The assumption that there is only one opposing viewpoint to any broadcast or piece of published information is misleading. I was on the debate team in high school. Each year there was a single proposition to be debated in the entire league. Debate teams did not find out whether they would debate the positive or the negative in a round…
The assumption that there is only one opposing viewpoint to any broadcast or piece of published information is misleading. I was on the debate team in high school. Each year there was a single proposition to be debated in the entire league. Debate teams did not find out whether they would debate the positive or the negative in a round of debating until five minutes before the round began. Consequently each team prepared a case supporting the affirmative as well as several cases for the negative, each of these exploring a different point of view on the proposition and offering a different alternative in place of it.
The assumption that there is only one opposing viewpoint to any broadcast or piece of published information is misleading. I was on the debate team in high school. Each year there was a single proposition to be debated in the entire league. Debate teams did not find out whether they would debate the positive or the negative in a round of debating until five minutes before the round began. Consequently each team prepared a case supporting the affirmative as well as several cases for the negative, each of these exploring a different point of view on the proposition and offering a different alternative in place of it.