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""This house would ban reality TV shows" - Help with the counter argument please:S"

Hey everyone, I've only just started posting in life but you all seem to be quite intelligent so I thought I'd ask for some help. I have recently signed up to participate in a debating competition. I will actually be representing my school however I have never even taken part in an official debate before in my life.

I have until the 3rd of November to prepare but I amn't even at school due to holidays until not this Tuesday but Next. However I do know that the topic of debate will be "This house would ban reality TV shows" and our time has been assigned the task of opposing this motion. In essence we want to keep them going. Anyway I say team...well it's just me and an American guy who just moved to our school last month and although he's argumentative he's not exactly reasonable. He seems to think everything is either right or wrong but if it was as simple as being right or wrong we wouldn't have to debate.

Anyway I was wondering if any of you could give me some help in preparing? Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Of course whether anyone can take an unbiased view is a debate in itself.

Oh you'd be surprised just how diplomatic and PC I can be Blank. Anyway once again I must say. Do you have to keep on bringing up past events and applying them to situations in the present with the single intent of irritating me? I mean frankly I'd sooner eat my own scrotum if given the choice between that and talking to you so why must you constantly come into my topics and through things in my face from the past? I mean obviously you don't think it's immature but as the old saying goes "If you have nothing nice to say then" "sit down and shut up or I will knock you the f**k out" Ok the second half is from Bad Boys II but you get the jist.

Cubist wrote:
> I have
> recently signed up to participate in a debating competition. I will
> actually be representing my school

Right. Well, for a start I'll try not to laugh. Secondly I'll remind you of the little debate we just had over in Movies, and tell you this:

1) Listen to what the other person has to say
2) Listen to reason
3) Take an objective unbiased view
4) Make your decision based on evidence, and don't make things up that are easily disproven by said evidence
5) Don't resort to calling the other person a c##k

Lol well thanks for all of your help. If left to me this could have gone very very wrong. Especially considering the debating team I'm going up against is the team from the smartest private school in my city heh.

Sounds like you have mustered a good counter arguement there cubist.

And don't forget to use words like "chump magnet" and "Filth-encrusted cash cow"


I'm being interlegent...

Heh Jackusette.

Also you can aruge that previous reality tv shows have been very sucesful and have attracted many viewers. It IS thus what the people want.

Spastics arguing in a smelly flat need something to aspire to.

Like spastics arguing in a neutral-odour house.

Brilliant argument Belldandy, thanks for that:D

I hate reality tv shows, however I can think of one central argument that can be used to defend them.

Freedom of choice.

UK television has certain regulations and statues which it must abide by to be lawfully shown.

No reality tv show has broken these, and, whilst some of the content is possibly of questionable taste and interest, it is not the position of any one group within a democracy to dictate to others what they can and cannot watch when what they want to watch is lawful.

To allow this would set a dangerous precedent and lead to a total lack of variety of programming, and would also exclude the interests, cultures and experiences of minority groups or those members of society without an official voice.

Great, thanks for those points Mind. I didn't even know Kate presented RISE. I better keep on researching.