Motions

Novice Finals

  • This House believes that the present condition of the average working class individual* is better today than it will be in 100 years *Working class individual refers to a person who earns a living through manual labor, skilled trades, or lower-wage jobs, often without owning significant property or businesses.

    • Novice Semifinals

  • This house supports the integration of AI tutors in schools

    • Grand Final

  • This house regrets the stigma against intellectualism among progressive circles in developing countries

    • Semifinals

  • This House believes that the United States and its allies should relaunch and sustain military operations against Iran until the installation of a new regime that permanently and verifiably abandons its nuclear enrichment program.

    • Quarterfinals

  • This House believes that the feminist movement should embrace the narrative that male loneliness is a public health crisis

    • Octofinals

  • This house believes that ASEAN should adopt a Maastricht-style fiscal rule that caps each member state’s gross public debt at 60% of GDP

    • Round 6

  • This House believes that developed countries should adopt a 32-hour four-day work-week

    • Round 5

  • Assuming technology exists that allows individuals to extract, store, and transfer memories without physical or cognitive harm, This house prefers a world in which memories can be bought and sold on an open market

    • Round 4

  • This House would grant legal personhood to ecosystems

    • Round 3

  • This House believes that the boy-love/girl-love media industries do more harm than good

    • Round 2

  • This House regrets the rapid international rise of Chinese budget e-commerce platforms (e.g. SHEIN, TEMU, AliExpress).

    • Round 1

  • In multi-party democracies, This House prefers rank choice voting over FPTP voting