This House Believes That Populism-Oriented Parties Bring More Harm than Good During Economic Crisis

Alright, let’s start with.. the two aspects in this debate: the parties, and economic crisis. First aspect, both affirmative and negative teams are expected to have an agreement regarding the characteristics of populism-oriented parties, as the nature of those parties are absolute and are not actually debatable (not necessary, even). Second aspect, economic crisis should…

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Even If It Is Possible, This House Believes That Human Lifespan Should Not Exceed 100 Years

Pretty straightforward motion, involves assumptions, does not create any possible multi-interpretations time-wise. So, pretty much, yeah. A straightforward motion. There are some arguments that might be tied really closely to some geographical factors, though. Another important thing to note, is that debaters should not fall into the trap of misinterpreting this motion into “THW kill…

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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 Believes That Sovereign Debt Default is a Legitimate Economic Strategy for All Countries

Let’s start with the ambiguous parameters that makes the wording of this motion questionable. What is the definition of “legitimate” and what are the parameters for something to belong to that category? Then, what are the actions that you would consider as a “strategy” or in fact an “economic strategy”? About sovereign debt default, there…

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This House Believes That Science Is a Threat to Humanity (Opposition)

A Philosophical Analysis “The greatest enemy of man is not others, but of himself“ Armed conflicts in history of mankind have devastated lots of lives, widowed wives, impacted innocent children, created humanitarian disaster, inflicted long-term mental damage, and many more unspeakable destructions and horrors. Yet mankind have never ceased to improvise their technology of weapons…

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