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This house believes that religious leaders should not endorse candidates for political office.
- Religion
- Democracy
- Law
- Human Rights
Infoslide

Religious leaders are people who guide others in their faith, like priests, imams, rabbis, or monks. Political office means a job in the government where someone makes laws or important decisions for the public, like being a mayor, president, or member of parliament.

Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-02
This house prefers a world where individuals are aware of their “natural expiration date”
Infoslide

A ‘natural expiration date’ refers to the date whereby an individual would die. This date is determined based on the physical and mental condition of the individual when they are 18.

Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · 18-and-Under Finals · 2025-11-02
This house regrets the rise of thrifting
Infoslide

Thrifting refers to the practice of buying second-hand clothing and other items, often from charity shops, vintage stores, or online resale platforms. It has grown significantly in popularity in recent years, particularly among younger consumers

Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-02
This house believes that history education should prioritize the experiences of everyday people over the actions of great leaders.
Infoslide

Great leaders are famous people from the past, like kings, generals, or presidents, who had a big influence on their country or the world, for example Napoleon or Martin Luther King Jr.

Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-02
This house would remove patents for eco-friendly technologies.
Infoslide

Patents give inventors exclusive rights to produce or sell their inventions for a certain period of time, preventing others from copying or using the same technology without permission

Australasian Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-02
In countries with a deficit in guidance counselors, this house believes that states should increase funding for AI guidance chatbots
Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-01
This House Prefers a system of universal public universities (free tuition, state-funded) to the current mixed private–public model.
Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-01
This house regrets the rise of parent-influencers
- Privacy
- Culture
- Media
- Children
Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-01
This house opposes the focus on colonial determinism in Philippine academia.
Infoslide

Determinism is the view that all events/situations at a given point in time are determined completely by previously existing causes. Colonial determinism refers to the notion that conditions within postcolonial countries are entirely determined by their colonial past.

Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Highschool Finals · 2025-11-01
This house, as a major international humanitarian charity, would prioritize funding systemic political advocacy over direct aid delivery
Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-01
This house would prioritize creating domestic jobs over facilitating labor export through OFWs.
- Labor
- Economics
- Development
- Asia
- Immigration
Infoslide

Overseas Flipino Workers (OFWs) remit around USD $36 billion annually (2024), making the Philippines one of the world's top remittance- receiving countries.

Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-01
This house regrets the rise of the “Imperial Manila” narrative
Infoslide

In the Philippines, the phrase “Imperial Manila” is often used by people from regions outside the capital, especially from the South such as Mindanao, to describe how the national government and elites in Manila centralize resources and development in the capital. This narrative was largely used by populist Rodrigo Duterte to secure his presidency in 2016.

Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01
This house prefers to believe in the supernatural
Parliamate British Parliamentary 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-01
Assuming feasibility, This house prefers a communist utopia to a capitalist utopia
Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-01
This house, as the feminist movement, W actively ostracise women who hold views traditionally deemed as anti-women (e.g. being against pro-choice policies, saying that women should dress modestly, believing a woman's duty is as a wife or mother)
DTU Pre-Worlds 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-01
THR the rise of mental illness being depicted in popular culture
Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-01
This house would penalize sports teams for the behavior of their fans
- Sports
- Law
- Social Policy
Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-01
This house would ban prediction markets
Infoslide

Prediction markets are online markets that allow visitors to bet money on real-life events (eg. elections, political actions, wars). If their prediction is correct, they receive a monetary reward proportional to the risk of their prediction.

Costeas-Geitonas School Debate Cup 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01
This house supports a hedonistic approach to life
Infoslide

A hedonistic approach to life means that people should prioritize experiences, choices, and actions that maximize simple and short term sensual pleasure.

Prague Open 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01
This house supports video game piracy
Infoslide

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