Motions

School的决赛

  • THS the use of AI in mental health services (examples include but are not limited to: AI offer company, help cope with depression, offer personalized treatment recommendations etc.).

    • School的四强赛

  • THBT developing economies should prioritise bottom-up development strategies (funding grassroot communities and investment in local infrastructure) over top-down development strategies (incentives for MNC growth and large-scale exporting capacity).

    • Novice的决赛

  • THP a world governed by a single democratic government

    • Novice的四强赛

  • THR the narrative of maintaining emotional stability as a sign of maturity.

    • 总决赛

  • THP the Ancient Roman view of war over the contemporary view of war.

    • 四强赛

  • THBT it is in the interest of European nationalist movements to incorporate Pan-European sentiment in their messaging.

    • 八强赛

  • THS policies that discourage couples with genetic diseases, orthose with a high likelihood of passing genetic diseases to their children, from having offspring. Info: Thalassemia is an inherit!ed blood disorder that affects the production of hemoglobinIn Cyprus, the Church required premarital screening certificates for Thalassemia as a precondition for religious marriage.

    • 赛5

  • This House Prefers housing assistance programmes to social housing schemes. Info: Housing assistance programs include policies such as mortgage and rental subsidies, preferential loans, and rent caps among others. Social housing meanwhile is government-financed construction/purchase of housing which is then made available according to means-testing to be rented out and possibly eventually bought below private market rates.

    • 赛4

  • This House Supports the increased use of embodied cognition theory to explain social trends and individual human behavior. Info: In the cognitive sciences,embodied cognition is the idea that the body is essential to human cognition. lt suggests that high-level cognitive functions, such as reasoning, judgment, and category formation are heavily affected by physical states. These physical states include (but are not limited to): hormone levels, nutrition, sensory experiences, general fitness, and

    • 赛3

  • This House Would break up the largest asset management firms. Info: BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street control over $20 trillion worth of assets and primarily invest them into index funds. Index funds are designed to invest to mirror the performance of a set of companies in an identifiable class (e.g. the S&P 500, the Dow Jones, etc.). The three companies together own about 30% of all of the S&P 500.

    • 赛2

  • This House Believes That the feminist movement should strongly advocate for anti-natalism. Info: Anti-natalism is the belief that it is morally wrong or unjustifiable for people to have children.

    • 赛1

  • This House Believes That it is in the interest of the Republican Party to fully ban Tiktok in the United States.