Animal Farm: Debate

Topic: You should believe everything you hear ~DISAGREE~

Hello, my name is , these are my colleagues . Today, my team and I will show you why you should not believe everything you hear.

Speaker One:

Have you ever heard the saying “Crying is a sign of weakness” ? This is just one of many examples of a situation where a person may believe what is being told to them, that crying is weak and is something they must never do. while others may ignore this saying and think it’s normal for a person to show emotions,that it actually shows how tough you are, that you aren’t afraid to show them. We all have the same feelings, the only difference is how people show them.

How about “Children are like dogs, should be seen but not heard.” kids have the same rights as adults and we are allowed to talk and say what we want to some extent, we all have the freedom of speech.

The Canadian charter of rights and freedoms clearly states the citizens of Canada have

The right to express yourself and form your own opinions is an essential feature of a democracy. ... In Canada, section 2(b) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects “freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication”.

Do you agree with the sayings I have presented? Do you believe them? Probably not, how could you? If you only knew one side of the story how could you decide and believe in it. For instance, when someone tells you that it is warm outside, the consequences of believing them are usually unimportant. But if someone tells you to invest a large sum of money today and promise you’ll get double tomorrow, you are unlikely to believe.

Speaker Two:

-If you take a look at our history it clearly shows that you should not believe everything you hear and only half of what you see.

-Look no further than to Socrates, who was put to death because he was teaching young people to “think” for themselves and derive their own beliefs from within.

-Another is Aristotle, who famously rejected Plato’s theory of forms, which states that properties such as beauty are abstract universal entities that exist independent of the objects themselves. Instead, he argued that forms are intrinsic to the objects and cannot exist apart from them, and so must be studied in relation to them. Because of this he had to flee his country just because he did not believe in what others did.

-Galileo was a leading scientist of his time and a proponent of the work by Copernicus (Polish astronomer), basically that the Earth is not the center of the solar system, the sun is. The Catholic Church disagreed, convicted him of heresy and forced him to