In stories, "Power Fantasy" characters are those whose natural and/or bestowed traits make them much more powerful than others. They shape the story's narrative by perfoming extraordinary feats and are seen as symbols of control and/or victory. They are often physically attractive, emotionally guarded (choose not to open up to others), and exhibit a sense of superiority. (E.g. James Bond, Gojo from Jujutsu Kaisen, Sung Jin-Woo from Solo-leveling, and John Wick)

Complex representations of women portray them as morally ambiguous, with intricate motivations and internal conflicts.

Idealized representations of women depict them as morally principled, purpose-driven, and self-assured. They are shown as averse to negative emotions and make decisions with a focus on the overall consequences.

Currently, any individual cannot be President of the United States for more than 2 terms, and they can also choose to run for office in the subsequent electoral cycle while being in office. For Example, Barack Obama served as President from 2008-2012, and was able to run for office in the 2012 election as well which he went onto win and served another term from 2012-2016.

For the purposes of this debate, Pre-electoral prediction polls refer to the public display of all electoral surverys on various platforms such as social media, traditional news channels, etc.

The Indian Premier League is a club based franchise cricket tournament. Clubs recruit players majorly via a “mega-auction” which occurs every 3 years. In the mega auction, every club has a capped equal pool of funds to bid for players from.

For the upcoming 2025 IPL Season, clubs have been allowed to keep players through two methods.

The first method is "Retention-only system", through which clubs can keep 3 players of their choice from the existing squad before an auction based on negotiation between the retained player and the team. Remaining un-retained are released into the auction.

The second method is “right-to-match only system” a.k.a RTM-only system (applied during the auction) which allows clubs to match the final price of a player that was determined through auction, and keep them. Only 8 RTMs are allowed.

Regardless of the method through which teams want to keep players, the money is deducted from their auction fund for that year.

Over the past 10 years, China has given several loans to developing countries in exchange for political benefits (eg: favourable votes in multilateral institutions or deeper trade relations, etc.). The borrowing country has often defaulted on these loans, resulting in China taking possession of infrastructure in these developing countries as collateral (Typically, loans are backed with assets, typically infrastructure as a condition for repayment)

Recently, the Ukrainian Government under President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched an offensive in the Kursk region in Russia, which has been broadly considered as one of the biggest counter offensives that Ukraine has launched since the start of the war. Zelensky claims to have control over the territory, but Russia has disputed the claims on the extent of the incursion The Biden Administration is currently providing massive amounts of military to Zelensky’s regime, which has received significant political backlash back in the US.

Institutionalization refers to a person being placed in a long-term care facility, such as a hospital, psychiatric institution, or nursing home, typically due to chronic illness, mental health issues, or disabilities. This often involves the patient living in the institution and receiving ongoing care or treatment. 

Currently, doctors and healthcare professionals need to procure a court order for long term involuntary institutionalisation of a patient."

Qualified immunity doctrine is a legal defence that shields law enforcement officers from liability of misconduct when performing their duties. Typically, their misconduct is reviewed an internal ethics review committee within the law enforcement agency 

For the purposes of this debate, ImPrIt-VE is a technology which allows for time to be replaced artifically by the amount of time the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned to (i.e: if prisoner was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment, they would feel the passage of time as if 12 years have passed within 12 hours)

Queer coding is the act of using subtext to code a character in media as queer. The process of queer coding entails applying characteristics associated with queerness to a character, without ever confirming it.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is the nation's central bank, which has recently mandated retail banks to increase their "risk weights" from 100% to 125%.

A Risk weight mandates that a bank have safe, easily liequfiable assets equal to a percentage value of loaned amount, and increasing it would imply that the bank should have more liequifiable assets.

The previous risk weight of 100% implies a bank needed as much value in assets on hand as the value of loans given out.

During the India-Pakistan partition in 1947, princely states were given the choice to join either India, Pakistan or remain independent. Kashmir, ruled by a Hindu King but with a Muslim majority population, was heavily contested by both countries. Initially choosing to remain independent, Kashmir was attacked by Pakistan-based militias. The King agreed to cede to India in exchange for military assistance. The Pakistani Army entered Kashmir in response to Indian presence, which led to a year long conflict. The Indian army secured the central regions of Kashmir owing to its greater military strength while Pakistan secured the northern and western regions. Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru took the Kashmir issue to the UN for mediation, and a ceasefire was announced with a temporary Line of Control. The dispute remains unresolved as of today. With the benefit of hindsight, THBT it would have been in India's interest for Nehru to have never approached the United Nations for mediation.

For the purposes of this debate, ImPrIt-VE is a technology which allows for time to be replaced artifically by the amount of time the prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned to (i.e: if prisoner was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment, they would feel the passage of time as if 12 years have passed within 12 hours)

You come across a button that when pressed, would make you functionally immortal, and incapable of destruction from all physical and mental harm

Currently, AI that can make art is made trained on large amounts of art available online and obtained unfairly. 

"AI-compatibalism" focuses on the legal ramifications for stealing art and for a shift in norm to pay artists for their work used to train AI. It strongly supports instances of ethical AI making art.

“AI skepticism”  opposes the use of AI in art entirely, with the belief that it is harmful regardless of training methods. 

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