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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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This House Regrets the Rise of Social Media as A Primary Source of News Distribution
Firstly, by definition, the rise of social media would be illustrated as the trend of people obtaining information not using the traditional fashion such as TV or newspaper, but relying on the digital communication. There are various reasons of why the trend is shifting toward the technology ground. Mainly it is due to the fact…
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This House Believes That Voters Should Pass A Political General Knowledge Test Before Being Allowed to Vote
Before going any further, we have an important task to do, i.e. defining the political general knowledge test. Basically we could interpret it as a form of examination that consists of questions regarding to the basic political system (e.g. why we should vote, how vote affects the country, etc.) along with various information of a…
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This House Believes That the Indonesian Government Should Heavily Invest in Start-Up Online Businesses Rather Than Conventional Sectors (Accountants, Lawyers, Engineers, Doctors, etc.)
The idea of investment is insertion or empowerment of capital, having a goal to yield more profit. Which side of the house returns more towards the government. So, motion dissection. Here goes. The Indonesian government (or other third world countries alike, for this case) should be facing pretty much the same issues among other agendas:…
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Except When There Is A Clear Threat to National Security, This House Believes That It Is Illegitimate for Western States to Limit Immigration from Developing-World Countries
Or ignore the first part of the wording of the motion, in order to make interpreting this debate more simply. …or maybe not. …..but maybe also yes. So, “This House Believes That It Is Illegitimate for Western States to Limit Immigration from Developing-World Countries” and let’s do the motion dissection. First, illegitimate means illegal. But…