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PM – This house believes that criminal justice policy should be outsourced to technocrats instead of elected representatives
Opening Elected representatives have long played politics to blur the practical aims of the criminal justice system of creating safer societies. Don’t let them make you forget that sometimes knowledge is more important than public opinion and modern democracies implicitly take advantage of it. The side that creates safer societies wins the debate because that…
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This House Regrets Internet Anonymity
Internet anonymity can be defined as a feature which allow its users to make themselves untracable. It can be done in various ways, starting from using a Virtual Private Network (VPN)/ Tor to fake your IP address, to a simple exercise like creating fake accounts in social media or emails to scam people. Team Affirmative…
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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 Regrets the Trend of Celebrities Making Recounts of Their Struggle with Psychiatric Disorders
*sigh* hate value-judgment debates using the word “regret” like this. Hate them. The reason why, is because there are multiple possible scenario and directions this kind of debates could unfold. The word regret is very ambiguous and opens numerous possible multi-interpretation. Hate it. For this motion, we will try to explore the two possible outcomes…
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This House Would Ban Spanish Bullfighting
The wording of this motion, although explicitly states Spanish bullfighting, compels Team Affirmative to broaden the debate in its setup in order to cover other forms of animal cruelty as well. Whether or not it’s only limited to objectification of animals in sports, is optional, though. Or, another way round is Team Affirmative bringing up…