2011년 5월 24일 화요일

US is a hero



Heroes protect people while bullies harass people. Police protects people's rights and safety while criminals harm people's rights and safety. However, the difference in heroes and bullies, police and the criminal is only one thing, the boundary of defining their rights. US is definitely the strongest country in the world. It spends the most money on Army than other countries and has the best technologies. However, being strong doesn't mean that it can be the police of the world. US is currently acting as a mean bully not a hero of the world by two reasons.

 US does not act fair. In international matters, international laws and the country's law related to the affair is the most important and prior law and it must be fulfilled. However, US has been keep disobeying the international law and kept on playing on their own advantage. For example, when assassinating Bin laden, the US did not tell the Pakistan government about the mission and did not give Bin laden chance of getting trial in the court. Moreover, US buried toxic chemicals in Korea without any permission or inform to the Korean government. This shows that US is not acting fair but only for their profit which cannot be justified.

 It performs in radical and violent ways. When having the power to make contracts and profit in peaceful ways, US uses radical and violent ways which can give them worse side effects in order to gain more profit such as the approval rate of the government. For example, when handling the drug problem in US, when it has the power and money capable of solving the problem in Dutch way which is focused on solving the addiction of the citizen and breaking the market price, US attacks the drug farms which is in other countries. This deepened the problem of drugs in US by more demand but less supply which raised the market price.

 A country is selfish. It must be selfish in order to give their citizen profit. However, the competition between countries must be fair and be done in peaceful way. US is a strong and selfish country which gives profit to its country. However, in international view, US is only a country which tries to rule other country with its own power. There is a proverb that still water runs deep. US should act fairly and peacefully to achieve their goals.

1. THB country can do anything for their own good
2. THB US must act as international police
3. THB US armed force in Korea should be reduced

2011년 5월 17일 화요일

religion

I was born in a Buddhism family. From my early age, I had to go to temple with my family. However, unlike Churches, temples in Korea didn't teach me anything about Buddha but gave me ideas that temple foods are delicious. At the beginning of middle school, I had chance to read books of Richard Dawkins. The fact that I didn't know anything about Buddha made me not to have resistance in facing the ideas of Dawkins but gave me a lot of inspiration. I am an atheist. I believe that religion is one of the evils in the human society by two reasons. 


Firstly, religion itself essentially makes conflicts. Humans are social animal and they tend to give and express their ideas to others. The teachings that religions give are fundamentally same but grew differently by adapting to the society. However, people tend to ignore that fact but just believes that their religion is the truth. For example, Christianity in Korea makes a lot of conflicts with other religions such as going to temples and giving Christian prays and destroying statues of Buddha. This can be seen as the conflicts made essentially by religion.


Moreover, religion makes people irrational. human are animals with both emotion and intellect. The harmony between emotion and intellect is one of the most important tasks that people have within their lives. However, beliefs in religion makes people to follow the ideas that can also make them radical in ideas that oppose to the religion and makes them narrow sighted. I post a clip that shows how people act in churches of Korea.

Although this is only a part of Christianity, we can see that people become more emotional without rationality. Also, this makes people to follow their religious leaders not the ideas of the religion. For example, in Korea, there is a minister Jo Yong Gi. He has his birthday party in World cup stadium and has billions of money. He is also famous for his words such as tsunami in Japan is because Japanese does not believe Christian God. Rational people would criticize him for his words and acts. However, Christians in that church worships him and prays for him. This can be seen that religion makes people emotional. 


The ideas of religion are pure and should be highly valued. However, when it is shown in religion, it cannot be truly valued by people but loses its value and be shown in radical and irrational acts. Thereby, I believe that religion itself currently is evil of the human society and should be changed.

debate flowsheet

sorry for the late upload

I had problem with my computer and I lost all my files I saved from march

I tried to fix it but it didn't work so I had to combine my memory and your flowsheet.


MOTION:
Date:

GOVERNMENT

OPPOSITION
Introduction
Pts
Name Seung Min

Name Seung Chul

Delivery
8.8
/10
Lack of confidence
More power needed
9.0
/10
Easy to understand
More confidence would have been better

Arguments
9.0
/10
Good try but lack of logics in some parts
9.2
/10
Good rebuttal and ideas
Specific examples would have been better

Notes
Tot
17.8
/20

Tot
18.2
/20


Rebuttal One
Pts
Name Jin Kwan
Pts
Name Seung Chan

Delivery
9.0
/10
More fluency would be better
9.2
/10
Good tone and strong emotion

Arguments
9.0
/10
The third argument was good but the rebuttals were not logical
9.3
/10
The rebuttals were good
No logic left for the gov

Notes
Tot
18
/20

Tot
18.5
/20


Rebuttal Two
Pts
Name Da Eun
Pts
Name Kwon Suk

Delivery
9.2
/10
Easy to understand
9.1
/10
Calm delivery
More emotion would been better

Arguments
9.1
/10
repetitive
9.2
/10
Plain but standard
logical

Notes
Tot
18.3
/20

Tot
18.3
/20


Conclusion
Pts
Name Jiyeon
Pts
Name Jegug

Delivery
9.5
/10
Best
9.4
/10
humourous

Arguments
9.3
/10
Did her best for the team
9.3
/10
Nice logic
Good ending

Notes
Tot
18.8
/20

Tot
18.7
/20