X. Open IPDA Event Prompts

12:00 UPDA Round 1 Topic Announce

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Alec Baldwin should go to prison.

    2. Cryptocurrency is a bad investment.

    3. "There's no such thing as a free lunch." -Milton Friedman

    4. The World Bank should discontinue the funding of energy infrastructure in developing countries

    5. The Forbes should cease publishing their list of the most powerful people in the world

     

     

3:30 IPDA Rd 2 Topic Announce

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Imposing morality is immoral.

    2. Fears of World War III are justified.

    3. Hollywood has invested too heavily into sequels and remakes.

    4. The U.S. healthcare system is irreparably broken.

    5. Sex robots are a bad idea. 

     

6:00 - IPDA Rd. 3 Topic Announce

  1. Speaker 1


    1. California should secede.

    2. Use of the words "Under God" by the US federal government is constitutional.

    3. The United States Federal Government should ban all semi-automatic firearms.

    4. The press misleads the American people during the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. 

    5. The age limitation on US presidential candidates should be removed.

7:30 IPDA Rd. 4 Topic Announce

  1. Speaker 1


    1. The total human population will exceed 15 billion by the year 2218.

    2. The mind is the sum of the behavior it produces.

    3. Electric scooters should be banned from public roads.

    4. The United States federal government should give education vouchers to homeschooling families.

    5. We should be excited about the prospect of transhumanism.

9:30 IPDA Elim 1 Topic Announce

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Scotland Should declare Independence from the United Kingdom.

    2. DeSantis is more electable than Trump.

    3. Driverless cars are more hype than reality.

    4. Woke philanthropy is the future of marketing.

    5. Facebook does more harm than good. 

11:00 IPDA Elim Rd. 2 Topic Announce

  1. Speaker 1


    1. New Year’s Resolutions are counterproductive.

    2. The sitting president will lose reelection. 

    3. Climate change is the greatest threat to our existence.

    4. The United States should raise the driving age.

    5. Social Security will not survive the foreseeable future.

3:30 - Elim 3 Topic Announce

  1. Speaker 1


    1. Executive orders are bad for American democracy.

    2. "It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something."

    3. Boarding school is harmful to the mental health of the students.

    4. Limiting terms for US senators and representatives brings more harm than benefit.

    5. Censorship should be made less lenient for educational documentaries.