Motions in PIDC '09

Tournament Motions

Elimination Rounds

Round 1: Gender

* THBT gay rights movements should compel openly gay celebrities to actively support their causes.
* THBT feminist politics must transition from the halls of Congress to the bedroom.
* THBT Muslim universities should grant professional subsidies to feminist scholars living in radically conservative Muslim states.

Round 2: Europa

* THW ban the ownership of multiple properties in land strapped European countries.
* THBT it is justified for EU countries with bailout responsibilities to excuse themselves with financial commitments to the union.
* THBT the European Union should subsidize rehabilitation clinics for computer addicts.

Round 3: Culpability

* THBT sober passengers of a drunk driver should be held criminally liable.
* THW punish bystanders of a crime.
* THW allow witnesses of gruesome murders to claim emotional damages against the criminal.

Round 4: Environment

* TH celebrates the use of emotional blackmail as part of environmental strategies.
* THBT Earth Hour is a meaningless, faddish, exercise.
* THW make waste-disposal a mandatory requirement for free trade agreements.

Round 5: Print Media

* THBT print media is dead.
* THW ban government officials from obtaining board positions in print media.
* THW require print media to grant criticized individuals compulsory reply space.

Round 6: Pop Culture

* THW remove the foreign films category in the Academy Awards.
* TH regrets the rise of vegetarianism.
* THW shut down the World Wrestling Entertainment for good.

Round 7: Geopolitics

* THBT China should revise its amoral foreign policy by sanctioning North Korea.
* TH regrets Obama's stance of reducing investments for foreign policy initiatives.
* THBT it's time to grant statehood to Taiwan.

Break Rounds

Octofinals: Local Headlines

* THB in extending the land distribution program.
* TH overreacted to Chip Tsao.
* THBT it is time to shut the doors on visiting forces.

Quarterfinals: Rights

* THW lift the moratorium on blood donations for men who have sex with men.
* THBT parents who are minors should be allowed to retain custody of their offspring.
* TH supports the preferential disclosure of sexual harassment issues to religious leaders over state authorities within some religious communities.

Semi-finals: Football

* TH regrets the recruitment of Third World football players by European football clubs.
* TH celebrates players walking-off the field in response to racist crowd hooliganism.
* THBT all players should donate majority of their advertising revenue to league development of the clubs they play for.

Finals: Education

* TH celebrates the rise of political activism among students in public universities.
* THW accommodate student-teacher relationships among consenting adults in universities.
* THB in mandatory sex education in all religious schools.