Debate me?

I’m interested in either having a live or text debate on one of these topics. For live debate, I can either do evidence-based (e.g., the LD or Policy formats, though without spreading/pre-fiat kritiks) or non-evidence-based limited prep formats (e.g., “APDA motions,” Australs, NPDA, World Schools, maybe even British Parliamentary), though I prefer the latter. For text debates, I prefer either three speeches per debater (10,000 characters per speech) or four speeches per debater but with the fourth speeches being character-limited to 5,000 characters. Preferred position is in parentheses (note: my preferred positions do not necessarily reflect my real life beliefs—I am undecided on most of these issues). I don’t guarantee that I will accept any offers; just looking out for interest. 

On balance, economic globalization benefits worldwide poverty reduction (Pro)

Capitalism is preferable to socialism (Pro)

Rent control does more harm than good (Pro)

Gentrification does more harm than good (Con)

The US should implement Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up large technology companies (Con)

Developed countries should impose a tax on automation (Con)

Assuming the 2016 Brexit referendum did not happen, the UK should leave the European Union (Con) *

Western developed countries should require that pharmaceutical companies dedicate a portion of their budget to research on tropical diseases (Pro)

Developed countries have a moral obligation to mitigate the effects of climate change (Pro)

The World Health Organization should adopt a convention which bans the sell of drugs with high resistance tendencies (e.g., antibiotics) to countries which do not comply with WHO guidelines regarding their medical and agricultural use (either)

Governments should ban non-disclosure agreements in cases of workplace sexual harassment (Pro)

The US should further limit qualified immunity for police officers (Pro)

Governments should be able to legally access any encrypted device (Con)

The National Security Agency should notify software manufacturers of all zero-day vulnerabilities it finds in order for them to patch these defects (Pro)

Government assistance to historically marginalized cultural groups should be contingent on policies to combat traditional gender inequality (Pro)

Countries should transition to cashless economies (Pro)

Governments should impose a 100-percent estate tax (Con)

Twitter does more harm than good (Con)

Microfinance loans do more harm than good (Con)

Governments should require that meat packaging include images that vividly reflect the experiences of the animals throughout the manufacturing process (either)

Factory farming should be illegal (Pro)

Inndigenous groups in parliamentary democracies with historically marginalized indigenous populations (e.g., the Maori in New Zealand) should form independent political parties instead of encouraging their members to vote for, and run on behalf of, existing parties (Con)

Casino gambling should be illegal (either)

Governments should implement “filial responsibility laws” (either)

The partition of India has done more harm than good (either)

It would be preferable to the status quo if the Big Three credit ratings agencies were nationalized (Pro)

Commercial surrogacy should be legal (Pro)

Developed countries should require that their international development aid budgets are approved by popular referenda (Con)

Governments should legally recognize exclusively marriages between partners of the opposite sex/gender (Con)

To clarify: These “parli-only” topics are ones I’m only willing to do in live debates in a parli format (such as APDA, NPDA, or Australs).

Have you gotten more centrist since I last saw you? Just curious.

Depends on when that was, I guess...

My current DDO “Big Issues” answers represent my views pretty well: https://www.debate.org/tejretics/