MOTION NUDC 2013

R1. THW abolish single-sex schools.

R2. THW compel media companies to sell majority of shares exclusively to journalists.
R3. THBT companies should have the right to conduct aggressive cracking and hacking in
response to cyber-attacks.
R4. As long as the anti-LGBT laws are in place, THBT Western liberal democracies should
not send their athletes to the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
R5. THBT the feminist movement should support the use of hijab.
R6. THW exempt artists and their work from blasphemy, defamation, and hate speech laws.
R7. TH believes in the Chinese model of economic development.
Novice QF. THBT Indonesia should significantly increase its military budget.
Novice SF. THW force individuals who actively do self-harm acts to go to a mental health
counselor provided by the state.
Novice GF. THBT Indonesia would be better off without the Ministry of Religious Affairs.
Main OF: As newly democratized states, THW provide reserved seats in the parliament to
every group that actively supports the revolution process.
Main QF: TH supports states without army.
Main SF: TH opposes social media.
Main GF: THW only allow individuals who have held a position in the governmental
structure to run as presidential candidate.

EUDC 2014 Zagreb Croatia

EUDC 2014, Zagreb, Croatia

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This house would pay additional benefits to

families on welfare according to their
1 child’s performance in school.
This house supports two-party political
2 systems over multi-party political systems.
This house would ban international aid
charities from using senational, graphic, or
overly-emotional images of suffering in
3 fundraising and advertising campaigns.
This house believes that EU member
states should nationalise all their oil and
gas resources in order to surrender total
ownership and control of them to an EU-
4 run energy agency.
This house believes that states of the For the purposes of this debate,
former Yugoslavia should not ’Commemoration’ refers to state-supported
commemorate the events of the Yugoslav national celebration or mourning of historical
5 Wars. events or people.
This house would introduce blind voting. Blind voting means voters indicate a series of
preferences for policies rather than directly
selecting a party. These preferences are then
6 matched to the policies of political parties⁏ the
 voter is taken to have voted for the party that
most closely matches their preferences.
This house would require of police
departments that the ethnic composition of
their arrests match the ethnic composition
7 of the population in their jurisdiction.
This house believes that micro-finance
organisations (including, but not limited to: Micro-Finance’ refers to small, long-term loans
NGOs, charities and development banks) with no or extremely low interest rates,
should offer micro-finance loans in provided to individuals who seek to start a
8 developing nations exclusively to women. business.
This house believes that states should hold
binding national referendums on major
9 peace agreements.

ESL Tie
break This house would make membership in a
motion labour union compulsory for every worker.
This house would require companies to
ESL place images of animal suffering on all
Quarter products or food whose production harmed
Final or killed animals.
This house believes that leaders of minority
ESL religions in Europe should strongly
Semi encourage their congregations to refrain
Final from public displays of their faith.
ESL
Final

Open This house believes that

Quarter supreme/constitutional courts should not
Final have the power to strike down legislation.
Open This house believes that the United States
Semi of America should invade, and forcibly
Final partition Iraq.
This House believes that feminist
movement should oppose military
Open interventions which claim to further
Final women's rights
Round 1
Motion: THBT parents should not be allowed to teach any religious beliefs to
their children

Round 2
Motion: THW compel companies to implement a blind system in assessing
applicants’ resume for job applications

Round 3
Motion: THBT research pertaining to climate change should focus on
mitigation rather than whether it is a man-made problem

Round 4
Motion: This house believes that feminist should actively condemn female
vigilantes

Round 5
Motion: THBT democratic countries should establish schools exclusively for
LBTQIA individuals

Round 6
Motion: THW make experimental drugs available for all Ebola patients

Round 7
Motion: Assuming technological feasibility, THW imprison convicted
criminals only in their minds
Round 1: This House regrets the decline of tightly integrated families.

Round 2: Infoslide: Climate engineering is a deliberate and large-scale intervention in earth’s

climatic system in an effort to combat Global Warming. Climate engineering may take many
forms; Examples include, but are not limited to, planting large forests where none previously
existed, fertilizing the ocean with iron to dramatically increase the population of algae, and
increasing cloud coverage so less sunlight reaches earth’s suface. Motion: This house
believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that
fundamentally alters the environment, in an attempt to combat Global Warming.

Round 3: This House believes that in areas of socio-economic deprivation, schools should
train students in vocational skills to the exclusion of the Liberal Arts.

Round 4: This House would prohibit the media from reporting on the mental illness of those
accused of crimes.

Round 5: This House belives that the international community should cut off internet access
in Syria.

Round 6: This House belives that developing countries should adopt economic development
policies that heavily disincentivise urbanisation.

Round 7: Infoslide: Over the last decade, scientists have identified a range of chemicals that
exist naturally in the brain and shape individuals’ moral behaviour. Significant amounts of
research is now being carried out to create “moral enhancement drugs”, which would alter the
levels of such chemicals. Such drugs have been shown to increase individuals’ tendencies to
display empathy and care for others, to behave in altruistic way, and to resist pressures to act
in ways that violate their personal ethical beliefs. Motion: This House would ban the
research and production of moral enhancement drugs.

Round 8: This 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 9: This 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”.

Open partial double octofinals: This house would allow corporations to use hackers to
retaliate against cyberattacks where the state seems unwilling or unable to do so.
Open Octofinals: This house believes that disadvantaged groups should emphasise their
conformity with, rather than distictiveness from dominant culture; as a strategy for improving
their social position.
Open Quarterfinals: This house regrets the decline of secular pan-Arab nationalism.
Open Semifinals: This house believes that all states should create special economic zones in
cities, where all economic activities (except the purchase of goods and services) are carried
out by women.
Open Finals: This house believes that humanitarian organisations should and should be
allowed to give funding, resources or services ti illegal armed groups when this is made a
condition for access to vulnerable civilians.
ESL Finals: This house believes that liberal democracies that overthrow the governments of
other states should impose power sharing even when this overrides or delays democratic
representation.
ESL Semifinals: This house would severely limit companies ability to replace workers with
technology
ESL Quarterfilans: The broken windows theory describes the concept that substantial
amounts of petty crime create that increase major crime. Many jurisdictions, including most
famously New York State, have introduced policing policies in response; and respond to
areas of high crime with substantial increase in police presence, arrest and prosecution rates
for petty crime and harsher punishments. Motion: This house believes that the African-
American community should oppose "broken windows policies"

EFL Semifinals: This house would ban its citizens from visiting iliberal states whose
economies depend on tourism.

Motions: 2012

R1: THBT countries suffering from severe economic crisis should not be allowed to participate in
international sport events
R2: THW compel tobacco companies to fund the rehabilitation cost for smokers wishing to quit
R3: THBT public schools should teach atheism
R4: THBT the world should stop the development of Artificial Intelligence
R5: THBT nations of the world should increase protection of the economic and social rights of
migrants.
R6: THBT it is within the interest of religious institutions not to reject controversial arts
R7: THW stay out of Syria

Novice:
QF: THW give lower punishments for crimes motivated by economic reasons
SF: THBT China should end its One Child Policy.
GF: THBT American municipalities should be granted federal subsidies proportionate to the provision
of LGBT rights.

Main:
Octo: THW no longer recognize wills.
QF: THBT China should implement a full-fledged democracy
SF: THW abandon the concept of gender.
GF: THBT the Indonesian Government should guarantee access to student loans for citizens pursuing
tertiary education.