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  • This house believes that that the Feminist Movement should actively promote norms of stable monogamous relationship

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    Monogamy is a relationship with only one partner at a time, rather than multiple partners (ie: marriage or long term relationship between two individuals)

    Asia Novice Debate Open (ANDO) 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-08-04

  • This house supports widespread belief in the concept of In-Yun"

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    "The concept of “In-Yun” speaks about fate and predestination. It says that the lives you lived previously, and how the minute connections we make throughout our time in this world, reverberate through the layers of life until they finally coalesce for people to find each other.

    Rahat Fundraiser Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Open Grand Finals · 2023-08-04

  • This house prefers lyrics in breakup music where songwriters focus on the process of self empowerment (e.g. "I can buy myself flowers") to lyrics which shame their exes (e.g. "Ah, so much time at the gym, but maybe work out your brain a bit too")

    17th IDC National Debate Festival 2023 (ENGLISH) · Round 4 · 2023-07-27

  • This house as this person at this point in time with the pill in their hands, would take the pill.

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    You are in a happy, committed ten-year long relationship with your significant other (with a house and a dog). You recently found out that early on into the relationship, your partner cheated on you with another person, and you have not told anyone. Your significant other is the only other person that knows about the infidelity, and does not know that you know. You have in your hands a pill to make you instantly forget this information, but it will only work on this day

    17th IDC National Debate Festival 2023 (ENGLISH) · Grand Final · 2023-07-27

  • This house opposes the narrative that 'love conquers all'

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    Love counqers all' idom suggests that when two individuals are deeply in love with each other, their bond and affection can triumph over challenges, conflicts, or adversities that they may encounter in life.

    North Luzon Online Debates 2023 · Open Finals · 2023-07-23

  • This house prefers a world where the pill exists

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    A pill has recently been invented which can fully emotionally distances the individual taking it from a person of their choosing. The pill is free and easily available to everyone in the world, and only works when voluntarily taken. The pill is safe and irreversible.

    North Luzon Online Debates 2023 · Open Quarterfinals · 2023-07-23

  • Assuming certainty that they will never meet again, This house believes that Jesse and Celine would be better off not falling in love in the first place

    Infoslide

    Before Sunrise film tells the story of two young people (Jesse and Celine) that met in a train in Austria and spontaneously went off the train to wander the city of Vienna from mid-afternoon until the following dawn; during this moments, they had a liftime bond and connection (and for the purposes of this debate, will never experience again from another person) and fall in love. In this one day moment, they promise to meet at the same place in six months, but due to external cirucmstances, they never met each other. They have no way of connecting with one another.

    North Luzon Online Debates 2023 · Open Finals · 2023-07-23

  • TH as the mermaid, would give up their voice for legs

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    You are a mermaid tired of living under the sea who has rescued a prince from a shipwreck. Upon saving his life, you are filled with both a deep sense of love for the prince and a reignited passion to explore the outside world. Your local sea witch offers to give you legs so that you can go to the world above in exchange for permanently giving up your voice.

    Hart House Summer Open 2023 · Junior Finals · 2023-07-20

  • This house would marry for utility rather than love and passion

    DK Wien Mini Invitational 2023 · Silver Final · 2023-07-20

  • This house would leave Barbieland to find out about the real world

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    You are Barbie, you are living the perfect life in Barbieworld with all your Barbie friends and you are in a happy relationship with Ken. Recently Barbieworld has become less perfect. Your heels hit the floor and you fell of the roof of the Barbie Dreamhouse. In a conversation with the weird outcast barbie, you find out that Barbieworld is an illusion and that there is the real world outside the borders of your world. You do not know the plot of the Barbie movie.

    DK Wien Mini Invitational 2023 · No Round · 2023-07-20

  • This house would marry for utility rather than love and passion

    DK Wien Mini Invitational 2023 · Gold Final · 2023-07-20

  • THW choose to remain in the past.

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    You are a present day young middle-class English woman happily married who travelled through time to 1740 Scotland. There you encounter, fall in love with and marry a dashing Highland warrior. After a year, you now have the opportunity to return to your time.

    Glasgow Summer Cup 2023 · Pro-Am Finals · 2023-07-15

  • THW retire from the NFL

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    You are a married 35-year-old Quarter-Back in the NFL (American Football League) with 2 children. Your NFL career started from childhood, with a dream to win the NFL Championship. This year, your dream has finally come true, and you won the NFL Championship

    The Earlsfort Open 2023 · No Round · 2023-07-08

  • That we support social-punishment methods as a means of fighting gender inequality [social punishment]

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, social-punishment methods are behaviours that are designed to disrupt or cost society as a negative consequence for norms and state behaviours that detriment women. Movements such as 4B (or “Four No’s”), which originated in South Korea in 2019, are based on the use of these methods. Its members renounce four activities; sex, child-rearing (giving birth), dating, and marriage with men.

    Krabi Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-07-01

  • That we regret the dominance of sex positive feminism

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    Sex-positive feminism emphasises the importance of sex and sexual choice to women’s liberation. It emerged as a reaction against second wave feminists’ criticisms of pornography, sex work, and much heterosexual sex as inherently patriarchal.

    UNSW Pre-Easters 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-06-23

  • This house believes that the LGBTQ+ movement should campaign for abolition of marriage

    27th Lithuanian Schools Debating Academy · Round 1 · 2023-06-21

  • This house regrets the rise of 'situationship' among GenZ.

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    A situationship is an undefined relationship arrangement where two individuals engage in a combination of emotional and physical intimacy without clear commitment or expectations. It exists in a gray area between a casual hookup and a traditional romantic partnership, often lacking defined labels, exclusivity, or long-term goals.

    Malaysia United Asian Debating Championship 2023 · EFL Quarterfinals · 2023-06-16