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  • This house prefers a world where the dominant narrative is that love is not necessary for marriage

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    BDC Nationals 2022 · Semifinals · 2022-03-10

  • This house believes that individual feminist women should reject acts of chivalry from men (eg. paying for dates, 'ladies first', etc.)

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    Pac Cup 2022 · 3 · 2022-02-12

  • This house, as an individual, would never forgive a partner for cheating

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    Pac Cup 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-02-12

  • This house regrets amatonormativity.

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    Amatonormativity is '“the assumption that a central exclusive amorous relationship is normal for humans in that it is a universally shared goal and that such a relationship is normative in that it should be aimed at in preference to other relationship types.'

    Fred Scheller Forensics Invitational 2022 BP Debate · 3 · 2022-01-28

  • This house would denounce the existing translation and commission another one more in the style in which you wrote it

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    You are the author of a romcom short story that you submitted to an American journal which was published with average success. A Spanish translator picked up your story and took more liberties and your story is wildly successful in Mexico. It is not what you are comfortable with because it is much more erotic and explicit than you would have wanted.

    Winter Carnival 2022 · 3 · 2022-01-14

  • This house prefers a narrative that views sex work as no different than any other job to a narrative that views sexwork as an inherently empowering type of work

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    British Parliamentary Championships 2022 · 5 · 2022-01-01

  • This house believes that high profile sexual harassment trials in court should not be televised

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    International Scholastic Debating Championships 2022 (Junior) · 2 · 2022-01-01

  • If equal affection cannot be, This house would prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship

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    Looking up at the stars, I know quite well That, for all they care, I can go to hell, But on earth indifference is the least We have to dread from man or beast. How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. - W.H. Auden, 'The More Loving One'

    Nijmegen Open 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-01-01

  • This house, as a young adult with awareness of the proximity principle, would refrain from committing to a long-term romantic relationship until at least age 30

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    The proximity principle accounts for the tendency for individuals to form interpersonal relations with those who are close by.

    Malaysian National Schools WSDC 2022 · Grand Final · 2022-01-01

  • This house regrets the narrative of 'dating to marry'.

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    Malaysian National Schools WSDC 2022 · Novice Grand Finals · 2022-01-01

  • This house would charge distribution and downloading of leaked sex tapes & nude pictures as sexual assault

    SSE Riga Practice Tournament · Open Final · 2022-01-01

  • That we support a rise in income-selective dating apps.

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    Income-selective dating apps require people to verify that they have a certain level of income or wealth in order to sign up to the app.

    Nepal Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2021 · 6 · 2021-12-28

  • That we support this trend in progressive discourse.

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    In progressive discourse there is a trend to defend behaviours and norms on the grounds that all of the participants have consented (for example in defences of the production and consumption of pornography).

    Nepal Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships 2021 · 1 · 2021-12-28