Prepared Motions for Asia Junior Championships - Debate (Winter Edition)
10 January 2025
This year’s edition of the Asia Junior Championships – Debate (Winter Edition) features two prepared rounds, Round 2 and the Grand Finals. These rounds will focus on significant global and regional topics, presenting motions that reflect the complexities of today’s world.
Here are the prepared motions to be debated during this exciting tournament:
Motion
This house would reduce the sentences of prisoners serving life imprisonment who unconditionally volunteer for medical trials.
Info
A prisoner serving life imprisonment or life sentence is someone who has been convicted of a crime and is sentenced to spend the rest of their life in prison.
A medical trial, is a research study that evaluates the safety and effectiveness of a new medical treatment or intervention on human health.
Motion
This house believes that AI Research and Development should only be allowed to be done by government owned or government funded entities.
Info
AI refers to Artificial Intelligence and in the status quo, there is no restriction regarding who can carry out research and development pertaining to AI.