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  • This house opposes the expectation that romantic partners should be significant support systems of each other's mental health.

    The Kansai 2024 · Rookie Finals · 2024-03-01

  • This house supports increasing the provision of marriage related subsidies (such as tax breaks, wedding subsidies, child tax benefits)

    Infoslide

    Marriage-related subsidies are government-sponsored financial benefits for legally married couples. For example, in Singapore, married couples have access to significantly better home loans (i.e. higher amounts, less interest than typical loans) than individuals or non-married couples who cohabitate.

    Hart House High Schools 2024 · Round 2 · 2024-02-17

  • This house would undergo the procedure

    Infoslide

    You have recently broken up with your long-term partner. Though the breakup was messy and painful, you still care for your former partner and can’t help but reminisce upon the happy moments you shared together. A mutual friend informs you that your ex-partner chose to undergo a procedure that erased all their memories of your relationship; if you encounter them again they will only know you as a stranger. The mutual friend hands you a business card and informs you that you can undergo the same affordable procedure painlessly.

    Hart House High Schools 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-02-17

  • This House Supports the increased use of companionship bots

    Infoslide

    Companionship bots are designed to foster humanlike connections using artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). These bots take the form of an interactive and personalized chatbots. In most companionship bots, nearly all aspects of it are customizable. Users can buy their bot's clothes, choose their hair color, and dictate how they look, sound, and speak.

    Hart House High Schools 2024 · Junior Finals · 2024-02-17

  • This house as Kelvin, W stay in a committed monogomous ralationship with the worm

    Infoslide

    Kelvin is a middle-aged person who has been in a committed monogamous relationship for over 15 years with Patrick. They have built a life together and sworn to love each other for better or for worse and in sickness and in health. Until now, Kelvin has been madly in love and believed you would die old together. For the purposes of this debate, worms are sentient creatures who cannot verbally communicate, apart from one day a year when they can verbally communicate on Halloween. Just over 10% of humans that turn into worms turn back into humans. Your partner has turned into a worm.

    Hearts ♥️ Affire Valentine’s Debate Open 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-02-14

  • This house prefers romantic partners whose view of love is more aligned to the outlook of The Proclaimers than Meat Loaf.

    Infoslide

    In the song 'I Wanna Be (500 Miles)', The Proclaimers state their willingness to walk 1000 miles just to be rejected by their muse. In the song 'I'd Do Anything For Love (But I won't do that)', Meat Loaf suggests that there is at least one thing that he would not do for love.

    Hearts ♥️ Affire Valentine’s Debate Open 2024 · Grand Final · 2024-02-14

  • This house would force couples to take the AI test before getting married

    Infoslide

    Scientists have developed an AI that tests the compatibility between people who are about to get married. It asks a series of real life and hypothetical questions based on past experiences, political and social views, future plans etc. After the test, the AI creates a compatibility profile for the couple and gives a verdict based on its findings regarding the durability of the marriage.

    Sunnydale Rhetoric 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-02-08

  • This house believes that Jean should pursue a romantic relationship with Howard

    Infoslide

    Jean is a journalist for a local publication in the 1950s. She is investigating the story of Gretchen, a woman who claims to have had a virgin birth, where she conceived a child while admitted in a catholic nursing home. In the process, she has become extremely close to the family and has been named the god mother of her child. However, she has developed romantic feelings for Howard, Gretchen's husbands who reciprocates these feelings.

    21st People Speak · Open Grand Final · 2024-02-03

  • This house believes that Jean should pursue a romantic relationship with Howard

    Infoslide

    Jean is a journalist for a local publication in the 1950s. She is investigating the story of Gretchen, a woman who claims to have had a virgin birth, where she conceived a child while admitted in a catholic nursing home. In the process, she has become extremely close to the family and has been named the god mother of her child. However, she has developed romantic feelings for Howard, Gretchen's husbands who reciprocates these feelings.

    21st People Speak · Novice Finals · 2024-02-03

  • This House Opposes the stigmatisation of “neediness” in interpersonal relationships

    Infoslide

    "Neediness" is a characteristic used to refer to individual(s) in an interpersonal relationship who has/have a strong preference to receive emotional support, frequent attention, over-reassurance for anxious feelings, and/or higher maintenance for their emotional needs. Interpersonal relationships span across diverse categories like romance, families, friendship, etc.

    English College Open 2024 · Round 6 · 2024-01-27

  • This house supports looksmaxing

    Infoslide

    "Looksmaxing" refers to trends originating from internet communities on means of improving or "maximizing" one's physical attractiveness. Methods generally include getting a haircut, going to the gym, undergoing plastic surgury, taking steroids, or "mewing" (holdings one's mouth shut to allegedly grow a jawline). Common metrics used within looksmaxing communities include one's canthal tilt, hunter vs. prey eyes, and whether you are mogging one another.

    Father Roger Guindon Cup 2024 · Novice Semifinals · 2024-01-27