For the purposes of this debate, regional security alliances are multilateral agreements in which neighbouring or geographically linked countries agree to collaborate on security, often through the inclusion of mutual defense clauses ('an attack on one is regarded as an attack on all'). Examples include the 2026 Mecca Defense Alliance (Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Pakistan) and the 2023 Alliance of Sahel States (Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger).

Law enforcement centralization refers to a system where law enforcement activities are consolidated at a national level. Under this model, police forces are consolidated into a single national authority that controls law enforcement agencies and dictates budgets, training, and operations. Any laws enforced by these police forces are also set exclusively by the national government. This model contrasts with decentralized systems where more localized communities manage their own police forces, like systems found currently in the United States. In these systems, laws enforceable by police forces can also be set locally, such as criminal laws set by individual states or municipal bylaws set by individual cities.

For the purposes of this debate, the “Abject Woman” refers to a concept/literary trope of a woman who resists dominant social and gender norms through transgressive or self-destructive acts. They are often portrayed as women who disrupt social boundaries and can, at times, take on socially repulsive forms.

Examples include but are not limited to: Yeong-hye in The Vegetarian, where she creates intense conflict with her family by refusing the consumption of meat, leading to her institutionalization; Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre, where she exists as the “madwoman in the attic”; the Female Creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein where she exists as a subhuman and almost manstrous creature.

For the 2028 US Presidential election there are a variety of candidates vying for the Democratic Party nomination. Some front runners in the polls include Kamala Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Jon Ossoff and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

Edmund Burke was a philosopher famous for his take on aesthetics in his book: "A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful" (1757). In this work, Burke divided the aesthetic and perception of art into two parts, "beauty" and "the sublime".

For the purpose of this debate:

a. "Beauty" refers to a quality associated with gentle and pleasing emotions that arise from our interactions with the world around us. This means art that provide a sense of reassurance, validation and comfort for its viewers.

b. "Sublime" refers to art that surpasses the boundaries of the beautiful and elicits intense emotions of awe, astonishment, and even terror. He emphasizes that the sublime is associated with qualities of vastness, obscurity, and insignificance. This means as opposed to providing comfort, this art provides a foreign and thought-provoking feeling to its viewers

You are a writer working for a book packaging company (they own the rights to your story and you are paid a hefty annual salary), due to your contract you have veto power over the release of any final books but you must stay within the parameters created by the company.

As you come to the conclusion of your story, the company has decided to take the story in a direction that you feel is a profound betrayal of your characters, world and original vision.

You can choose to shut this story down, but in doing so you forego a large amount of compensation, and neither you nor the company can ever complete it in either official or fan-fiction form.