Feng Jianxiong promised Yu Meiqin to represent the team three weeks later.

Quarterfinals of the "Cup of Hope" debate tournament.

The Law School team vs. the Business School team.

Feng Jianxiong, who put down the business at hand for the time being, teamed up with Yu Meiqin and even two seniors and seniors, and killed the opponents in the group stage and semi-finals in seconds.

Now, they finally met the first somewhat difficult opponent of this cup - Tian Haimo, their usual boss when they were in the Legal Aid Center, who is also the vice president of the school's student union and one of the main players of the school's debate team.

In previous years, the law school was a perennial semi-finalist, occasionally top-eight strength. With the two "famous mouths" of Feng Jianxiong and Yu Meiqin joining, it is natural that the strength has risen sharply, so it is not surprising that they have won successive battles in the first few games against the weak brigade.

The middle of the game was not challenging enough, so there was really nothing to say.

Among the other two team members, one is the senior sister Nan Xiaoyuan who is in the legal aid center, and there is also a senior named Jiang Sisi.

Nan Xiaoyuan's strength is not enough to enter the school team, and he has not undergone professional and systematic debate training. But after all, I often give legal advice to people, and my eloquence is convenient, so it's no problem to make up a number in the academy team.

From the perspective of the business school team, before Feng Jianxiong and Yu Meiqin's freshmen came in, Tian Haimo was the second master of the school team.

It's a pity that the other teammates in the business school are too poor.

Relying on one Tian Haimo alone, in the first two years of the inter-academy competition, at best, he only reached the top four, and then he had to lament in vain: pig teammates CARRY don't move!

The arena of the competition, in the large hall of the school, is enough to seat more than 1,000 onlookers, and it is still full.

There were three or four hundred teachers and students watching the game from the law school, and there were slightly fewer from the business school, and the two schools together accounted for half of the number of people in the venue.

There are also more than 600 students from other unrelated faculties, who are obviously fans of the lively debate, or simply because they listen to the school station and follow Feng Jianxiong's blog posts.

The law school seniors have become accustomed to Feng Jianxiong's determination and successive victories this year, and they have also developed a blind and inexplicable admiration and trust for him - although it was difficult for the law school to go so far in previous years.

The topic of today's debate is "the development of science and technology will promote/inhibit the all-round development of mankind".

The positive side talks about promotion, and almost always revolves around the argument that "technology makes human life richer, and the skills that can be mastered and should be mastered are more diverse".

On the other hand, when we talk about inhibition, we are talking about "technology will degrade some of people's abilities, such as using too many computers, memory loss, mobile phones too much, difficulty concentrating, the ancients had a healthy lifestyle and often exercised, and modern people stay at their desks with occupational diseases".

The debate in the arena was wonderful, and the applause and screams of a group of female porridge porridge broke out every time.

So that the host of today's game and the captain of the school team, Su Qin, also had to stop the timer many times to maintain order.

In the course of more than ten minutes, from the argument to the cross-questioning, the two sides were at loggerheads, and the situation was very tight.

Because Feng Jianxiong is a fourth debate, he has not had a chance to play for the time being. And the cooperation of Yu Meiqin and Nan Xiaoyuan really blocked all the attacks of Tian Haimo and the partner of a certain fish belly in the business school.

The host Su Qin looked at the situation, and there was a slight trace of worry on his brows, but he also seemed to be looking forward to Tian Haimo's outburst.

……

The topic was decided by the school's organizing committee, and the position was drawn three days before the competition - Feng Jianxiong and his immediate boss Tian Haimo drew together.

At that time, the host of the lottery was also Su Qin. After the results were drawn, he also asked both sides if they were satisfied with their arguments and whether they wanted to exchange.

According to the rules, if one party wants to exchange and the other party refuses, it cannot be exchanged. However, that will cause onlookers to question the fairness of the questioner's question - both sides want to stand on the right/back side, which means that the two sides of the question are not very balanced, and it is easy to see the obvious strength and weakness.

However, at that time, Feng Jianxiong took the lead in proudly saying that he didn't want to exchange, and Tian Haimo also took the opportunity to say that he didn't need to change, which made Su Qin breathe a sigh of relief.

Actually, Su Qin really hoped that Tian Haimo would win.

Before the draw, he had observed the habits of Tian Haimo and Feng Jianxiong in the previous rounds of lottery, and knew that Feng Jianxiong and Tian Haimo were both very arrogant people, no matter what the debate was, they didn't seem to care which side they drew at all.

So much so that when the two of them smoked, they subconsciously only took the paper ball in front of them, and it never changed.

Therefore, Su Qin actually did a little tricking.

At that time, he placed the paper ball with the word "anti" written on it on the side close to Tian Haimo.

Because he believes that the opposing side of this debate has an advantage.

This topic is not new, but an official topic of the 2003 International Collegiate Debating Tournament.

To be exact, it is part of a series of debates that have been revised for five years.

This set of topics originated from a preliminary round of the 2001 International Collegiate Debating Competition.

At that time, the original debate topic was only "whether the development of science and technology is likely to destroy mankind", but after a short confrontation, the jury found that the topic was not very fair-

Because it is entirely possible for the development of science and technology to be free from the legal control of the government of any country, and morality and religion cannot restrain it, it is indeed possible for mad scientists who engage in human cloning or other technology to destroy mankind.

So that year, the side that thought that "the development of science and technology could not destroy mankind" was rated a fiasco by the five judges with a score of 5:0.

So two years later, in 03 (the International College Debate Tournament is held every two years, not every year), the organizers tried to tinker with it and extend the topic to a fairer way, which became "The development of science and technology will promote/inhibit the all-round development of mankind".

It seems that this question is fairer than its predecessors, and it has given up discussing whether technology is harmful to the survival of mankind (because the last competition has proved that it is certainly possible), and only said whether technology will restrict the overall development of mankind.

But in the end, the result of the game was still won by the representative team with a pessimistic attitude towards science and technology - Bai Zhizhong, known as the "Wanwan Jet King", took Wanwan Shihsin University and defeated the University of Malaya led by Hu Biao, the "Malay Jet King". That game also achieved the new title of "Asian Jet Emperor" in Bai Zhizhong.

After another two years, at last year's International Collegiate Debate Competition, the organizing committee once again weighted the square balance of this series of debate topics, and revised a "specialist is more open than generalist/generalist is more open than expert"——

The comparison of the importance of specialists and generalists seems to have nothing to do with the big proposition of "human fear of technology". But in fact, in his bones, it can still be seen as a torture of the orientation of human self-worth construction under the modern scientific and technological society. Therefore, the background of the proposition still evolved from the question two years ago.

As a result, this year's topic hit the Wanwan Shih-Hsin University team again, and their opponent was the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, which won the first place in the Hong Kong and Macao division. Then Bai Zhizhong stood on the side of the pessimistic side of science and technology, led the team to another victory, and consolidated the status of the "Asian Jet Emperor".

Now, the debate topic assigned by Su Qin to Tian Haimo is exactly the position of Wanwan Shixin University in Bai Zhizhong in 03.

As long as Tian Haimo has a heart, he can draw a lot of exquisite materials from the original Bai Dashen's remarks.

So in Su Qin's opinion, even if Feng Jianxiong's level could be between him and Tian Haimo, with the skew of the topic itself, Tian Haimo should be able to win.

The reason why the scene is still stalemate is only because Bai Zhizhong also played in the rebuttal section in that game! This topic cannot distinguish between strength and weakness in the argument and cross-questioning session, and it is completely normal.

In last year's Freshman Cup final, Feng Jianxiong sprayed Wang Ma Zhonglu, a newcomer from the Academy of Earth Sciences, into a persecution paranoia. As a result, the latter has become suspicious, logical confusion and lack of confidence, and now he has withdrawn from the debate arena and no longer participates in the school team training.

Su Qin once cultivated Ma Zhonglu, a junior of this academy, as a successor, and it is inevitable that he has some opinions. And Tian Haimo used to be the girl he tried to chase, so in such a situation, it is normal to have tendencies.

……

"Now for the free debate session, the opposing side is invited to speak first, and the total time for both sides is 5 minutes. Su Qin looked at the stalemate scene, took a deep breath, and announced.

As soon as he finished speaking, he couldn't help but look at Tian Haimo expectantly.

Tian Haimo also took a deep breath, his chest rose and fell slightly, he stared at Feng Jianxiong with a complicated expression, and began to talk eloquently with the outline:

"Just now, when the opponent was arguing and refuting the argument, he said so many examples of 'modern technology makes human life more colorful', trying to change the concept and prove that 'modern technology makes human development more comprehensive', in my opinion, that is completely wrong.

If we want to argue today about which standard of living is better and enjoyment is more abundant in modern times or ancient times, there is no need to argue, of course, modern times are better. If today's debate is to ask whether technology has made human progress or not, there is no need to debate, of course there is progress.

But unfortunately, does this have anything to do with today's debate? What we want to torture today is whether this progress and development are not comprehensive while mankind has been enriched, progressed, and developed because of science and technology.

Why is it that in ancient times, there was no division of arts and sciences, and scholars learned almost everything, but today human beings are becoming more and more 'professional', and most of the science students lack literary literacy, and the liberal arts students even have to fail the higher mathematics.

Why is it that in the time of Confucius, such backward science and technology could pay attention to the six arts of the gentleman, but modern students did not have the basic 'archery' skills? Even if the bow and arrow were replaced by a rifle, there were still few people who missed the target with all three shots during the freshman military training?

Oh, and we don't even have to torture the cold skill of 'shooting'. Even 'counting', which we were very good at when we were in primary school ten years ago, is now due to the increasing popularity of computers, and the mental arithmetic ability of domestic primary school students is about to degenerate into British.

Are the opponents ready to turn a blind eye to these examples of technological progress that have led to the degradation and stupidity of human beings in some respects?"

After Tian Haimo finished speaking, she tucked the corners of her skirt and sat down stiffly.

She is still very satisfied with the effectiveness and persuasiveness of her speech. But in my heart, I couldn't help but feel a wave of shame.

Although every point in this passage was summarized by her on the spot based on the other party's prior remarks, in terms of the structure of the words, she borrowed the routine of Bai Zhizhong's battle for fame three years ago.

"I guess Xiaoxiong will definitely not be able to deal with this refutation, but unfortunately, even if I win, will they laugh at people's teeth?"