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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 supports the establishment of government run grocery stores in urban food deserts

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    For the purposes of this debate, a food desert is defined as an area in which the majority of the population is: 1) more than 20 minutes from a grocery store by the dominant mode of transport in that area 2) low income

    ANU Spring 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-15

  • This house, as the Catholic Church, supports the growing number of conversions inspired by right-wing online “Trad Cath” communities

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    The "Trad Cath" movement refers to an online subculture based on Catholic traditionalism. Trad Caths lean heavily on Catholic aesthetics (e.g. chants, gothic architecture and saints' quotes) and also support traditional social values (e.g. support for traditional gender norms).

    ANU Spring 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-15

  • This house regrets the deinstitutionalisation of mental health treatment.

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    The deinstitutionalisation of mental health treatment refers to the transition of care away from acute care to community-based care. Acute care refers to care occurring within a hospital (or ‘asylum’) where patients are admitted, sometimes involuntarily, and reside in the hospital for the duration of their treatment. Community based care refers to non-residential treatment, typically occurring within outpatient clinics or the patient’s own home. Relative to acute care, community care is less intense, occurring at most a few times a week, as opposed to every day. Since 1950, the number of UK acute beds has reduced from 150,000 to 27,000.

    Norwich Mini 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-14

  • This house prefers for a society to have British humour rather than American humour

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    British style humour tends to be subtle, dead-pan and self-depricating often mocking the authorities and societal norms finding the humour in darkness. American style humour tends to be direct and upbeat often jokes are around big personalities and the comedians’ use of body language.

    Norwich Mini 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-14

  • This House prefers a world in which oracles exist.

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    An oracle is someone capable of providing prophecies. These prophecies are expressed vaguely, in poems or riddles, but they are always accurate. Oracles cannot choose what they prophesy about and only see very limited parts of the future—fixed points that cannot be changed. Oracles are rare: only a few hundred exist at the same time, distributed proportionally to the population around the world.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-10

  • This house prefers the integrated model to the specialty model

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    There are two ways that governments can consider disadvantage in policy- making. The "integrated model" incorporates disadvantage as an inherent consideration in policy-making (e.g. all new policies made in the education department must consider implications for rural students). The "specialty model" involves having a distinct division that specifically engages with policy for disadvantaged groups (e.g. the education department has a division that directly and separately addresses helping rural areas).

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house supports the rise of educational flexibility in K-12 education

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    Educational flexibility refers to the adaptability and openness of educational institutions and their practices. This may involve reducing the emphasis on exams, minimizing lecture hours, increasing project-based learning, and individual learning plans.

    USC Mini 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-08