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  • This house believes that professionals and disability activists should heavily prioritize the practices and narratives derived from the medical as opposed to the social model.

    Infoslide

    The medical model refers to the set of beliefs and practices that view the person with a disability as one who medically suffered an impairment which is the primary cause of their limited functioning i.e. a blind person lacks eyesight so they aren’t “fully functional”. The social model says that the cause of limited functioning is due to the social construct of normality and that by changing the environment people with disabilities can be seen as “fully functional” i.e. blindness is a part of who they are. Professionals and disability activists include doctors, social workers, charities, teachers

    Glasgow Ancients 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-04-07

  • This house prefers the capitation over the 'fee for service' system

    Infoslide

    In a ‘fee for service’ system, doctors bill provincial health insurance providers and receive the appropriate fee for the service they provided. Meanwhile, the capitation system is one in which doctors sign on and become responsible for a set of patients. These doctors receive a fixed salary scaled to the expectation of how often their patients will use their services; for example, the pay would be higher for doctors that take on older or pregnant patients.

    North American Debating Championship 2023 · Round 6 · 2023-04-07

  • This house would legalize active non-voluntary euthanasia.

    Infoslide

    Active euthanasia is where proactive steps are taken to hasten someone’s death with the aim of minimizing suffering.Non-voluntary euthanasia involves patients not competent to consent (e.g., those in a coma, with dementia, etc.), where someone else consents to hastening their death.If a patient has (while competent) officially filed an “advance directive” about hastening their death under their current health circumstances, then this is NOT a case of non-voluntary euthanasia.

    HWS RR 2023 · 3 · 2023-04-01

  • This house as Pigward WoodSwine Would release the vaccine to the world

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    Pigward WoodSwine is a below average pharmaceutical scientist working on a vaccine to prevent all life-threatening illnesses and until this point has been unsuccessful. One night in his Manchester flat he gets black out drunk and does 'a lot' of drugs, when he wakes the next morning he finds that he has synthesised a drug which is 100% effective at making a person immune to life threatening illness, however upon further testing they discover 20% of people who take the vaccine have their ability to speak permanently replaced with uncontrollable Pig-like 'Oinks'. Pigward has no recollection of the night before and has no idea how he created the drug however he does have the ability to replicate the vaccine without modifying the formula. Pigward later names the vaccine the 'Properly Infectious Great And Intense Disease Serum’.

    Severn Cup · Grand Final · 2023-03-26

  • This house believes that parents pushing their children playing any heavy contact sport should count as child abuse

    Infoslide

    Rugby and Waterpolo has grown in popularity in courtries like South Africa. Students that partcipate in heavy contact sports have a chance of gaining a sports scholarship and a shot at a career in the sport.

    ATUDC 2023 · Round 3A · 2023-03-18

  • This house, as Chie Yasutake, would keep the child

    Infoslide

    Hana's Miso Soup was an iconic Japanese movie about a young woman, Chie Yasutake. In the movie, Chie, who is a recent college graduate, becomes engaged to the love of her life, Shingo. Her life, however, takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The ensuing cancer treatment would also render her infertile. Despite that, life delivers another unexpected twist when Chie finds herself impregnated. She is now faced with the difficult choice of taking the risk or ending the pregnancy for which she has yearned.

    JDO 2023 · 1 · 2023-03-17

  • That we should focus on societal factors (e.g. socioeconomic factors) as opposed to individual factors (e.g. personal history) when addressing the causes and consequences of mental health issues

    Eastside Debating Competition 2023 Year 12 · Grand Final · 2023-03-17

  • This House Opposes the increasing trend of Filipinos opting for cosmetic surgeries

    46th Mindanao Parliamentary Debate Championship · Round 1 · 2023-03-17

  • This house would ban this genetic engineering research on adolescents

    Infoslide

    Groundbreaking new research suggests that it is theoretically possible to alter the cells of humans age 12 - 15 to develop adaptability to extreme conditions (e.g. resistance to extreme temperatures, starvation, radioactive waste). This alteration process will involve significant amounts of physical pain, but is non-fatal and full recoveries are assured.

    PSO 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-03-05

  • This house believes that developing countries should prioritize applied medical research over basic medical research

    Infoslide

    Basic medical research refers to ventures into discovering the fundamentals of disease processes. For example, genetic analysis of inherited disorders, the factors that lead to tropical infections (e.g., malaria, dengue, etc.), features of state-specific diseases (e.g., Dystonia of Panay), etc. Applied medical research refers to applying basic research in discovering new drugs, treatments, and innovations. For example, knowing that Diabetes is caused by insulin resistance led to the development of insulin therapies.

    PSO 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-03-05

  • This house prefers a world with the life bank

    Infoslide

    In a dystopian society, each person has a certain number of known “life years”: the number of years they will most likely live as calculated by a computer algorithm. A person’s “life years” can change over time based on a combination of factors. A “life bank” allows adults to exchange years of life for money, and vice versa.

    McMaster High Schools 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-03-03

  • This house would kill the 1%

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    There is a zombie outbreak where 1% of the world is infected. They are all kept in a pen at great expense. We have a vaccination, and the other 99% are vaccinated - they will not be zombified, but the 1% are still dangerous, and there is no cure.

    McMaster High Schools 2023 · Junior Finals · 2023-03-03

  • This House as the feminist movement supports these forms of mourning rituals for miscarriages.

    Infoslide

    Women in Western liberal democracies have recently started to undergo bereavement of their miscarriages through mourning rituals, to acknowledge the grief of the unexpected ending of a life that was cut too short, as a semi-public, social demonstration of grief that has historically and medically been invisibilized. This typically happens within religious spaces using religious liturgy. For example, the Buddhist way of mourning miscarriages involves a red baby bib, a Buddha statue that stands as a metonymic figure for the unborn fetus, taking place in a bathtub to mimic the maternal waters of the uterus. Anglican Cathedrals too have started conducting mourning rituals for miscarriages, in ceremonies that involve ringing bells, lighting incense and candles, and naming the miscarried fetus out of the list of potential names that the mother had chosen for her babe-to-be-born. For Durkheim, a ritual is a symbolic practice marked off both temporally and spatially from everyday life, involving several rites.

    Lloyd Parliamentary Debate · Round 4 · 2023-03-01

  • Resolved: The U.S. government should not require its citizens to have health insurance.

    March · N/A · 2023-03-01

  • Assuming feasibility. This house prefers to be immortal

    Association of Trust Schools Senior Debate Championship 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-02-28