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  • This house believes that the US should impose strict price controls on prescription drugs

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    Globally, the US is the only country of its population size and economic strength which does not negotiate drug prices with pharmaceutical companies, and instead relies on market competition. This is one reason that contributes to high drug prices as pharmaceutical companies recover their RND costs through their sales in the US market.

    BITS Pilani Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-04-11

  • This House Would grant the Right to Disconnect to workers in essential services during non-crisis periods

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    The Right to Disconnect is the proposed legal right of employees to disengage from work-related communications outside official working hours.

    BITS Pilani Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-11

  • This House Supports the US Democratic Party prioritising the nomination, at all levels of government, of candidates who favour more radical changes to existing policies and structures over more moderate candidates.

    Glasgow Ancients 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-11

  • This house would make the use of moral enhancement drugs mandatory

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    Moral Enhancement Drugs are a speculative form of biotechnology designed to enhance human morality by altering brain chemistry. These drugs would theoretically influence neurotransmitters associated with empathy, altruism, and ethical decision-making, potentially making individuals more compassionate, cooperative, or fair-minded. For the purposes of this debate, moral enhancement drugs exist and can be taken without significant side effects.

    Oldham Cup 2025 · Round 8 · 2025-04-10

  • This house prefers states emerging from ethnic conflict to adopt policies of ethnic non-recognition, rather than ethnic recognition.

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    In post- conflict states, ethnic recognition is an approach which makes specific provisions in post-conflict constitutions, political settlements and institutions based on ethnicity (e.g. specific quotas, rights, or symbolic clauses). Examples include Burundi and Ethiopia. By comparison, ethnic non-recognition involves removing public references to ethnicity, including from identity documents, textbooks and public life. This approach was taken in Rwanda, where ethnicity can only be discussed during an annual remembrance period for the victims of genocide.

    Beijing International Debate Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-04-09

  • This House Would implement a weekly 'blackout day'

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    A 'blackout day' refers to a day where all social media sites, streaming services, TV, internet, radio, and similar technologies are inaccessible for personal, non-emergency use. For example, one would still be able to call hospitals and banks but would not be able to watch downloaded Netflix series

    Nordic Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-04-07

  • This House Supports gentle parenting becoming the norm

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    Gentle parenting is a parenting style that says that parents should be non- confrontational. The style states that parents should focus on deliberation with (young) children, have high levels of patience and avoid punishments and ultimatums.

    Nordic Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-07

  • In the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse, This House would establish a new society based on the principles of the "Noble Lie"

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    The "Noble Lie" is a political philosophy suggesting that the state can use propaganda to maintain social harmony and serve its interests. It posits that individuals hold a shared “noble” falsehood, and that society can only function if many people believe in such a lie.

    13th Zamboanga Debate Open · Grand Finals · 2025-04-05

  • This house prefers a view of the state primarily as a necropolitical actor

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    Achille Mbembe's Necropolitics is a political philosophy which argues that the state primarily acts to determine who is and who is not deserving of life. The states function historically has been to provide the conditions of life for some, and allow others to simply die.

    Xth NLUO BPD 2025 · Open Grand Final · 2025-04-05

  • This house supports China's ban on the for-profit education academies

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    Context: For-profit education academies teach pre-university curricular during non-school hours for a profit. These include but are not limited to private after school tutoring, admissions coaching, online tutoring and enrichment/extension classes. These do not include international and private schools.

    Xth NLUO BPD 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-05