BIRT a slug is more dangerous than a cricket.

[Katzaniel]

Specific Rules can be found here.

 

Judge Katzaniel presiding.

 

The resolution is: "Be it resolved that a slug is more dangerous than a cricket."

 

Arguing for the Negative (against the resolution) is the curious Patrick. Arguing for the Affirmative (for the resolution) is the daring Black. Black will start us off. Let the debate begin!

 

Katzaniel starts her watch and settles down to listen.

[Black9]

Black gave a smile as he looked both katzaniel and Patham way and turning the crowds direction, Black began to speak.

 

Black-"Ok, we can dance around the issues all day. We can give pointless banter that speaks volumes, but says very little. I for one think the facts speak for themselves." Black paused and then continued shortly after.

 

Black-"The reason a slug is more dangerous than a cricket is for a few reasons. They can stretch to 20 times their normal length enabling them to appear much larger then they actually are and thus frighten their opponent into submission! A slug has a shell hidden underneath its back to ward off predatorial attacks and thus make the predators attempts useless. Their slime trails can slip the foes up. When the enemy slips is when the slug gets its opportuity to strike!"

[Patrick]

Patham shook hands with Katzaniel, then Black and sat down on his chair. He listened intently to what Black said in his introduction then when his turn came he stood up and faced the onlookers.

 

"I shall not start with trying to counter everything that Black has said. I'll leave that for later. Let me present my own arguments first."

 

He glanced down at the sheet of paper in front of him, where, in his scrawling handwriting, which only he could read, he had written a few keywords.

 

"As we all know, the ancient saying says that strength lies in diversity. You might say that applying this to the present case of a cricket being more dangerous than a slug is a bit too far fetched, but the fact remains that there are more species of cricket than of slug. It is not easy to see why this makes crickets dangerous, but let us suppose that you come up with a method of defense against one species of cricket, but this might not work against all the other species. Having more species of cricket, means that you need to be much more prepared when facing an unknown cricket as opposed to facing an unknown slug."

 

He paused, once again glancing at the paper.

 

"About defenses: slugs have soft bodies, which can easily be squashed even among the hands of a young child. On the other hand crickets have strong, chitinous bodies, which are much more resistant to shock."

 

"Slugs are slower than crickets and can only exist in moist environments, otherwise they dry out and die. Crickets can exist in both dry and moist environments and are more resistant to variations in temperature than slugs. Crickets have long antennae, which are much better sensors than the crickets sensory organs, as the scientific study, the data of which I have here" - he said holding up a sheet of paper, with several graphs and a few lines of text on it. "shows. And crickets eyes have a better resolution than the optical sensors of slugs."

 

Patham sat down and ticked off several of the points on his list, then suddenly remembering that when he spoke next he was not really supposed to bring up any new points he stood up again.

 

"Oh, and I nearly forgot. The chirping sound crickets produce is an instantaneous means of communication between them, which allows them to coordinate their movements, while the method of communication slugs use, notably the use of their slime trails as indicators is a much slower method."

 

He sat down once again, and crossed off the last point on his list.