The motions and infoslides for UT MARA National Novice 2015.

1. Round 1
Theme: Education (We need that
right? Right?)

2. Education
• THW require all university graduates to work
locally for a minimum number of years
• THBT students should have full unrestricted
choice over the subjects they learn in school
• TH prefers the pass/fail system over the
traditional numerical grading system

3. Round 2
Family

4. Infoslide
• Commercial Surrogacy – Hiring a woman to
give birth on your behalf
• Scenario: Parents who don’t want or cannot
go through pregnancy hire a third party to
carry a child to term.
• This includes: implanting a fertilized egg into a
surrogate mother’s womb

5. Round 2
• THBT we should grant overweight people the
same protections from discrimination and
hate speech as other vulnerable groups
• THW allow parents to implant tracking devices
into their children upon birth
• TH regrets the popularity of commercial
surrogacy

6. Round 3
Entertainment, Media

7. • TH regrets popular public voting in reality TV
shows
• TH supports the re-portrayal of traditional
characters as minorities (Chinese Superman,
Iron-woman, Gay Harry Potter)
• THW remove all gender categories for awards
in the entertainment industry

8. Round 4
Gender and Sexuality

9. • THBT the LGBT community should buy up
property to create LGBT exclusive commercial
and residential areas
• THBT nude protests have done more harm
than good for the feminists movement
• THBT transgender women should abandon the
LGBT movement and join the feminist
movement

10. Round 5
International Relations

11. • THW arm South Korea with nuclear weapons
• THW remove the Non-Intervention Policy in
ASEAN
• THS an independent Kurdistan

12. Octo-Finals
Politics

13. • THW ban the publication of opinion polls and
ratings during election campaigns
• THW remove term limits for high ranking
public officials
• THW disallow politicians from settling
defamation suits out of court

14. Pre-Octofinals
RELIGION

15. Infoslide
• Prosperity gospel is a doctrine that financial
blessings are the will of God for Christians that
faith, positive speech and donations to Christian
groups will increase one’s material wealth.
• The doctrine emphasizes the importance of
personal empowerment, proposing that it is
God’s will for his people to be happy and
atonement is interpreted to include the
alleviation of sickness and poverty which are
viewed as curses to be broken by faith.

16. • THS the preaching of the prosperity gospel in
places of poverty
• THBT religious institutions should not be
exempt from tax
• THW elect the pope

17. Quarter-Finals
SEXCONOMICS!!

18. Just Kidding
• We ALMOST decided to have a sex +
economics combo

19. Quarter-Finals
Development… Sorry

20. • THBT economic sanctions should never be a
tool of foreign policy used against developing
countries
• THS sex tourism in developing countries
• THBT developed countries have a moral
obligation to provide citizenship for victims of
climate change

21. Semi-Finals
Justice

22. • THW temporarily transport individuals liable
for hate crimes to a parallel universe where
the minorities are the privileged majority
• THW ban solitary confinement
• THBT the practice of religious beliefs should
be a mitigating factor in court

23. Finals
Life & Death

24. Valar Morghulis
All men must die

25. • THBT the state should support individuals who
choose to commit suicide
• TH prefers immortality on earth over the
uncertainty of an afterlife
• THW allow individuals to transfer their lives to
others who are dying