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Chennai WUDC 2014
2014-06-01 · BP
Part of the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) series →
Motions
Chennai WUDC 2014 (2014)19 motions
- Round 1THBT the United States of America should fund moderate Madrassas (schools of Islamic study) throughout the Islamic world
- Round 2THW allow first-time offenders to, with the consent of the victims, pay compensation to them in place of a prison sentence
- Round 3TH regrets the rise of a 'hookup culture' (one which accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters focused on physical pleasure, without necessarily including emotional bonding)
- Round 4THBT developing countries should ban members of political dynasties from standing for elected office
- Round 5THBT the Trans-Pacific Partnership is in the interests of the small and medium-sized negotiating countries
- Round 6THW make the receipt of welfare payments to raise children conditional on the use of long-term, but reversible, contraception
- Round 7THBT government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use [info slide: http://goo.gl/gomgDI]
- Round 8THBT NATO should unconditionally offer membership to the states of the former Soviet Union, excluding Russia
- Round 9TH regrets the commodification of indigenous cultures
- Open Partial Double-Octo-FinalsTHW abolish gated communities in the developing world
- Open Octo-FinalsTHBT Japan should shame its soldiers who participated in WWII, including those who did not commit war crimes themselves
- Open Quarter-FinalsTHW auction off the long-term right to govern bankrupt cities for profit
- Open Semi-FinalsTHBT women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty
- Open FinalsTHBT India should adopt aggressive free market policies, including but not limited to deregulating of labour markets, allowing foreign investment and privatising state owned enterprises
- ESL Quarter-FinalsTHW remove all copyright protection for material deemed to be morally objectionable
- ESL Semi-FinalsTHBT Pope Francis should publicly encourage Catholics to support radically redistributive government policies
- ESL FinalsTHW allow countries to pay other countries to settle asylum-seekers who reach their borders
- EFL Semi-FinalsTHBT the gay rights movement should abandon the claim that sexuality is not a choice
- EFL FinalsTHBT multinational companies should be liable for human rights abuses that occur anywhere in their supply chain
What gets set here
Social & Identity32%
International Relations26%
Law & Crime11%
Politics11%
Health & Medicine5%
History5%
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14% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 18 points.
Last edition: 48 of 342 teams broke.
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break48 teams
- ESL break17 teams
- EFL break10 teams
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