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  • This House Would choose to not become a superhero and maintain a normal life

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    You are an average person who has just been bitten by a radioactive housefly. You have developed the ability to fly, super strength, shoot lasers out of your eyes and freeze breath.

    Oxford Schools 2025 · Novice Final · 2025-10-12

  • This house prefers a world where a strong cultural emphasis is placed on 'Hyo'(孝)

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    Hyo孝(also known as filial piety) is a Confucian moral principle that emphasizes deep respect and care for the parents and the elderly. It highlights the importance of recognizing their wisdom and life experience, supporting them with dignity and gratitude, and repaying parental sacrifice.

    HYDS x SDS BP RT 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-11

  • This house believes that AGI models should follow virtue ethics over deontology.

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    Deontology is a moral system that states there are certain rules which are absolute and should never be breached (f.e. murder, stealing, etc.). Virtue ethics is a moral system that states that to be moral, a person should have virtuous characteristics. These characteristics are a moderation of two vices. For example, between the extremes of cowardice and hubris, individuals should find the virtue of being brave.

    Dutch Debating League 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-11

  • This house prefers social realism over expressionism in art (paintings, films, documentaries, photos, etc.)

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    For the purpose of this debate, social realism is an artistic movement which seeks to depict everyday life and social conditions in a realistic manner, often times focussing on struggling groups. Expressionism focusses on the portrayal of subjective emotions and inner experiences rather than objective reality. Artists used distortion, exaggeration, and vivid colors to evoke moods and express feelings, often reflecting themes of angst and turmoil.

    Dutch Debating League 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-11

  • This house would accept Steve's offer

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    The Wizard Steve makes you an offer. You get 10 million euros and become immortal. However, this also spawns an immortal snail which kills you if it touches you. Its magic also entails that it perpetually follows you and can't be trapped, stopped or killed. Its sorcery protects it from other motion breaking tactics, such as tracking the snail (e.g. using a GPS tracker). The snail is also as intelligent as a human meaning it can for instance lift on a vehicle to follow you. The snail's name is Bob the Warlock of Irotul.

    Dutch Debating League 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-10-11

  • This house laments the individualization of mourning.

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    Collective mourning is a traditional practice, characterized by ritual practices that organize grief in a shared way and in stages that are socially and temporally defined. This tradition has weakened in contemporary societies, where mourning tends to be experienced individually, with less community and family participation and greater emphasis on private and therapeutic experiences.

    IV UFMG Open · Rodada 5 · 2025-10-10

  • Assuming viability, this house would make belief in the supernatural impossible, immediately and irreversibly, for the rest of human history.

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    For the purposes of this debate, the supernatural does not exist.

    IV UFMG Open · Grande Final · 2025-10-10

  • This house supports moral relativism in private interactions.

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    For the purposes of this debate, “moral relativism” refers to the practice of adapting or relaxing one’s personal ethical principles depending on the context or the people involved, such as making disparaging remarks about those who are absent, omitting truths to avoid discomfort, or justifying small acts of dishonesty in the name of social harmony.

    IV UFMG Open · Final de Iniciados · 2025-10-10

  • This House prefers a world in which the concept of sin in Abrahamic religions had been based solely on human action, rather than on some temptation from the devil. This appears to be a debate motion in the "This House" format, discussing an alternative theological framework for understanding sin in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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    Abrahamic religions are monotheistic religions whose common origin is recognized in Abraham or the recognition of a spiritual tradition identified with him (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). In these religions, the figure of the devil represents evil and sin, inciting the act of inclining toward evil in people.

    Campeonato Nacional de Debates Escolares 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-10-08

  • This house believes that progressive theologians should reinterpret “holy war” and “martyrdom” in Abrahamic scriptures (e.g., the Bible, the Qur’an, and the Torah) as purely metaphorical references to inner spiritual struggle and commitment to justice, rather than as literal historical or political commands

    Kamalig Pre-NDC 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-10-04