Motions

Open Grand Final

  • 1
    That, as environmentalists, we would choose a strategy of working closely with corporations.
  • 2
    That we should grant legal personhood to culturally significant features of the natural environment.
  • 3
    That we support compassionate conservation.

    • ESL Grand Final

  • 1
    That capitalism is incompatible with racial equality.
  • 2
    That, as a woman of colour living in a majority-white country, we would embrace, compete in and establish national beauty pageants for women of our ethnic heritage.
  • 3
    That we, as a Catholic priest, would actively endorse liberal values that do not align with the Catholic Church.

    • EFL Grand Final

  • 1
    That France should abandon the principle of laïcité.
  • 2
    That activist movements should embrace cancel culture as a tool to promote social change.
  • 3
    That it is morally wrong to use subconscious manipulation to nudge citizens towards socially desirable choices.

    • Open Semifinals

  • 1
    That we regret narratives which portray human progress as inevitable.
  • 2
    That we regret the emphasis placed on individual rights by social justice movements.
  • 3
    That, in countries where military service is mandatory only for men, as self-proclaimed feminist women, we would actively volunteer in the military.

    • ESL Semifinals

  • 1
    That, as developing nations, we would prefer to align with China than the United States.
  • 2
    That ASEAN should transform itself into a political union.
  • 3
    That Western companies with a significant number of employees from the Indian diaspora should actively campaign against the caste system.

    • EFL Semifinals

  • 1
    That it is illegitimate for states to limit immigration unless there is a clear threat to national security.
  • 2
    That we regret the rise of nation-states built around exclusive notions of language, race, and religion.
  • 3
    That developing countries should prioritise the massive construction of infrastructure over the direct provision of high subsidies and social welfare.

    • Open Quarterfinals

  • 1
    That the European Central Bank should monetise the government deficits of Eurozone countries experiencing financial crises.
  • 2
    That we should reallocate public investment funds from start-ups to traditional small and medium-sized enterprises.
  • 3
    That we should allow parents to sell shares in their children’s future income streams.

    • ESL Quarterfinals

  • 1
    That non-Western LGBTQ activists should reject sex positivity.
  • 2
    That we regret the belief that individuals possess defined personality traits.
  • 3
    That portrayals of religious deities and prophets in media should receive prior approval from relevant religious authorities.

    • EFL Quarterfinals

  • 1
    That the state should pay reparations to individuals convicted in the past for actions that are no longer recognised as a crime.
  • 2
    That criminal trials should proceed even when the accused is deceased.
  • 3
    That the state's failure to address a pandemic should be considered as a crime against humanity.

    • Open Octofinals

  • 1
    That, as minorities, we would engage with respectability politics.
  • 2
    That we would require companies to use absolute blind recruitment.
  • 3
    That we should stop the practice of requiring community's approval to build houses of worship.

    • ESL Octofinals

  • 1
    That we support the creation of children's literature which teaches that people are neither good nor evil.
  • 2
    That we should abolish literary awards (e.g. the Man Booker Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature).
  • 3
    That we regret the stigmatisation of hedonistic lifestyles.

    • Open Partial Double-Octofinals

  • 1
    That we, as original producers of non-Western films, would deny Hollywood the right to produce remakes, unless a quota for non-Western actors/actresses is guaranteed.
  • 2
    That we prefer transformative to curatorial fandom.
  • 3
    That Disney should remove from circulation cartoons from its history that contain racist caricatures.

    • Round 8

  • 1
    That we prefer a world where social media networking sites are only available on a paid subscription basis.
  • 2
    That social media companies should aggressively censor offensive and discriminatory content.
  • 3
    That we should ban mergers and acquisitions of mass media companies.

    • Round 7

  • 1
    That we should ban mortgage-based financial derivatives.
  • 2
    That we should limit the trading of individual shares and derivative products to licensed professionals.
  • 3
    That we should ban high-frequency trading.

    • Round 6

  • 1
    That the Democratic Party should not embrace 'Never Trump' Republicans.
  • 2
    That legislative bodies (e.g. parliament, congress, senate, councils) should be formed by sortition democracy.
  • 3
    That young people should reject traditionally empowered political parties.

    • Round 5

  • 1
    That we support a permanent move to online tertiary education.
  • 2
    That we would proportionately subsidise (e.g. scholarship and funding) university courses according to the employability of their graduates.
  • 3
    That we regret the expectation that children should be shielded from all forms of danger.

    • Round 4

  • 1
    That we, as Benny Gantz, regret signing the coalition agreement between Likud and the Blue and White alliance.
  • 2
    That we regret the Trump-Taliban peace deal agreement.
  • 3
    That Palestinians should abandon their claim for statehood and opt for a civil rights struggle instead.

    • Round 3

  • 1
    That we would abolish the ‘one-year-out’ rule in the NBA.
  • 2
    That we prefer a world where sports are not commercialised.
  • 3
    That we regret the ongoing prominence of cricket in postcolonial countries.

    • Round 2

  • 1
    That we support gamification in the workplace.
  • 2
    That the government should provide incentives for the urban poor to migrate to rural areas.
  • 3
    That the #MeToo movement has failed working class women.

    • Round 1

  • 1
    That, as Joe Biden, we would choose to run on a ‘Medicare-for-All’ platform.
  • 2
    That we oppose the medicalisation of learning disabilities.
  • 3
    That we regret the norm that doctors should defer to their patients' wishes, even where doing so is not in those patients' best interests.