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  • This house predicts Saudi Arabia will become a global superpower in the next 50 years

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    For the purposes of the debate, a global superpower is a nation that exerts significant international influence through socioeconomic, technological, military, and/or cultural means.

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports the granularization of consumption

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    The "granularization of consumption" describes the ever-finer segmentation of products and services to match smaller customer groups and individual tastes, usually at the expense of unit cost. Examples include direct to consumer products, consumer product ranges expanding in breadth and reducing stock, or media and celebrity superstars being less ubiquitous than in the past

    King's College London Intervarsity 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports video game piracy

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    Video game piracy refers to unauthorized bypassing of video game software. Similar to pirating movies or music, video games are "pirated" through torrenting sites in which users can share and downloaded copyrighted media. Examples of such sites are the piratebay, rutracker, rarbg etc. Additionally to downloading the required files to play the game, game developers employ technolgoies to protect their software from copying (i.e., you cannot copy files and play the game). To circumvent this, pirates include cracking software with the game files allowing those who run cracking software to circumvent the copy protection of thevideo game.

    Erasmus Novice Cup · Round 1 · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that that the SPSE does more harm than good

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    For the sake of this debate Somalian Piracy Stock Exchange (SPSE) refers to the informal fiancial system in which Somalian investors can fund pirate operations in exchange for part of the profits earned from ransoms. Similar to many other famous stock exchanges, SPSE lists a diverse selection of companies although all companies are related to illegal pirate operations in Somalia. Moreover, SPSE is accessible (physically but not online) to anyone willing to invest given that one has sufficient capital to do so. However, unlike other stock exchanges, SPSE allows investment via non-monetary means such as equipment like boats and guns. The monetary value of such equipment is negotiated based on supply and demand of the localized market in which the pirates operate in before being converted into 'stocks'.

    Erasmus Novice Cup · Golden Final · 2025-11-01

  • This house regrets the rise of retail trading.

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    Retail trading is the buying and selling of financial securities by individual, non-professional investors for personal finance. This has grown in popularity and accessibility, enabled by online brokerage platforms and mobile trading apps (e.g. Moomoo, Tiger Brokers).

    SMU Novice Debating Championships 2025 · Open Semifinal · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that development organizations should prioritize sector specialization over country specialization.

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    In international development, non-governmental organizations that receive development aid may pursue "sector specialization", focusing on one specific sector (such as healthcare, education, or job training) and implementing similar projects across multiple countries. On the other hand, "country specialization" is a strategy whereby the organization engages across multiple sectors simultaneously but operates within a specific country.

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · ラウンド4 · 2025-11-01

  • This house would take the offer

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    The year is 1716. You are a British sailor on a private merchant ship. Having left your recently wed wife in England, it is your first time at sea, and you have almost arrived to the Carribean port city. Suddenly a ship comes portside and they reveal themselves to be pirates. They board your ship, throw the captain and officers overboard, steal all the booty, and offer the rest of the crew to join them. Anyone who refuses, will be left to sail or swim to the port city.

    Erasmus Novice Cup · Round 3 · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that states with low fertility rates should implement the Hanson Proposal

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    The Hanson Proposal would provide parents with a portion of all tax revenue paid by their children. It would also provide them with tax credits each year until their child turns 18. This would be revenue neutral, funded by the abolition of aged pensions.

    King's College London Intervarsity 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-01

  • As an average individual, This house prefers to be agro-rich than urban-rich

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    For this debate, being agro-rich means having wealth that comes primarily from the ownership of land, farms, and agricultural production or exports; wealth that depends on physical assets, long-term contracts, and the continued management of land, machinery, and workers. It often includes commitments that tie you to the land and its operations. Being urban-rich means having wealth that comes from urban economic activity: high-paying jobs in services, finance, law, real estate, or technology, where income depends on knowledge, professional advancement, and capital flows. It often includes commitments like mortgages, stock options, or promotions.

    South Atlantic Debate Championship 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-01

  • This house regrets the trend of large accounting firms (e.g., Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (KPMG), and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), etc.) expanding their business into management consulting.

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-01

  • When deciding divorce asset division, This house believes that courts should exclude the fault of each spouse and make a judgment solely based on economic factors.

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    In a divorce lawsuit, courts decide how to divide the assets jointly accumulated during the marriage between the spouses. It accounts for economic factors, including each spouse's financial and non-financial contributions, future needs, and debts. The court may adjust the division ratio to disadvantage the spouse deemed as at fault for the divorce (i.e., adjust from 5:5 to 6:4).

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · ラウンド5 · 2025-11-01

  • This House prefers a world with the existence of RobSpear.

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    RobSpear is a technology that allows individuals to choose to sacrifice a duration of their lifespan for a substantial amount of wealth relative to their socioeconomic status. This technology can be used at any point in an individual's life given their consent, and the amount of lifespan sacrificed is proportional to the wealth demanded. An individual dies immediately after using RobSpear if they demand too much wealth relative to both their lifespan and socioeconomic status.

    University of Western Ontario Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Junior Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This House supports developing countries that possess globally significant proportions of critical resources (e.g. energy resources, rare earth minerals, strategic agricultural products, ores, fresh water) forming resource cartels.

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    A cartel occurs when a group of producers come together and agree to coordinate the supply of their product in the market, which allows them to control prices (e.g., by reducing supply to raise prices or flooding the market to lower them). For example, OPEC is a cartel of oil-producing states, led by Saudi Arabia and made up of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kuwait, Venezuela, Iraq, Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.

    Armorial 2025 · Rodada 5 · 2025-11-01

  • This house would ban quick trading

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    For the purposes of the debate, quick trading refers to the buy and sale of financial securities (e.g. stocks, options, futures, currencies, NFTs) within the same week.

    DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that India should introduce a cap and trade system as opposed to any other emissions regulations

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    Under a cap and trade model, the government sets a "cap" on the total amount of carbon emissions allowed, then assigns carbon emission permits to companies. A base amount of these permits are assigned to companies, with the rest auctioned off by the government. Companies may "trade" them depending on how much they individually pollute.

    King's College London Intervarsity 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-01