Topic Lecture
Framing Lecture
Rebuttal Lecture
100

Research Centre defines this term as "Coordinated actions undertaken by armed forces to achieve specific objectives.”

What are military operations?

100

The best action is the one which maximizes pleasure. 

What is Utilitarianism? 

100

Positive reasons for the judge to pick up your side. Thought of as "scoring points." 

What is offense?

200

The Belt and Road Initiative, commonly known as the “BRI,” is conducted by this large Asian state.

What is China?

200

The core of ethics. A resolutional term in January of 2026 as well as in the camp topic. 

What is moral/ immoral/ morality/ immorality?

200

Link, internal link, impact. This key piece of the argument is left out of the prior argument chain. 

What is uniqueness? 

300

In 2007, Robert Sparrow argued that these systems could create accountability vacuums.

What are autonomous weapons?

300

An ethical theory basing morality on inherent rules and duties. Its name comes from the Greek words for duty and science. 

What is Deontology?

300

These turns may be somewhat ridiculous. Perhaps glaciers melting is actually good given expanded shipping lanes. 

What are impact turns?

400

Launched in November 2004, this academic search engine utilizes a crawling technology to index millions of academic papers, making them accessible to researchers.

What is Google Scholar?

400

This economic theory comes from a text published by two authors in February of 1848. 

What is Marxism?

400

An argument about fairness in debate. 

What is theory?

500

This frightening philosophical problem describes AI system's reduction of complex or morally dubious problems to opaque mathematical weighing, to the point where developers may struggle to explain how the model reached any given decision.

What is the "Black Box" problem?

500

A moral philosophy that emphasizes an individual's character and the cultivation of good habits. In debate, it is knows as a separate framing category, beyond the typical binary. 

What is virtue ethics?

500
An aggregation and analysis of the results of multiple independent studies on a specific topic. 

What is a meta-study/ meta-analysis? 

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