YOU DO NOTE WE DEBATE

FIRST ROUND:

This House Regrets Disney’s Happy Endings:

Status Quo: The children who watch Disney films/shows are always exposed to happy
endings

Definition of Terms:
Happy Ending – Cliché endings where loose ends are tied up and everyone is content

Government:

1. Consider the style of writing of the filmmakers/scriptwriters

2. Consider the target market of the Disney films
3. Although happy endings are the focus of Disney films, morality is the highlight of the
films
4. Historical Background of the films are important for analysis
5. Film is a digital transformation of other entertainment (i.e. Theatre, Books)
6. Happy Endings are not always about the audience, it is also about the companies
and filmmakers/animators who stand to profit from these movies
7. Take into account emotional vulnerability of children
8. Unambiguous happy endings hardly exist in the real world
9. Childish thirst for happy endings only entertain people
10. The real world is more complex than happy endings
11. Happy endings necessitate a black and white world view. The mindset of the child
will be affected while growing up because he is led to believe that there is only good
and bad, no moral grey area.
12. Without the freedom to deliver a sad ending, many stories would lose the emotional
power to make them great.

Opposition:

1. There is only a happy ending of the movie, not the story. The story lives on with the
viewers.
 2. A sense of reality is not lacking in Disney films with happy endings because the
protagonist is often confronted with challenges and suffering in pursuit of his/her
happy ending
3. Happy endings are still attained even if fraud and other underhanded schemes are
perpetrated by the Protagonists (e.g. Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast). This shows
that not everyone is perfect and is prone to commit harmful deeds or mistakes.
4. The aim of the writers is to create a non-stressful story to educate the youth which is
attainable through happy endings.

Disney Movies Synopsis (until 2012):

 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937): Snow White, pursued by a jealous queen,
hides with the Dwarfs; the queen feeds her a poison apple, but Prince Charming awakens
her with a kiss.
 Pinnochio (1940): A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must
prove himself worthy to become a real boy. Featuring the voice talents of Dickie
Jones, Christian Rub, Mel Blanc and Don Brodie.
 Fantasia (1940): A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western
classical music. Featuring Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Corey Burton and Walt
Disney. Groundbreaking film at the time it was released. Some people label this a classic.
 Dumbo (1941): Ridiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is
assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential
 Bambi (1942): A story about a young deer, Bambi, growing up in the wild after his mother
is shot by hunters.
 Saludos Amigos (1942): Disney animators tour South America and present four
animated shorts inspired by their trip.
 The Three Calleberos (1945): Donald Duck receives his birthday gifts, which include
traditional gifts and information about Brazil (hosted by Zé Carioca) and Mexico (by
Panchito, a Mexican Charro Rooster).
 Make Mine Music (1946): Animation done to contemporary popular music.
 Fun & Fancy Free (1947): Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: “Bongo,”
about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and “Mickey and the Beanstalk,” a take on the
famous fairy tale.
 Melody Time (1948): An anthology of animated vignettes set to contemporary music.
Featuring Roy Rogers, Trigger, Dennis Day and The Andrews Sisters.
 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949): Two animated adaptions of “The
Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “The Wind in the Willows.”
 Cinderella (1950): When Cinderella’s cruel stepmother prevents her from attending the
Royal Ball, she gets some unexpected help from the lovable mice Gus and Jaq, and from
her Fairy Godmother.
 Alice in Wonderland (1951): Alice stumbles into the world of Wonderland. Will she get
home? Not if the Queen of Hearts has her way.
 Peter Pan (1953): Wendy and her brothers are whisked away to the magical world of
Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan.
 Lady and the Tramp (1955): The romantic tale of a sheltered uptown Cocker Spaniel
dog and a streetwise downtown Mutt.
 Sleeping Beauty (1959): A snubbed malevolent fairy casts a curse on a princess that
only a prince can break, with the help of three good fairies.
 101 Dalmatians (1961): When a litter of dalmatian puppies are abducted by the minions
of Cruella De Vil, the parents must find them before she uses them for a diabolical
fashion statement.
 The Sword in the Stone (1963): Merlin the Magician teaches a young boy who is
destined to be King Arthur.
 The Jungle Book (1967): Bagheera the Panther and Baloo the Bear have a difficult time
trying to convince a boy to leave the jungle for human civilization. Featuring Phil
Harris, Sebastian Cabot, Louis Prima and Bruce Reitherman.
 The Aristocats (1970): With the help of a smooth talking tomcat, a family of Parisian
felines set to inherit a fortune from their owner try to make it back home after a jealous
butler kidnaps them and leaves them in the country.
 Robin Hood (1973): The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters
as humanoid animals.
 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977): A collection of animated shorts
based on the stories and characters by A. A. Milne.
 The Rescuers (1977): Two mice of the Rescue Aid Society search for a little girl
kidnapped by unscrupulous treasure hunters.
 The Fox and the Hound (1981): Two childhood animal friends find themselves forced to
become enemies.
 The Black Cauldron (1985): A young boy and a bunch of misfit friends embark on a
quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.
 The Great Mouse Detective (1986): Basil, the rodent Sherlock Holmes, investigates the
kidnapping of a toy-maker and uncovers its link to his archenemy, Professor Ratigan.
 Oliver & Company (1988): A lost and alone kitten joins a gang of dogs engaged in petty
larceny in New York.
 The Little Mermaid (1989): A mermaid princess makes a faustian bargain with an
unscrupulous seahag in order to meet a human prince on land.
 The Rescuers Down Under (1989): The RAS agents, Miss Bianca and Bernard, race to
Australia to save a boy and a rare golden eagle from a murderous poacher.
 Beauty and The Beast (1991): Belle, whose father is imprisoned by the Beast, offers
herself instead and discovers her captor to be an enchanted prince.
 Alladin (1992): Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess Jasmine, who is in
the city undercover. They love each other, but she can only marry a prince.
 The Lion King (1994): Tricked into thinking he killed his father, a guilt ridden lion cub
flees into exile and abandons his identity as the future King.
 Pocahontas (1995): The daughter of a Native American tribe chief and English soldier
share a romance when English colonists invade 17th century Virginia.
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1997): A deformed bell ringer must assert his
independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy
dancing girl.
 Hercules (1997): The son of the Greek Gods Zeus and Hera is stripped of his immortality
as an infant and must become a true hero in order to reclaim it.
 Mulan (1998): To save her father from death in the army, a Chinese maiden secretly
goes in his place and becomes one of China’s greatest heroes in the process.
 Tarzan (1999): A man raised by gorillas must decide where he really belongs when he
discovers he is a human.
 Fantasia 2000 (1999): An update of the original film with new interpretations of great
works of classical music.
 Dinosaur (2000): An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a
sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.
 The Emperor’s New Groove (2000): Emperor Kuzco is turned into a llama by his ex-
administrator Yzma, and must now regain his throne with the help of Pacha, the gentle
llama herder.
 Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001): A young adventurer named Milo Thatch joins an
intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
 Lilo & Stitch (2002): A Hawaiian girl adopts an unusual pet who is actually an notorious
extra-terrestrial fugitive from the law.
  Treasure Planet (2002): A Disney animated version of Treasure Island. The only
difference is that the film is set in outer space with alien worlds and other galactic
wonders.
 Brother Bear (2003): When a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, he is magically
changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to
changing back.
 Home on the Range (2004): To save their farm, the resident animals go bounty hunting
for a notorious outlaw.
 Chicken Little (2005): After ruining his reputation with the town, a courageous chicken
must come to the rescue of his fellow citizens when aliens start an invasion.
 Meet The Robinsons (2007): Lewis is a brilliant inventor who meets mysterious stranger
named Wilbur Robinson, whisking Lewis away in a time machine and together they team
up to track down Bowler Hat Guy in a showdown that ends with an unexpected twist of
fate.
 Bolt (2008): The canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are
real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just
as real.
 The Princess and the Frog (2009): A fairy tale set in Jazz Age-era New Orleans and
centered on a young woman named Tiana and her fateful kiss with a frog prince who
desperately wants to be human again.
 Tangled (2010): The magically long-haired Rapunzel has spent her entire life in a tower,
but now that a runaway thief has stumbled upon her, she is about to discover the world
for the first time, and who she really is.
 Winnie the Pooh (2011): Eyeore has lost his tail, and Winnie the Pooh and his friends
hold a contest to get him a new one.
 Wreck-it Ralph (2012): A video game villain wants to be a hero and sets out to fulfill his
dream, but his quest brings havoc to the whole arcade where he lives.

This house believes that Gerald Anderson is a role model for modern Filipino men:

Definition of Terms:
Role Model – A role model is someone others look to as a good example. A role model is
someone who is worthy of imitation – like a beloved teacher or a well-behaved celebrity

1. Gerald Anderson is impacted by environmental variables present while he was

growing up (i.e. Early exposure to Pinoy Big Brother at a young age).
 2. Nature vs. Nurture

This House believes that there should be a National Mass Transit System:

Status Quo: Transportation in the Philippines is relatively underdeveloped, partly due to the
country’s mountainous areas and scattered islands, and partly as a result of the
government’s persistent underinvestment in the nation’s infrastructure.

Definition of Terms:
Mass Transit System – A mass transit system is a system of transport for passengers by
group travel systems available for use by the general public, typically managed on a
schedule, operated on established routes, and that charge a posted fee for each trip

Data:
Roads – The Philippines has 216,612 km of roads, with 83% being paved and 17% being
unpaved. As of 2014, the road network consists of:

National Roads – 32,227 km

Provincial Roads – 31,620 km
City and Municipal Roads – 31,063 km
Barangay Roads – 31,063 km

Highways – Highways in the Philippines include national roads that can be classified into
three types: the national primary, national secondary and national tertiary roads. The Pan-
Philippine Highway is a 3,517 km network of roads, bridges and ferry services that
connect the islands of Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao

Expressways – The Philippines has numerous expressway systems and most of them are
located in the main island country of Luzon (SLEX and NLEX)

Railways – Rail transportation in the Philippines includes services provided by three rapid
transit lines and one commuter rail line: the Manila Light Rail Transit System (LRT Lines 1
and 2), Manila Metro Rail Transit (MRT Line 3) and the PNR Metro South Commuter Line.
The government has plans to expand the country’s railway footprint from 77 km as of 2017
to more than 320 km by 2022

Waterways – Pasig River Ferry Service is a river ferry service that serves Metro Manila, it
is also the only water-based transportation that cruised Pasig River.
Ferry Services – Because it is an island nation, ferry services are an important means of
transportation. A range of ships are used, from large cargo ships to small pump boats.
Some trips last for a day or two on large overnight ferris such as those operated by 2GO
Travel.

Government:

1. The User-centered National Mass Transit System will cater to the needs of people
residing in far-flung provinces to save them travel expenses and travel time.
Presently, the Philippine National Railway (PNR) only caters to Metro Manila and
Laguna residents; additionally, it was established during the Spanish Colonial period
with its railways to Northern Luzon and Bicol being disused, thereby cutting its
effectivity as a transport system.
2. The National Mass Transit System will spawn more economic growth and financial
opportunities with more prolific trade routes and travel stops in provinces.
3. The presence of a National Mass Transit System will help the current
underdeveloped mass transit system of the Philippines
4. The National Mass Transit System will decongest traffic flowing to and from Metro
Manila with the lessening need of both public utility and private land vehicles.
5. The National Mass Transit System will allow the government to define and address
fundamental framing decisions regarding the various geographies of the provinces to
make it conform to the present needs of modern and efficient public mass
transportation.
6. The National Mass Transit System will change the links between cities and ports,
and new types of inter-modal facilities and services will arise at those locations. New
patterns for international trade can develop and in some cases, the new links may
improve efficiency of business customer/client visits as well as product deliveries.

Opposition:

1. Instead of focusing on a National Mass Transit System, the government should

focus first on road improvement, local transportation systems, and proper traffic laws
implementation in both Metro Manila and the provinces. A focus in these areas will
not only solve traffic congestion in the NCR, but also contribute to a more efficient
transport system for people living in the provinces.
 2. A focus in these areas will prevent immense funding to be used for a National Mass
Transit System. The problems which the National Mass Transit System aim to quell
can be solved by other cost-efficient means that do not require massive
infrastructure that will take years to build.
3. Standardized performance indicators are more easily established when local
transportation systems are focused on by the government because the Local
Government unit in charge of overseeing the transportation in a locality can easily
measure the improvement or degradation of their own transport system.
4. Improving local highway, road, and public transport systems not predicated on a
National Mass Transit System will increase a community’s access to other areas.
This will increase business labor pool, reduce the cost to obtain input materials and
services, and expands the community’s potential market. These are all achieved
without the massive cost and time spent in creating a National Mass Transit System.
5. A focus on local transportation improvement may increase workers’ ability to access
education and employment opportunities (increasing productivity and income for the
locality as a whole). This will also increase the residents’ access to commercial
opportunities and increase investment in the locality concerned.
6. The aim of an improved local or regional transport system is to improve overall
accessibility by improving roads, creating more routes, improving business ability to
provide goods and services, and people’s ability to access education, employment,
and services. All this with the additional goal of reducing transportation costs
juxtaposed to a National Transit System.

SECOND ROUND:

This House Supports Hayden Kho as the victim:

Status Quo: Is Hayden Kho a victim of his leaked sex videos?

Government:

1. Appeal to emotion
2. Stripped of Doctor’s License
3. Depression
4. The person is not a victim of his own mistake
 5. His privacy was invaded because the sex videos were leaked

Opposition:

1. Consequences of his actions

2. Objectification of women
3. Personal interest committed through fraud because the women did not know they
were being video taped

This House believes that Givers are Better Lovers than Takers:

Definition of Terms (According to Adam Grant):

Givers – They are “others-focused”, and tend to provide support to others with no strings
attached. They ask themselves, “How can I add value for this person? What can I
contribute?”
Takers – They are “self-focused” and put their own interests ahead of others’ needs. They
try to gain as much as possible from their interactions while contributing as little as they can
in return.
Matchers – They like to preserve an equal balance of giving and taking. Their mindset is: “If
you take from me, I’ll take from you. If you give to me, I’ll give to you.”
Lover – A person having a sexual or romantic relationship with someone, often outside
marriage.

Government and Opposition:

This House believes that “Role Playing” enhances the sexual satisfaction of married
individuals:

Definition of Terms:
Sexual Roleplay – Roleplay that has a strong erotic element. It may involve two or more
people who act out roles in sexual fantasies and may be a form of foreplay andbe sexually
arousing.

Government:

1. Sexual Roleplay allows you to pretend that your partner/s are perfect, eliminating
any sense of imperfection in any aspect to achieve maximum sexual satisfaction.
2. Sexual Roleplay allows you to fantasize about your partner as someone (or
something) that you want, making your imagination run wild and your deepest sexual
fantasies come true.
3. Sexual Roleplay may include dressing up or pretending to be someone else. This
feature of sexual roleplay is a means of overcoming sexual inhibitions that may be
present in both parties during sex.
4. Sexual Roleplay may include the dominance and submission of each of the parties
which exudes a sense of power and control in the form of sexual bondage,
heightening the sexual experience by adding other facets of emotional heightening.

Opposition:

1. Sexual roleplay may result to derogative sexual fantasies after watching

pornography
2. It is often times sexist and portrays women as submissive and subservient to
violence
3. The man or woman in sexual roleplay is reduced and objectified as a mere tool for
pleasure
4. Sexual roleplay creates distance between the spouses because they crave the
personality of their partner in their Roleplay more than their real persona
THIRD ROUND:

This House believes that there should be purging every three years:

Government:

1. The purge would drastically reduce crime

2. You can do it without risk of punishment
3. With the purge, crime for the rest of the year would be reduced
4. The purge would reduce unemployment. Many people would kill the homeless.
5. Low income gangs would eliminate each other which would reduce gang violence.
All these will create a positive effect in society,
6. People will stay indoors and fortify their defenses so the innocents will not be
harmed

Opposition:

1. Fear would make everyone less productive

2. Repeating the purge will kill everyone eventually
3. The only ones left would barely have anyone to be productive towards to, so they will
look out for themselves
4. Innocents will suffer
5. This is a purely experimental hypothesis which we do not know what will be the
result
6. It is synonymous to a state sponsored genocide
7. In the Philippine setting, political agenda would quickly arise and high profile politicos
would use the purge for their own advantage.

This House will rescind the Social Contract:

Definition of Terms:
Social Contract – Nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons’ moral and/or
political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the
society in which we live in
Proponents:
Thomas Hobbes – Theory of Social Contract appeared for the first time in his book the
Leviathan published in the year 1651. According to him, prior to the Social Contract, man
lived in the State of Nature. Man’s life in the State of Nature was one of fear and
selfishness. Man lived in chaotic condition of constant fear. Life in the State of Nature was
solitary, nasty, brutish, and short. Man has a natural desire for security and order. In
order to secure self-protection and self-preservation, and to avoid misery and pain, man
entered into a contract. This idea of self-preservation and self-protection are inherent in
man’s nature and in order to achieve this, they voluntarily surrendered all their rights
and freedoms to some authority by this contract who must command obedience. This led
to the emergence of the institution of the ruler or monarch who shall be the absolute head.

John Locke – His theory of Social Contract is different than that of Hobbes. According to
him, man lived in the State of Nature, but his concept of the State of Nature is different as
contemplated by Hobbesian theory. Locke’s view about the state of nature is not as
miserable as that of Hobbes. It was reasonably good and enjoyable, but the property
was not secure. He considered the State of Nature as the “Golden Age”. It was a state
of “goodwill, peace, mutual assistance, and preservation.” In that state of nature, men had
all the rights which nature could give them. Locke justifies this by saying that in the State of
Nature, the natural condition of mankind was a state of perfect and complete liberty to
conduct one’s life as one best sees fit. It was free from the interference of others. In the
State of Nature, all were equal and independent. Man entered into Social Contract to
protect their property because Locke considered it as insecure. Under the contract, man
did not surrender all their rights to one single individual, but they surrendered only
the right to preserve/maintain order and enforce the law of nature.

Jean Jacques Rousseau –was a French philosopher who gave a new interpretation to the
theory of Social Contract in his work “The Social Contract” and “Emile”. According to him,
social contract is not a historical fact but a hypothetical construction of reason. Prior to the
Social Contract, the life in the State of Nature was happy and there was equality among
men. As time passed, however, humanity faced certain changes. As the overall population
increased, the means by which people could satisfy their needs had to change. People
slowly began to live together in small families, and then in small communities. For
Rousseau the invention of property constitutes humanity’s fall from grace out of the State of
Nature. For this purpose, they surrendered their rights not to a single individual but to the
community as a whole which Rousseau termed as general will. According to Rousseau, the
original freedom, happiness, equality and liberty which existed in primitive societies prior to
the social contract was lost in the modern civilisation. Through Social Contract, a new form
of social organisation-the state was formed to assure and guarantee rights, liberties
freedom and equality.

Government:

1. It constrains human existence to the established standards imposed by others

2. It implies consent toward a prevailing attitude, government, or social system even
though the individual may not wish to be born under it or exist in this state
3. It presumes that human society is based on the need to curb individual (or societal)
impulses in favor of some greater good which can repress individual creativity and
therefore freedom
4. May be unjust to those who are incapable of upholding their side of the "contract"
(e.g. the mentally ill)
5. None of us signed the social contract! (i.e. it's an implied agreement)
6. Some actions/situations are subjective -- multiple interpretations

Opposition:

1. It instills a sense of civic duty among the individual in relation to society as a whole
2. It creates a sense of community instead of isolated instances of individuals under a
single government or ruler
3. It establishes basic, inalienable rules (or rights, in the argument of John Locke and
others) that society and government are expected to follow
4. It provides a clear way to analyze issues regarding relationship between people and
government (e.g. why is it acceptable to punish someone for a crime?)

This House believes that Lawyers are the ubermensch?

Definition of Terms:
Ubermensch - In 1883, the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche published a book
entitled ''Thus Spoke Zarathustra'' (Also sprach Zarathustra). This philosophical treatise
dealt with many of Nietzsche's ideas about the relationship between morality and humanity,
and caught in the middle was the character of the ubermensch. This figure is sometimes
called the superman, although a more appropriate translation may be the overman. The
ubermensch may not exactly be a superhero, but in Nietzsche's philosophy, this superior
man was here to save the day.

Nietzsche was one of the first major proponents of a philosophy we call nihilism. The
nihilists believed that there were no moral truths. Nietzsche, in particular, espoused a
strongly atheistic vision of this philosophy; the Christian Church was, therefore, an
institution that created morality in order to subjugate the masses. The popular belief in a
single, universal morality that gives humanity purpose and direction was nothing more than
an illusion. In this worldview, the ubermensch is the person who is able to break from
the illusion. Basically, the ubermensch recognizes that society's definition of
morality is biased and socially-constructed. So, does this mean that the ubermensch is
amoral, or has no moral code? Absolutely not. Rather than accept the morality dictated by
institutions like the Church, the ubermensch creates his own morality, based on his own
experiences which is grounded in this secular physical world (as opposed to some non-
earthly afterlife). It is this superpower, the ability to see past the illusion, which creates an
ubermensch and makes this person a superior being.

Living by his own moral code gives the ubermensch a deep sense of morality a steadfast
purpose. In this enlightened position, the ubermensch is dedicated solely to the
advancement and betterment of humanity.

Government:

1. A Lawyer must adhere to the standards of the IBP therefore he lives by his own code
and is dedicated for the advancement and betterment of humanity as a lawyer
2. As a person of higher knowledge and learning, a lawyer can be considered as an
ubermensch because he is able to break free from the biased illusions of the society
3. The ubermensch is grounded by a deep sense of morality and is grounded in the
secular physical world. So is the lawyer who is grounded by laws which do not
dictate religion and is secular in nature, subject to a few exceptions.

Opposition:

1. Being a Lawyer does not immediately mean that one can break out of the illusions of
societal norms like the ubermensch
2. A Lawyer should be an example to the community, as a contributor, one with the
masses, as opposed to the ubermensch who has his own values and is independent
from society
3. A Lawyer is not the only profession or title open to being the ubermensch. The
ubermensch is not limited to one profession only and is born out of personal
experiences.