Motions
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
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 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.
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 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
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 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
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 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
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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
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 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
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 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
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 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

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