Topic Lecture
Research Centre defines this term as "Coordinated actions undertaken by armed forces to achieve specific objectives.”
What are military operations?
The best action is the one which maximizes pleasure.
What is Utilitarianism?
Positive reasons for the judge to pick up your side. Thought of as "scoring points."
What is offense?
The piece of the argument chain which answers the “so what” of the argument.
What is an impact?
To move smoothly, note taking.
What is flow?
The Belt and Road Initiative, commonly known as the “BRI,” is conducted by this large Asian state.
What is China?
The core of ethics. A resolutional term in January of 2026 as well as in the camp topic.
What is moral/ immoral/ morality/ immorality?
Link, internal link, impact. This key piece of the argument is left out of the prior argument chain.
What is uniqueness?
Writing the judges ballot for them is the objective of this late round argument type.
What are voters/ KVIs?
The seven of clubs, the proof.
What is a card?
In 2007, Robert Sparrow argued that these systems could create accountability vacuums.
What are autonomous weapons?
An ethical theory basing morality on inherent rules and duties. Its name comes from the Greek words for duty and science.
What is Deontology?
These turns may be somewhat ridiculous. Perhaps glaciers melting is actually good given expanded shipping lanes.
What are impact turns?
Weighing that may analyze the immediacy or repetitiveness of a certain impact.
What is timeframe/ timeframe weighing?
Colors or patterns that look bad together, disagreement on a specific issue.
What is clash?
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?
This economic theory comes from a text published by two authors in February of 1848.
What is Marxism?
An argument about fairness in debate.
What is theory?
The boundary of impact. It describes the extent of effects.
What is scope?
Either upper or lower, the starting point.
What is case?
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?
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?
What is a meta-study/ meta-analysis?
Title, Overview, Warrant Extending, Impacts, Weighing. This key step is left out of the voter structure.
What is refutation?
Micheal Jackson’s Thriller, a round recap shorthand.
What is hit?