National Novice 2015
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The document outlines the topics and motions debated during various rounds of a debate tournament. The topics ranged from education, family issues, entertainment, gender and sexuality, international relations, politics, religion, development, justice, and life and death. Sample motions included requiring university graduates to work locally, banning solitary confinement, supporting individuals who choose suicide, and allowing life transfers between individuals.
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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
- 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
- 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
- 11. • THW arm South Korea with nuclear weapons • THW remove the Non-Intervention Policy in ASEAN • THS an independent Kurdistan
- 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
- 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
- 18. Just Kidding • We ALMOST decided to have a sex + economics combo
- 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
- 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
- 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