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  • TH, as Hamlet, would kill Claudius.

    Infoslide

    Hamlet is the son of a medieval King of Denmark. After the sudden death of his father, his mother marries his uncle Claudius, who becomes king. One night, Hamlet has a vision in which the ghost of his father appears to him and tells him that he was murdered by Claudius in a plot to take the throne. The ghost tells Hamlet to kill Claudius to avenge his death.

    MLIS ETHOS Season 1 · Round 3 · 2025-10-02

  • This house regrets the prominence of collectivism in Asian cultures

    Infoslide

    Collectivism refers to the prioritisation of the collective of individuals, where society's or community's interests are considered more important than an individual's interests

    MLIS ETHOS Season 1 · Round 1 · 2025-10-02

  • TH as Archer, would kill Shirou

    Infoslide

    Year 0: In the past, as a child, Shirou Emiya survived a magical catastrophe which killed thousands, where he is the sole survivor. This causes him to swear to devote his life to saving EVERYONE, without care to what happens to himself. Year 100: In the future, the “spirit of the planet” offers Shirou (now called Archer) a deal to act as it’s “Counter Guardian”, in order to save the planet. He agrees. Later on, he finds out this deal requires him to kill large numbers of people to who are causing acts of destruction to the planet. Bitter and disillusioned, Archer regrets his younger self's ideals. A magic object allows Archer to travel back in time in an alternate universe to year 50 and confront his previous self. He has a choice between whether or not to kill this younger self. Killing Shirou Emiya does not change Archer's past, but it does stop his alternate, younger self from a life of unimaginable pain.

    MLIS ETHOS Season 1 · Grand Final · 2025-10-02

  • This House, as Macbeth, Would kill King Duncan

    Infoslide

    You are Macbeth, a Scottish Lord in the Middle Ages. You are renowned for your courage and military talent: indeed, you have recently crushed a rebellion against King Duncan by other Scottish Lords. One night, while you are out on a walk, three witches appear to you in a flash of thunder and lightning, and tell you that you will become King. You tell your wife, Lady Macbeth, about this. She argues that you should murder King Duncan in his sleep when he comes to visit you in your castle next week, in order to become King and fulfil the witches’ prophecy.

    Dulwich Schools 2025 · Novice Final · 2025-09-28

  • This house, as the parent, would plug their child into the experience machine

    Infoslide

    You are a low-income worker in a developed country. Your partner has died giving birth to your first child, who is born with a chronic but non-life- threatening disease. Doctors offer you the option of the “Experience Machine,” which flawlessly simulates a slightly above-average Canadian life for whoever is plugged in. It can only be used within 24 hours of birth; once inside, the person cannot return without dying. The machine is experimental but extremely safe, and researchers are a single human trial away from being able to safely simulate any experience for any age. So far, finding subjects has been extremely difficult.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-27

  • This house believes that the God of Classical Theism (an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God) is more likely to exist than for no God-like being to exist

    UCLA IV 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-27

  • This house prefers a world with strong norms based around Traditional JWT to one with strong norms based on Revisionist JWT

    Infoslide

    “Just War Theory” (JWT) is a branch of philosophy that attempts to describe what actions in war are just under particular circumstances. ‘Traditional’ just war theory maintains a strict separation between the justice of going to war (jus ad bellum) and conduct in war (jus in bello), and treats all combatants as morally equal regardless of their cause. "Revisionist" just war theory focuses on individual moral responsibility, arguing that only those fighting for a just cause can be morally justified.

    UCLA IV 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-09-27

  • THW prefer to live an average*, long life over a extremely succesful**, short life. *i.e. middle income, functional family, meeting your basic material needs **i.e. very high income, regarded and respected by family and peers, access to extremely prestigious spaces

    India WUDC Fundraiser · Semifinals · 2025-09-26

  • This house would choose option A over option B.

    Infoslide

    You are a junior doctor at one of the world’s most renowned hospitals. A dictator who has been overseeing an extreme campaign of genocide against a minority group in Central Africa arrives with a terminal heart condition. He is in your care. You have two options: A: Intentionally give a lethal treatment that will kill him, and do so in a way that conceals your involvement. B: Provide the correct medical treatment and allow him to survive.

    Vanguard Open 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-09-26

  • This house would prefer to live an average*, long life over a extremely succesful**, short life. *i.e. middle income, functional family, meeting your basic material needs **i.e. very high income, regarded and respected by family and peers, access to extremely prestigious spaces

    India WUDC Fundraiser · ESL Finals · 2025-09-26

  • This house would choose to be born in Fluidum.

    Infoslide

    Fluidum is a fictional world where everyone is born with two bodies, one male and one female, which grow simultaneously and can only be inhabited by its owner. A person may switch freely between them but can only inhabit one body at any given time. On their 20th birthday, the currently uninhabited body will permanently disintegrate. For the purpose of this debate, Fluidum’s effects only apply to those born within the realm of Fluidum and society always treats both bodies as fundamentally the same individual.

    Vanguard Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-09-26

  • TH, as a middle-class individual living in a moral credit society, would sell their moral credits.

    Infoslide

    Moral credits refer to a currency obtained when an individual commits morally- upright actions (e.g. donating to charities, organ donation, etc). Moral credits can only either be obtained from the state or bought from another person. Individuals can then spend these moral credits on a range of morally- questionable actions (e.g. theft, murder, etc.), without legal or societal repercussions. These moral credits can be sold and everyone's moral credit scores can be viewed.

    CranesTrials25 online · Round 3 · 2025-09-23