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Yale BB (Mike Barton & Zach Bakal) def. Chicago A (Jon Haderlein & Alice Li)

As a recent college graduate, should one be a Stoic or an Epicurean? Opp chose Epicurean.

Chicago A (Jon Haderlein & Alice Li) def. Syracuse Denny Crane (David Kopel & Anthony Rini)

You are writing the script for the movie, Beowulf. Do you write the movie the way it was actually written, or in a way that maintains the story of the original book?

Syracuse Denny Crane (David Kopel & Anthony Rini) def. BU Sonic and Tails (Alison Kennedy & Maddie Powell)

Would the institution of marriage be improved if spouses could not lie to each other? Opp said, "Yes".

Yale CT (Robert Colonel & David Trinh) def. Yale KM (Michael Magdzik & Ben Kornfeld)

Abolish the NEA

McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik) def. Stanford MC (Anish Mitra & Alex Campbell)

This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

MIT A (Adam Goldstein & Bill Magnuson) def. UBC CS (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate)

This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.

UBC CS (Joshua Sealy-Harrington & Evan Choate) def. BU CT (Alex Taubes & Garron Chiu)

This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

McGill SS (Saro Setrakian & Sean Stefanik) def. Hopkins SW (Vivek Suri & Sean Withall)

This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.

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Harvard SZ (Josh Zoffer & Ben Sprung-Keyser) def. Brandeis Navajo Blanket (Keith Barry & Russell Leibowitz)

Given that an angel has come down to you individually, informing you of a swap of the requirements to go to heaven and hell, how should you live your life? Opp chose do evil.

Syracuse A (David Kopel & Samm Costello) def. Yale CK (Robert Colonel & Ben Kornfeld)

The United States should adopt a consumption tax to replace the income tax.

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Syracuse A (David Kopel & Samm Costello) def. Brown A (Jean McCabe & Alex Mechanick)

Opp choice: In a deterministic world, should criminal sentencing consider retribution? Opp said no.

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NYU A (Shomik Ghosh & Dan Ehrlich) def. George Washington A (Jordan Dale & Dan Cobos)

Amnesty International should eliminate its blanket ban on defending or aiding prisoners who have been accused of violent crimes.

Hopkins CI (David Israel & Sam Chirtel) def. Middlebury A (Nate Rifkin & Frank Miller)

As a perfectly healthy individual without any mental health problems, should you take anti-depressants (with a few caveats)? Opp chose not to take them.

Brandeis Navajo Blanket (Keith Barry & Russell Leibowitz) def. Hopkins GG (Jacob Grunberger & Cary Glynn)

As a young Marxist in Germany, should you try to join a revolutionary or moderate Marxist party in Germany?

Yale LZ (Diana Li & Joanna Zheng) , Hopkins GG (Cary Glynn & Jacob Grunberger)

OC: Should insider trading be banned? Opp chose to ban it.

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Swarthmore Yahtzee (Griffin Olmstead & Jodie Goodman) def. Kant Sandwich A (David Kopel & Keith Barry)

Kantian deontology is a better moral philosophy than hedonistic act utilitarianism.

Kant Sandwich A (Keith Barry & David Kopel) def. GW / W&M Hybrid (Aaron Murphy & Dan Cobos)

You are Barack Obama who has been given the power of inception for a single use. We say, use it on Kim Jong-Un to make North Korea liberalize. Opp may defend incepting any other individual with any other idea, or may choose not to use the power.

Kant Sandwich A (David Kopel & Keith Barry) def. Hopkins CI (Sam Chirtel & David Israel)

You are an altruistic atheist of creating a major world religion, should you create a religion with metaphysical incentives like an afterlife, or one without such incentives but which still says that certain actions are inherently morally good or bad.