Mock Debate

The affirmative’s first debate elaborates on the views:

Dear teachers, classmates, and friends of the other party’s debate. Let me first explain our point of view: self-discipline is more important than other-discipline. After China has experienced many happy events, the Chinese people will make their own efforts to appear in front of the world with a brand new face in the 2008 Olympic Games. Beijingers shoulder the important task of representing the people of the country. In the ever-changing social development, strengthening the moral construction of citizens is particularly important, and improving one's own quality has been put on the agenda. And all this must be reflected through discipline. Discipline is divided into self-discipline and heterodiscipline. We believe that self-discipline is more important than other-discipline. Leading cadres need self-discipline, contemporary college students need self-discipline, and improving national quality requires self-discipline even more.

Autonomy is the internal cause, heteronomy is the external cause, and the external cause works through the internal cause. People living in such a complex society must have the ability to self-discipline. In this way, under certain circumstances, people can "come out of the mud without being stained." At present, the law is improving day by day, but the number of people committing crimes is still not decreasing. The reason is self-evident. Therefore, self-discipline is very important in society and daily life.

If everyone has a high level of self-discipline, then the various machines of the country will not need to exist, and everyone will live in peace. On the contrary, even under strict legal supervision, people will go their own way. Therefore, self-discipline is more important than heterodiscipline.

Comrade Liu Shaoqi once gave a profound definition of self-discipline, that is, even when an individual is independent, unsupervised, and has the possibility of doing any bad things, he should be "cautious about independence" and not do anything. bad thing. "Be cautious about independence" can make us deeply understand how important self-discipline is. In any situation, the most important thing for a person is to grasp himself. It is unrealistic to always rely on others. The supervision of others must have certain limitations, and it is impossible to follow you anytime and anywhere. Therefore, the key to a person's quality and moral cultivation is his self-discipline ability. In the "Implementation Outline of Citizen Moral Construction" it is pointed out that the emphasis is on construction and people-oriented. Establish a correct world outlook, outlook on life, and values ??in the entire nation, and vigorously advocate the basic moral norms of "patriotism and law-abiding, courtesy and integrity, unity and friendship, diligence, thrift, self-reliance, and dedication" throughout society, and strive to improve the moral quality of citizens and promote the all-round development of people. development and cultivate generation after generation of socialist citizens with ideals, morality, culture, and discipline.

Nowadays, many colleges and universities have proposed to enhance the initiative of college students in receiving education and continuously improve their awareness and ability of self-education. Doesn’t this beneficially illustrate the importance of self-discipline? Therefore: everything must be solved with self-discipline as the main method and heterodiscipline as the supplement. Finally, I would like to reiterate our point of view: self-discipline is more important than other-discipline.

The second argument of the affirmative

July 13, 2001 is an unusual day for the Chinese. It fulfills a century-old dream of the Chinese people. So if we want to showcase our people in the Olympic Games, how to further improve the social and moral quality of citizens has become the first major consideration for the country. This is also in line with our country's strategic goal of "ruling the country with virtue". This is a basic project to improve the quality of the entire nation. It is of great significance to carry forward the national spirit and form good social morals. When it comes to this, we have to consider a question: In this process, which one is more important, self-discipline or heteronomy?

First of all, let us put forward our point of view: self-discipline is more important than other-discipline. A person is self-centered first, and then integrates into society. Therefore, people should have autonomy. In fact, human qualities do not show up only at critical moments, but are present all the time. In this case, self-discipline becomes particularly important. You always want others to influence your consciousness and restrain you. What choice will you make if you are alone in danger?

Many criminal youths in society are resigned to degeneracy and have no pursuits. Despite parental control, legal control, and state control, they repeatedly commit crimes and do not repent. This is all due to their lack of strict self-discipline. Let’s talk about another example around us.

Now, we are facing the six-subject examination. Success does not depend on the pressure of the examination system, the pressure of parents, the pressure of teachers, but depends on your own pressure, the correct attitude towards learning, and the ability to discipline yourself. Learn to manage yourself, find a learning method that suits you, and take the initiative to explore. How can you not succeed? If you don't even complete your homework every day, but rely on the supervision of teachers and parents, and do not have strict self-discipline in your studies, then failure will belong to you.

If a person lives and relies on others to manage him every day, then his mind is unhealthy. Some people say: "If the quality of the whole people is improved, it will be difficult for others to improve." Don't you think this statement is very irrational? This sentence is only suitable for individual people to think about. Assume that more than one billion people in China think like this: When everyone's quality has improved, it will not be too late for me to do it again. So who is leading the way? Who has such a great ability to mobilize the entire people to improve their personal quality by himself, then he is really amazing!

So: "No matter what you do, you must strictly demand yourself." Only by improving one's own quality can we adapt to the development of society. Therefore, we believe that self-discipline is more important than other-discipline.

Three arguments for the positive

With the rapid development of society, science, culture, art and other aspects are also constantly making leaps forward. In order to integrate with the colorful and rapidly developing society, to show a brand new China to the world at the 2008 Olympic Games, and to meet challenges from all aspects of the world, we should meet them with high quality and high ethics.

How to effectively improve our own quality? We believe that self-discipline is more important than other-discipline. Self-discipline is the need for civilized people in a civilized society. It requires us to adhere to our own moral beliefs without external supervision, consciously act in accordance with moral requirements, and not act recklessly without supervision.

Comrade Liu Shaoqi said that we must strictly restrain ourselves in thought, words and deeds, and it is best to pay attention to even the smallest details. When we improve our moral cultivation and maintain self-discipline, we should also start from small things, start from scratch, and not relax our thoughts on details and small things, so as to prevent minor mistakes. Because experience in real life tells us that apples start to fester from small black spots like real holes; iron pots start to have holes from a patch of rust; a person's mistakes are often caused by carelessness in "little evils" Gradually. Therefore, we need to remember the famous saying "Do not do evil because it is small, and do not do good because it is small." Don't wait until you have developed a lot before asking others to adopt heteronomy. Self-discipline is a kind of self-restraint that continuously improves one's own quality.

In many cases, heteronomy cannot restrain human behavior everywhere. And we need more self-discipline. If you find a wallet on the street, should you put it in your pocket or hand it to the police? If you are given extra change in a store, should you pretend you don't know or give it back? These phenomena reflect: Which is more important, heterodiscipline or self-discipline? Just imagine, the law stipulates the limits of people's behavior. He restricts you and supervises you so that you do not commit criminal acts. But if people lack self-discipline, heteronomy can only be a piece of paper. Measuring a person's quality is what choice he will make when no one knows. This is a sign of self-discipline, which is more effective than others' evaluation of us. Therefore, we must adhere to self-discipline to continuously improve our own quality.

Chaucer once said: "He who imposes laws on others should certainly obey this law himself." What does this mean? We speak for ourselves. The reason why the country proposes to govern the country by virtue is very clear. Self-discipline is of great significance in promoting the coordinated development of material and spiritual civilization and comprehensively advancing the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics. To do this, we must improve our self-discipline. As our self-discipline improves, there will be a qualitative leap in the pace of socialist development.

Four arguments for the affirmative

Dear teachers, classmates, and fellow debaters, hello. Our country is a socialist country, and social moral construction has played a good role in promoting the development of socialism. In order to accelerate the construction of citizen morals, build a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way, accelerate reform, opening up and modernization, and successfully achieve the third step strategic goals. We must improve our overall quality.

The basis for realizing this quality must be based on the "Five Loves and Four Beings". Among the four things, discipline is more important.

Discipline is divided into heterodiscipline and self-discipline. So which one is more important, self-discipline or heterodiscipline? Internal factors are the basis for the development of things, and external factors are the conditions for the development of things. The philosophical point of view that external factors work through internal factors.

Heteronomy must always be realized through self-discipline. Self-discipline is the carrier of heteronomy. Without self-discipline, heteronomy will have no object and will promote its original meaning. Just like the police and the thieves, with the police, thieves still exist! As for the subject of the thief, if he does not realize it through self-discipline, there is still nothing he can do, and heteronomy is obviously meaningless. Some socialist criminals are willing to degenerate, know the law and break the law. Despite the strict management of the law, they still slide into the abyss of crime. "The lotus comes from the mud and remains unstained" entirely because of its own binding force that prevents it from changing its noble sentiments.

If you completely rely on heteronomy, once the external environment of heteronomy disappears, you will lose your restraints and you will do whatever you want, and do all kinds of evil. It can be seen that self-discipline plays a decisive role!

Wen Tianxiang was captured by the enemy and regarded death as home. No one put any external pressure on him, but it was his fierce loyalty to the motherland and people. It is this spirit of self-discipline that has left behind the eternal saying "No one has ever died since ancient times, but his loyalty will be remembered by history."

Friend, do you want to live under the supervision of others all day long? Is that kind of life a real life? If so, how can we survive independently? In order to avoid complete dependence on external constraints, let us grasp the sail of life ourselves and fight the waves in the wind!

External factors always work through internal factors, and heteronomy serves self-discipline. To sum up, self-discipline is more important than heterodiscipline.