Artificial beauty can take part in a beauty contest

一辩稿

Good evening, honorable judges, ladies and gentlemen,

Tonight we debate can artificial beauty take part in a beauty contest or not, and our view on this point is that artificial beauty can take part in a beauty contest. Here, I want all of you to pay attention to the meaning of these words, “artificial beauty” and “can”. The so-call artificial beauty are those women who had done cosmetic surgery(做过美容手术). And one of the meanings of “can” in the dictionary is “to have the right or qualifications to do something”. And following are some reasons which can support our argument.

To begin with, the aim of the beauty contest is to show and carry forward(发扬) the inner(内在的) and external(外在的) beauty of a woman. And the percentage of external beauty is only 20%. Every woman has the right to pursue beauty, and every woman has the right to show her personal style to others on this special stage! Artificial beauty taking part in the beauty contest doesn’t break the aim of the contest! Here is an example. In the Miss Intercontinental Championship(环球洲际小姐大赛) of 2004, a miss Yang was out of the door of the finals, because of her man-made beauty. Although she can continue the competition after the coordination[k?u'?:di'nei??n] (协调), she decided to prosecute['pr?sikju:t] (起诉) the organizing committee(组委会). Because she thought she and the artificial beauty were not respected by refusing her taking part in the beauty contest.

Furthermore, allowing artificial beauty to take part in a beauty contest can provide such a chance for those who were born unbeautiful but dreaming to show themselves on stage. This is not the “dishonesty”! They have no choice, they were born unbeautiful, but they have dreams! And doing cosmetic surgery['s?:d??ri] (美容手术) is a way that can help them to realize their dreams! Therefore, artificial beauty don’t have the superior advantage, on the contrary, they have to make much more sacrifice to gain the equal competition opportunities.

Therefore, we strongly believe that artificial beauty can take part in a beauty contest. Thank you.

第二篇：英语辩论稿范例

Member of opposition

I don’t agree to criminalize the payment of ransom. Now I will give my two reasons of my idea.

The first reason is, paying the ransom is the kidnapper’s idea, while the payer is innocent, not the one to be blame. How can we criminalize the people who are forced to pay the ransom for the sake of their family member’s safety? What if the kidnapper kills the victim? Compared with money, apparently, people’s lives are much more important. When the police can arrest the terrorist in time, the payers will surely not worry about anything, but if the police fail, paying the ransom is the only choice for the payers. In this case, they don’t have any guilt, and there isn’t a proper reason to criminalize them at all. If paying ransom is criminalized, it will cause some bad effects. When faced with the case of blackmail, people will be in a dilemma. In one hand, paying the ransom will be regarded as crime; on the other hand, the terrorist is keeping the hostage in dangerous all the time. This is unfair for them, especially when police can’t arrest the criminal in time. But what is law for? For forcing people to choose from breaking the law or seeing their dears killed by the kidnapper? Absolutely not! The law is supposed to benefit each citizen instead of punishing the innocents. Therefore, the decision of criminalizing the payment of ransom seems totally going against this

principle.

The second reason is, paying the ransom doesn’t lead to bad consequences, neither violates any morals. Through many cases we can see that it is when exchanging the ransom that the police can find out or even catch the terrorist. That is to say, paying the ransom is an effective way for the police to solving the case, so it’s more ridiculous to define such a good and helpful action as a sort of crime. Meanwhile, we believe the police, with the help, have enough capacity to arrest the terrorist and return the lost money to the victim. Then, there’s no damage in the case and everything goes normal. As for what is crime, the definition is: the behavior which breaks the legal order, harms the safety of society, infringes the rights and freedom of citizens, or damages anything of the country. So we can’t find any piece of the definition fitting with paying the ransom, which is an unavoidable choice in the special situation without any harm. Thus, there’s no point making such a criminalization at all.

Due to these two reasons, we can’t agree to criminalize the payment of ransom.