Kent Debating Society

Updates from February, 2010

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  Societies Balloon Debate

  Oliver Blackley 12:47 pm on February 26, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
  Tags: balloon, debate (36), kent (6), societies

  Do you think you’ve got the best society on campus? Would the University of Kent experience be incomplete without you? Do you provide the best extra-curricular experience for students?

  The Kent Debating Society would like to invite your society to a event where you can prove just how great your society is. This will be an opportunity for you to prove your presidential skills, garner more members for your society, demonstrate the opportunities your society provides and, finally, show the rest of us that your society deserves to be called the best society at the University of Kent.

  This event will take place in Darwin Lecture Theatre 1 on the 10th of March from 6pm. There will be a social in Origins afterwards. There are a limited number of places, and slots are granted on a first-come-first-served basis.

  To apply, simply go to our Balloon Debate page and submit your personal and society details.

   

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  THB the consumption of meat is wrong

  Tom Barker 10:19 pm on February 25, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
  Tags: consumption, debate (36), eating, meat, morality, rights (2), wrong

  DLT 1  3/03/09 6pm

  Next week’s debate is on the rights and wrongs of meat consumption.

  The motion is worded in a way that means the first speaker does not necessarily have to come up with a mechanism of banning meat nationally. It is more of a ‘theoretical’ debate. Having said that they are more than welcome to come up with a method of backing up their moral convictions with statutory force!

  There are several dimensions to this debate. The first one is, obviously, morality. Is it always wrong to kill animals for food when it is perfectly feasible to maintain a healthy diet that does not kill other living beings or is such a notion unrealistic and problematic for the majority of people to achieve?

  Aside from morality there is a number of directions the debate can go (freedom of choice, environment etc.), providing a great week for any novices to have a go at  the challenging 3rd speaker extension speeches.

  As always use debatabse to start your research. For the less squeamish among you I recommend watching BBC3′s compelling ‘Kill it, Cook it, Eat it’.

   
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  THW teach homosexuality in primary schools

  Tom Barker 12:07 am on February 19, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment
  Tags: debate (36), education (4), homosexuality, lgbt, schools (2)

  KLT 5 24/02/10 6pm

  This week’s debate is being run in association with Kent Union’s LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) campaign which coincides with LGBT History Month. Regulars please take not of the change of venue this week.

  Research has recently called for aspects of homosexuality to be including in the primary school curriculum which explains the topic we eventually settled on. The first speaker will have to be very clear about how this will be carried out in practice to undermine some of the more predictable arguments the opposition will want to rely on.

  Is part of the problem with homophobia caused by it not being introduced to children at an impressionable age, leaving their views on the issue to be tainted by the taunts of the playground and the influence of intolerant family and friends?

  Or is it an issue that is best kept well away from the classroom at such an early age? Is it an easy excuse to absolve responsibility for the issue by burdening an already overwhelmed teaching profession?

  I look forward to finding out on Wednesday!

  For more info, please visit the Facebook Event