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  • This house regrets the trend of the debating community reverting to offline events.

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    As a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the debating community shifted its activities online, with the vast majority of trainings, coaching, and tournaments (including majors such as WUDC, ABP, or EUDC) being held on various online platforms such as Zoom or Discord. With the end of the pandemic, much of debating has begun to revert to offline events (e.g. the past three iterations of WUDC were held in-person), although online debating has not completely died out.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-10

  • From behind the veil of ignorance, this house would allow humans to allocate their stat points prior to being born.

    Infoslide

    In video games, stat points (short for statistic points) represent a character’s core attributes or abilities — such as strength, speed, luck, or intelligence. Stat points typically have a maximum value of 10 per category. For this debate, each participant has access to 50% of the total available stat points, meaning it is not possible to max out every category. Once allocated, stat points cannot be changed or reassigned, and no additional points can be earned later.

    Hugill Western Canadian Debating Championship 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-10-25

  • Assuming feasibility, This house would ban trait-selective abortion.

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    Trait-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based on specific characteristics or traits of the fetus, such as sex or race, genetic conditions, or non-life threatening physical disabilities.

    UCLA IV 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-09-27

  • This house supports the disability rights movement's use of the social model of disability in their advocacy

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    The social model of disability views disability as stemming from communities, services and spaces that are not accessible or inclusive. In the social model of disability, it is society that places limits on a person, not their disability. This is as opposed to medical models of disability which situate the harms of disability in the features of the illness itself.

    Vivaatam Pre-ABP 2025 · Open Pre-Quarterfinals · 2025-07-26

  • This House, as Charlie, would opt into the experiment

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    You are Charlie, a 37-year-old man with an IQ of 68, working a menial factory job. Your 'friends' often bully and mock you behind your back because of your low intelligence. You are offered to take part in an experiment that will dramatically increase your intelligence to an IQ of 300+.

    UNSW IV · Round 6 · 2025-07-05

  • In the absence of an advanced directive, This house believes that it is justified for health professionals to withhold resuscitation from patients with poor quality-of-life prognoses.

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    An Advance Care Directive (ACD) is a legal document in which a person of sound mind specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves (because of illness or incapacity). Doctors are legally required to uphold the instructions of an ACD, irrespective of their professional medical opinions.

    Diliman Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-06-23

  • Sebagai Gerakan Advokasi Kesehatan Mental, Dewan ini lebih memilih menggunakan Pendekatan Neurodiversitas dibandingkan Pendekatan Patologis.

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    <div>Dalam advokasi kesehatan mental, terdapat dua pendekatan: Pendekatan Patologis dan Neurodiversitas. Pendekatan Patologis menggunakan lensa medis yang menekankan isu mental sebagai ‘penyakit yang perlu disembuhkan’ yakni isu kesehatan yang merugikan secara fisik maupun sosial. Di sisi lain, Pendekatan Neurodiversitas memandang bahwa isu mental bukan sebagai penyakit, namun sebagai keberagaman keadaan mental manusia yang memiliki kelemahan dan kekuatan masing-masing, sering menekankan keistimewaan khusus untuk mengeliminasi prejudice terhadap isu mental</div><div><br></div>

    FASTWEEK XI · Round 3 · 2025-05-29

  • This House believes that Neuralink does more harm than good to humanity.

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    Neuralink is a neurotechnology company founded by Elon Musk in 2016 that develops brain-computer interface (BCI) devices. These devices implant flexible electrodes into the brain to record and stimulate neural activity, allowing direct interaction between the brain and external systems. Its initial applications focus on enabling individuals with neurological conditions, such as paralysis, to control devices through thought. The technology involves the collection and transmission of brain data to external platforms managed by private entities, and is currently undergoing clinical trials to evaluate its feasibility and safety.

    KUDC x HYDS KIDA National Championship 2025 · Rookie Finals · 2025-05-16

  • This House, as parents in conservative areas, prefer sending their low-support-needs autistic child to a regular school instead of a special needs school.

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    ”Low-support-needs autism" refers to a person on the autism spectrum who requires minimal support to manage their daily life and social interactions, meaning they can largely function independently while largely passing as a neurotypical person. For example, only needing certain accomodations when places are too loud, specific material needed for their school uniform, or not picking up on social cues.

    The 2nd Indonesia Wom*n and Gender Minorities: Asian Parli. · Schools Grand Final · 2025-05-03

  • This house regrets the increasing medicalisation of neurodivergence (e.g., ADHD, autism spectrum disorders)

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    For the purposes of the debate, the 'medicalisation of neurodivergence' refers to the increasing dependence on medical criteria for neurodivergent disorders, e.g. emphasis on formal diagnoses, categorisation of behaviours previously thought of as normal as 'symptoms', and reliance on medication as treatment.

    Malaysia Asian Parliamentary 2025 · Schools Finals · 2025-05-02

  • This house as the middle-aged person, would pick the nursing home over helping their mum at her flat.

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    You are a middle-aged person with a partner and two elementary school-aged children. Your mother, who lives alone in her flat, has recently started having health issues such as moderate mobility issues, bad hearing and paranoia. Your family is considering two care options - a nursing home with 24/7 care or helping her a couple of times a week whilst she continues to live alone. The nursing home and the mum’s apartment are about the same distance from your apartment.

    MRU IV 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-04-05

  • This house regrets Hanachan’s decition

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    Hana-chan is a 5-year-old girl, living with her poor mother in a small rural town. Since she strongly hoped to get a Christmas present, her mother gave her legs to a witch to get one. Yet Hana-chan, then, decided to meet the witch and give her memories in exchange for getting the legs back.

    Asian Bridge 2025 · Rookie Finals · 2025-03-15