Motions

Novice Finals

  • 1
    This House would allow workers to opt into Severance
  • 2
    This House would snitch on the neighbour
  • 3
    This House would use the machine
  • Novice Semifinals

  • 1
    This House would permit soldiers to refuse to participate in military actions or missions on the basis of conscience (e.g. torturing enemy combatants, campaigns that could result in high collateral damage etc)
  • 2
    This House supports the incorporation of artificial intelligence in court sentencings
  • 3
    This House would allow the police to use entrapment
  • Grand Final

  • 1
    This House would allow workers to opt into Severance
  • 2
    This House would snitch on the neighbour
  • 3
    This House would use the machine
  • Semifinals

  • 1
    This House would permit soldiers to refuse to participate in military actions or missions on the basis of conscience (e.g. torturing enemy combatants, campaigns that could result in high collateral damage etc)
  • 2
    This House supports the incorporation of artificial intelligence in court sentencings
  • 3
    This House would allow the police to use entrapment
  • Quarterfinals

  • 1
    This House prefers a world where large scale housing projects are primarily undertaken by the state rather than by private developers
  • 2
    This House would require companies to exclusively use the key performance indicator (KPI) as a metric when promoting workers
  • 3
    This House would require startups and new businesses to prove their financial sustainability (e.g. min annual nett revenue, continuous operations for 2 years etc) before qualifying for state subsidies and support
  • Round 4

  • 1
    In post-conflict societies, This House would ban art (films, paintings, songs etc) containing messages which may incite racial and/or cultural violence
  • 2
    This House would ban the advertising of all cosmetics and beauty products
  • 3
    This House prefers a world where all children were raised in well run state facilities
  • Round 3

  • 1
    This House supports health insurance companies offering terminally ill patients the option of a lump sum payment to forgo expensive life-extending treatments (e.g. chemotherapy for terminal stage cancer)
  • 2
    This House would mandate organ donations after death
  • 3
    In areas where abortion is legal, This House would compel women to sign a paper abortion if she chooses to keep the baby against the father's wishes
  • Round 2

  • 1
    This House believes that academics should not include the scholastically-important works of individuals with immoral values in their curriculum (eg. anti-Semite Wagner in a music course, enthusiastic slaveholder Jonathan Edwards in a philosophy course, Nazi collaborator and African filmmaker / photojournalist Riefenstahl in an anthropology course, etc.)
  • 2
    This House, as an intelligent but poor student, would pursue vocational education over a traditional college degree
  • 3
    This House regrets the Malaysian government's move to limit JPA scholarships solely towards tertiary education institutions within Malaysia
  • Round 1

  • 1
    This House regrets the rise of bite-sized content (e.g. short-form videos on TikTok & character limit on Twitter)
  • 2
    This House opposes the rise of social media influencers from the healthcare industry
  • 3
    This House regrets the popularisation of therapy-speak in daily conversations