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  • This house believes that feminism should embrace queer temporality

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    Queer temporality is a critique and form of protest where it argues that society views time as heteronormative and gendered by patriarchy- where our response to time is supposed to be urgent, productive, and conforming. Queer temporality intentionally delays our response to time as an act of resistance.

    Kasiyana Open 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-16

  • This house supports the "Bad Man" approach in policy making

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    <div><font color="#000138" face="gg sans, Noto Sans, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The term "bad man" in legal theory refers to a hypothetical individual who is solely concerned with the practical consequences of legal rules, particularly the potential for punishment, rather than with moral or ethical considerations. This "bad man" is interested in predicting how the law will be applied to their actions, focusing on the material consequences like fines or imprisonment, rather than on whether those actions are morally right or wrong.&nbsp;</font></div><div><br></div>

    Orgullo Intervarsity 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-16

  • This House opposes the body as a temple narrative

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    <div>"The ""body as a temple"" is a religious and philosophical idea found in faiths like Buddhism, Christianity, and Hinduism. It sees the body as a sacred vessel given by God(s) to house the soul, and therefore, deserving of deep respect in both actions (e.g., refraining from eating certain foods, avoiding overconsumption) and thought (e.g., framing thoughts about one's own body positively)."</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>

    BRAC Genders 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-08-15

  • This House, as Mahito, would accept the reins of the otherworld from his granduncle

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    Mahito is a young boy in wartime Japan who loses his mother in a hospital fire and struggles to adapt after his father remarries his aunt and relocates the family to his late mother’s rural estate. He shares a loving but somewhat distant relationship with his father, while being deeply cherished by his aunt and cared for by her maids. At the estate, Mahito encounters a talking grey heron that leads him into a magical, otherworldly realm connected to his family’s past. This realm opens its doors to those in great distress and is inhabited by spirits and fantastical creatures—among them, the souls of those awaiting rebirth into the real world, and predatory pelicans that consume these spirits to survive. Within this realm, Mahito meets his granduncle, the creator and caretaker of this alternate world. Weary and nearing the end of his life, the granduncle offers Mahito the reins of this seemingly perfect world. However, if Mahito accepts this offer, he will never be able to return to the real world.

    BRAC Genders 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-15

  • This house prefers positive to negative theology

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    Positive theology describes God using human terms and attributes, affirming qualities like goodness, justice, and power, and occasionally feelings like anger or mercy; this approach is common in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Negative theology, on the other hand, emphasizes that God is ultimately unknowable and beyond human comprehension, so we can only understand him indirectly through his actions—an approach found especially in Judaism, Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and certain mystical traditions.

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-08-13

  • This house, as Veronica, Would accept the offer

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    Veronica is a typical "nerd" in a big American high school. Veronica and her two best friends spend their time working hard at school, pursuing geeky extracurriculars (chess, Math Olympiad, debate...), and getting constantly bullied by the school's popular kids. One day, after saving the Prom Queen from being runover by a bus, she offers Veronica to join the popular group, as long as long as she cut off her friends and quit her geeky extracurriculars.

    St Andrews pre-EUDC 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-08-13

  • This house supports prioritizing ontological gender plurality (e.g. Judith Butler, Paul Preciado) over identity-based legal recognition frameworks.

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    Ontological gender plurality (as argued by Judith Butler, Paul Preciado, etc.) views gender as fluid, performative, and not fixed. It challenges the idea that gender should be categorized or institutionalized at all. Identity-based legal recognition frameworks aim to include more gender identities (e.g., non- binary, X markers) within existing legal systems by expanding official categories.

    Visayas Intervarsity 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-08-09

  • This house prefers a world where open relationships are the norm

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    Open relationships are romantic relationships in which both partners are free to pursue sexual and or romantic relationships with other people given certain constraints, set within the relationship.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-09

  • This house believes that it is in the best interest of traditionally conservative religious institutions to adopt moral flexibility over moral absolutism

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    Moral Flexibility is the belief that moral principles can adapt to changing circumstances, contexts, and societal norms. It allows reinterpretation or adjustment of religious teachings Moral Absolutism is the belief that certain moral principles are universally and permanently true, regardless of context, cultural change, or consequences. Under moral absolutism, religious teachings and doctrines are interpreted as fixed and unchangeable, and actions are judged as inherently right or wrong according to these timeless rules.

    Visayas Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-08-09

  • This House Prefers a world where SKIP technology exists and is widely accessible

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    For the purposes of this debate, the SKIP technology is a remote that allows a user to fast-forward through real-life events. When a user activates the technology, they are placed on ‘autopilot’ for the duration of the skipped time. While on autopilot, the individual's body continues to perform necessary, routine, and habitual actions, such as walking, driving a familiar route, or completing basic tasks. However, the person has no consciousness, emotional experience, or memory of the skipped period. They are physically present and functional, but they cannot engage in complex decision-making, creative thought, or meaningful interaction. This technology allows the user to make a deliberate choice to bypass specific situations and jump directly to a desired point in time.

    PKU Pro-Am 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-08-09