Monday, November 24, 2008

2. Discuss the evolution of your thinking on casinos and/or prostitution through our class debates. What did you discover on your own that either reinforced or changed your original position? What did you learn from your classmates? Did you hear any particularly persuasive arguments?

Well I found out that some of my classmates suck at debating...hahaha
I just thought that the group I was in completely blew them out of the water. It seemed as though everything they were saying was based on how they felt or thought on the subject and not what was factual.
The strange thing about it all was that I'm not even for casinos, mainly because my father is the Pastor of my church and not even a deck of cards was allowed in my house the whole time I was growing up; they're just morally wrong.
I felt that the group that argued against casinos didn't do proper research and they could've made their argument better. This is because, focusing on the individual person isn't going to change my opinion. I have a no non-sense type of personality, so when people are addicted to gambling...it just angers me.
All in all both groups did well, but of course...i think we did BETTER! :)

1 comment:

Ms. Brown said...

Good research certainly seems to be at the foundation of a persuasive argument--glad you caught that!