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This House Believes That Debt Relief Should Be Granted to Developing Countries on The Basis of Past Colonial Exploitation
Let’s do the motion dissection by focusing on the different aspects of the wording, one at a time. First, “granted on the basis of past colonial exploitation”. In order to help the understanding of that, let us deliver it to you this way: “you are going to base debt relief grants, ONLY on past colonial…
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This House Would Impose Beauty Tax
Notice the two fundamental aspects that would undermine this dispute into a motion: the imposition of tax, and the contradictive nature of beauty. But, note that the parameters of imposition of tax carry more burden and is more integral towards the wording of the motion, rather than the issue of beauty. Why is that so?…
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This House Would Offer Terminally Ill Patients the Option of a Cash Grant If They Forgo Treatment and Consent to Early Euthanasia
From the motion above, we could concur that there are several keywords/variables we could explore, which are: ‘offer an option’, ‘terminally ill patients’, ‘cash grant’, and ‘giving up life”. The room of the debate is clear enough to not to be misinterpreted. There will be some arguments revolving around rights vs utilitarian approach, comparison between…
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This House Believes That Development Aid Should Be Made Conditional upon Recipient Country to Significantly Reduce Their Military Budget
The wording of the motion does not explicitly call for a mechanism/goal or any complex and specific setup whatsoever from Team Affirmative. However, there are several important things to focus on this motion. We get it that the military sector is generally an undesirable channel to invest DEVELOPMENTAL aid on. Team Affirmative should expect that…
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This House Believes That Developing Countries Should Prioritize Economic Development on Manufacturing Industry Rather Than Service Industry
Okay, let’s first start by talking about the obvious one first. Yes, this debate will be one of your good old classics of value-judging, where the Team Affirmative has to: “Okay, so there are some benefits of both manufacturing industry and service industry, whilst there also are some harms from both of them. We are…