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  • Assuming feasibility, This house supports 'Farmageddon'

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    <div>'Farmageddon' is an advanced virtual reality technology which allows participants to accurately experience life from the first-person perspective of a random factory-farmed animal (e.g. a cow, a chicken, a pig). Once logged in, the user retains their memories from outside the simulation but experiences the animal's sensations as if they were real.</div><div><br></div><div>One session lasts for an hour in real life, but time is dilated to make the user feel as if they've spent a month in the simulation. Once you enter, you cannot leave until the simulation ends. If it were to exist, every adult would be required to enter the simulation.</div>

    Singapore International Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Senior Finals · 2025-11-16

  • This house would create prehistoric world.

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    Thanks to advancements in genetic research, scientists have managed to "recreate" dire wolves, an Animal that went extinct during the ice age. Further research is ongoing to resurrect the woolly mammoth, Sabretooth tigers and even dinosaurs. Prehistoric world would be an amusement park/zoo where visitors could see and interact with these creatures.

    Institution of Business Administration Debating Championship 2025 · Octofinals · 2025-10-24

  • This house believes that wildlife antinatalism is true

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    For this debate, “wildlife antinatalism” is the view that human activities that significantly reduce wild animal populations (e.g., deforestation, urbanization, water pollution) are likely to improve wild animals’ overall wellbeing, including those that die.

    Drexel Pre-WUDC 2025 · Partial Quarterfinals · 2025-08-23

  • This house predicts that by 2100 the number of animals in factory farms will have fallen to less than half of today’s total

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    Factory farming is an industrial approach to the production of meat, fish, eggs, and dairy that confines large numbers of animals in tightly-packed, controlled, often-indoor environments. Globally, over 90% of farmed animals live in factory farms, including an estimated 74% of farmed land animals and virtually all farmed fish.

    Drexel Pre-WUDC 2025 · Pro-Am Final · 2025-08-23

  • This house regrets the use of exotic animals as tools for diplomacy.

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    Panda diplomacy refers to China's practice of sending giant pandas to other countries, primarily as a tool of diplomacy and wildlife conservation. Initially, pandas were gifted, but since 1984, they have been leased due to a policy change. This strategy is a form of soft power, aiming to foster positive international relations and boost China's image abroad by leveraging the pandas' universal appeal. In 2024, Malaysia's Plantation and Commodities Minister Johari Abdul Ghani had suggested giving orangutans to major palm oil importers to bolster relations.

    Swinburne Sarawak Inter-School Debating Championship 2025 (Senior) · Quarterfinals · 2025-08-18

  • This House believes that the vegan movement should significantly expand its promotion of animal offsetting over continuing to promote animal-free lifestyles

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    Animal offsetting is the view that eating animal products is morally permissible if one donates enough to animal charities to offset the harm caused.

    Ottawa Open 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-07-19

  • This house, as a major animal advocacy group, would prioritize efforts to improve the welfare of mammals with high cognitive abilities (e.g., dogs in shelters, cattle in farms) over efforts to improve the welfare of more abundant, less intelligent animals (e.g., fish, chickens)

    Mexico City Pre-WSDC 2025 · Partial Quarterfinals · 2025-07-15

  • This house, as a hamster, W choose to become a petfluencer

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    You are a hamster owned by a middle-income family living an average life. You are now given the opportunity to try to become a petfluencer. A petfluencers life varies, but can involve instagram photoshoots, funny meme videos, day in the life vlogs, etc.

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

  • We, as Cáo Già, will press the red button.

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    Translate the following text: Cáo Già is an animal rights activist. On one adventure, Cáo Già discovers a red button which, when pressed, will give all animals the ability to feel and think on a level comparable to humans. This action will be irreversible.

    Zoo Pre-NSDC Gathering Cup 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-07-05

  • We, as the animal rights movement, regret the dominance of anthropocentrism in discussions about animal rights.

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    Anthropocentrism is the doctrine that humans are the center of all things and are the most important entities in the universe. This doctrine is often used to evaluate or interpret the world based on human values and experiences. In discussions about animal rights, anthropocentrism is often manifested through human evaluations of animal rights based on human-like values (e.g., intelligence, sentience, etc.) and human moral scales. Examples include, but are not limited to: the belief that there is a heaven for dogs and cats, the emphasis on the memory and emotional capabilities of elephants, the highlighting of the ability to feel pain in lower animals like fish, and comparing the act of swatting a mosquito to killing. In contrast to anthropocentrism, other doctrines exist such as ecocentrism, which posits that humans are merely an equal part of the web of life. It requires humans to consider the impact of their actions on the entire ecosystem and to change their behavior from unlimited resource exploitation to respecting and protecting biodiversity and natural balance. According to this view, ecocentrism criticizes the prioritization of certain species because of their similarities to humans and opposes the notion that "environmental protection is for the future of our children." Instead, it argues that every component of nature has its own intrinsic value and should be respected and protected in the present, not just for the long-term benefit of humanity.

    Zoo Pre-NSDC Gathering Cup 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-07-05

  • TH, as an intelligent rat in NYC, would choose to run for mayor

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    You are an intelligent rat living in NYC with the ability to think, strategize and rally other rats. There is an election for mayor soon and the incumbent mayor is pushing a new policy to exterminate all rats in NYC.

    Ayrshire Schools Debate Competition 2025 · Junior Finals · 2025-06-19

  • This house, as the vegan movement, W reject partnerships with lab-grown meat companies in favor of prioritizing investments in whole-food plant-based systems

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    Lab-grown meat companies refer to firms that produce animal meat by cultivating animal cells in bioreactors. Examples include Upside Foods, Mosa Meat, etc. On the other hand, whole-food plant-based (WFPB) systems focus on natural, minimally processed plant foods like vegetables, legumes, grains, nuts, and seeds.

    Guangzhou United Asian Debating Championships 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-06-17