If Cambridge debaters do it, what follows?
Debate is a young thing in Slovenia, my lil country. It is around for a couple of more then ten years, and the student debate is here even less, so there is ho history or precedences, what and how things should be done. And we have great problems on how to get decisions done, what to do if someone makes something wrong.
We have seen allegations over emails that were a bit too much, we have seen hours and hours of meetings, where we debated for hours and didn’t move from the point not even for a bit.
But after what I read on
http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com/2008/02/fight-breaks-out-at-cambridge-union.html, that the Cambridge debaters fight in the debating chambers, I get really concerned what is going to happen in the debate meeting, that we will have in a couple of weeks (days).
I know that I just can’t expect that every debater is a great person, and sadly there were accidents in the past, where I have seen with my own eyes, that there are as much jack-asses in debate as in the rest of the world. But …. Anything else than violence is what I expect from any debater.
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