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  • This house believes that green belts in and around cities should be eliminated when experiencing a housing supply shortage

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    A green belt is an area designated to preserve nature or open space. They may be large recreational parks, undeveloped wilderness, or agricultural land. Development on this land is severely restricted

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house prefers a widespread adoption of process-based as opposed to outcomes-based environmental regulation

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    Process-based environmental regulations refers to regulations that prescribe specific practices (i.e. use of renewable energy sources, specific farming techniques to reduce emission, etc.) in protecting the environment. In comparison, outcomes-based regulation (e.g. emission caps or waste reduction goals) without prescribing how they must be achieved

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house, as Po, would have chosen to stay with his panda family instead of returning to the Valley of Peace.

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    In the Kung Fu Panda universe, Po is a panda who was raised by Mr. Ping, a goose who runs a noodle shop. Po grows up believing Mr. Ping is his real father. Po is also the Dragon Warrior and the protector of the Valley of Peace. Mr Ping is a good father and takes care of Po well ever since he was a baby. Later, Po discovers that he is adopted and that his biological father, Li Shan, and a hidden village of pandas have survived in secret. After reconnecting with his biological family, Po is offered the chance to stay in the panda village, where he finally feels a sense of belonging and cultural identity. If he chooses to stay, he can still practice kungfu but he has to pass on the mantle of the Dragon Warrior

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-10

  • This house, as the journalist, W take the bribe.

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    You are a journalist living in a democratic state with endemic corruption covering the upcoming elections. A local politician that is known to engage in corrupt actions has approached you to bribe you to focus on his opponents instead of scrutinising his actions. Agreeing to this would ensure a steady source of future funding for your journalistic career.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-10

  • This house prefers the integrated model to the specialty model

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    There are two ways that governments can consider disadvantage in policy- making. The "integrated model" incorporates disadvantage as an inherent consideration in policy-making (e.g. all new policies made in the education department must consider implications for rural students). The "specialty model" involves having a distinct division that specifically engages with policy for disadvantaged groups (e.g. the education department has a division that directly and separately addresses helping rural areas).

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house would choose to become a ghost-writer.

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    You are a young and talented short-story and poetry writer who publishes online, earning little and working multiple part-time jobs to get by and afford rent; you are approached by a fairly prominent artist and offered a deal to sign with their label, guaranteeing a stable and significantly above- average salary as a ghostwriter; you will never publish online or under your own name again as a part of the contract

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-10

  • This house regrets the dominant narrative that 'a friend in need is a friend indeed'

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    The phrase "a friend in need is a friend indeed" means that a true friend is someone who helps you when you are in trouble, rather than abandoning you.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house supports intellectual banality as a key principle in the academic approach.

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    Intellectual banality, in this debate, is defined as a principle that states the practices and habits of academia should make intellectual discourse (e.g., debates, lectures, academic forums) and academic products (e.g., journals, theses, dissertations, papers, etc.) more banal, meaning simple and easily understood by the general public, both in terms of substance and communication.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house would remove patents for eco-friendly technologies.

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    Patents give inventors exclusive rights to produce or sell their inventions for a certain period of time, preventing others from copying or using the same technology without permission

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house prefers Disney's approach to Ghibli's approach in children's media.

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    For the purpose of this debate, there are two tropes in children's media. Disney's approach presents a world with clear good and evil, wherein good always triumphs. Ghibli's approach presents a world with no true evil and morality is subjective, where peaceful compromise is ultimately possible and neither side necessarily triumphs.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-10

  • This house, as a religious leader, would destroy the test.

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    Many religions include artefacts that are claimed to be historically sacred, e.g. Buddha relics, bones of Catholic saints, the Holy Grail. You are a religious leader who has discovered a test that can definitively verify the authenticity of any artefact.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-10

  • In the pursuit of scientific knowledge, This house would continue the development of Dual-use research of concern (DURC) in biotechnology

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    Dual-use research of concern (DURC) describes research that is intended to provide a clear benefit, but which could easily be misapplied to do harm. This may include the creation of modified viruses to better understand how they function which may risk the use of them to infect animals and people, or the development of aerosol methods to help treat asthma which may be used to improve biological weapons like anthrax, etc.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This House prefers a world in which oracles exist.

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    An oracle is someone capable of providing prophecies. These prophecies are expressed vaguely, in poems or riddles, but they are always accurate. Oracles cannot choose what they prophesy about and only see very limited parts of the future—fixed points that cannot be changed. Oracles are rare: only a few hundred exist at the same time, distributed proportionally to the population around the world.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-10

  • This house believes that the tribe should decide the person to be sacrificed by a lottery system rather than a majority vote.

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    There is a prehistoric tribe of about 100 people who sacrifice one member every year for the purposes of a religious ritual. There is no way to disobey this ritual because otherwise God would become angry with the tribe and destroy it completely. God will not retaliate regardless of who dies.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-10

  • This house, as the 14th Dalai Lama, W publicly declare that there will be no 15th Dalai Lama.

    Infoslide

    The Dalai Lama is a title given to the spiritual leader of the Gelug school, the newest and most dominant of the schools of Tibetan Buddhism. The incumbent 14th Dalai Lama is known for his work in overcoming sectarian divisions and representing unified Buddhist values and traditions. After the annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China, he escaped to India after the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising, where he continues to live in exile while remaining the spiritual leader of Tibet. Traditionally, the Dalai Lama is believed by adherents to be able to choose the body into which he is reincarnated, and upon his death, a search for the Lama’s reincarnation is conducted alongside a consultation with his personal oracle. The Chinese Communist Party has stated its intention to be the ultimate authority on the selection of the next Dalai Lama, and have even enshrined this right into Chinese law.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-10

  • In rapidly-developing megacities, This house prefers the "chaotic warm approach" in urban planning as opposed to Le Corbusier’s approach

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    A megacity is defined as a very large urban area, usually a metropolis, consisting of a main city supported by several satellite cities. Le Corbusier's concept of urban planning envisions polished infrastructures (wide roads, clear sidewalks, spacious public facilities etc.) within cities with well-defined sectors (clear separation of residential and commercial areas). A 'chaotic warm' approach is a city that looks “messy” from up above but feels 'warm' to its inhabitants: for example the presence of urban villages, city alleyways scattered with street food hawkers and hole-in-the-wall establishments. For the purpose of this debate, both approaches would also aim for cleanliness, relative law and order and security albeit in different ways of delivering/implementing them.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10