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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Points about Media in A Debate

POSITIVE POINTS We support the existence of media as the critical element of democracy. Media as a part of journalistic product brings significant contribution on ‘check and balance’ actualization. It nurtures governance process, potraying transparency and also determining accountability of each public decision which relates with social welfare. There are several characterizations of media which…

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This House Regrets the Remilitarization of Japan

This is a pretty straightforward value-judgment motion which weighs the pros and cons, benefits and harms, of a remilitarization action, in the specific context of the motion happening in Japan. Expect both teams to agree not to discuss about the ramifications of remilitarization (or cancelling the remilitarization) in the future. Motions circulating around the wording…

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This House Believes That Universities Should Not Claim Patents over the Products of Their Researchers

The good ol’ debate of whether does copyright actually protect their original creators and inventors, or on the contrary, do they actually harm potential insight and demotivate future research and delay improvement? But, anyway, the wording of this motion actually makes things a little bit more complicated than just about this. Alright let’s go. Motion…

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