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China Debate Education Network Ethical Considerations and Debate

China Debate Education Network Ethical Considerations and Debate. Debate as an Alternative to Violence. All animals, including human animals, have a variety of ways to resolve differences. Human animals use violent and non-violent means to resolve differences.

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China Debate Education Network Ethical Considerations and Debate

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  1. China Debate Education Network Ethical Considerations and Debate

  2. Debate as an Alternative to Violence • All animals, including human animals, have a variety of ways to resolve differences. • Human animals use violent and non-violent means to resolve differences. • Only human animals can use argumentation and debate to resolve differences non-violently. • USA and USSR negotiated about Cuba and Turkey • Six party talks to prevent outbreak of war in Korea • George McGovern & Mark Hatfield argued to end the American war in Vietnam • All things being equal, non-violence is more ethical than violence.

  3. Ethics: Preliminary Considerations • Ethical considerations are separable from matters of effectiveness • Ethics is a matter of individual action as well as social tradition • Ethics operates in the realm of “more or less” rather than on the basis of “yes or no.”

  4. Dimensions of Ethics Relevant to Debate: Four Considerations • First, respect the process of debate • We must respect the process of argument. • We must not attempt to co-opt the debate process by using strategies and tactics antithetical to debate • Debaters agree to an ethic of open and honest use of evidence • Debaters agree not to knowingly use fallacious reasoning even when it is more effective

  5. Dimensions of Ethics Relevant to Debate: Four Considerations • Second, respect those with whom we debate. • Opponents are persons to be respected, not objects to be overcome • Opponents are not our “enemy,” they are partners in search of better ideas. • Ethical debaters do not stoop to personal attacks and name calling.

  6. Dimensions of Ethics Relevant to Debate: Four Considerations • Third, respect the adjudicators of debate. • The adjudicator is there because disagreements could not be resolved internally. • Respecting the adjudicator does not automatically mean that we believe the decision is correct. • Decisions of the adjudicator can be appealed, but only through proper channels. • Ethics demands, at minimum, respect for the adjudicator as a person.

  7. Dimensions of Ethics Relevant to Debate: Four Considerations • Fourth, respect the outcome of the debate. • That we have agreed to the process of debate means that we must respect the entire process and the outcome is a part of that process. • Ethical debaters respect the outcome of the debate even when they disagree with that outcome.

  8. THANKYOU! 谢谢

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