World Schools Debate Academy June-July 2014 Motions

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PREPARED MOTIONS FOR THE TOURNAMENT

• Round One: THBT the West should actively include Iran in the resolution of the Syrian conflict.
• Round Two: TH regrets that Brazil is the host of the football World Cup 2014. 
• Round Three: THBT governments should actively discourage consumerist lifestyles. 
• Final Round: This house believes that governments should prioritize policies that reduce social inequality over economic growth.

PRACTICE DEBATE MOTIONS - will come from this list

• THW give more votes to citizens according to their performance on a current affairs test.
• TH regrets that Western Media demonized Islamist Terrorists rather than portraying them as criminals with legitimate grievances.
• THW ban video games in which the player engages in brutal and immoral violence in a realistic setting.
• THBT online matchmaking is a better system than traditional dating. 
• THW allow internet users to sell their own personal information for profit 
• THBT USA should drop all charges against Edward Snowden 
• THBT in instances where peaceful protests are met with a disproportionately violent state response, protesters should respond violently. 
• THBT a world without organized religion would be a better world. 
• This house regrets the rise of anti-hero in media. 
• This house believes that secular governments should actively censor those sections of religious texts that either constitute hate speech or propagate negative attitudes to other religious/ethnic groups. 
• THW criminalize the public denial of evolution. 
• THW abolish educational track systems in schools. 
• THBT life-extending medical procedures should be denied to the terminally ill. 
• THW Prohibit Religious Organisations from Speaking out against Homosexuality.
• THBT states should take active measures to limit the spread of American pop culture.
• THBT that developing countries should support commercial surrogacy. 
• This house will make parents legally responsible for their children’s crimes. 
• THBT crime against animals that are members of an endagered species should be sentenced as if the animal were human. 
• THBT digital communication is more important to humanity than face-to-face contact. 
• This house would make wearing fur illegal. 
• THBT foster children should be placed into families with similar backgrounds (race, religion, etc)
• THBT politicians should not have public profiles on twitter and other social networking sites.
• THW eliminate any legal or ethical limitations from the field of genetic research on improving the human body. 
• THW give primates (e.g. monkeys) and cetaceans (e.g. dolphins) the same rights to life, freedom from physical harm, and freedom of movement as humans 
• THW allow legislation through voter initiated referenda.
• THBT developing countries should nationalise companies that extract their national resources
• THBT Iran should not have been excluded from current Geneva negotiations about peace in Syria. 
• This House would include Iran in negotiations for peace in Siria. 
• TH regrets that Brazil is the host of the football World Cup 2014 
• TH supports media censorship during times of political crisis 
• THBT developing countries should nationalise companies that extract their national resources