Motions ( Judul Judul Debat )

JUDUL JUDUL DEBAT DI L.E.D ( Lembaga Askafia )

 

Abortion on demand

• This house would forbid abortion on demand
• This house believes in a woman’s right to choose

 

Advertising, targeting of children

• This house would ban television advertising to children
• This house would restrict advertising aimed at children
• This house would protect children
• This house believes children have a right too their childhood

 

Affirmative action

• This house believe in affirmative action
• This house believe race does matter
• This house would act affirmatively

 

Afganistan, invasion of

• This house support the invasion of Afghanistan
• This house celebrates the toppling of the Taliban
• This house would overthrow regimes that support terrorism

 

African affairs, outside intervention in

• This house would keep its own peace
• This house doesn’t need the UN/US
• This house would solve its own problem

 

African languages in African school

• This house would place its own culture first
• This house would put itself first
• This house believes in a language barrier
• This house would put English last

 

AIDS drugs for developing countries

• This house would insist on cheaper drugs
• This house believes that capitalism lets the sick suffer
• This house wants the first world to help
• This house needs help with AIDS
• This house would fight AIDS

 

Alcohol, banning of

• This house would ban alcohol
• This house would hit the bottle
• This house believes that alcohol is the root of all evil

 

American culture: should it be feared?

• This house support the restriction of foreign programs on national television
• This house would forbid further construction of golden arches

 

 

Animal rights

• This house believe that animal have rights too
• This house would respect animal’s right
• This house condemns the exploitation of animal

 

Arranged marriage

• This house would ban arranged marriage
• This house believe a true marriage is a free marriage
• This house believes marriage should be for love

 

Arts subsidies, abolition of

• This house would tell congress to stop funding the NEA’s artist subsidy programs
• This house believes that subsidizing artists is detrimental to democracy
• This house would increase subsidies for artists

 

Assassination of a dictator

• This house would assassinate a dictator
• This house would assassinate. . . (supply name of current dictator)
• This house believes that murder isn’t always wrong
• This house believe that violence is something the answer

 

Assisted suicide

• This house would legalize assisted suicide
• This house would die with dignity

 

Beauty contests

• This house would ban beauty contest
• This house believes that beauty contests are degrading to women
• This house believes that fat is a feminist issue

 

Biodiversity and endangered species

• This house believes in biodiversity
• This house fears the way of the dodo

 

Boxing, abolition of

• This house would ban boxing
• This house would ban contact sport
• This house would end the fight game
• This house believes violence is unacceptable

 

Campaign finance reform

• This house would make all political campaigns publicly financed
• This house would ban paid political advertising on television

 

Capital punishment

• This house supports the death penalty
• This house would take an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life

 

Cell phones, banning of use in cars

• This house would ban from using mobile phone
• This house would do more to promote road safety
• This house would tame technology

Censorship of the arts

• This house support censorship of the arts
• This house believes that nude art is lewd art
• This house fears that artistic license is a license to kill
• This house believes that you are what you see

 

Chemical castration

• This house would cure sex offenders by physical means
• This house would use cure rather than prevention in dealing with sex offender
• This house would chemically castrate pedophiles

 

Child labor

• This house believes that children should be free
• This house believes that education is the best economics
• This house would end child labor
• This house would put sanctions on states using child labor

 

Child offenders, stricter punishment for

• This house would lower the age of criminal responsibility
• This house would punish children as if they were adult
• This house believe that sparing the rod spoil the child

 

China, fear of

• This house should regard china as a global power
• This house thinks that china is merely a regional power
• This house treats china as an equal power

 

Civil disobedience

• This house support civil disobedience
• This house believes the end justify the means
• This house would break the law in a good cause

 

Condoms in school

• This house would provide free condoms to all high school student
• This house believe abstinence-based sex education is superior to condom distribution in school.
• This house would give student the option of free access to condoms through their school

 

Confederate flag, banning  of

• This house would ban the confederate flag
• This house fly a flag against racism

 

Conscription and national service

• This house would reintroduce the draft

 

Corporal punishment: adults

• This house would flog criminal live on national television
• This house would bring back the birch

 

Corporal punishment: children

• This house would spank its children when necessary
• This house believes that it is never right to hit a child

 

Corruption, benefits of

• This house declares that anticorruption efforts do more harm that good
• This house confirms that corruption is unethical
• This house should fight public corruption

 

Covenant marriage

• This house believes that couples should choose a covenant marriage instead of a traditional marriage.
• This house opposes covenant marriage laws
• This house support covenant marriage laws as the answer to American’s divorce problem

 

Creationism in public school

• This house favors a curriculum free of creationism teachings in public school
• This house believe that evolution ought to be taught instead of creationism
• This house thinks that teaching creationism in public school is justified

 

Cuba, dropping of US sanction on

• This house would drop the sanctions on Cuba
• This house would sanction sanctions
• This house believes in Cuba libre
• This house condemns US foreign policy

 

Culture treasures, return of

• This house would return cultural treasures to their country of origin
• This house would return the Elgin marbles
• This house believes a jewel is best in its original setting
• This house would lose its marbles

 

Curfew laws

• This house would introduce child curfews
• This house would lock up its daughters
• This house believes children should be neither seen nor heard

 

Debate, limits of

• This house would censor hate
• This house support freedom of speech
• This house believes that everything is permitted
• This house would talk to terrorists

 

 

Developing world debt, cancellation of

• This house would end developing world debt
• This house would kill the debt, not the debtors
• This house would break the chains of debt

 

DNA database for criminals

• This house would have a criminal DNA database
• This house would give away its DNA
• This house would catch a crook by his genes

 

Drilling in the arctic national wildlife refuge

• This house support measure to allow oil development in ANWR
• This house believes ecology should be valued development
• This house maintains that limited development in the ANWR is justified

 

Drug in sport

• This house would legalize the use of performance-enhancing drugs for athletes
• This house would win at all costs
• This house believes your pharmacist is your best friend.

 

Drug testing in school

• This house support random drug testing in schools
• This house believes in a student’s right to privacy

 

Economic development vs. environment

• This house believe that environmental concerns should always take precedence over economic development in both the first and third worlds

 

Economic sanction vs. engagement

• This house would put trade relations above human rights
• This house believes in free trade
• This house would make money not war

 

Electoral college, abolition of

• This house supports the abolition of the electoral college
• This house values the will of the people over the rights of the states

 

Environmentally linked aid

• This house would link aid emissions reductions
• This house believes that the environment must come first

Ethical foreign policy

• This house would have an ethical foreign policy
• This house believes politics is the art of the necessary not the possible

 

European defender force

• This house believes in a European defense force
• This house believes that Europe should defend itself

 

European federalization

• This house would create a united states of Europe
• This house believes in a federal Europe

 

Extremist political parties, banning of

• This house would ban extremist political parties
• This house believes an open society must have the right to protect itself from its enemies

 

Feminism

• This house believes that feminism has gone too far
• This house believes that ‘’women’s lib’’ is an outdated concept

 

Flat tax

• This house would adopt a flat tax system
• This house believes a flat tax system would be better for the US

 

Free speech, restrictions on

• This house would restrict freedom of speech
• This house would muzzle the press
• This house would censor the internet

 

Free trade

• This house believes free trade serves a universal good
• This house believes free trade is good for the developing world

 

 

Gay adoption

• This house would allow gay couples to adopt children
• This house would explode the nuclear family

 

Gay clergy

• This house believes In the ordination of gay clergy
• This house calls for a representative clergy

 

Gay marriage

• This house would allow gay couples to marry
• This house would give homosexuals equal rights

 

Gays in the military

• This house would not admit gay into the armed force
• This house believes that the military and sexuality do not mix

 

Gene patenting

• This house would allow the patenting of genes
• This house believes that genes are invention

 

 

 

Genetically modified foods

• This house would ban genetically modified food
• This house believes that genetically modified foods are not in the public interest

 

Genetic screening

• This house would choose its babies
• This house would genetically engineer its children

 

Globalization and the poor

• This house believes that globalization marginalize the poor
• This house believes that globalization will bring about the end of the third world
• This house believes that globalization is a euphemism for transnationalization

 

Global warming

• This house believes that Kyoto didn’t go far enough
• This house calls for urgent action on global warming
• This house fears a global greenhouse

 

God, existence of

• This house believes that god exists
• This house believes that report of god’s death have been greatly exaggerated

 

Greenhouse gases: trading quotas

• This house would buy the right to pollute
• This house support tradable pollution quotas
• This house believes that Kyoto got it right

 

Gun control

• This house calls for stricter controls on gun ownership
• This house believes there is no right to bear arms

 

Hate speech on campus

• This house would censor hate speech on campus

 

Health care, universal

• This house would adopt a universal health care system
• This house believes that universal health care is more important than financial concerns

 

Human cloning

• This house would ban human cloning
• This house would not make a mini-me
• This house would not reproduce itself

 

Human organs: sale of         

• This house would legalize the sale of organs
• This house would have a heart with a price tag

 

 

Human rights: existence of

• This house believes in fundamental human rights
• This house believes rights are right

 

Human rights: imposition by force

• This house would use force to uphold human right

 

Immigration, restrictions on

• This house believes that rich countries should enforce immigration legislation
• This house believes that international immigration is beneficial to all concerned

 

International criminal court

• This house believes that the united states should not support the international criminal court
• This house believes that the creation of the ICC is a crime

 

Internet censorship

• This house would censor the internet
• This house call for net filters
• This house would limit freedom of speech

 

Iraq, invasion of

• This house believes the invasion of Iraq was justified
• This house support the overthrow of saddam hussein

 

Israel and the Palestinians, US policy toward

• This house support US sponsorship of a Palestinian state
• This house would value democracy more than votes and oil

 

Ivory trading

• This house would allow trade in ivory
• This house would save the elephants

 

Mandatory sentencing: three strikes

• This house would restore discretion in sentencing to the judiciary
• This house would make the punishment fit the crime

 

Marijuana, legalization of

• This house believes that marijuana should be legalized
• This house support the legalization of drugs

 

Minority languages

• This house support protection of minority language
• This house would not give special status to minority language

 

Minority school

• This house support the creation of single-race public school
• This house believes in separate but equal

 

Monarchy, abolition of

• This house would abolish the monarchy
• This house would storm the palace
• This house would rather be free citizens than loyal subjects

 

Multiculturalism vs. integration

• This house would be multicultural
• This house believes in multiculturalism
• This house believes that the nation-state is dead

 

National testing

• This house would ban national testing
• This house believes that national standards are more valuable than locally developed curriculums

 

Nation –states

• This house should endorse nation-states against globalization
• This house holds that nation-states have no future

 

Nuclear vs. renewable energy

• This house would look to the atom
• This house would go nuclear

 

Nuclear weapons, abolition of

• This house would abolish nuclear weapons
• This house would ban the bomb

 

Nuclear weapons testing

• This house would ban nuclear testing
• This house would ban the bomb

 

Olympic dream, death of the

• This house believes that the Olympic dream is dead
• This house wants to win at all costs

 

Overpopulation and contraception

• This house supports contraception in developing nations
• This house believes that there are too many people
• This house believes that there isn’t enough room

 

Overseas manufacturing

• This house will not buy materials made in foreign sweatshops
• This house would force American companies to left foreign workers unionize

 

Pacifism

• This house would be pacifist
• This house rejects violence
• This house would turn the other cheek

Parental responsibility

• This house believes that, on balance parents are more responsible for the actions of children than the children are themselves
• This house believes an international convention on child welfare should be adopted

 

Politicians and special interests

• This house would change campaign finance laws to allow contributions from individual only
• This house would lobby congress to advance its interests

 

Polygamy

• This house believes monogamy is not the only way
• This house believes that three isn’t a crowd

 

Pornography, banning of

• This house believes pornography does more harm than good
• This house would ban pornography

 

Priestly celibacy, abolition of

• This house would permit priests to marry
• This house believes that a married priest is a better priest

 

Privacy vs. security

• This house support the creation of a national identity card
• This house would give the government more power in time of war

 

Private lives of public figures, revealing

• This house demands the right to know
• This house celebrates the power of the press

 

Prostitution, legalization of

• This house would have lost more sex
• This house would legalize brothels
• This house would decriminalize prostitution

 

Referenda

• This house calls for the increase use of referenda
• This house would vote on it
• This house would give power back to the people

 

Religion: source of conflict or peace?

• This house believes that religion is a positive influence on people
• This house believes that church and state must be kept separate

 

Religious belief: rational or irrational?

• This house rejoices that god is dead
• This house does not believe

 

 

Reparation for slavery

• This house would give reparation to the descendants of slaves
• This house believes that the US federal government should provide reparation for its parts in the transatlantic slave trade

 

School uniforms

• This house would introduce school uniform
• This house would create a stronger school ethos

 

School vouchers

• This house believes that the government should cease the use of school vouchers
• This house believes that the issuing of vouchers by the government is justified

 

Science: threat to society?

• This house believes science is a threat to humanity
• This house fears science
• This house believes that scientists are dangerous

 

Security and liberty

• This house believes that security is the most important goal
• This house would not trade liberty for security

 

Self-determination and nationalism

• This house believes in native rights
• This house believes self-determination is a human right

 

Sex education in schools

• This house believes that sex education should take place at home
• This house would rather not discuss it with its parent

 

Sex offer enders: publicly naming

• This house support a national register of sex offender
• This house would name and shame

 

Single sex school

• This house believes in single-sex education

 

Single superpower: beneficial?

• This house support a multi polar structure for the world
• This house condemns the single superpower

 

Smoking, further restrictions on

• This house would ban tobacco
• This house would not smoke
• This house would declare war on the tobacco industry

 

 

 

Space exploration

• This house would explore the universe
• This house would explore the final frontier
• This house would reach for the stars

 

Stem cell research and therapeutic cloning

• This house would allow stem cell research
• This house support therapeutic cloning

 

Term limits

• This house would impose term limits
• This house would clean up politics
• This house calls for the return of the citizen-legislator

 

Terrorists, negotiating with

• This house would talk to terrorists
• This house believes that force cannot eliminate ideology

 

Tobacco regulation: addictive drug?

• This house would petition congress to designate tobacco as a drug
• This house believes that the food and drug administration should label tobacco as a drug

 

Two-party system

• This house believes rule by a majority party is superior to coalition government
• This house believes a two-party system is superior to a multiparty system
• This house would amend nation’ constitutions to increase electoral competition

 

UN security council veto , abolition of

• This house would abolish the security council veto
• This house would veto very veto

 

UN standing army

• This house would create a UN standing army
• This house would give the watchdog some teeth

 

Vegetarianism

• This house believes that if you love animal you shouldn’t eat them
• This house would go veggie

 

Voting, compulsory

• This house would make voting compulsory
• This house believes that a democracy is no place for apathy
• This house believes that voting is a duty, not a right

 

War crimes tribunals

• This house would have war crime tribunal
• This house believes war crimes must be punished

 

Water resources: a commodity

• This house agrees that water flows can be an article of trade
• This house should endorse international commerce in water resource

 

Whaling, lifting the ban on

• This house would allow whaling to resume
• This house would harvest the bounty of the sea

 

Workfare

• This house would introduce workfare
• This house would end welfare

 

Zero tolerance policing

• This house believes in zero tolerance policing
• This house would clamp down
• This house believes in strict punishment