Most universities have a governance structure with a Board of Directors or Trustees overseeing a team of Senior Administrators led by a CEO, often referred to as a President or a Principal. The Senior Administrators formulate and implement strategies for the development of the university and are responsible for the management of key units. Faculty members are predominantly responsible for teaching and research and sometimes seek promotion to Senior Administrative posts.

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a free trade agreement among the Asia-Pacific nations of Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and Vietnam. The RCEP involves the elimination of tariffs and establishes common rules for trade and intellectual property.

For the purposes of the debate, political crimes are crimes committed in order to harm the state, state's government, or political system of a state. Examples include treason, sedition, and espionage.

Envy is a feeling of discontented or resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions, qualities, or luck.

There is a machine that objectively and quickly determines what actions individuals would take if they were placed in a specific real-life situation. For the purposes of this debate, the machine can get all the relevant context of this situation and it will produce accurate results, which represent the action that most individuals would do in a given context.

For example, a person is homeless and stole an apple from a grocery shop. The machine would then extract the context from the said person's action. It would run a simulation, and if the majority of the people, when put in the exact same situation, would "choose" to steal from a grocery shop to feed themselves given the context, the machine would show that result.

The majority of the population believes in the objectivity and accuracy of the machine.

Stoicism posits that humans should not let their emotions control them and that they should accept what they cannot change. Emotionalism posits that humans should let their emotions control them. It argues that emotions are a natural and healthy part of life, and that humans should not try to suppress them.