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Jonathan Ellis wrote in The New York Times that competitive debate promotes biased reasoning by giving debaters a specific view to work backward from rather than allowing them to come to their own unique position on a topic. [73] James Dimock, a debate coach at Minnesota State University, presented two objections to competitive debate in a 2009 ...
Rapoport himself, in his 1960 discussion of the Rogerian strategy in Fights, Games, and Debates, connected the ethics of debate to non-zero-sum games. [78] Rapoport distinguished three hierarchical levels of conflict: fights are unthinking and persistent aggression against an opponent "motivated only by mutual animosity or mutual fear"; [79]
The Ethics Bowl was developed in 1993 by Dr. Robert Ladenson of the Illinois Institute of Technology. An intramural Ethics Bowl was held at IIT for two years, and in 1995 a small local competition was held where teams from DePaul University, Loyola University, and Western Michigan University were invited to compete against the winning IIT from that year's competition.
We've compiled a list of relatively safe subjects — open-ended, locally rooted topics likely to draw disagreement but probably not blood. No politics, no religion, no FIFA, no tacos.
This category puts articles relevant to well-known ethical (right and wrong, good and bad) debates and decisions in one place - including practical problems long known in philosophy, and the more abstract subjects in law, politics, and some professions and sciences.
Participants represent their schools and are divided into two groups (Category I for students of Standards XI and XII and Category II for students of Standards IX and X). Over 1,600 schools participate in the event each year making it 2nd largest debate tournament in India after Indian Debate League. [1] [2] [3]
Inter-collegiate and high school policy debate are largely similar. Some of the differences: High school debate has its own, separate, leagues and tournaments. High school constructives are typically only 8 minutes, and high school rebuttals are typically only 5 minutes. College times are typically 9 minute constructives and 6 minute rebuttals.
In the video, a young man sits at a table with a digital timer, facing someone who identifies as a Trump supporter, and the two argue as 19 others sit in chairs around them, waiting for their turn ...