A Tea Time With Kak Boby

Hi kak Boby! We hope that you are well and healthy. And thank you for the opportunity to interview you kak. We are really excited to interview you as one of the finest debaters Indonesia has! Hahahaha! Kak Boby, you are a living legend in Indonesia’s debate realm. Debaters have known and are either inspired…

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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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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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This House Believes That Development Aid Should Be Made Conditional upon Recipient Country to Significantly Reduce Their Military Budget

The wording of the motion does not explicitly call for a mechanism/goal or any complex and specific setup whatsoever from Team Affirmative. However, there are several important things to focus on this motion. We get it that the military sector is generally an undesirable channel to invest DEVELOPMENTAL aid on. Team Affirmative should expect that…

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This House Believes That the Feminist Movement Should Endorse the Usage of Hijab

There would be two separate places where this motion applies. The geographical bias would be, one, happening on liberal democratic countries (of course), and second, on the middle-east countries. Both teams would likely have to agree on these points: That feminist movement is currently distributed with unequal ideals, beliefs, and goals throughout the whole world….

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