Category: Motion Analysis

  • This House Would Legalize Pornography

    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…

  • This House Would Legalize Prostitution

    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…

  • This House Would Ban All Researches or Attempts or Treatments that Seek to Cure Homosexuality

    This House Would Ban All Researches or Attempts or Treatments that Seek to Cure Homosexuality

    Exercise political correctness wherever you are, not only in a debate chamber. Even if it happens to contradict your conservative/religious ideals. No matter how much you think that being a homosexual will land you on a private 1-on-1 session with Satan in Hell after you die, you shouldn’t express that opinion out loud, just because.…

  • This House Regrets Internet Anonymity

    This House Regrets Internet Anonymity

    Internet anonymity can be defined as a feature  which allow its users to make themselves untracable. It can be done in various ways, starting from using a Virtual Private Network (VPN)/ Tor to fake your IP address, to a simple exercise like creating fake accounts in social media or emails to scam people. Team Affirmative…

  • This House Believes That Developing Countries Should Heavily Prioritize Development of Soft Infrastructure over Hard Infrastructure

    This House Believes That Developing Countries Should Heavily Prioritize Development of Soft Infrastructure over Hard Infrastructure

    The stipulations are clear, the geographical bias and context is explicitly worded, so this is pretty much a straightforward motion. The goal of this motion is to have a discourse that aims to seek the best way to improve a country (of course, you don’t say). That being said, of course both Team Affirmative and…