Motions

Novice Final

  • This house supports President Claudia Sheinbaum using the kingpin strategy against organized criminal groups in Mexico.
  • Grand Final

  • This house, as the Iranian regime, would immediately announce and begin a transition to democracy rather than resist regime change.
  • Open Semifinals

  • From behind a veil of ignorance, this house prefers to be born with unusually high justice sensitivity.
  • Round 5

  • This house believes that it is in the interests of elite colleges and universities with persistent grade inflation to significantly increase the rigor of their academic programs (e.g., require more demanding assessments, impose stricter attendance policies, tighten grading standards so that A-range grades are less common).
  • Round 4

  • Assuming it is performed legally and the decision is uncoerced, this house believes that it is immoral for a pregnant person to abort a fetus they are carrying that was conceived through consensual sex, except when necessary to save the pregnant person's life.
  • Round 3

  • This house believes that the United States government should significantly reduce its tariff rate on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
  • Round 2

  • This house predicts that artificial intelligence will make liberal democracies more rather than less democratic over the next decade.
  • Round 1

  • This house prefers Christian religious apologists to emphasize the instrumental value of Christianity over its truth claims in their public advocacy.