"This debate doesn't seem to be easy to argue, it's too sensitive. It is easy for the other side's position to occupy public opinion. ”

"But after so many games, who doesn't know the truth that 'the results of the competition are decided by the judges of the brick family group, and it has nothing to do with public opinion'? As long as Xiao Feng has the ability to stand firm and make firm arguments, public opinion has nothing to worry about. ”

As soon as the lottery was drawn, Ximen Zhenji and Nan Xiaoyuan, two relatively rookie teammates, chatted in a whisper at the door.

Ximen Zhen Ji is the one who holds a relatively pessimistic position, and Nan Xiaoyuan is an optimist - not that Nan Xiaoyuan's strength is necessarily stronger than Ximen Zhen Ji, but she has been with Feng Jianxiong for a longer time, and she knows Feng Jianxiong's style of play and the skills that have killed the enemy, so she has this confidence.

Feng Jianxiong killed an opponent whose position was more "popular with the people", and that was not once or twice. In fact, in the last qualifier play-off, in the confrontation with Xiamen University, Chen Jie, the judge of Xia University's question, obviously played the card of public opinion, and the result was not the same as a miserable death.

When drawing lots just now, they clearly saw the members of the Xiangjiang University team, and they were slightly stunned when they saw the debate topic, and then their expressions were complicated, with both pride and grief, obviously thinking that this topic was a bit ...... Complex.

Yu Meiqin, as the captain, glanced at Feng Jianxiong thoughtfully, as if waiting for him to express his opinion first. However, Feng Jianxiong didn't have anything to say, Yu Meiqin thought about it, and analyzed it to her teammates in the south and west as peacemakers:

"Saying that freedom of speech on the Internet is conducive to political democracy is obviously conducive to standing on the side of 'universal values' and winning the sympathy of the people. Saying that freedom of speech on the Internet is not conducive to political democracy is actually in the domestic political environment, it is easy to please the top level - if the argument is good, from the green dam to the wall to the harmony, the theoretical basis can be found from it, which is more conducive to governance.

So I don't think there's a need to worry too much about whether the result of the competition will be skewed - the key is whether we can say a convincing truth, and if it makes sense, most of the judges will not deliberately resist the above. Only when we can't make sense will the judges be able to make a reputation in the style of Hai Jui-style in order to be the 'conscience of the people'. ”

After listening to Yu Meiqin's persuasion, Ximen Zhen Ji was still not worried: "But if our position is all based on reasoning, it is obviously contrary to the 'universal truth'! Will insisting on strong words and reasoning arouse public anger and be mistaken by netizens for being recruited by the Central X Department? Will the five or six million followers on his blog drop?"

Previously, Senior Feng was very popular among the petty bourgeoisie and the elite, and the ordinary quasi-middle class also had a lot of fans. I'm afraid that if I mess up this time, the powder at the grassroots level will drop too much. ”

Hearing this question, Feng Jianxiong finally spoke.

He proudly and kindly reassured, "Simon-san, this is not a problem that you should worry about. You're going to have to worry about how to win the game. I have the ability to win games, so I naturally have the ability to maintain my public image.

No one says that we need to be 'reasonable' to win the game, right? Internet freedom has nothing to do with democracy at all, and even has an inverse relationship, and you will see it if you live ten more years -

The debate we are facing today is like the finals in the 90s, when Jinling University faced National Taiwan University, because of the entanglement of 'will the globalization of trade lead all mankind to look at money and reduce wars', and lost the game - but as long as the Soviet Union perished in the next year, this debate question actually does not need to be debated at all, and Jinling University will definitely be able to turn the tables.

You don't know about the harm of the Internet in causing the world to be divided, and even if the Internet is the future after the emergence of artificial intelligence, how many black swans will be created, and how many tragedies will be created, and neither will the opponents know, but I can foresee it. So, listen to me, you can go home and sleep and wait for the game - if we knew that the first game was on this topic, we could have prepared less and rested for a few more days. ”

……

A city, a dark corner.

Certain indescribable existence of the Organizing Committee.

Shadow Boss One: "The topic is well arranged this time, and there was no cheating in the draw." ”

Shadow Guy 2: "No, no-as long as this topic is contested by Jinling Normal University, no matter whether Feng Jianxiong is positive or negative, it will not be good for him."

If he is the right party, he will say more extreme mistakes of assets and free words, and he will be labeled in this life.

If he becomes the opponent, he will either take the initiative to lose the game for the sake of conscience and keep the liberal fans on the blog, or he will forcibly win the game, but lose the hearts and minds of the existing fans - those who fan him because of his liberal tendencies will not continue to fan him after seeing him open up for imprisonment. ”

The big guy nodded: "Yes, in the current situation, the best state for Feng Jianxiong is to participate in a few debates with low political correctness and controversy, and then win the championship." And as long as it involves the topic of political correctness, he will have to pay a price on the one hand, whether it is positive or negative - I don't know how many times this guy has been raised, and the last time Chen Jie's matter dared to use the topic to play, it was to beat him hard. ”

Guy: "You couldn't be more right. Anyway, there is no third way to win the game without being imprisoned. ”

The big guy was very satisfied, and finally added a question: "By the way, then do you still have any preparations? What if Feng Jianxiong jumps over the pit again this time? Are there any sensitive debate topics waiting for him in the semifinals and finals?"

The little guy thought for a moment and explained in embarrassment: "It's not ...... Because it is difficult to predict their opponents in the later games, they are all knockout rounds, and the debate is decided in advance to be sealed, and the organizing committee has a third-party notary supervision...... But don't worry, this first course is enough. ”

……

Feng Jianxiong was full of prawns in Qingdao, and he also had to go to Laoshan to eat while watching the sea, and after eating, he visited Changgong's Huashi Building and played for four or five days.

No way, who let them be in the second half of the preliminaries, after the draw is made, the teams in the first half must fight fiercely.

Their whereabouts and behavior are not kept secret at all, which has really attracted a lot of attention from insiders:

The proximity of the metropolitan competition, the topic and the position have been decided, and you still have to set aside time to play every day?

Feng Jianxiong's explanation to his teammates for this is that in the semi-finals and finals, there is not so much time to prepare for each game. We're aiming for the championship and it's important to get the pace right. If you are not sure that you will kill your opponent in just two or three days to prepare for the debate, then it is better to die early and reincarnate early.

Of course, this explanation is not open to the public, so the opponents and the organizing committee do not know. Everyone thought he was too underestimating the enemy and looked down on those Xiangjiang debaters who ran fast.

Race day is fast approaching.

Feng Jianxiong took his teammates lightly and prepared to fight monsters and upgrade.

As an aside, in the few days they played, the two preliminaries in the first half of the region had ended, and the teams that qualified were Wuchang University in the South China Division and Xi'an Jiaotong in the West China Division. Therefore, the semi-finals in the first half of the region will be a civil war between universities in the mainland, and the final team to enter the finals will also be the domestic team.

In the first game in the off-duty area, a domestic university in the North China division was seconded by the National Taiwan University from Wanwan, so if Feng Jianxiong and they win, the semi-finals will have to touch Taibazi again like two years ago, but the finals are destined to be a civil war with domestic universities - of course, if Feng Jianxiong loses, then the finals can still see the confrontation between the two sides of the strait.

It's just that how is this possible.

Less nonsense.

On the day of the competition, both sides entered the venue, and the host introduced the judges.

When it came to the main competition of the national debate, the judges' grades finally recovered a lot, and they no longer had to face those guys who had a long list of titles such as "well-known commentator of Central People's Radio" and "well-known commentator of Dragon TV", but in fact, none of the people knew each other.

The old faces of Professor Zhang of Peking University, Professor Jiang of Fudan University, Luo Fatzi of CCTV, Gao Dasong of Ahri, and so on.

This also saves the judges from rubbing the heat of the contestants.

"Now I announce that the game has officially begun, first of all, I will ask the positive side to make a debate, the time is three minutes, please!"

As soon as the host's voice fell, a female college student in Xiangjiang who looked a little bit of Wendi Deng's temperament stood up, as if she was trying her best to imitate C Bichi's tone and demeanor, and it sounded very "compassionate and universal salvation".

“…… As we all know, political democracy is the XXX...... pursued by human progress for hundreds of years"

"Freedom of speech has also been enshrined in the days of Milton by the predecessors who loved democracy and sought the truth......

There is no need to say all these words, so as not to be too watery, anyway, once my mother was a basket, and the idea was one sentence: put yourself on the commanding heights of justice at the beginning.

After the definition is firmly entrenched, the positive side began to discuss the help of pan-freedom of speech to democracy, such as allowing people to have more rights to know, better express their opinions, exercise their rights, find their own kind, and find blind spots in debate and discussion with those who disagree with others......

However, compared to the high-pitched singing at the beginning, the Xiangjiang female college student's argument for the latter half of the part does not sound very powerful.

Maybe when they were preparing for the game, they really couldn't think of what angle the opposition would attack, so that the positive side would have to withstand the disadvantage of speaking first, and they could only talk in generalities.

At the end of the argument, the female student added a little "hypothetical" counter-point, such as: "Of course, some people may say that 'freedom of speech is too generalized, and it may also lead to temporary disadvantages of public opinion expression such as online violence and a 'spiral of silence'......

To sum up, the deepening of freedom of speech brought about by the Internet is conducive to better information, supervision and expression of the people...... It is therefore conducive to the progress of political democracy. ”

……

"What kind of routine is this to be so pathetic? I think they are a little hesitant. Do you want to win the game, or do you want to make yourself a 'tragic hero who asks for the life of the people but is oppressed'? None of the opinions were unanimous, and the game was easier. ”

Feng Jianxiong listened to the other party's argument, and discussed a few words with Yu Meiqin in a whisper there, looking very relaxed.

When the other party was about to finish and sit down, Feng Jianxiong did not forget to gently shake Yu Meiqin's hand and encouraged: "This time, the topic of this time, let's adjust the order of appearance, and the point of force is to debate." I'm still going to carry the rhythm in the back, and it's up to you to make a decision. ”

The reason why he said this was because before the game, the four members of the Jinling Division Team collectively discussed the new tactics, and then put Yu Meiqin in the position of the first debate - originally the first debate should be the position with the lowest requirements for adaptability in a team, and the main force like Yu Meiqin often played the fourth debate, and Feng Jianxiong presided over the free debate in the middle and handed the first debate to the weakest teammate.

However, this was the case in previous years, mainly because the probability of the Jinling Division Brigade was relatively strange when it drew lots, and it often played square. The argument of the positive side does not need to be considered, so the weakening is particularly obvious.

This time it was the opposite side that was drawn. It also happens to be the kind of topic that "it is difficult for the positive side to predict how the opposing side will make arguments and how to prevent it", so the opposing side can put a strong player on the argument, which can just exert all its firepower. As long as it is said well, it can completely create a kind of precedent that "the original positive argument is completely out of tune".

Of course, most of what Yu Meiqin wanted to say, she had discussed with Feng Jianxiong and formed more than a dozen combination plans. It wasn't entirely on her own whims. Urgency and adaptability are just a link and clue for matchmaking and integration.

"Okay, the time is up, now I have to ask the opposing side to argue the theoretical argument, and the time is also three minutes, please!"

As the square sat down and the host finished speaking, Yu Meiqin finally stood up with a strong attitude.

"If the topic of today's debate is to discuss the merits of 'democracy that can really be realized,' then I think it would be beneficial for us as the opposing side not to debate," she said unhurriedly. If today's debate is about the benefits of 'realizable freedom of expression', then the same conclusion is the same, and we can give up our resistance.

Fortunately, the International Collegiate Debating Tournament is a competition with consistently high-quality questions, so there will be no such debate questions. What we are going to discuss today is 'whether the freedom of speech brought about by the Internet is conducive to political democracy' -- then, when discussing this issue, we must inevitably avoid 'what kind of 'freedom of speech' will be brought about by the deepening and development of the Internet? and what form of expression should be the pursuit of political democracy?

It is a pity that we do not see the slightest discussion of this aspect in the positive argument, but only empty talk about the 'benefits after realization'. For this, we have to pour a little cold water: if it can really be achieved, political democracy is of course good, but the truth is that for hundreds of years, on the whole world, in any country, politics has never been truly fully democratic. The changes in freedom of expression brought about by the Internet will not have any positive effect on it. All those who hold that kind of fantasy are seeking fish in the edge of the wood.

We'll discuss it in more detail below......"

As soon as the words came out, the words were shocked.

"What? No country on earth, at any time, has ever been truly democratic? What does the United States say? What about France?"

"This is pretending to be grandstanding!"

In the audience, the pot exploded directly. Friendly people were inexplicably surprised.