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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 Believes That Populism-Oriented Parties Bring More Harm than Good During Economic Crisis
Alright, let’s start with.. the two aspects in this debate: the parties, and economic crisis. First aspect, both affirmative and negative teams are expected to have an agreement regarding the characteristics of populism-oriented parties, as the nature of those parties are absolute and are not actually debatable (not necessary, even). Second aspect, economic crisis should…
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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…
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This House Would Nationalize Trade Credit Insurance
Of course, before we start, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_credit_insurance in order to know and have a basic understanding of what this motion will be talking about. Now, biases first. Biases shouldn’t be too much of a problem in this debate. For one, all debates with no explicit wording regarding geographical context should be interpreted…
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This House Believes That State Should Take Over the Custody of Children Whose Parent(s) Is Diagnosed with Psychiatric Disorder
A pretty straightforward motion. It would be helpful if Team Affirmative clarifies some (not-so) ambiguous wordings of the motion and sets up a proper debate, though. But even if not, the debate has a proper course already set. The wordings used just happen to have extra room for multi-interpretation. One important thing to note, is…