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SCMP Reporter

Debaters from La Salle College beat Diocesan Girls' School (DGS) by one vote to win the 28th Joint School Chinese Debating Contest recently.

  Yu Chun Keung Memorial School No 2 came third and Canossa College came fourth.

  Diocesan Girls' School's third speaker, Sara Tse, was awarded the Best Debater title.

  The debate was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre earlier this month.

  The motion debated in the final round between La Salle College and Diocesan Girls' School was 'Hong Kong Government should set up laws for employers to buy injury insurance for their employees'.

   La Salle College defended the motion.

  Desmond Cheung, captain of the La Salle team, argued that it was the responsibility of employers to buy insurance for their employees to protect them in case of accidents.

  He concluded that the Government should pass laws to ensure that employers did not shirk their responsibility.

  Ivy Cheung, captain of the DGS team, used an imaginative metaphor to give new meaning to the word 'employees' in the motion.

  'According to the dictionary, 'employee' means 'individual employee', but not 'all employees'. We surely agree that employers should buy injury insurance for their employees, but not individually,' Ivy argued.

  The third speaker of the DGS team, Sara Tse, used an interesting analogy.

   'Buying insurance for employees individually is like serving a mango pudding.

  'On the other hand, buying insurance for all the employees is like serving a dessert. Our opponents have only been able to point out the benefits of serving dessert, but failed to prove why a mango pudding should be served.'   Terence Yim, the third speaker of the La Salle team, pointed out a contradiction in the opponents' analogy.

  'It does not matter, whether or not we cut the mango pudding into 10 pieces and eat them one by one or eat the whole pudding all at once.

  'If you are saying that employers should buy insurance for all the employees together but not individually, then you are saying in effect they should buy insurance for all their employees - that you are supporting today's motion.'   During the open and lively debate, both teams displayed their talents and skills in debating.

  In another contest on the same day, Yu Chun Keung Memorial School No 2 debated with Canossa College on the motion 'The Hong Kong Council of Travel should force travel agents to buy travel insurance for the members of a tour.'   Yu Chun Keung Memorial School No 2 won that contest and came third in the debating competition.



One point divides debaters