Fall at SBC

I thought I'll not write about our losses,like the Egyptians dont have any records of their defeats.But what the heck! that would be stupid, plus the debate against SBC this week (16.05.09) was just too fun to not write anything about it.We found the impromptu topic kind of tough: "THB that fines should be relative to wealth" which we had to oppose.SBC did an excellent job proposing....the main problem we had was that we found it hard to counter argue their main principle argument which was that rich people arnt dettered by low fines and that it would be unfair on the poor as the poor will be affected more by a fine than a rich person,thus we should make fines proportional .
Looking back I can think of a few arguments we could have made,(my brother just gave me an argument we could have used just now.We could have said we should have a fine that is high enough to detter rich people and poor people alike.....an excessive fine instead of trying to tailormake fines for different economic classes,which is complecated and costs money so...if we had coupled that with what Gehan said then we could have done something).But overall I like how we handled it...we came up with a relatively unorthodox argument and stuck to it throughout.....and we didnt panick when we knew we were going down...which was kind of cool .....I felt that we kept on the pressure throughout
Well all in all I was reminded today that loosing sucks, and that we cant afford to loose again...specially at our next debate with Joes this monday on the topic "THB that China should ratify the post Kyoto protocol".

Maleen