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  • This house supports the sex exceptionalist view of sexual harm

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    A sex exceptionalist view of sexual harm holds that sexual harms are more severe than, and qualitatively distinct from, other forms of bodily or emotional harm.

    ANU Spring 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-15

  • In partnerships without equal affection, this house would prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship

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    A pegged currency is one in which the exchange rate between two currencies is fixed to a set rate (ex. the Danish krone (DKK) is pegged to the euro at a central rate of 746.038 kroner per 100 euro, with a 'fluctuation band' of +/- 2.25 per cent). A government maintains a peg by buying and selling foreign reserves to ensure a set price. A floating exchange rate is one in which the relative exchange rate of currencies is determined entirely by the supply and demand of the currency on the open foreign exchange market. The Canadian dollar was previously pegged to the US dollar from 1962 to 1970

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-08

  • THR the valorisation of "exclusive authentic intimacy” as the core value of romantic relationships.

    Infoslide

    Authentic intimacy refers to a very deep, personal emotional and physical closeness. Among other things it involves being fully open, honest, and vulnerable, showing your fears and desires without hiding.

    Cambridge WGM 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-07

  • When deciding divorce asset division, This house believes that courts should exclude the fault of each spouse and make a judgment solely based on economic factors.

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    In a divorce lawsuit, courts decide how to divide the assets jointly accumulated during the marriage between the spouses. It accounts for economic factors, including each spouse's financial and non-financial contributions, future needs, and debts. The court may adjust the division ratio to disadvantage the spouse deemed as at fault for the divorce (i.e., adjust from 5:5 to 6:4).

    Hit-U Intervarsity 2025 · ラウンド5 · 2025-11-01

  • This house supports a hedonistic approach to life

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    A hedonistic approach to life means that people should prioritize experiences, choices, and actions that maximize simple and short term sensual pleasure.

    Prague Open 2025 · Novice Finals · 2025-11-01

  • This house prefers a narrative that love is passive over a narrative that love is active.

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    A passive conception of love is the belief that love is something that happens to you rather than something you actively do, emphasizing becoming lovable over practicing love. An active conception of love is the belief that love must be pursued, treating it as something that requires effort to find.

    University of Western Ontario Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-01

  • This House supports the normalization of human-AI relations

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, human-AI relations describes a relationship between humans and artificially intelligent entities (i.e. robots, androids, LLMs) that identically parallel relations between humans (i.e. friendship, attraction, trust). An example of human-AI relations include a recently viral video of children playing sports with a humanoid robot in China.

    University of Western Ontario Fall High School Tournament 2025 · Junior Semifinals · 2025-11-01

  • This house believes that parents should teach daughters to assume men are "guilty until proven innocent".

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of the debate, assuming a man is "guilty until proven innocent" means to assume he is ill-intentioned until proven otherwise. Believing a man is "guilty until proven innocent" may imply, among other things, believing he is untrustworthy, overwhelmingly driven by lust, or harbours a tendency to look down upon women.

    Manila Pre-WUDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-10-24

  • This house believes that it is in the queer community’s interest to point out the Manosphere’s homoaffectivity.

    Infoslide

    The manosphere is a masculinist subculture composed exclusively of men who, in turn, promote masculine personal development, whether through criticism of feminism (strong or moderate) or by advocating that men invest their time in themselves without the need to seek a romantic relationship or build a family. It is a community centered on masculinity and men’s communities, espousing ideas such as “only men know how to love.”

    Open Estou Além 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-10-17

  • This house, as an up and coming gay Mangaka, would write a Yaoi manga rather than a Bara manga

    Infoslide

    In Japanese Manga (comics), Yaoi refers to a genre of gay fiction that features young and attractive male characters, often in the "bishōnen" (beautiful boy) archetype. Usually the stories are marketed to and read by straight female audiences. Bara, by contrast, is a genre of fiction made largely by and for gay men. It tends to portray more muscular, rugged, or realistic male bodies. A Mangaka is a Japanese Manga (comic) artist.

    UCLA IV 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-09-27

  • This house opposes the narrative that people should not rush into relationships

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    Rushing into a romantic relationship is characterized by a couple taking a shorter period of time to define the relationship, meet each other’s loved ones, discuss life goals/values, become physically and emotionally intimate, etc.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-09-27