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  • This house, as Aurora, W choose to go back into the hibernation pod.

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    You are Aurora, an astronaut on a spaceship, transporting 5000 colonists in hibernation pods on a 120-year journey from Earth to a new, habitable planet. However, just 30 years into the trip, an asteroid collision damages the ship, causing some hibernation pods to malfunction and their passengers to awaken, including you and another astronaut named Jim. Over the next year, you and Jim fall in love, but one day, an android robot accidentally reveals that after Jim’s pod malfunctioned, he purposely awakened you to keep him company and lied about your pod malfunctioning. Since your hibernation pod still works, you have the option of re-entering into the pod.

    York University Summer Debating Tournament · Grand Final · 2025-06-28

  • This house believes that governments should erase superpowers of all humans

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    The world became a superhuman society with about 80% of the population possessing uncanny meta-abilities or superpowers. Governments train selected people with extraordinary powers to be heroes who are tasked to deter crime and rescue individuals from danger. Technology made it possible for governments to ''erase'' the superpower of an individual.

    York University Summer Debating Tournament · Junior Finals · 2025-06-28

  • This house regrets the trend shift in cinema towards special effects and high-energy films.

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    The success of the original Star Wars film (1977) had shifted filmmaking norms from creating dramatic films with a focus on realism, personal stories and irony (e.g. The Godfather, Taxi Driver) to special effects and high-energy motion pictures.

    Malaysian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-06-24

  • This house supports South Korea decoupling its semiconductor and defense technology supply chains from Japan.

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    South Korean companies like Samsung and SK Hynix are collaborating with foreign companies to secure supplies and expand domestic production of key materials, increasing its imports of photoresist from Belgium, investing in domestic production of fluorinated polyimide, etc.

    Diliman Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-06-23

  • This house prefers a world in which the pursuit of AGI is abandoned

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    Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) describes a hypothetical type of AI that would have cognitive abilities on par or beyond that of human cognitive abilities. Unlike narrow AI, which is fed on data and then able to reproduce knowledge and execute simple to somewhat complex tasks, an AGI would be capable of understanding, learning, and applying intelligence across a wide range of different tasks, even those it has not been specifically trained for. AGI would be able to solve complex problems, plan, reason, and adapt to new environments independently, much like a human being. For example, an AGI could potentially excel at language, provide medical diagnoses, create knowledge and art and learn entirely new skills without being explicitly programmed for each task.

    Budapest Pre-EUDC Fundraiser 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-06-21

  • This house would require all people to regularly enter the switcheroo

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    The switcheroo is a simulation where people experience an accurate simulation of living as a different person for a month, however the simulation itself would only take 1 hour in the real world. The race, class, sexuality, profession of your life in the simulation would be randomized.

    Budapest Pre-EUDC Fundraiser 2025 · ESL Finals · 2025-06-21

  • This house prefers a world where IntenSync exists and is widely accessible

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    IntenSync is a hypothetical technology that lets one person, upon mutual consent, access another’s genuine intentions and feelings within a relationship. Once activated, it reveals those present intentions and emotions to both parties—including any suppressed desires directed at the other person. IntenSync does not expose past actions or any private thoughts beyond current intentions and feelings.

    Colourful Summer Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-06-21

  • This house supports the implementation of a government-run Sacriphthsisis program

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    Sacriphthisis is a fictional medical technology that allows for the complete transfer of illnesses from one person (a giver) to another (a receiver). The transfer cures the giver completely. Receivers can volunteer to absorb multiple illnesses, but only from one giver and cannot be killed intentionally as part of the process. The proposed program would resemble blood or organ donation systems, with a public registry of volunteers who opt in to receive illnesses from people who request to be cured.

    Waterloo IV 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-06-21

  • That we support the death of ambition in academia

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    The “death of ambition in academia” refers to a shift in scholarly priorities away from the pursuit of grand theories (e.g. marxism, the end of history) or sweeping claims about human behaviour (e.g. Stanford Prison Experiment). Instead, academic work increasingly focuses on narrow case studies, micro- critiques, and context-specific analysis, favouring nuance and situated insight over universal explanations.

    UNSW Pre-Australs 2025 · Semi-Finals · 2025-06-21