Belmont Debating
Belmont is coming up and I decided to try out for the Belmont debating team. On the first session we discussed topics, how to/what is an argument and Mr. Kerr’s 4 point formula. He also set us homework.
Mr Kerr gave us each a piece of folded paper. Each piece had a different speech topic written on it. We each had to prepare a speech on the topic we were given for next weeks practise. I got euthanasia. Some other speech topics were smoking and the Olympics.
We had a week to do this. I found the topic quite hard but I found out stuff like:
1) Sometimes religious people believe that suffering and pain is positive because it increases compassion, character and wisdom.
2) Euthanasia is when a person is really sick and a relation/friend/doctor puts them ‘to sleep’ like animals.
3) In most countries euthanasia is illegal
I enjoyed doing this even though it was hard (I probably won’t like presenting it though).
