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Mastering Principles: Unlock the Secrets to Winning Any Argument

Discover how to delve into principles, argue effectively, and win debates with real-life applications and insightful discussions. Explore fundamental principles like national sovereignty, bodily autonomy, and more.

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Mastering Principles: Unlock the Secrets to Winning Any Argument

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  1. The best coaching session ever

  2. What we will go through • Principles in greater depth • Examples of ways to use principles • Examples of ways to argue principles well • Examples of moots and finding the principles • Where to put the principle in the case • How to win the principle • Not necessarily in this order

  3. What are we talking about?

  4. Is there always a principle?

  5. What if I can’t find the principle?

  6. Elements in search of principle

  7. What are some principles you can think of? • Go ahead • Tell me what you think

  8. Principles • National sovereignty • Bodily autonomy • Role of the state • The market • Freedom of expression • Freedom of association • Freedom of speech • Liberty/freedom • Duty of care • Obligation to individuals/citizens • equality

  9. Finding the principle • THW invade North Korea • What is the principle operating here?

  10. Practice moot • THW make Holocaust denial illegal

  11. Freedom of speech • To what extent can individuals in a WLD say what they like? • Harm principle? • When can we curb freedoms? • Is speech really harmful in a meaningful sense? • What about the ramifications of the speech? • Harmful when has a concomitant meaning?

  12. Practice Moot • THW allow pregnancy for profit

  13. Bodily autonomy • Do whatever we like with our bodies? • Is this circumscribed? When? • What harm accrues? • Should the baby be relevant? • Societal harms? To what extent should external factors mitigate our freedom? • When does this happen?

  14. Practice • THW allow the burning of the Koran

  15. Market principles • There are a few principles here • Freedom of speech, market of ideas, religious freedom • Most market of ideas principle – allow to be shut down in the marketplace • Freedom of expression and speech untrammelled? • Harmful? • Incenses…..

  16. Practice • THW ban burqa

  17. Freedom of expression • Why should someone be able to do what they want? • Why is liberty and self-determination important? • SELF ACTUALIZATION

  18. SELF ACTUALIZATION • What does this mean? • why is it important? • Conception of the good

  19. How to argue a principle

  20. How to win a principle

  21. Competing principles

  22. Where to put it in the case

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