World Class Debates Soufiane Choubani

Title: WSDC 2018 Grand Final: India VS China

World Schools Debating Championship in Vietnam 2023 - Zimbabwe vs. Czech Republic - Round 6

This House Prefers a world ruled by a benevolent AI programmed to maximize utility by calculating the actions most guaranteed to reduce the greatest global suffering.

Proposition: USA
Opposition: Canada

Prop won

The topics is: ​This house prefers parenting models that adultify teenagers (i.e. giving them more responsibilities and autonomy, assuming higher capacity for independence) to those which emphasize their status and treatment as teenagers (i.e. refraining from giving them adult responsibilities, emphasizing they are legal minors).

Hong Kong (proposition) v Singapore (opposition)  

Sri Lanka is arguing in favour, China is arguing against.

The topic is: This House opposes academic activism

The info slide is: "Academic activism" refers to a phenomenon where academics take an explicitly political standpoint in their work and outside it with the aim of bringing about social change. Activist academics openly associate with different social and political groups or movements. The scope of academic activism entails being involved in policy debates, advising politicians, writing opinion pieces, etc. It also entails activism taking place within academic work, i.e. when performing research or teaching at the university.

Semi-finals (impromptu): This House believes that rehabilitation should be the only consideration in criminal sentencing.

China won against England unanimously (7:0).