Royal Holloway Open, London, March 2013

Royal Holloway Open, London, England, March 17

Open motions picked by one of the teams in each debate round:

1. R1: THW ban teenagers from using Facebook
2. R1: THW choose immortality over fertility
3. R1: THBT Simba should not go back
4. R1: THBT Bilbo should have killed Gollum when he had the chance
5. R1: THBT all politicians should be celibate
6. R1: THW ban advertising
7. R1: THBT charity is immoral
8. R1: THW kill its best friend when s/he is about to become a zombie
9. R2: THW build a second Deathstar
10. R2: THBT children under 18 with close relatives who are victims of FGM should not be allowed to travel outside the EU
11. R2: THW ban Google Glasses
12. R2: THW discourage people with genetic diseases from having children and prioritise them in terms of adoption
13. R2: THW replace juries with panels of philosophers who will decide cases purely on utilitarian grounds
14. R2: THW not give aliens the vote (aliens live alongside humans 1 year from now)
15. R2: THB feminists should oppose capitalism
16. R2: THBT the feminist movement should oppose the banning of the burqa
17. R3: THBT the Pope Francis should make an ex-cathedra statement to the effect that all Catholics must support socialism
18. R3: THW give the Roma a homeland
19. R3: THW build a deathstar
20. R3: As an omipotent, omniscient god, THW smite people who commit serious crimes and who we know will feel no remorse
21. R3: THW bring back public corporal punishment for smaller crimes
22. R3: THW make higher education free
23. R3: THW abolish the speaker tab
24. R3: THW fully replace agriculture and fishing with stem cell production to produce food
25. R4: THW require priests to report confessions that lead to criminal convictions
26. R4: You are an Israeli nuclear submarine commander. You learn that Israel has been wiped out by an iranian nuclear strike. THW return Fire
27. R4: THW link Job Seekers Allowance to previous income
28. R4: THW not become a superhero
29. R4: THW encourage replacing human body parts with advanced robotic counterparts
30. R4: THW build 500,000 social homes in the London Greenbelt
31. R4: THW wipe the memories of those convicted very serious crimes and replace them with more positive memories
32. R4: THW require universities to increase funding for classics and deprioritise funding for popular culture choices
33. Final: In world that has eradicated racism, THW prefer that people were/were not able to recognise differences in physical appearance