What are the types of debates, as well as main priorities and framing (i.e.
main case line, how
burdens should be positioned and pushed) by each side for the motions listed below:
1. THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to
them instead of a prison sentence
2. TH supports the establishment of a Black secessionary state within the territory of the
United States, the founding of which is supported by the American government.
3. This House would temporarily and significantly relax minimum labour standards in times
of unusually high unemployment, including workplace health and safety standards,
minimum wage, working hours restrictions etc.
4. This House would allow children to sue their parents for religious indoctrination.
5. Indoctrination means teaching someone to accept beliefs uncritically. In the case of
religion, this can include (but is not limited to) emphasising strict adherence to religious
teachings and not presenting alternative viewpoints.
6. This House would abolish primary and secondary school grades/years that group
children based on age, and instead group them by competency and intelligence.
7. THW ban social media companies from independently deplatforming politicians
8. THBT developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for
elected office
9. TH supports developing states falsifying their history in order to create a unified national
identity
10. TH opposes the pressure to focus on promoting one's career at the expense of forming a
family
11. TH supports the narrative that current generations have a duty to protect the rights of
future generations who do not exist yet
12. This House believes that the protections of international law conventions and treaties
should not apply to combatants from terrorist organisations (e.g. prohibition on torture,
prisoner of war status, guarantee of post-conflict release)
13. In functioning democracies with one dominant political party, THP opposition parties to
predominantly campaign on the basis of moral character (e.g. integrity, transparency,
corruption) rather than predominantly on specific issues and policies (e.g.
unemployment, education, the environment)
14. THBT developing countries should adopt economic development policies that heavily
disincentivize urbanisation
15. THW prefer a world in which extremely wealthy people in Western liberal states donate
excess money to their governments rather than to charities
16. This House would implement substantial measures to impose long-termism in corporate
investment culture (e.g. minimum holding periods for shares, yearly rather than quarterly
financial reporting, long-term executive compensation plans)
17. THP a world without organised religion
18. THBT minority parents in multicultural societies should raise their children to distrust the
authorities
19. THW ban out of court settlements for cases involving sexual assault
20. THBT schools in multicultural societies should teach dying languages
