Ashish Kumar, 2016 HWS Round Robin Check the video here. Opening There is something genuinely bizarre happening in the status quo. If you’re a child and your parent neglects you, the state forces the parent to pay you damages. Often for the rest of your life. But there is no reciprocal burden if you as…
Eva Quinones, 2020 HWS Round Robin Check the video here. Opening Speaker, we think perhaps life is as Hobbes detailed: nasty, brutish, and short. Perhaps it isn’t, but the most important thing in this debate is that you can’t know what if, what another person is experiencing is a perception of brutality and suffering and…
Info Slide: In the context of anti-terrorism, “decapitation” refers to the strategy of targeting terrorist leaders for assassination. Dan Lahav, 2016 HWS Round Robin GF Check the video here. Opening Let’s be sharp on burdens. The fact that you have F16 in an army doesn’t mean you’re going to automatically always use your F16s when…
(+) Government While the people in developing countries suffer from starvation during droughts, while the cure for cancer and HIV hasn’t been found, while climate change is an imminent threat to the global society, it is unrealistic to pursue advancements that have no urgency and no particular communities to benefit. Let’s clearly say from the…
The debating community is a small community. The most watched debate video of all time, for what I know, is Shengwu’s speech in WUDC 2010, with around 250,000 views. None of us has really gone viral, and none of us will probably reach the recommendation feed any time soon. So you really have to keep track…