Moji Motions

For the purpose of this debate, a machine exists which would allow would-be parents to select personality and behavioural traits for their children. These traits are confirmed and are ingrained in their children from childhood well into adulthood, but are not necessarily unchangeable later in life.

You are a Grade 9 student who has just finished the school year. One day, a fairy appears in front of you and offers to make you successful in one area: Academics (e.g. winning a gold medal in the Math Olympiad, becoming a champion in a robotics competition), or Athletics (e.g. playing for the U16 national football team, winning a gold medal at the Olympics).

Authenticity in art refers to creating something that feels real or original, rather than copying others. For example, Inside Out, Billie Eilish’s songs, and Van Gogh’s paintings are praised for their originality and for expressing genuine emotions and deeply personal experiences.

The #MeToo movement is a global social movement against sexual abuse and harassment, which gained widespread attention in 2017 and is known for empowering survivors to share their experiences.

The letters of last resort contain orders on what action to take if an enemy nuclear strike has both destroyed the government and has also killed or otherwise incapacitated both the prime minister and their designated "second person" of responsibility, typically a high-ranking member of the cabinet such as the deputy prime minister or the first secretary of state. If the orders are carried out, the action taken could be the last official act of the government. For the sake of this debate, we shall assume that the two options are to retaliate with nuclear weapons, or to not retaliate. We are explicitly not considering options that foist off decision-making to another actor (like the submarine commander, or another nation).

A Karmic Score refers to a point system that measures your good and bad deeds. Points are given for any physical action a person undertakes. The Karmic Score weighs out the weight of each action and assigns a score which is accurate to each action. If your good deeds outnumber your bad deeds, your score will be a positive number, while if your bad deeds outnumber your good deeds, your score will be a negative number.

The "Kids Online Safety Act" or "KOSA" is an act that aims to enhance the protection of children online. Some measures associated with the act include: - Requiring social media platforms to provide their young users (age 16 years and below) options to protect their online information, disable features that would cause them addiction, and opt out of algorithmic recommendations (I.e. Prevent companies from using their data to recommend content to them, Prevent harmful content from being displayed in their feed, etc...) - Giving parents provision to support children under their care and identify harmful behaviour, such as allowing parents to have access to their children's messages - Creating accountability for social media platforms to act in preventing and mitigating content that could harm minors. Such content includes the promotion of unlawful products for minors (e.g. gambling and alcohol), self-harm, substance abuse, eating disorder, sexual exploitation, and suicide.

"Emotionally descriptive literature is literature that aims to accurately represent people’s feelings, thoughts, and opinions, even those which are harmful or problematic. Examples of such literature include Taylor Swift’s ""Better than Revenge"", Carrie Underwood’s """"Before he Cheats”, and Sally Rooney’s Conversation with Friends. Emotionally prescriptive literature depicts idealized versions of emotions, where feeling are portrayed as correct or incorrect. Examples include Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down”, and Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice."

"""Global South"" is a broad term that generally refers to countries that are located in the southern hemisphere. Often the nations can be less developed than the countries in the northern hemisphere. The term is often used to refer to countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, but it can also include other regions such as the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean. The examples of economic development projects at the expense of natural reserves in the global south are but not limited to the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and the Son Doong cave in Vietnam that has attracted thousands of tourists."

The concept of ‘banality of evil’ claims that most perpetrators of great acts of evil are ordinary people, with no motive other than promoting their own advancement in society. Under this concept, perpetrators do not have to be "radically evil" and can be responsible for atrocities through their common acts or omissions.

A technology exists that allows for terminally ill patients to impart their best living consciousness into an artificial intelligence before they pass away. The consciousness would then live in this AI and can interct with this person's loved ones. It will almost be as if this person has never left. Think JARVIS or FRIDAY (from Iron Man) but for dead people.

Microcredit is the extension of very small loans to impoverished borrowers who typically lack collateral, steady employment, and verifiable credit history. These banks can implement high or low-interest rates without the intervention of the government.

For the purpose of this debate, Wall-E is a robot made to find an nurture all forms of life. The Earth on which Wall-E lives was utterly destroyed by humanity due to their exploitation of natural resources. After that, humanity fled away in a spaceship. In the absence of humanity, recently, Earth has been purging itself of pollution, and life has been reemerging. Suppose that humanity cannot self-sustain for much longer on the spaceship or find a new habitalbe planet and that Wall-E is the only entity capable of saving them by returning them to Earth