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…

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GM Oxford IV 2020 Open Finals – This house regrets the narrative that there exists no objective truth

Jacklin Kwan, Oxford IV 2020 Open Finals Member of Government Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/wJwtOUB-9XE?t=2888 Opening I think the framing that is symmetric on both sides is that people still need to make decisions based on a singular conception of truth, in order to not do contradictory shit. They still need to make decisions on policy…

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PM Cambridge IV 2021 Final – THO transhumanism

Sajid Khandaker, Cambridge IV 2021 Final, PM Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFYDsFrd_Po&t=1082s Infoslide: Transhumanism is a movement that endorses the study and creation of technologies to modify the body, with the aim of surpassing natural limits to human abilities (e.g to senses, thinking, control of emotions, health, or longevity) (Hays, 2018). Motion: THO transhumanism Opening Humanity…

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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…

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This House Believes That Doctors Should Be Obligated to Report Suspected Cases of Domestic Abuse

First of all, defining domestic abuse. You can read more here. Any form of physical, sexual or mental and emotional abuse which might amount to criminal conduct and which takes place within the context of a relationship. The relationship will be between partners (married, co-habiting, civil partnership or otherwise) or ex-partners. The abuse can be…

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