A carefully drafted proposition collapses into polite consensus within the first two minutes
A debate that ended before it properly began
Wednesday’s debating society motion, proposed as This House Believes Prep Should Be Abolished Entirely, reportedly collapsed within two minutes when both the proposition and opposition teams discovered they agreed completely, leaving the audience with, in the words of society president Rufus Delacroix-Hume, absolutely nothing left to argue about.
A rare and uncomfortable outbreak of consensus
Society members say the mishap traced back to a scheduling error that placed two friends who already shared identical views on opposite sides of the floor, a debating society nightmare typically avoided through careful team assignment that, on this particular Wednesday, simply was not.
The society pledges tighter vetting procedures
Faculty advisor staff have promised more rigorous team assignments going forward, while acknowledging that watching two boys enthusiastically agree with each other for ninety awkward seconds was, in its own strange way, one of the more memorable meetings of the term.
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Next week’s motion will reportedly be assigned with considerably more care, and considerably less unanimous agreement. SOURCE: https://prat.uk/
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