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Israel/Palestine

aranthus

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2. There's a difference between Model UN and a debate tournament.

Reply to oberliner (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 21, 2016, 07:04 PM

Apr 2016

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No one expects a UN session to be moral or fair. It's power politics. You don't have to be reasonable, or intellectually honest, just diplomatic. You can lie. A debate is a reasoned argument in the search for truth. There are limits to what you can say. It's unfair to the pro-side in this case to force them to come up with a reasoned argument for the unreasonable.

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I disagree oberliner Apr 2016 #1

There's a difference between Model UN and a debate tournament. aranthus Apr 2016 #2