Debating issues.
March 3, 2015 at 3:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 3, 2015 at 4:57 pm by BlackMason.)
I'm starting this thread to get some help with some sticking points that I'm having with real debating. I've joined the debating league in my college and I realised that I'm better at countering than proposing. Today I was placed in the proposition side and I had trouble coming up with points for the motion.
The motion was "This house would charge men that abandon their girlfriends due to pregnancy". The only thing I could think of was why. So I eventually came up with the argument that girlfriend implies relationship. A relationship is a quid pro quo. Therefore a relationship can be seen as contractual in nature. Abandonment is a breach of contract and there should be penalties. THAT IS ALL I could come up with. Luckily this was just a practice round and wasn't official.
I did debating in high school buy that was a long time ago. Plus I've just recently become intellectually awake. What I learned in high school has been poorly retained. I noticed that a lot of debate topics are negatively biased against the proposition such as the above topic. It relies on morals and morals are relative. Can anyone with real debating experience help me see things from a broader perspective?
Also we don't know what topics we'll be given before hand. We only get 15 minutes to prepare on debate night. Then you gotta go speak.
The motion was "This house would charge men that abandon their girlfriends due to pregnancy". The only thing I could think of was why. So I eventually came up with the argument that girlfriend implies relationship. A relationship is a quid pro quo. Therefore a relationship can be seen as contractual in nature. Abandonment is a breach of contract and there should be penalties. THAT IS ALL I could come up with. Luckily this was just a practice round and wasn't official.
I did debating in high school buy that was a long time ago. Plus I've just recently become intellectually awake. What I learned in high school has been poorly retained. I noticed that a lot of debate topics are negatively biased against the proposition such as the above topic. It relies on morals and morals are relative. Can anyone with real debating experience help me see things from a broader perspective?
Also we don't know what topics we'll be given before hand. We only get 15 minutes to prepare on debate night. Then you gotta go speak.
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