Debate Assessment 1

Motion: This House should ban cigarettes from the society

Opening Government

• Cigarettes contain many dangerous ingredients that can make body and health issues.
• Cigarettes can lead smokers to death.
• More than 500.000 people die every year because of smoke
• Human rights for passive smokers

Opening Opposition

• Human rights, people can choose whether they want to smoke or not, it's their choice.
• Denying human rights who depend on cigarettes will just make a worse problem
• The government can make a smoking-free area, and spots for smoking.
• The discomfort caused by active smokers can be reduced by providing areas for smokers.

Closing Government

• There's nothing positive someone can gain from smoking.
• Smoking area isn't effective.
• Smokers are not only one or two, but MANY.
• The most effective way is to prohibit smoke.
• Cigarettes can lead to financial risk.
• $ 1093 billion were used for cigarettes and medications caused by smoke. That can be used for any other more important purpose.

Closing Opposition

• Smoking area is effective if there's a punishment for people who break the rules, smoking in a smoking-free area.
• Strict rules and punishment.
• Smoking is indeed bad, but banning it will just make another problem because there are still many people who need and is depending on cigarettes.
• Ban the subject, not the object!
• Education regarding to how dangerous smoke is is way better and acceptable.

Motion: TH should support the death penalty for corruptors

Opening Government

• Corruptors are immoral
• They're criminals, should be punished as death
• Jailing doesn't affect them, they repeat.
• They take citizen's money for themselves

Opening Opposition

• The most fundamental human rights is the right to live
• Life isn't something we can take
• Death penalty isn't effective, proved that there are still many corruptors even after that death penalty had been applied.

Closing Government

• They destroy their own country and they don't care.
• People pay taxes and they, who doesn't deserve the money, just easily take it away for them.
• Killing them could stop them from stealing.

Closing Opposition

• Death as a penalty is not damaging.
• It can be manipulated easily as long as they have money.
• They wouldn't feel the suffering
• It means to take individual right
• They need to feel the suffer of people who they took their money from
• They need to feel guilty