Debate is, and must always be, subversive.
Debate requires the constant challenging of the status quo, of dogma, and of received wisdom.
Debate provides a space for the expression of any view, however unorthodox, but accepts reason as its only absolute, and as the ultimate decider of all questions.
The aim of debate is not to cushion you or re-enforce your beliefs; the aim of debate is to shake you up and make you challenge your preconceptions by exposure to the widest possible range of ideas – and through making you argue against your own.
Debate is designed to make you think in new ways
And to be damn fun in the process!
