Search Results
Nationals (APDA) 2008: Semifinals
Don't exclude immigrants on the basis of homophobia.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Octofinals
PRIVATE
Brandeis 2013: Octofinals
Would the institution of marriage be improved if spouses could not lie to each other? Opp said, "Yes".
Tufts 2010: Quarterfinals
Abolish the NEA
Boston University 2013: Quarterfinals
The US should not provide copyrights or patents to the makers of fashion designs.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Semifinals
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.
Stanford 2013: Round 5
As a Catholic archbishop, should you require Sunday school teachers to say an oath in which prospective teachers swear that they believe all of Catholic doctrine? Opp chose not to require the oath.
New York University 2012: Round 4
You are the Senate majority leader in 2008. The minority Republicans threaten to filibuster. They want to use a procedural filibuster. You have the power to force them to use a vocal filibuster. Do that.
Brandeis 2013: Quarterfinals
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?
Providence College 2012: Quarterfinals
The Indian government should hold a referendum regarding the independence of region of Kashmir, with a few caveats.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Semifinals
The United States should adopt a consumption tax to replace the income tax.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Round 6
As a young Marxist in Germany, should you try to join a revolutionary or moderate Marxist party in Germany?
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Round 6
Amnesty International should eliminate its blanket ban on defending or aiding prisoners who have been accused of violent crimes.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Round 3
PRIVATE
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Quarterfinals
PRIVATE
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Quarterfinals
Opp choice: In a deterministic world, should criminal sentencing consider retribution? Opp said no.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Round 5
OC: Should insider trading be banned? Opp chose to ban it.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Round 6
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.
Nationals (APDA) 2013: Finals
PRIVATE
MIT 2013: Semifinals
McCain should have used an "American Idol style reality TV show" to select his VP candidate
Chicago 2013: Finals
Opposition parties should not boycott elections in developing or transitional countries.
Brandeis 2013: Semifinals
As a recent college graduate, should one be a Stoic or an Epicurean? Opp chose Epicurean.
Dartmouth 2013: Elimination Round 1
You are Superman. Should you act as an American hero or a cosmopolitan hero? Opp chose American.
Chicago 2013: Quarterfinals
Caveating that determinism is true, should we pursue retribution? Opp said yes.
New York University 2012: Finals
Prosecutors should be required to serve terms as public defenders.
TCNJ 2013: Finals
OC: Was it ethical for an HIV positive doctor treating children with AIDS to use an experimental treatment with unknown risks?
Rutgers 2013: Quarterfinals
Kantian deontology is a better moral philosophy than hedonistic act utilitarianism.
MIT 2007: Finals
PRIVATE
Middlebury 2013: Semifinals
Given that you are planning on having a child, you should adopt.
TCNJ 2013: Quarterfinals
THBT the Olympics should be abolished.
NorthAms 2013: Quarterfinals
THW disregard civilian casualties and institutions when targeting combatants who have intentionally placed themselves in densely populated areas.
NorthAms 2013: Octofinals
Given a machine which perfectly diagnoses mental illness, THW require all citizens to be tested with it.
George Washington 2013: Quarterfinals
Should an archbishop of a moderately sized diocese force his dioceses' Sunday school teachers to take an oath on the bible saying that they wholly believe in all of Catholic doctrine? Opp Chose "No".
Brown 2012: Finals
The average college graduate should donate 25% of his income to charity each year
Demonstrations (APDA) 2012: Demonstration
Punish spelunkers who kill one of their own to survive? Opp said no.
University of Pittsburgh 2012: Finals
You are the estate of Tupac. The estate of Biggie approaches you to do a hologram concert. Opp choice, do you do it? Opp chose not to do the concert
..
APDA Mini Cup 2010: Round 2
You're God. Should you reveal yourself to humans and give them guidance on actions, or should you remain invisible?
Demonstrations (APDA) 2012: Demonstration
You live in two lives, waking in one when falling asleep in the other. Given a one-time chance, Opp Choice: Wake up? Opp said yes.
Harvard 2011: Octofinals
THW stop the policy of outing anti-gay politicians
Nationals (APDA) 2012: Round 1
You are a serf in the middle ages. Kill a dragon for love
Bates 2012: Semifinals
Grant collective bargaining rights to public sector unions
Bates 2012: Quarterfinals
Abolish executive pardons
APDA Summer 2012: Semifinals
The US should not retrofit ICBMs with conventional warheads
APDA Summer 2012: Finals
Should TFA place teachers into charter schools? Opp chose No.
APDA Summer 2012: Semifinals
Should the spirit of Karl Marx condemn the new Russian government under Lenin in 1917? Opp chose No.
Demonstrations (APDA) 2010: Demonstration
The U.S. government should withdraw support from the Kuwaiti military until it solves the insurrection in its ranks resulting from a backlash against women soldiers.
Tufts 2012: Quarterfinals
Allow people to proxy their votes to other individuals
Boston University 2012: Quarterfinals
D.C. v Heller was wrongly decided
George Washington 2012: Finals
Bomb Iran if it would delay nukes? Opp said no
Northeastern 2011: Quarterfinals
Repeal sophisticated investor laws. TIGHT/SPEC CALL
Nationals (APDA) 2012: Semifinals
Should liberal democracies ban a pill that prevents children from being born gay? Opp said yes
Nationals (APDA) 2012: Quarterfinals
The CIA should not have paid a medical NGO in Pakistan to secretly collect DNA samples from patients in efforts to find family members of Osama bin Laden.
Nationals (APDA) 2012: Quarterfinals
Do not evict drug criminals from public housing projects
Princeton 2012: Octofinals
This house would require increased labor and environmental standards as a condition of trade agreements with poor countries
Nationals (APDA) 2012: Finals
Replace the exclusionary rule with a tort system
Fordham 2011: Quarterfinals
Given a different interpretation of the temptations, Jesus should have accepted the devil's offer
Princeton 2012: Quarterfinals
THBT the EU would be better off as a single, federal country
Boston University 2012: Semifinals
PRIVATE
UConn 2012: Semifinals
Ban Presidential Pardons
UMBC I 2011: Finals
Would a world where everyone mildly liked each other be preferable to love and hate? Opp chose yes
Dartmouth 2012: Semifinals
Following the end of the Civil War, the Union shouldn't have executed a man who was responsible for a POW camp where many Union soldiers died.
Bryn Mawr 2012: Quarterfinals
Get rid of reservations and give every resident 1 million dollars
Army 2011: Octofinals
Remove "and unusual" from the 8th Amendment
UPenn 2011: Finals
Courts should not strike down campaign finance laws on the basis of the first amendment.
Northeastern 2011: Finals
Obama should release al-awlaki assassination memo
UPenn 2011: Semifinals
Should God send an inseparable group of 10 sinners and 1 saint to heaven or hell? Opp chose heaven.
Syracuse 2011: Quarterfinals
The Power Rangers should have a male character wear the pink costume.
Syracuse 2011: Semifinals
You have an obligations not to turn in a forensic scientist who
is hunting down and killing serial killers. (Dexter)
Demonstrations (APDA) 2011: Demonstration
You're Kruschev during the Taiwanese Straights Crisis. Do you threaten to nuke the US?
Syracuse 2011: Semifinals
You are the leader of an autocratic, communist nation. Should you accept conditional aid from the UN? Opp said yes.
Syracuse 2011: Finals
You are a member of the 1%. Join the Occupy movement.
APDA Summer 2011: Semifinals
The government should use a lottery to harvest organs from the healthy to give to those in need.
APDA Summer 2011: Round 2
Abolish laws against price gouging
APDA Summer 2011: Round 4
Opp choice: Would you get rid of religion?
APDA Summer 2011: Round 1
If the US is attacked by the USSR, ought it retaliate in kind with full knowledge that the US will be wiped out regardless?
APDA Summer 2011: Round 2
The government should not accredit for-profit universities
APDA Summer 2011: Semifinals
In a world where superheroes exist, require them to register their identities and powers with the US government.
APDA Summer 2011: Round 3
Opp choice: As a sentient spider with full human knowledge and capability, should you cut your life short by breeding and being devoured alive by your non-sentient babies.
Nationals (APDA) 2011: Finals
Legalize all drugs
Nationals (APDA) 2011: Quarterfinals
Allow graduate students to unionize
Amherst 2011: Finals
King Henry VIII divorce? Opp said no
Nationals (APDA) 2011: Octofinals
Presidential Term Limit: One term, 6 years
Nationals (APDA) 2011: Quarterfinals
The US should suspend aid to Israel until progress is made in withdrawing illegal settlements from the West Bank.
George Washington 2011: Semifinals
Opp choice: Join MLK or Malcolm X? Opp picked MLK
Nationals (APDA) 2011: Semifinals
Roe v Wade was wrongly decided
Stanford 2011: Quarterfinals
India should not have made ladies only subway cars.
Chicago 2011: Finals
Do you grant King Henry VIII his divorce? Opp said yes.
Boston University 2010: Semifinals
Help a general with a coup to establish a democracy? Opp chose no.
Yale 2010: Quarterfinals
This House supports fiscal austerity measures.
Stanford 2011: Finals
Brutus: Kill Caesar? Opp said no.
NorthAms 2011: Octofinals
THW pay parents for taking care of their children
Rutgers 2011: Finals
Write in the style of Faulkner or Tolstoy? Opp chose Faulkner
Providence College 2011: Quarterfinals
Require financial institutions to provide service regardless of content
Providence College 2011: Semifinals
Free Prometheus? Opp said no.
Fordham 2010: Finals
Refugee Quota
Demonstrations (APDA) 2010: Demonstration
Clockwork Orange. Let criminals opt-in?
APDA Mini Cup 2010: Round 2
Abolish Voluntary Manslaughter.
APDA Mini Cup 2010: Round 3
The US shouldn't use PMCs.
APDA Mini Cup 2010: Finals
Should ethics rely on human nature to prescribe actions?
APDA Mini Cup 2010: Round 3
Don't deport the Roma.
APDA Mini Cup 2010: Round 3
Rewrite the constitution every 30 years.
Nationals (APDA) 2010: Semifinals
In 2005, Egypt should not have imposed a ban on all religious parties taking part in elections.
Nationals (APDA) 2010: Quarterfinals
China should provide each individual with a tradable baby permit. The birth of a child requires two permits.
Hart House 2009: Quarterfinals
THS a 100% Death Tax
NorthAms 2010: Quarterfinals
This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.
NorthAms 2010: Quarterfinals
This house would put entire urban areas under video surveillance.
NorthAms 2010: Semifinals
This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.
NorthAms 2010: Semifinals
This house would support corporate donations to political campaigns.
New York University 2010: Finals
Punish odd tribal murder?
Vassar 2009: Finals
Show the "Abortion Art" project at Yale?
Demonstrations (APDA) 2009: Demonstration
Michael Baer Novice Workshop
Demonstrations (APDA) 2009: Demonstration
Storey Clayton Novice Workshop
Stanford 2002: Round 1
In the movie "Dr. Strangelove", the President should attack the Soviet Union with a full nuclear strike once the bombers get past their failsafe points.
Stanford 2002: Round 2
Should a breakaway republic use chemical weapons taken from a superpower in their war for freedom against that power? Opp said yes.
Stanford 2002: Round 3
Should you give back a wallet full of cash dropped by a corrupt Enron executive? Opp chose not to give it back, then counter-cased with turning it in to the police.
Stanford 2002: Round 4
Who should be Time Man of the Century? Opp chose Stalin, Gov chose Lenin.
Stanford 2002: Round 5
All Native Americans born on a reservation should receive $1,000,000 in reparations from the US government.
Stanford 2002: Quarterfinals
Should an average straight female college student take a pill to become a lesbian? Opp said no.
Stanford 2002: Semifinals
Should Peter Pan save Captain Hook from the crocodile? Opp said no.
Stanford 2002: Finals
At the end of apartheid, when the TRC was being implemented, South Africa should have emptied its prisons.
Nationals (APDA) 2009: Octofinals
"Sexting" should be legal.
Nationals (APDA) 2009: Semifinals
Lift the Uranium Mining Moratorium in Virginia.
Nationals (APDA) 2009: Quarterfinals
Police shouldn't be able to lie during interrogations.
Princeton 2009: Octofinals
This House believes Asia is the problem
Amherst 2009: Quarterfinals
The President should lift the Executive Order
prohibiting assassinations of foreign leaders.
Princeton 2009: Octofinals
This House believes Asia is the problem
Wellesley 2008: Quarterfinals
In a society where individuals have no concept of self-image, do you grant every individual that knowledge? Opp chose yes.
Brown 2008: Semifinals
Recognize Abkhazian and South Ossetian Independence
Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 2
Repeal the Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act
Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 6
Is hate crime legislation consistent with the spirit of the US? Opp said yes.
Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 5
Court-appointed non-adversarial experts
Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 2
Youngstown v. Sawyer was wrongly decided.
Nationals (APDA) 2008: Round 6
Rebel even though you know you'll die and your rebellion will fail?
Nationals (APDA) 2008: Finals
Should an evolutionary biologist debate an advocate of intelligent design? Opp said yes.
Princeton 2008: Octofinals
THBT There is No Crime Without a Victim.
New York University 2008: Semifinals
You're a governor who opposes the death penalty. Should you commute a sentence even though your constituents support execution? Opp chose to commute the sentence.
Worlds 2007: Round 9
Citizenship for military service.
Harvard 2007: Octofinals
Immediately after the invasion of Iraq, should Paul Bremer have disbanded the Iraqi army?
Harvard 2007: Quarterfinals
Should a small liberal arts college include a provision in its honor code that punishes people who don't report honor code violations that they witness
NorthAms 2007: Finals
THBT child soldiers who defect from rebel armies should be allowed to
serve in government armies
Demonstrations (APDA) 2006: Demonstration
The United States should give reparations to African Americans who can trace their ancestry back to before 1964
Demonstrations (APDA) 2006: Demonstration
An ideal justice system should not grant suspects the right not to testify in court on grounds that an answer would be self-incriminating
Demonstrations (APDA) 2006: Demonstration
Should Weisenthal forgive the Nazi? (Opp chose yes)
Smith 2006: Quarterfinals
Carter shouldn't have pulled the US from the Olympics
NorthAms 2007: Quarterfinals
Fathers who request an abortion should not have to pay child support.
Nationals (APDA) 2006: Quarterfinals
Parole upon confession only
Nationals (APDA) 2005: Quarterfinals
The state should manage & distribute funding to schools based on no. of students.
Nationals (APDA) 2005: Octofinals
Absolute prohibition on double jeopardy (opp picked no)
Nationals (APDA) 2005: Octofinals
The losing side should pay the legal fees in civil court suits that go to trial.
Nationals (APDA) 2004: Semifinals
The Israeli tribunal should not have tried Adolf Eichmann without offering him up to the international community first.
Nationals (APDA) 2004: Quarterfinals
The US should offer an amendment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty banning the research and use of micro-nuclear weapons.
Nationals (APDA) 2003: Finals
Give a homeless person a dollar? (opp picked no)
Williams 2007: Finals
No organ transplant because you're on death row? Opp said yes.
Swarthmore 2005: Semifinals
Bad samaritan laws thumbs up, thumbs down. Opp chose 'thumbs up'.
Smith 2006: Semifinals
Teach masturbation in public schools.
Smith 2003: Quarterfinals
As a single issue advocacy group, should you legislate through congress or litigate through court? (Opp chose legislate)
Princeton 2005: Quarterfinals
Legal immigrants with children in school should be allowed to vote in school board elections.
NorthAms 2007: Semifinals
The media has a right to televise court proceedings.
NorthAms 2003: Finals
That This House believes that the Christian Right is good for democracy.
New York University 2006: Finals
Scrap the Kyoto Protocol
Nationals (APDA) 2006: Round 3
You are a journalist in a quarantined city infected by the plague (opp chose to leave).
Nationals (APDA) 2005: Finals
Larry Summer's comments in regards to the lack of women in math and science did not warrant a vote of no confidence.
Nationals (APDA) 2004: Finals
No life in prison without parole
Nationals (APDA) 2003: Quarterfinals
Juror nullification should be allowed as an affirmative defense.
Swarthmore 2007: Semifinals
Emancipated minors should be granted suffrage
Swarthmore 2007: Quarterfinals
The US government has the authority to interfere in religiously discriminatory in housing practices among the Pueblo tribe; should they intervene? (Opp chose no)
MIT 2006: Quarterfinals
Use housing vouchers instead of building projects.
MIT 2006: Semifinals
Get rid of the Harvey Milk school.
Hopkins 2006: Finals
Commercial adoption should be permissible.
Harvard 2006: Finals
Liberal democracies who have the means to do so should pay for a means-tested right to emigration.
Harvard 2006: Semifinals
Attempted murder should have the same penalty as murder.
Fordham 2006: Semifinals
Roper v Simmons was wrongly decided. (The Supreme Court held that the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid the execution of offenders who were under the age of 18 when their crimes were committed.)
Dartmouth 2005: Quarterfinals
Allow minority party to draw congressional district lines.
Brown 2004: Finals
Establishing an ethical religion; suggest man is naturally good or naturally evil? (Opp chose good)
Boston University 2007: Finals
Eliminate natural disasters and diseases or all intentional physical violence? Opp chose violence.
Nationals (APDA) 2007: Quarterfinals
Sign your artistic masterpiece? Opp said yes.
=== Results End ===
Didn't find what you were looking for? Perform an advanced search.