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  • This house prefers developing countries to invest in domestic child welfare and adoption systems rather than facilitate international adoptions

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    International adoption is when a child is adopted by individuals or families who live in a different country from the child’s country of birth. Many children adopted internationally come from countries with limited resources, high poverty rates, or histories of conflict. They are often adopted into countries with higher standards of living. In the past, countries like Guatemala, Cambodia, and Ethiopia have suspended or been suspended from international adoption due to serious concerns about forged documents, child trafficking, or a lack of oversight in the adoption process.

    Cambridge Union Schools Debating Championship Australia New Zealand Round 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-30

  • In states with a past history of ethnic tensions, This house supports the 'Two Schools under One Roof' system

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    Two schools under one roof is a term for schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina based on the ethnic segregation of children. Children from different ethnic groups, attend classes in the same building, but physically separated from each other and taught separate curricula.

    Diliman Pre-Asian British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-08-23

  • This house would ban TalkToys.

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    TalkToys are dolls with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and speech recognition software that enable them to engage in an actual conversation with children, with thousands of responses. TalkToys are meant to serve as a companion to the child. They can be left alone with children and will talk to them as any other human would.

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · Power Pair 9 · 2025-08-22

  • This house supports the release of the 'Burn Book".

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    In the movie Mean Girls, a group of popular but 'mean' girls (the 'Plastics') wrote 'The Burn Book'. The Burn Book is a scrapbook with photos of people at their school with lines of gossip and insults underneath the photos (e.g. 'dyke", 'too gay to function", 'made out with the coach"). Regina George made the book public to the entire school by photocopying pages and throwing them in the school corridors. She blamed it on Cady. this caused a lot of fighting between students and suspicion of teachers being involved in illegal activities. The school board responded by forcing the students to talk in an open discussion about the things that were written down in the book such as sexuality (including slut- and virginshaming) fatshaming and anti-bullying.

    Friday Night Debates 2025: An African Debate Super League · Power Pair 10 · 2025-08-22

  • This house supports the rise of ROMO among the youth

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    Reality of Missing Out (ROMO) generally refers to the feeling of content with not personally knowing or not personally being part of something, even to the extent of being relieved from being detached or not involved in certain public events or online trends.

    Orgullo Intervarsity 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-08-16

  • This House, as Mahito, would accept the reins of the otherworld from his granduncle

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    Mahito is a young boy in wartime Japan who loses his mother in a hospital fire and struggles to adapt after his father remarries his aunt and relocates the family to his late mother’s rural estate. He shares a loving but somewhat distant relationship with his father, while being deeply cherished by his aunt and cared for by her maids. At the estate, Mahito encounters a talking grey heron that leads him into a magical, otherworldly realm connected to his family’s past. This realm opens its doors to those in great distress and is inhabited by spirits and fantastical creatures—among them, the souls of those awaiting rebirth into the real world, and predatory pelicans that consume these spirits to survive. Within this realm, Mahito meets his granduncle, the creator and caretaker of this alternate world. Weary and nearing the end of his life, the granduncle offers Mahito the reins of this seemingly perfect world. However, if Mahito accepts this offer, he will never be able to return to the real world.

    BRAC Genders 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-15

  • This House prefers Disney optimism to Ghibli optimism in children's media

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

    BRAC Genders 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-15

  • This house, as an Eldian living in Marley, W volunteer to become a Warrior Candidate

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    You are a member of a persecuted ethnic minority known as the Eldians, living in a powerful and militaristic country called Marley. Historically, Eldians were responsible for brutal wars and atrocities using a unique biological power that allowed them to transform into massive superhuman weapons called Titans. Because of this legacy, Eldians are now treated as second-class citizens. Eldians are forced to live in segregated zones. They face systemic racism and cannot marry outside their group, they are underpaid, socially marginalized, and constantly discriminated against. However, Marley depends on Eldians for its military strength because only they possessed the power to become Titans. This transformation only occurs when they are injected with a substance called Titan serum, which is exclusively controlled by Marley. Once transformed, they can shift into and out of their Titan forms at will — they are not permanently trapped in that shape. The Marleyan government recruits 9 Eldian teenagers every 13 years into an elite program to become Warrior candidates - this program trains them to inherit these Titan powers which they later use to fight in Marley's wars. If chosen, you and your immediate family are granted the rare status of “Honorary Marleans”, giving you greater rights and you are treated as heroes. Those who gain this power die 13 years after receiving it. You are an Eldian youth living under this system. You now can join the program and become Marley’s warrior candidate.

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-13

  • This house, as Veronica, Would accept the offer

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    Veronica is a typical "nerd" in a big American high school. Veronica and her two best friends spend their time working hard at school, pursuing geeky extracurriculars (chess, Math Olympiad, debate...), and getting constantly bullied by the school's popular kids. One day, after saving the Prom Queen from being runover by a bus, she offers Veronica to join the popular group, as long as long as she cut off her friends and quit her geeky extracurriculars.

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-13