At the McGill IV 2024, much of the McGill debating Union's leadership were disparaging Canadian Parliamentary debating and the upcoming CP National tournament. This included the notion of the MDU not sending teams to the tournament. 

In the Dune universe, the Butlerian Jihad was a crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots. All intelligent machines were completely destroyed, and religions adopted rules such as “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

At the McGill IV 2024, much of the McGill debating Union's leadership were disparaging Canadian Parliamentary debating and the upcoming CP National tournament. This included the notion of the MDU not sending teams to the tournament. 

A new international accolade is proposed by the governments of the world called the 'Blue Shell Award'. Every year on the 31st of December, the wealthiest person alive is declared the 'Winner of Capitalism'. They get a badge that says 'good job', and then all of their wealth is donated to various charitable causes"

Ambivalence is the state of having mixed feelings about X. Examples of the absence of ambivalence include strong support for X and strong opposition to X.

"You are a sixteen year old going into your junior year of high school. You are also very proficient at a very popular video game, so much so that you rank in the 0.1% of players. You are also a 4.0 GPA student but recently you have been getting attention from esports organizations trying to foster new talent. You know you can’t keep excelling at this caliber if you keep focusing on your studies.
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An adversarial system of legal advocacy is one in which lawyers are zealous advocates for the rights or interests of their client. An evidence based system of legal advocacy is one where lawyers advocate for their client by seeking to uncover all avaliable evidence or "the truth" of what happened

It is 1967. You are a 21-year old American who has been drafted into the US Army, but heavily disagree with your country's actions in Vietnam. You are drafted to a non-combat role for 2-3 years. You do not qualify as a 'conscientious objector'. If you attempt to evade the draft ('draft dodge') and are caught, you will face a prison sentence (2-3 years).

Jurassic World has happened. Some dinosaurs have human-level intelligence and can speak, but they all talk very quickly.

Serena is a robber in a bank heist who is currently successful; they have stolen the safe of the grand central bank and has begun making their escape. As they exit the bank, they fall, hit the ground and experience amenesia; they are now a functional adult but have no memories past the age of 4.