In the top 16, one-eighth elimination round, No.1 High School versus No. 34 High School. The topic of debate was: Was lying a virtue? This time, No.1 Middle School drew the affirmative. What they wanted to prove to the audience was: Lying was a virtue.
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" Ladies and gentlemen, judges, good morning." During the most exciting and crucial stage of the free debate, Zhang Yifan stood up first and said to his opponent," Just now, my opponent said that lying is not a virtue. However, what I want to ask is, if a doctor meets a terminally ill patient who doesn't have long to live, would he tell his patient,"'Don't worry, there's still hope for you to recover.' Or was it just as the other party insisted, telling the patient directly,'I'm sorry, you're hopeless. You're finished?'”
"But, isn't telling the patient the truth the basic professional ethics that every doctor should have?”，Accompanied by the laughter of the audience, the second debater from No. 34 High School stood up and retorted," Besides, if a doctor's lie is enough to make a patient feel better, then what's the point of studying medicine? Why don't they just study how to lie?”
"Telling the patient the truth is indeed the basic professional ethics that every doctor should have at the very least," Bai Yue retorted."However, the other party seems to have missed something. According to the statistics of the World Health Organization last year, about 30% of the people who die from incurable diseases every year in the world lose their confidence and courage to live after their attending doctor tells them the actual condition. They die of depression."
"But even if the doctor didn't tell him the truth, wouldn't these people die?”，The free man from No. 34 High School retorted.
" There's one thing you need to pay attention to," Song Dian retorted." If a person doesn't even have the confidence and courage to continue living, no matter how good the medical technology and conditions are, how can you save a person whose 'heart' is already dead?”
" Healing the psychological wounds of others is the job of priests and priests, not doctors," a debater from No. 34 High School retorted." Please don't mislead the judges and audience by confusing doctors and priests, two completely different professions!”
"Doctors have the heart of a parent. Shouldn't doctors heal the patient's physical injuries while comforting the patient's spiritual wounds? I think the opponent is misleading the judges and audience, right?”，Zhang Yifan said," If we follow the opponent's point of view, then I would like to ask the revolutionary martyrs who unfortunately fell into the hands of the enemy during the revolutionary war. When the enemy asked them where our other teams and revolutionary comrades were, would these revolutionary martyrs tell the enemy the truth and betray their comrades? Or should he just lie to the enemy and say that he didn't know? According to the logic of the other party, those revolutionary martyrs who have been regarded as role models by the people of our country since they were young, such as Sister Jiang and the others, would not become a counter-revolutionary who corrupted their moral character and taught their descendants bad things. Instead, Fu Zhigao and the others should be the role models for us to learn from?”
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The quarterfinals.
For the teams that made it into the top eight, as long as they could get through this stage, it meant that they would get at least two million yuan in prize money. Therefore, they could only succeed and not fail.
No.1 Middle School was facing off against No.3 Middle School, one of the top five schools in C City. It could be said that No.1 Middle School was the strongest opponent they had encountered since the start of the competition. Moreover, because the popularity and strength of the two schools in C City were relatively similar, just like the match between Brazil and England in the 2002 World Cup between Korea and Japan, this match was also called an early final.
The debate between the two sides was whether the holiday economy had more advantages than disadvantages or disadvantages than advantages. After drawing lots, No.1 Middle School drew the opposing side. What they needed to prove to the audience was: " The holiday economy has more disadvantages than advantages."
As soon as the free debate began, No. 3 High School, who was in the affirmative, immediately fired at No. 1 High School.
" Just now, the debaters from No.1 Middle School said that the holiday economy has more disadvantages than advantages, but looking at the various data since the seven-day long holiday was implemented in our country," No.3 Middle School was indeed a school that was good at mathematics and physics. Their debaters quickly reported a set of reliable numbers and concluded," Facts speak louder than words. Do the debaters still want to talk nonsense in front of such conclusive facts? Or is the other party doubting the authenticity of the data collected by the National Bureau of statistics on the effect of the holiday economy on expanding domestic demand and stimulating the development of the national economy?”
In the face of this true data, No.1 Middle School, who was the opposing side, was immediately at a disadvantage. Just as everyone was speculating how the free man from No.1 Middle School would salvage this unfavorable situation, the free man from No.1 Middle School stood up calmly and said," We don't have any objections to the data that the opponent has listed." Zhang Yifan was not stupid enough to attack the opponent's strength with his own weakness. He complimented the data that the opponent had just listed and said," But the opponent seems to have deliberately missed out some information to the audience and judges, right?”
"I'm sorry, we really don't understand what the other party means by 'freedom'.”，The free man from No. 3 High School did not want to be outdone. He stood up and retorted," Could it be that the opponent has another set of data that is completely different from what we just read?”
" We don't have another set of data in our hands." Seeing that the initiative had gradually shifted to their side, Song Dian said," What we mean is, if a person suddenly eats something that would take almost twenty days to eat in one day, what will be the consequences?”
" Dear debater, please note that we are discussing the national economy today, not whether an individual's eating habits are good or not." They were all experts, so how could the people from No. 3 High School fall for this evil trick so easily?
"Is that so? However, the logic was the same. Since they were already close to the trap, how could they let you escape so easily? Zhang Yifan stood up and started to blow the horn of their counterattack." If we view our country's economy as a big cake, then this big cake that should have been eaten in 365 days and 52 weeks is now artificially compressed to a short period of three weeks and 21 days. If this isn't the most ridiculous over-eating in the world, then what is it?”
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