💭 Motion Statistics
Round 1

Time Set: Pre-2014 This House believes that Marxist political parties in India should abandon their characteristic insignia of the red hammer and sickle (Marxist insignia)

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8%
0 Gov wins 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
25%
33%
6 Gov vetoes 8 Opp vetoes
probably balanced

This House believes that it is morally legitimate to not put in effort to revive dying art forms (Dying art forms)

33%
25%
4 Gov wins 3 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
17%
8%
4 Gov vetoes 2 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive

In the case of women artists, this House regrets the overbearing influence of the artist's suffering to understand their art and artistic process (Suffering artists)

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17%
17%
2 Gov wins 2 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
8%
8%
2 Gov vetoes 2 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive
Round 2

This House, as a lover who tries to be ethical in life, will not use gifting as a love-language (gifting as love-language)

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42%
8%
5 Gov wins 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
17%
1 Gov veto 4 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive

This House believes that individuals should have legal rights over objects that constitute their personhood (legal rights over objects)

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33%
0 Gov wins 4 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
17%
33%
4 Gov vetoes 8 Opp vetoes
imbalanced at 50% level

This House supports the drawing of graffitis on historically significant monuments (graffitis on monuments)

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8%
8%
1 Gov win 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
29%
7 Gov vetoes 0 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive
Round 3

This House prefers a conceptualisation of management of power in a global framework along the lines of Collective Security over Collective Defence (collective security vs collective defence)

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25%
8%
3 Gov wins 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
25%
6 Gov vetoes 0 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive

This House believes that it is in the interest of Iraq to abolish the Muhasasa system (Muhasasa system)

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8%
1 Gov win 0 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
25%
29%
6 Gov vetoes 7 Opp vetoes
probably balanced

This House, as an aspiring developing nation with neutral neighbours, would prefer to live under an intergovernmentalist structure over a supranational body (Clarification: "neutral neighbours" here characterises neighbouring countries that are neither friendly nor hostile) (intergovernmentalist vs supranational)

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8%
50%
1 Gov win 6 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
21%
0 Gov vetoes 5 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive
Round 4

This House, as the woman, will practise the sick-woman theory. (sick-woman theory)

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8%
25%
1 Gov win 3 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
17%
21%
4 Gov vetoes 5 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive

In Western liberal democracies that are secular and have public universal healthcare, this House believes that it is legitimate for the state to terminate the life of a person who is "brain dead" but not "clinically dead" (brain dead)

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17%
25%
2 Gov wins 3 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
8%
21%
2 Gov vetoes 5 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive

This House believes that it is ethically legitimate for consenting adults to indulge in voluntary cannibalism (Cannibalism here does not involve the death of people undertaking it. Therefore, this can look like eating fat, tissues, or appendages like toes, such that the people indulging in it don't die) (voluntary cannibalism)

17%
8%
2 Gov wins 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
25%
8%
6 Gov vetoes 2 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive
Round 5

This House prefers a characterisation of love as citational rather than as inventive (Characterisation of love)

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9%
18%
1 Gov win 2 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
23%
23%
5 Gov vetoes 5 Opp vetoes
probably balanced

This House prefers Derrida's characterisation of friendship over Blanchot's (Characterisation of friendship)

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18%
9%
2 Gov wins 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
18%
14%
4 Gov vetoes 3 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive

This House opposes the equation of friendship with emotional labour (friendship as emotional labour)

18%
27%
2 Gov wins 3 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
9%
14%
2 Gov vetoes 3 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive
Pre-Semi Finals

This House opposes Amul's entry in Karnataka (amul in Karnataka)

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50%
50%
1 Gov win 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
No teams vetoed this motion
Novice Finals

THO the narrative that parents should constantly prioritise the interests of their children over their own (children's interests)

100%
1 Gov win 0 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
No teams vetoed this motion
Open Semi-Finals

This House supports the performance of exaggerated masculinity by Dalit men in public spaces (exaggerated masculinity)

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50%
0 Gov wins 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
25%
1 Gov veto 0 Opp vetoes
balance inconclusive

Assuming only one can be done, this House believes that the Indian state should give reservations to Brahmins for sewage cleaning jobs as opposed to its complete mechanisation (Time Set: Pre-2014) (sewage-cleaning)

50%
1 Gov win 0 Opp wins
balance inconclusive
25%
25%
1 Gov veto 1 Opp veto
balance inconclusive
Open Grand Finals

This House, as the feminist movement, would treat motherhood as an interruption in artistic creation instead of as an impetus to it (motherhood in artistic creation)

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100%
0 Gov wins 1 Opp win
balance inconclusive
No teams vetoed this motion