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Hill and L'ville add another dimension to rivalry with an exhibition debate |
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 The Hill School Debate Team participated in a special exhibition debate against rival Lawrenceville for Lawrenceville Weekend (November 12) this year. Speaking for The Hill were Nabil Shaikh '13 and Cameron Isen '14. The exhibition nature of the debate meant that neither side was declared an official victor. However, all participants were pleased by the number of audience members from both schools and hope that this is the beginning of another great tradition.
The school’s teams debated whether failed nations are a greater threat to the United States than stable nations. Lawrenceville argued for failed nations, while Hill demonstrated that stable nations were a greater threat. The debate revolved around three main groups’ influences: China, Iran, and terrorists' threats to the United States.
It was first debated that China, a stable nation, possesses the economic weapon of selling their U.S. treasury bonds and abandoning the dollar as a reserve currency. Second, both sides agreed that Iran was a threat to the United States, but Hill claimed that Iran was a stable nation due to its stable government, steady economy and lack of insurgencies, or other internal threats to its government; however, Lawrenceville claimed that Iran was a failed nation due to its inclusion on the “failed nation” index of Fund for Peace (a non-governmental organization).
Finally, terrorism was also a contended factor, with Lawrenceville claiming that groups such as Al Queda were actually nations due to their common cause and customs. Hill argued that this definition of nation would also make major corporations nations and claimed that this was an improper definition.
The Hill Debate Team was re-established last December and recently concluded their first fall season of debate with a lively exhibition of argument and rhetoric at Lawrenceville. |
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