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This House Would Choose The Job They Passionate About
(1st Opp Speaker) Angelia Li, WSDC Canada, WSDC 2020 Finals Context Slide You are a talented, middle-class person in your early twenties about to start your career. You have the choice between a job in which you will make a lot of money and work long hours (e.g. investment banker, corporate lawyer, etc.) and a…
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This House Regrets The Glorification of Soldiers as Heroes
Manya Gupta, WSDC 2019 Grand Final Check the video here. Opening Fractured bones become fractured communities. When you can’t call out a soldier that sexually assaulted you in Iraq, can’t call out a general who may have ordered this as a war tactic In a world where you think soldiers get everything right, that’s when everything…
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This House Supports Filial Responsibility Laws
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…
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This House Believes That Individuals Have A Moral Obligation to Not Have Biological Children
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…
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THBT Governments Should Abandon The Strategy of “Decapitation” in Fighting Terrorism
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…