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  • THPAW with the ecological cap

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    The ecological capacity of the Earth has been established and globally accepted. Once this population limit is reached, new births are only permitted when someone dies. Families must join a waitlist if they wish to have children and selections are made on neutral criteria.

    Glasgow Summer Cup 2025 · ESL Final · 2025-07-19

  • This house supports The Creation of PEAD

    Infoslide

    Personal Emotion Altering Device (PEAD) is a chip installed in human brain that can change the emotional response and natural feelings through specific electrical impulses as instructed by the owner.PEAD takes over the natural human endocrine system and becomes the new controlling mechanism for all emotions and feelings experience by the user. Users have conscious awareness that the emotions are artificial due to disjointment with reality but do not emotionally experience them.

    Indo-Pacific Pre-ABP 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-19

  • This House opposes the use of Shock and Awe tactics in international peacekeeping operations

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    International peacekeeping operations are multinational missions to restore peace in conflict zones, often led by the UN. “Shock and awe” refers to overwhelming force used to quickly crush opposition, as seen in peacekeeping missions in the Congo, East Timor, and Haiti.

    Ottawa Open 2025 · ESL Finals · 2025-07-19

  • This house, as humanity, would embrace a coexistence with the SAKRI

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    In this world, SAKRI, a sentient digital species, seeks nonphysical symbiosis with humanity by integrating into the collective human consciousness, the sum of human thought, emotion, memory, decision-making, and identity. Their purpose is not domination or control, but to become coinhabitants of the human mind, forming a cognitive alliance wherein their rational digital logic and humans' emotional, creative instincts combine to correct perceived flaws in human nature such as aggression, bias, selfishness, and shortsightedness.

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · College Finals · 2025-07-18

  • This house believes that states should legally recognize queer found families

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    Queer found families are social units usually created by biologically unrelated LGBTQ+ individuals that perform filial functions typically observed in traditional biological families. (e.g., providing financial and emotional support)

    16th Visayas-Mindanao Debate Championship · Round 5 · 2025-07-18

  • This house supports open borders

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    For this debate, “open borders” means eliminating all routine immigration barriers, including visas, work-permit quotas, skill or income tests, family caps, or entry fees that exclude people solely because they are non-citizens. Border officials may still conduct customs inspections, enforce public-health measures (e.g., quarantine or vaccination proof), and run narrowly targeted security checks on individuals listed as violent threats. Otherwise, anyone may freely enter, reside, work, and reunite with family in any country.

    Mexico City Pre-WSDC 2025 · Round 6 · 2025-07-15

  • This house believes that opposition party in illiberal democracies should pivot their main campaign towards empowering women (i.e supporting women's rights)

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    "illiberal democracy" is a governing system that hides its "nondemocratic practices behind formally democratic institutions and procedures". Examples of countries with illiberal democracies are India and Indonesia.

    Kalimantan Open Debate 2024 · Round 4 · 2025-07-13

  • This house supports politicians in developing democracies saying that they will accept the results of elections before elections take place

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    Historically it has been a norm for US Presidential candidates, and other candidates for political office in democracies, to say that they will accept the results of the election when asked before the election has taken place.

    Hart House Summer Open 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-07-12

  • The council will prohibit political actors from using the services of communication consultants.

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    A communications consultant is a private commercial organization that has expertise and resources in shaping public opinion, including encouraging people to believe in purchasing certain products.

    Lomba Debat Bahasa Indonesia 2024 · Octofinals · 2025-07-10

  • This council regrets the establishment and implementation of Aceh Qanun No. 11 of 2018 regarding Islamic Financial Institutions in Aceh.

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    Aceh Qanun No. 11 of 2018 concerning Islamic Financial Institutions regulates the activities of financial institutions to realize a just and prosperous economy for the Acehnese community based on Islamic Sharia. This Qanun is a follow-up to Aceh Qanun No. 8 of 2014, which requires financial institutions in Aceh to operate according to Sharia principles. Effective from January 4, 2019, financial institutions in Aceh must comply within 3 years.This Qanun applies to various parties, including Muslims living in Aceh or conducting transactions in the Aceh region, as well as legal entities conducting financial transactions in Aceh. In addition, non-Muslims, business entities, and/or legal entities conducting financial transactions with the Aceh Government and District/City Governments are also covered under this Qanun. The implementation of this Qanun has led financial institutions in Aceh to cease their operations or convert their transactions to the Sharia system.

    FIPA 2024 · Grand Final · 2025-07-09

  • This house regrets the notion of peaceful protest

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    Peaceful protest is an umbrella term for some of the tactics used to achieve social change. These include non-violent direct action, protest marches, creative performance, symbolic action and some forms of civil disobedience and civil resistance

    Curtin Interschool Debate Competition 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-07-07

  • This house, As The Cambridge Union, W allow its members to vote to reject the speaker from coming to campus after a speaker has been invited.

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    The Cambridge Union is a historic debating society in Cambridge University. The Union has heavily championed free speech and emphasised cultivating a diverse environment for all expressions of thought. Over the years it has invited numerous speakers from various backgrounds.This includes UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Ronald Reagan, African-American activist James Baldwin, Right-wing populist media personality Charlie Kirk and left-wing political commentator Hasan Piker.

    Curtin Interschool Debate Competition 2025 · Finals-Junior · 2025-07-07