weighed to determine whether one will receive eternal salvation or eternal damnation

    Kings College London Pre- EUDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-05-24

  • This House, as the Pope, Would publicly denounce God

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    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.

    Jesus Cup 2025 · Silver Finals · 2025-05-24

  • This house, as Mimi, would enter San Junipero

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    San Junipero is a Virtual Reality universe which simulates real life perfectly - people who enter it experience the world exactly as they would their life outside of it. San Junipero brings any person who enters it back into their twenty-year old self and body, and into an exact replica of their life at the time. Once one enters San Junipero, they remain there for the rest of their life, and are completely unaware they are in a simulation. You are Mimi, an 80-year old widow, mother and grandmother who lives alone.

    Kings College London Pre- EUDC 2025 · ESL Final · 2025-05-24

  • This House Would prefer a world where Bombardino Crocodilo, rather than Balerina Cappuccina, becomes the dominant religion

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    In the world of this debate no current religions exist and people have no prior knowledge of any. Bombardino Crocodilo is a religion that teaches that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through study, self-discipline, and the pursuit of moral truth. Its followers believe that seeking truth brings them closer to a divine source of wisdom. Ballerina Cappuccina is a religion that teaches that spiritual freedom is attained by letting go of desire and living in harmony with all beings. Its followers seek inner peace, emotional balance and depth, compassion, and a quiet life of acceptance.

    Jesus Cup 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-05-24

  • This House Opposes radical self-love.

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    Radical self-love is the deep belief that a person is worthy and valuable exactly as they are, without needing to change, fix, or earn that worth. It states that you should accept and embrace every part of yourself, even the parts you’ve been taught to criticise or hide.

    Utrecht Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-05-24

  • This House Prefers a World in which monotheistic religions preach the existence of both God and a powerful devil, rather than a world in which they preach that only God exists.

    Utrecht Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-05-24