The College hosted Sydney Grammar for Round 2 of the GPS competition. Traditionally, Grammar has always been our toughest competitor, so we knew we would have to dig deep to secure a win over them. The senior debate topic was unusual and unexpected, meaning the senior boys had to think creatively about their arguments.
Here is the debating topic:
“Your name is David, and you live on a space shuttle. To cope with the extended nature (no end date given) of your mission, you utilise advanced technology that enables your consciousness to be transmitted back to Earth, where you experience life through a lifelike android avatar. Your avatar is a perfect replica of your human body. Your avatar becomes faulty and breaks, meaning you cannot return to the real world. You are stuck in space, with no one to talk to but your space partner, Cliff. Cliff’s avatar works perfectly. You know that Cliff is a morally corrupt person, bad father and terrible husband. The only way for you to return to earth is to eject Cliff’s physical body into space in a capsule and use his avatar. Cliff would then be floating in space in a capsule. You would then be transported to Cliff’s house, life and family. Cliff’s family would not know initially that the person in the Avatar was you (David) and not Cliff.
Motion: This house, as David, would eject Cliff into space.”
Fortunately, the Firsts and Thirds won against Grammar. The Seconds narrowly missed out on the debate. We also had some success in Year 10 and Year 8 debates as well. We’re looking forward to heading to Newington this week.
