I can’t imagine that I’m the first person to notice that the
CatNats LD and PF topics were accidentally switched at birth. I’m not
attending, of course, so it was just out of morbid curiosity that I took a
look. And lo and behold, someone must have been dipping into the altar wine on
selection day, because, well…
Resolved: Human genetic engineering should be banned.
Resolved: In a just democracy, elections for public
office should be solely financed through public funding.
I mean, let’s face it. How much evidence is there about
human genetic engineering outside of science fiction? “Are we not Men?” It’s
not like, I don’t know, they’ve been tinkering a lot with the embryos in
Harrison which is why they’re all good debaters, and Chetan has the cytosine
data to prove it. This is a purely moral question. PF is the perfect place for
that?
On the other hand, while one might make an ethical argument
for or against public funding of elections, it seems to me that it would make
more sense to look at actual situations. (And note that it doesn’t specify
which elections, so we’re starting at dog catcher here.) We’ve seen public and
private funding of campaigns of all sorts, so we can look to plenty of actual
evidence of results, not to mention the whole corporate spending issue (thank
you, Nino). Sounds perfect for LD!
Is it any wonder that Henry VIII wanted to start his own
church?
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