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秋季辩题
TOC ASIA 2026 FALL
少年世界学校辩论·第一批备稿辩题
Junior World Schools Debate
Prep Motion 1
This House Would require individuals to obtain a parenting license in order to raise children.
备稿辩题1：本院主张个人须获得育儿许可证后才能抚养子女。
Prep Motion 2
This House Would abolish patents for green technology.
备稿辩题2：本院将废除环保技术的专利权。
Sample Case
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少年世界学校辩论
Junior World Schools Debate
Prep Motion 1：Parenting License
This House Would require individuals to obtain a parenting license in order to raise children
Pro Sample Case
Model
Before becoming the main caregiver of a child, adults must obtain a free parenting license.
To receive the license, parents complete a short parenting course and pass a basic assessment on child safety, health, nutrition, development, discipline, emotional care, and when to seek professional help.
The test only checks basic parenting competence. It does not judge income, education, family type, religion, culture, or harmless differences in parenting style. Parents who do not pass can retake the test for free and receive additional teaching and support.
Argument 1: Children deserve a minimum level of protection
Young children depend completely on the adults raising them. Parents decide what children eat, when they receive medical attention, how they are disciplined, how much supervision they receive, and what kind of emotional support exists at home. The problem is that children do not choose whether their parents are prepared for this responsibility. Many harmful parenting decisions do not happen because parents want to hurt their children. They happen because parents lack knowledge. A new parent may not recognize when a child needs medical help. They may use inappropriate punishment because that is how they were raised. They may not understand how much supervision a young child needs. A parenting license creates a minimum safety floor. It cannot guarantee perfect parenting, but it makes sure every parent has at least learned the most important information before becoming fully responsible for another person. This matters because childhood harms can last for years. A young child cannot simply leave an unsafe home or teach their parent how to care for them properly. Preventing these mistakes before they happen is therefore much better than waiting until the child has already suffered.
Argument 2: Parenting education becomes universal
Parenting education currently depends heavily on whether adults choose to seek it out. This creates a major problem. The people who most need support may not know they need it. Some adults assume parenting will come naturally. Others copy whatever their own parents did. Busy parents may keep delaying classes or advice until a serious problem develops. Licensing changes the incentive. Every parent must receive the same basic preparation. This makes parenting education normal rather than embarrassing. Taking a class no longer means that somebody is a bad parent because everybody does it. The assessment also ensures that parents actually understand the information. Simply sitting through a class does not prove that someone knows what to do when their child is sick, injured, or behaving badly. Finally, the course connects families with support before problems become serious. Parents learn where they can find doctors, teachers, counselors, and family services later. This means we move from reacting to parenting problems after they happen to preventing them before they begin.
Argument 3: Greater responsibility should require greater preparation
Society already requires people to prove basic competence when their mistakes could seriously hurt other people. We require licenses to drive cars. Teachers and child-care workers receive training before being trusted with children. Doctors need qualifications because good intentions are not enough when another person's health depends on them. Parenting involves an even greater responsibility. Parents influence children every day for many years. Yet we currently assume that adults automatically understand this responsibility simply because they have become parents. Love is important, but love does not automatically create knowledge. A parent can deeply love their child while still making dangerous choices because they do not know better. Our policy asks relatively little from adults: complete a free course and demonstrate basic understanding. In return, every child receives a minimum guarantee that the person raising them knows how to keep them safe and meet their basic needs.
Con Sample Case
Opposition Model
We provide universal parenting support without requiring a license.
Every new parent receives free parenting classes, access to health and family-support services, and additional assistance when they struggle.
Parents are encouraged to use these services, but they do not need permission to raise their own child. Authorities can still intervene when there is real evidence that a child is being seriously harmed or neglected.
Argument 1: A test cannot tell us who will actually be a good parent
Parenting is much more complicated than remembering information for an exam. Good parenting depends on patience, judgment, flexibility, emotional control, and understanding the needs of a particular child. These things change depending on the situation. Someone can memorize every correct answer on a parenting test and still behave terribly when they are exhausted, angry, or stressed. Passing the test tells us what they know, not what they will actually do every day for the next eighteen years. At the same time, good parents can fail. Someone may struggle with reading, exams, technology, or the language used in the course while still being loving, patient, and responsible. This creates two mistakes. Dangerous parents can pass because they know the right answers. Safe parents can fail because they struggle with the assessment. If a test cannot accurately identify who will actually be a safe parent, it should not decide who is allowed to raise a child.
Argument 2: Licensing mistakes hurt the children Proposition wants to protect
Proposition treats failing the license like failing a driving test: simply study more and try again. But parenting is different because a child may already exist. Imagine a baby is born and one parent has not passed. Proposition now needs somebody else to become the main legal caregiver while that parent completes the process. Even if the child stays with relatives, this creates uncertainty, stress, changes in routines, and government involvement during an important period for the family. These burdens will also fall unevenly. Parents with flexible jobs, strong reading skills, reliable transport, and relatives nearby will find licensing easier. Parents working long hours or dealing with language and literacy difficulties will face more obstacles. This means a perfectly safe parent may face restrictions because they struggled with filling out paperwork rather than because they ever harmed their child. The biggest victim of that mistake is often the child, who loses stability and time with a loving caregiver.
Argument 3: We can get the benefits without making parenting depend on permission
The strongest part of Proposition's policy is not the license. It is the education. Opposition agrees that parents should learn about child safety, development, health, and discipline. That is why we provide those classes and services universally. But we remove the threat attached to them. This matters because parents need to feel comfortable asking for help. A struggling parent should be able to tell a nurse, teacher, or family-support worker, "I don't know what to do," without worrying that admitting weakness could affect their ability to raise their child. Our system therefore creates a more cooperative relationship between families and support services. When parents simply need advice, we help them. When families need more serious support, we provide it. When there is actual evidence that a child is unsafe, authorities can still intervene. This gives us almost everything Proposition wants: better parenting knowledge, earlier intervention, and access to support. What we avoid is their biggest new harm: allowing an imperfect test to decide whether a loving and capable person is allowed to raise their own child.
Prep Motion 2:Green Tech Patents
This House Would abolish patents for green technology
Pro Sample Case
Model
Governments will remove patent protection from green technologies, meaning technologies whose main purpose is to reduce pollution, carbon emissions, or the use of environmentally harmful resources.
Patent offices will no longer grant new green-technology patents, and existing patents in this area will no longer prevent other companies from using or improving the technology.
Inventors can still earn money by manufacturing products, providing services, building strong brands, receiving government research funding, and being the first company to enter the market. They simply cannot stop other companies from using the underlying green technology.
Argument 1: Green technology becomes cheaper and spreads faster
Patents give an inventor the exclusive right to use a technology for many years. This allows companies to charge licensing fees or prevent competitors from using their inventions. That may make sense for ordinary products, but green technology creates benefits for everyone. If a company invents a better battery, solar panel, or pollution-control system, society benefits most when as many people as possible use it. Patents slow this process down. Smaller companies may not be able to afford licensing fees. Businesses in poorer countries may struggle to negotiate with foreign patent owners. Some companies may simply choose older and dirtier technologies because they are cheaper. Removing patents allows many companies to manufacture the same technology. More competition increases supply and pushes prices down. For example, instead of one company controlling a new type of efficient solar panel, manufacturers around the world could produce it. This makes the technology affordable to more households, businesses, and governments. The impact is faster environmental progress. Climate change and pollution are global problems, so it matters more that a technology is widely used than that one company receives maximum profit from controlling it.
Argument 2: Open technology creates faster innovation
Most inventions are not created completely from nothing. New technologies are usually built by improving ideas that already exist. This is especially true for green technology. Better electric vehicles depend on improvements in batteries, charging systems, motors, software, and electricity networks. Better renewable energy systems depend on many technologies working together. Patents can make this process harder. Companies must first determine who owns each part of a technology. They may need to negotiate licenses, pay fees, or worry that another company will sue them for accidentally using a patented idea. This makes experimentation slower and more expensive. Without patents, engineers and companies can freely study existing technology, adapt it to local conditions, combine different inventions, and improve weaknesses. One company might create a better battery. Another might make it cheaper. A third might redesign it for buses or energy storage. Each improvement becomes available for the next innovator to build upon. The result is faster cumulative innovation. This is particularly important for green technology because we need many improvements quickly. The environmental problem is happening now. A system that encourages thousands of people to improve an invention is better than one that gives one company control over it.
Argument 3: Patents are not the only way to reward green innovation
Opposition will argue that nobody will invent green technology if they cannot receive patents. This exaggerates the importance of patents. Green companies have many other reasons to innovate. First, the company that invents something first has a major advantage. It already understands the technology, has trained workers, knows how to manufacture it, and can reach customers before competitors catch up. Second, governments already have strong reasons to support green innovation through research grants, university funding, subsidies, tax benefits, and government purchasing. Third, companies can continue making money from manufacturing, installation, maintenance, software, consulting, and branding. This means removing patents does not mean inventors receive nothing. It changes how they are rewarded. More importantly, the purpose of green innovation should be solving environmental problems. A system has failed if society invents an amazing clean technology but keeps it expensive or unavailable because one company owns the idea. We should reward innovation, but we should not reward it by limiting access to technologies the whole world urgently needs.
Con Sample Case
Opposition Model
We keep patents for green technology.
However, governments should continue supporting green research through subsidies, grants, and public investment. Governments can also encourage voluntary patent pools and affordable licensing, and use compulsory licensing in exceptional situations where one patent creates a serious barrier to an urgently needed technology.
This gives us wider access where necessary without destroying the normal incentive to invent.
Argument 1: Patents create the incentive to invent new green technology
Developing new technology is extremely expensive and risky. A company may spend years researching a new battery, renewable fuel, carbon-capture system, or more efficient solar panel. It must pay scientists and engineers, build prototypes, conduct testing, and sometimes construct expensive factories. Most research projects fail. Companies accept this risk because successful inventions can eventually generate enough profit to pay for both the successful project and all the unsuccessful ones. Patents are important because they give the inventor a temporary period where competitors cannot immediately copy the final product. Without patents, another company can wait while the inventor spends millions developing the technology. Once the invention works, the competitor copies it without paying those research costs and sells it more cheaply. Companies quickly learn the lesson: being the first inventor becomes a bad business strategy. Investors therefore move their money elsewhere. Companies spend less on risky research and focus on copying technologies that already exist. This is especially damaging in green technology because many of the solutions we currently have are not good enough. We still need cheaper batteries, better energy storage, cleaner industrial production, and many technologies that may not even exist yet. Making today's green technology cheaper is useful. But slowing the creation of tomorrow's technology may create far greater environmental harm.
Argument 2: Patents are not the main reason green technology is expensive or unavailable
Proposition assumes that if patents disappear, green technology suddenly becomes cheap and spreads everywhere. That is unrealistic. Knowing how a technology works is only one small part of producing it. A country may still need expensive factories, skilled engineers, rare minerals, electricity networks, charging stations, transportation systems, and billions of dollars of investment. Giving a company the design for an advanced battery does not give it a battery factory. Giving a country the design for a wind turbine does not create transmission lines or workers who can install thousands of turbines. In many cases, companies also possess manufacturing experience and knowledge that cannot simply be learned from a patent document. This means Proposition destroys an important innovation incentive while failing to solve many of the actual barriers preventing green technology from spreading. Our world attacks those barriers directly. Governments can subsidize purchases, finance infrastructure, train workers, support factories, and negotiate cheaper licenses. We solve the real problem without sacrificing future invention.
Argument 3: Abolition rewards large copycats rather than genuine innovators
Proposition presents patent abolition as helping small companies compete with powerful corporations. Often the opposite happens. Imagine a small research company invents a much better solar technology. It has twenty engineers and a small factory. Without patents, the world's largest manufacturers can immediately copy the invention. Those companies already have enormous factories, supply chains, advertising budgets, and relationships with governments and customers. They can produce the invention at a scale the original company cannot match. The small inventor may therefore create the breakthrough while a much larger company earns most of the money from it. This creates a terrible incentive for entrepreneurs and researchers. They know that if they succeed, somebody larger can simply take the idea. Patents give smaller innovators something valuable: ownership of their invention. They can manufacture it themselves, license it to larger companies, or use the patent to attract investment. Our model can still make important technologies accessible through affordable licensing and targeted government intervention. Proposition instead uses the most extreme solution possible by abolishing protection for every green invention. The better system is to keep the incentive to create while fixing access problems when they actually occur.
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