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Thailand WUDC 2020
2020-01-02 · Thailand · BP
Part of the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) series →
Motions from this series
Thailand WUDC 2020 (2019)19 motions
- Round 1This House would impose a BBC-style impartiality requirement on all news platforms.
- Round 2This House supports the rapid global elimination of both tariff and non-tariff barriers to free trade.
- Round 3This House would allow children to sue their parents for religious indoctrination.
- Round 4This House would abolish the Olympic Games.
- Round 5This House believes that the Mexican government should adopt measures that enable one cartel to monopolise the drug market. (These measures can include but are not limited to: targeting enemy cartels; selective arrests; stopping military deployments to areas controlled by this cartel; and renouncing the headhunt on its current leaders.)
- Round 6In liberal democracies, This House would implement a Social Credit System.
- Round 7This House believes that ASEAN should abandon "the ASEAN Way".
- Round 8This House believes that the feminist movement should support the narrative that "beauty does not matter" over the narrative that "all bodies are beautiful".
- Round 9This House would abolish primary and secondary school grades/years that group children based on age, and instead group them by competency and intelligence.
- Open Partial Double-OctofinalsThis House prefers religions in which all individuals have roughly equal religious obligations and are encouraged to develop a personal connection with the divine, over religions in which religious obligation and access to the divine are concentrated in religious authority figures.
- ESL QuarterfinalsIn a relatively equal society where the "protected sphere model" is the norm, This House, as a parent, would raise their children according to the "deferred happiness model".
- Open OctofinalsThis House prefers a cynical and pessimistic perception of democratic politics to an idealistic and optimistic one.
- ESL SemifinalsThis House prefers a world without the Neuralink.
- EFL SemifinalsThis House prefers a world where, starting today, all humans have identical intellectual abilities (equivalent to the current global average).
- Open QuarterfinalsThis House believes that developing countries should acquire, on the open market, large stakes in major publicly-traded global corporations (eg. Google, JP Morgan, Shell, and Pfizer).
- Open SemifinalsThis House prefers a "Brave New World" to the status quo in Western Liberal Democracies.
- EFL Grand FinalThis House would abolish the private ownership of (housing) property in major metropolitan areas.
- ESL Grand FinalThis House believes that the United States government should cede the authority to prosecute criminal trials involving African Americans (as either victims or alleged perpetrators) to African American interest groups, and allocate funding for this.
- Open Grand FinalThis House, as China, would grant universal suffrage to Hong Kong.
Mexico WUDC 2018 (2018)19 motions
- Round 1This house would ban all communication tech companies (such as Google, Apple, Facebook, WhatsApp, etc.) from encrypting their users' data, including the content of their communications, in such a way that the company cannot retrieve that data even under a court order.
- Round 2This house supports job security legislation
- Round 3This house would redefine the criterion for excessive force in the US to be any use of force beyond what is reasonable given all the facts of the case, including the benefit of hindsight (e.g. whether the individual had a gun, not whether it was reasonable to believe he had a gun).
- Round 4This house would limit the amount of time that a museum can display a given piece of art to 3 months out of every 10 year period, rather than allow museums to display their works as long as they choose
- Round 5This house would allow citizens to vote on individual bills in place of their elected representative, with the representative retaining the voting power of those of their constituents who did not directly vote on that specific bill
- Round 6This house believes that all states should mandate that research on and use of CRISPR technology be exclusively carried out by institutions funded entirely by the state
- Round 7This House, as Iran, would cease all support for militant groups in the Middle East (e.g. Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, etc.)
- Round 8This house prefers a world in which all individuals who have achieved a middle class standard of living choose to pursue the highest level of achievement in their chosen career, rather than a world in which those individuals prioritise day-to-day enjoyment over work
- Round 9This house would not allow out of court settlements for workplace discrimination and harassment
- Partial OctofinalsThis house believes that ASEAN should negotiate all investment deals with Chinese government entities as a bloc (with decisions made by majority vote of its members), so that no member state can enter into investment deals without the rest of the world
- OctofinalsThis house supports the court's decision to acquit Tehlirian
- QuarterfinalsThis house, as a parent of a child of ASPD, would enable and support that child given that child's aims based on their current psychological makeup, instead of trying to make them more empathetic
- SemifinalsThis house would create an international court with the ability to classify national debt as "odious debt" at the debtor nation's request and remove the obligation of that nation to repay
- Grand FinalThis house would rather save the life of a single child, over extending the life of 5 adults by 10 years
- ESL QuarterfinalsThis house, as the Chinese Communist Party, would lift all restrictions on foreign investments in China, except restrictions critical to national security
- ESL SemifinalsThis house prefers a non-adversarial legal system
- ESL FinalsIn democratic post-colonial states, This house believes that opposition parties to the party of independence should claim and use the legacy of anti-colonial resistance.
- EFL SemifinalsThis house believes that Catholic religious officials in Mexico should not make statements in support of governmental policies, political parties, or candidates.
- EFL FinalsThis house believes that it is better for the general population to be more optimistic about the current and future state of the nation (including societal cohesion, peace processes, the state of the economy) than an objectively accurate judgement.
Malaysia WUDC 2015 (2015)9 motions
- Round 1This House Regrets the decline of tightly integrated families
- Round 2This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment, in an attempt to combat Global Warming.
- Round 3This House believes that in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should train students in vocational skills to the exclusion of the Liberal Arts.
- Round 4This House would prohibit the media from reporting on the mental illness of those accused of crimes.
- Round 5This House belives that the international community should cut off internet access in Syria.
- Round 6This House believes that developing countries should adopt economic development policies that heavily disincentivise urbanisation.
- Round 7This House would ban the research and production of moral enhancement drugs.
- Round 8This House believes that the United States and the European Union should seek to promote peace by heavily subsidising Israeli businesses who invest in the Palestinian territories.
- Round 9This House, as a medical professional employed by the United States military or security services, would, and would encourage others, to refuse orders to provide medical treatment to individuals undergoing “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”.
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
International Relations18%
Social & Identity18%
Law & Crime12%
Economics11%
Politics11%
Religion5%
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25% of teams break
Teams usually guarantee their break on 18 points.
Break on speaks? Average at least 80.2.
Last edition: 49 of 353 teams broke.
- 201418 pts48/342
- 201618 pts · 80.3 speaks48/398
- 201818 pts · 80.5 speaks48/315
- 201917 pts · 79.3 speaks49/72
- 202018 pts · 80.7 speaks49/353
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Break categories
This tournament runs a separate break for each category. From the most recent edition:
- Open break49 teams
- ESL break24 teams
- EFL break9 teams
Top speeches
The highest individual speaker scores recorded at this tournament.
| Debater | Speech | Motion | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| Speaker A. | DPM | This House would abolish the Olympic Games. | 88 |
| 🇦🇺 Ben J. | DLO | This House would abolish the Olympic Games. | 87 |
| 🇦🇺 Udai K. | MO | This House believes that the Mexican government should adopt measures that enable one cartel to monopolise the drug market. (These measures can include but are not limited to: targeting enemy cartels; selective arrests; stopping military deployments to areas controlled by this cartel; and renouncing the headhunt on its current leaders.) | 86 |
| 🇦🇺 Madeleine B. | PM | This House believes that the feminist movement should support the narrative that "beauty does not matter" over the narrative that "all bodies are beautiful". | 86 |
| Speaker A. | PM | This House would abolish the Olympic Games. | 86 |
| Gaeun P. | DLO | This House would allow children to sue their parents for religious indoctrination. | 86 |
| 🇦🇺 Dominic G. | LO | This House would abolish the Olympic Games. | 86 |
| 🇬🇧 Mark R. | OW | This House would impose a BBC-style impartiality requirement on all news platforms. | 86 |
| 🇦🇺 Ben J. | GW | This House believes that the feminist movement should support the narrative that "beauty does not matter" over the narrative that "all bodies are beautiful". | 86 |
| Connor S. | LO | This House believes that the Mexican government should adopt measures that enable one cartel to monopolise the drug market. (These measures can include but are not limited to: targeting enemy cartels; selective arrests; stopping military deployments to areas controlled by this cartel; and renouncing the headhunt on its current leaders.) | 86 |
| Speaker A. | OW | This House would allow children to sue their parents for religious indoctrination. | 86 |
| Speaker A. | LO | In liberal democracies, This House would implement a Social Credit System. | 86 |
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