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  • This house, as Oscar Wilde, Regrets publishing The Picture of Dorian Gray

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    The Picture of Dorian Gray was a novel published by Oscar Wilde in 1890, who was one of the most popular Irish playwrights in the 1890s, as well as a closeted homosexual. The novel includes themes of homosexuality and the implicit legitimisation of male prostitution, which caused wide scale controversy upon its publication. In 1895. Wilde was prosecuted on charges of sodomy, and passages from the novel were recited in court as proof of his immorality. Dorian Gray was Wilde's only novel, and his

    UT MARA National Novice 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-01-01

  • This house would publicly display the ingots as they are, rather than repurpose them into a new statue

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    In 2023, an organisation called ‘Swords into Plowshares’ removed a statue of confederate general and slave-owner Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, and melted it down into a number of bronze ingots. Their current plan is to form a jury which will take submissions for ideas on how to use this bronze for a new work of public art.

    Ljubljana IV 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-01-01

  • Given the technology, Bezalel as a genius will give up his genius and become an average person.

    Haifa Schoolies Competition 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-01-01

  • This house believes that that ancient statues should be repainted rather than scrubbed

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    Excavations of ancient statues reveal meticulously crafted depictions of people in pale marble, stone, or other earthen materials. Museums typically display these statues in this form. However, these statues where historically polychromatic, their pigments wearing away over time. Some excavated statues have traces of pigment, but are scrubbed for display. Polychromatic replicas have been described as looking "gaudy" and "cheap", partially explained by the hues too flat and opaque, and the plaster from which most of the replicas are made absorbing paint in a way that marble does not.

    Canadian Parliamentary Nationals 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-01-01

  • This house believes that the Voyager Golden Records should have also included negative depictions of humanity

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    The Voyager Golden Records are a pair of phonograph records that were included aboard the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft, which were launched by NASA in 1977 to explore the outer planets of our solar system. These records contain a carefully curated selection of sounds and images intended to represent the diversity of life and culture on Earth to any potential extraterrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft. The content of the records includes a variety of the greatest musical works from different cultures, greetings in 55 languages, as well as a range of natural sounds and images depicting human life, science, and the planet Earth.

    Shanghai Novice Debate Open 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-01-01

  • This house prefers the quality of art being viewed as predominantly subjective as opposed to predominantly objective

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    Madrid WUDC 2023 · 2 · 2022-12-28

  • This house prefers a world where art cannot be generated by artificial intelligence and would always require significant human input

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    Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems that can perform a lot of activities including generation of artwork

    Korea National Championships BP 2022 · U14 Finals · 2022-12-19

  • This house believes that for students over the age of 14, art and literature curricula should actively include works with violent or sexual themes, as opposed to minimising their role in the curriculum.

    Pre-WUDC Vienna Online Open · Round 4 · 2022-12-15

  • This house would ban copyright assignments.

    Infoslide

    Copyright refers to a series of legal protections granted to the creators of a creative work, giving them exclusive rights to the copy, distribute, publish, display, or modify that work. A copyright assignment is a process by which a copyright holder can transfer all or some of their copyright rights to a third party. ex. an author may transfer their right to publish and distribute a work to a publisher. An employee making creative works for a company may be required to transfer copyright to their employer.

    Central Novs 2022 · Round 5 · 2022-11-26

  • This house believes that representation of nihilism in art does more harm than good

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    Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.

    Durham IV 2022 · Round 3 · 2022-11-19

  • This house supports GRRM not continuing to work on A Song of Ice and Fire

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    George R R Martin's last book for his highly popular series A Song of Ice and Fire, came out in 2011. Since then he has been reportedly working on the Winds of Winter but there has been no reveal of a release date for the book. In the meantime, he has been involved in other projects such as helping out writers in the Game of Thrones series (the adaptation TV series for ASOIAF) and has recently collaborated with Hidetaka Miyazaki (the creator of Dark Souls) on the release of his new game. His inaction on his books has caused considerable negative feedback both from fans of the books and the tv series, who want him to finish his work. Although Martin promised the fans that they could lock him up if he did not finish the series, lately he has expressed some disinterest and boredom with ASOIAF.

    Pro Am Parliamentary Debates · Round 4b · 2022-11-05

  • This house supports the creation of Artificial Intelligence Friends

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    Lithuanian Novice Debating Tournament 2021-2022 · Silver Final · 2022-10-29

  • This house supports women writing emotionally descriptive literature over emotionally prescriptive literature

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    Emotionally descriptive literature is literature that aims to accurately represent people’s feelings, thoughts, and opinions, even those which are harmful or problematic. Examples of such literature include Taylor Swift’s "Better than Revenge", Carrie Underwood’s "Before he Cheats”, and Sally Rooney’s Conversation with Friends. Emotionally prescriptive literature depicts idealized versions of emotions, where feeling are portrayed as correct or incorrect. Examples include Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down”, and Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice.

    Yale IV 2022 · Quarterfinals · 2022-10-29

  • This house regrets the decline of the Catholic Church's art patronage

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    During the Renaissance, the Catholic Church was at the height of its political power in Europe. Funding, collecting and commissioning works of art served to bolster its influence in the political realm. Over many centuries, the Church’s art patronage has steadily declined as a result of a number of factors including the Church’s ability to raise funding, critique of this art following secularization and the rise of Protestantism, and the increasing dominance of the capitalist market.

    Hart House 2022 · 3 · 2022-10-14

  • This house believes that Dall-E and similar technologies will render the physical production of visual art by humans redundant

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    Dall-E is an AI which generates artworks based on text descriptions inputted by humans. The AI is trained on millions of images. The text description can be as specific as you like, allowing the generation of very detailed images in any style. Dall-E is one of several AIs recently developed which can do this.

    Officer's Cup 2022 · Round 1 · 2022-09-17

  • That national artistic organisations e.g. the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Royal New Zealand Ballet, should be required to have New Zealanders as a majority of their performers.

    Officer's Cup 2022 · Round 1 · 2022-09-17