Motions

Grand Final

  • 1
    THP a world where one's success is directly proportional to their effort.
  • 2
    THP a world where success is viewed as the achievement of an individual's community (eg. Family/society/context) as opposed to the individual themselves.
  • 3
    THR the social emphasis placed on being a well rounded person

    • Semifinals

  • 1
    THBT it is legitimate for the State to invalidate portions of wills that are found to be discriminatory on the basis of gender (eg. a substantially larger portion of assets being left to the sons, compared to the daughters)
  • 2
    THBT evidence that is reliable but illegally obtained by the police should be excluded as evidence in all criminal trials.
  • 3
    THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victim, pay compensation to the victims in place of a prison sentence

    • Round 4

  • 1
    THW impose the Fairness Doctrine on any news media that attracts a significant audience.
  • 2
    THS the appropriation of “Graffiti Art” into the cultural mainstream
  • 3
    THBT Partition writers should refrain from drawing on the nostalgia of pre-Partition times as representations of communal harmony and kinship

    • Round 3

  • 1
    THBT it is in the US’ best interest to spend significantly on combating Beijing’s growing 5G network
  • 2
    THBT "poison pill" will do more harm than good for Twitter
  • 3
    THS public institutions (courts, banks etc) in developing countries aggressively using OSS to scale their operations and provide services

    • Round 2

  • 1
    THBT LGBTQIA+ movement in Korea should actively denounce K-pop 'fanfiction culture'
  • 2
    TH, as the Filipino feminist movement, would endorse Leni Robredo for presidency.
  • 3
    THS the use of conditional cash transfer programs to families in order to encourage pro-social behavior (eg- sending one’s child to school, compliance with state vaccination programs)

    • Round 1

  • 1
    TH, as a female teacher in an area with a low educational uptake for girls, would give preferential treatment to the female students in her class
  • 2
    THBT governments in developing nations should prioritise increasing foreign tie-ups in public universities, as opposed to allowing the entry of foreign universities
  • 3
    As a middle income African-American parent would prefer to send their child to an underperforming but predominantly African-American public school over high performing but predominantly white public school