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This House Would Not Expel Pregnant Students
Exercise political correctness wherever you are, not only in a debate chamber. Even if it happens to contradict your chauvinistic/ misogynistic/ pessimistic/ whatever ideals. No matter how much you think that a pregnant girl is promiscuous, you shouldn’t express that opinion out loud, just because. It’s just wrong. Furthermore, the reason behind the discourse of…
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This House Would Legalize Pornography
This is another one of the classics that, debate coaches, who are more of a play-safer, by now, will usually try to run when being faced with ultra-extra-conservative debaters as their students. This motion deals quite the significant shock therapy and requires ultra-extra-conservative to think out of their comfort zone whilst still not exactly and…
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This House Would Legalize Prostitution
This is one of the classics that, by now, we expect almost all debate coaches will try to employ when being faced with ultra-extra-conservative debaters as their students. Risk-taker coaches are more likely to try running “This House Would Legalize Gay Marriage” as a stronger form of shock therapy, though, whilst coaches who are more…
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This House Regrets the Trend of Celebrities Making Recounts of Their Struggle with Psychiatric Disorders
*sigh* hate value-judgment debates using the word “regret” like this. Hate them. The reason why, is because there are multiple possible scenario and directions this kind of debates could unfold. The word regret is very ambiguous and opens numerous possible multi-interpretation. Hate it. For this motion, we will try to explore the two possible outcomes…
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This House Would Ban Spanish Bullfighting
The wording of this motion, although explicitly states Spanish bullfighting, compels Team Affirmative to broaden the debate in its setup in order to cover other forms of animal cruelty as well. Whether or not it’s only limited to objectification of animals in sports, is optional, though. Or, another way round is Team Affirmative bringing up…