Emigration is the act of leaving one's native country or region with the intent to settle permanently in another. While migration is the general movement of people, emigration strictly refers to the departure from the original country (the "exit" point).

Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood (1995) was a memoir by "Binjamin Wilkomirski" claiming to survive Nazi concentration camps as a child. It won major awards including the National Jewish Book Award and huge support from Holocaust survivors before being exposed in 1998 as fabricated: the author was a non-Jewish Swiss man with no such history. After an investigation confirmed the fraud, the publisher pulled the book from circulation. The case was heatedly debated as a textbook example of the perils of exploiting the Holocaust for personal gain.

Digital nomads are people who use digital technology to work remotely while temporarily living in a country other than the one where their employer, business, or clients are based. They typically earn income from abroad rather than working in the local labour market.

Taylor Swift is an American singer known for writing love songs. Majority of her songs have been traced back to her specific celebrity ex-boyfriends (i.e. "Style" for Harry Styles, "All too Well" for Jake Gyllenhaal) and thus created large waves of publicity for numerous of her albums and their successes. Travis Kelce is a popular American Football player who recently won the Super Bowl. The two got married in Madison Square Garden (New York) this July with majority of the guest list being celebrites and even some of Taylor's previous lovers.

In June 2026, Korean streaming platform Wavve launched "Stand Bi Me," the country's first reality dating show for bisexual contestants, following earlier queer dating shows "His Man" (gay men, since 2022) and "ToGetHer" (lesbian cast, 2025). These shows air on streaming rather than broadcast TV and remain a niche but growing genre in a country where queer visibility in mainstream media has historically been limited and LGBTQ+ people still lack full legal protections like same-sex marriage or nationally codified anti-discrimination laws.

For the purpose of the debate, the "Veil of Ignorance" assumes you have full knowledge of the status quo as an average reasonable voter, but your individual identity has not yet been confirmed (i.e. not yet born, conceptualized, etc)