Motions

Grand Finals

  • 1
    THW welcome the advent of Q.E.D.

    • Semi Finals

  • 1
    THBT developing countries should impose taxes on dry powder of private equity firms.
  • 2
    THBT developing countries should allow economically failing cities to become satellite charter cities.
  • 3
    THO PSLs in developing countries

    • Quarterfinals

  • 1
    THBT US should attempt to aggressively contain China's capacity to build AI systems (e.g. by limiting China's ability to skill and retain computer scientists, attract US capital into Chinese AI companies, or access parts needed to build AI systems where the US has significant market share, such as semiconductors).
  • 2
    This House regrets the U.S. directive to halt TSMC's semiconductor supplies to Chinese clients.
  • 3
    This House supports the rise of African states ending military cooperation with western and colonial states, i.e. France, England and the United States

    • Pre-Quarterfinals

  • 1
    This house as a woman with significant talent in esports would pursue a career as a professional e-sports athlete
  • 2
    In conservative states,TH as the Feminist Movement, would actively endorse respectability politics
  • 3
    THBT the mythification of the Hijra community has done more harm than good

    • Round 5

  • 1
    THR the dominant narrative that increasing automation and the future of labor are irreconcilable.
  • 2
    THO glorification of innovation
  • 3
    THR the narrative of the 'American Dream'

    • Round 4

  • 1
    THW make the weight of votes proportional to a person’s expected remaining lifespan, i.e. younger individuals’ votes carry more weight
  • 2
    ⁠THW ban ethnicity-based political parties in multi-ethnic post-conflict states
  • 3
    THW prefer that US Supreme Court Justices were elected by popular vote

    • Round 3

  • 1
    THBT the ubiquity of dating apps has done more harm than good
  • 2
    Given the technology, THW erase society's memory and evidence of the criminal past of former convicts after their release from prison.
  • 3
    THP art that prioritizes the Black Mirror effect over techno-utopianism

    • Round 2

  • 1
    In times of recession, THBT developing economies should significantly reallocate their welfare budget (social security, medicare, medicaid, etc.) to aggressively fund initiatives to increase employment (skill development and job programs, subsidies and tax cuts for corporations to expand and hire more people).
  • 2
    Given a trade-off, THW direct environmental policy towards mitigation of climate change, rather than prevention.
  • 3
    THBT governments should outsource the regulation of big tech giants to technocrats

    • Round 1

  • 1
    THS the creation of children's literature which teaches that people are neither good nor evil.
  • 2
    THBT the rise of subscription-based websites which host independent journalists (e.g. Substack) does more harm than good.
  • 3
    THBT the globalisation of art has done more harm than good.