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  • This house supports the introduction of Enhanced Games

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    "The Enhanced Games are an Olympic-style competition where athletes can take performance-enhancing drug. At the Enhanced Games, the “couple of hundred” competitors will be able to take any performance-enhancing substances they like from anabolic steroids to growth hormones, testosterone replacement therapy etc. "

    Debutant 9.0 Freshers APD 2024 · Round 3 · 2024-10-09

  • This House would ban the research, production and use of moral enhancement drugs.

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    Over the last decade, scientists have identified a range of chemicals that exist naturally in the brain and shape individuals’ moral behaviour. Significant amounts of research is now being carried out to create moral enhancement drugs, which would alter the levels of such chemicals. Such drugs have been shown to increase individuals’ tendencies to display empathy and care for others, to behave in altruistic way, and to resist pressures to act in ways that violate their personal ethical beliefs

    Taiwan Schools Debate Challenge 2024 · Semifinals · 2024-10-05

  • Motion: This house would fully legalize the usage of performance enhancement drugs in all sports

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    Info slide: Performance enhancement drugs are substances (such as an anabolic steroid, human growth hormone, or erythropoietin) that are used illicitly to improve athletic performance.

    Istanbul Open 3.0 · Round 3 · 2024-09-20

  • This house condemns the de-emphasis on end-of-life care made by the medical community

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    End-of-life care (EOL) is a branch of medicine concerned with the peaceful facilitation of the dying process, including but not limited to providing supportive meds, pain relief, and grief counseling. In status quo, EOL care is often deprioritized, as there is a social preference to pursue life-extending care, such as chest compressions even with low chances of survival, or advanced care directives that aim to continue all treatments and interventions for brain-dead patients, etc.

    Philippine Intercollegiate Debating Championship 2024 · Quarterfinals · 2024-09-07

  • This House prefers the New South Wales model of medical internship allocation to the Victoria model.

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    Graduating medical students in Australia are not eligible to practice medicine unsupervised, and must complete a two year paid internship as a junior doctor in a public hospital to obtain general registration with the Medical Board of Australia. In New South Wales, internship positions are allocated without regard to indicia of merit (CV, grades etc). Candidates have the opportunity to express their preference of desired hospital, but these may not be honoured if too many applicants register their preference for a particular hospital. Domestic graduates of local universities are guaranteed a job, but must accept the single offer they are made. In Victoria, internships are allocated primarily by merit. Candidates receiving internships at the most sought after hospitals (generally large tertiary referral hospitals in metropolitan Melbourne) are decided by a combination of medical school grades, curriculum vitae, references from senior doctors and an interview.

    ANU Equinox 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-08-30

  • This house supports significant state investment into moral bioenhancement technology

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    <span style="color: rgb(31, 31, 31); font-family: &quot;Google Sans&quot;, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Moral bioenhancement refers to the use of medical, pharmacological, or biotechnical interventions to improve the moral dispositions and motives of individuals. Examples include the use of drugs to reduce aggression or gene editing to amplify traits of compassion and altruism.</span>

    Korea Intervarsity Debate Association Open 2024 · Round 4 · 2024-08-24

  • This house, as Layla, would get the surgery

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    Layla is a lesbian who is secretly in love with her straight best friend. She becomes diagnosed with Hanahaki. Hanahaki is a parasitic and progressive disease that grows flowers in your lungs. Depending how severe the hanahaki is, the flowers can grow to a rate where it fills the lungs, preventing one to breath and eat out the brain, thereby causing death. This disease is developed due to intense romantic feelings that are unrequited. There's only two ways to cure the disease: (1) to have your feelings returned by the one you love, or (2) to undergo a surgery that removes the parasite but also removes any capacity to love, regardless if romantic, filial, or platonic.

    Enchiridion British Parliamentary 2024 · Novice Finals · 2024-08-10

  • This House regrets the glorification of the 'sport ethic' in sports.

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    The Sport Ethic is a concept from sociologists Robert Hughes and Jay Coakley to explain the attitudes and actions of elite athletes. The Sport Ethic has four norms: dedication to the game above everything else; striving for distinction (aka winning); accepting the risks and playing through pain; and accepting no obstacles in the pursuit of success. Inherent in this is the idea of playing the game 'the right way' and 'for the right reasons.'

    Denning Debating Championship 2024 · Round 5 · 2024-08-02

  • This house would save the local Mayor as opposed to saving the boy.

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    <span data-sheets-root="1" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">You are the best neurosurgeon in the country. You have worked hard your entire life and are now the head of the neurosurgery department in the best hospital in the country. One day, a 10-year-old boy is delivered to the hospital with life-threatening brain injuries. You are immediately called to perform surgery on him. On your way to the surgical room, the Director of the hospital calls you and instructs you to perform on the local Mayor with the same brain injuries. You know that the local Mayor is the biggest donor to the hospital. The Director tells you that If you refuse this instruction, you will be fired from your current job and won’t be given good recommendations to transfer to another hospital.<br><br>With your skills as a neurosurgeon, it is guaranteed that the person you choose to operate on has a 100% survival rate. The person you choose not to save will be operated by another neurosurgeon with subpar skills and they will die.<br></span>

    Intertext Pro Ams 2024 · Am ams Finals · 2024-07-27