This House Believes That Satirical News Shows (Including but Not Limited to The Daily Shows, Colbert Report, Late Night with Seth Meyer) Bring More Harms Than Good to Political Discourses

Notice that the most important step you need to do as a debater is to enrich your analytical locker and the second most important step is to be able to match the similarity of one motion to another. So, when you read motion analyses, try to figure out what are the essence of the motions,…

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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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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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