Motions

Round 1

  • 1
    THBT states should provide financial incentives to adopt children
  • 2
    THBT governments should measure the efficacy of charities and strip those with low social value of their charitable status
  • 3
    THW allow individual workers to waive off their labour rights (eg: days off, hour limits, parental leave) in exchange for additional pay
  • Round 2

  • 1
    THBT art censorship is a necessary measure to protect public morality
  • 2
    THR the embellishments in art that are intended to mimic real life
  • 3
    THO the trend in art that normalises the consumption of vices (e.g. drinking alcohol, consuming drugs, etc.) as a coping mechanism
  • Round 3

  • 1
    THP a pessimistic view of AI as opposed to an optimistic one
  • 2
    THBT memorial bots do more harm than good
  • 3
    THO the widespread usage of AI in mental health
  • Round 4

  • 1
    THW ban religious charities from proselytizing in developing countries
  • 2
    THO the demonisation of self-centrism within religions
  • 3
    THBT it is in the interest of major religions to preach that everything in the universe is a consequence of God's will
  • Round 5

  • 1
    THBT environmental movements should prioritise the religious value of the environment in their advocacy within the developing world
  • 2
    In areas prone to environmental disasters, THW replace all state rebuilding and reconstruction efforts with direct cash transfers to affected citizens
  • 3
    THBT the environment movement should adopt modern anthropocentrism over ecocentrism
  • Novice Pre-Finals

  • 1
    THBT the feminist movement should use call-ins rather than call-outs while engaging with self-identified feminist peers
  • 2
    THR the narrative that motherhood is inherently fulfilling
  • 3
    THBT the feminist movement should focus significant time, platform and resources towards combatting benevolent sexism
  • Open Semi-Finals

  • 1
    THW allow prisoners to join the police force after the completion of their sentence
  • 2
    TH, as a POC (Person of Colour) from and in a poorer and underdeveloped area witnessing a non-violent crime (theft, trespassing, drug possession) by another POC, would choose to not call the cops
  • 3
    THW sentence criminal offenders to indeterminate sentences of imprisonment and release them when they have deemed to be rehabilitated (eg: good behaviour) rather than sentencing offenders to fixed terms of imprisonment
  • Novice Finals

  • 1
    THW allow prisoners to join the police force after the completion of their sentence
  • 2
    TH, as a POC (Person of Colour) from and in a poorer and underdeveloped area witnessing a non-violent crime (theft, trespassing, drug possession) by another POC, would choose to not call the cops
  • 3
    THW sentence criminal offenders to indeterminate sentences of imprisonment and release them when they have deemed to be rehabilitated (eg: good behaviour) rather than sentencing offenders to fixed terms of imprisonment
  • Open Finals

  • 1
    THBT Resort Politics in India does more harm than good
  • 2
    THBT student union (eg: ABVP, NSUI) leaders should be selected by university administrations
  • 3
    THO stigmatisation of being apolitical in liberal spaces