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# Class Meeting 3A

## Debate
Below are the slides from today's class embedded.
Feel free to download them to keep them locally, or leave them archived here and just bookmark them.
We will leave the website open even after the course is over for a reasonable number of years.

This class we will have a formal debate with prepared statements.
## Class slides

Below are the slides from today's class embedded.
Feel free to download them to keep them locally, or leave them archived here and just bookmark them.
We will leave the website open even after the course is over for a reasonable number of years.

<div>
<iframe src="../../2024_S2_Class3B.pdf" width="100%" height="600px" frameBorder="0"> </iframe>
</div>

<!-- The two topics that we will debate on this class will be: -->
[Download the Slides from today](https://github.com/ubc-cs/cpsc430/raw/main/files/2024_S2_Class3B.pdf)

Be it resolved that (BIRT):
## Debate!

1. Medical patents should be honoured even if they are costing human life.

<!-- 2. Companies that build AI models should be exempt from infringing IP rights -->
```{tip}
This class we will have a formal debate with prepared statements.
The topic is:
Tomorrow half of you will get to debate topic 1 (while the other half watches), and the other half will get to debate topic 2.
Be it resolved that (BIRT) Medical patents should be honoured even if they are costing human life.
```

You will be assigned a "role" to play (e.g., Patent Lawyer, CEO of a tech company, Average Citizen, etc...) but you will have some flexibility on whether you debate for or against the position. Your position may change over the course of the debate (it's up to you) but before and after the debate, we will have a class vote to see where we stand on the issue.
Some of you will be (randomly) assigned a "role" to play (e.g., Patent Lawyer, CEO of a tech company, Average Citizen, etc...) but you will have some flexibility on whether you debate for or against the position.
Your position may change over the course of the debate (it's up to you) but before and after the debate, we will have a class vote to see where we stand on the issue.

Here's a nice short video on the importance of debate that you are encouraged to watch!

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To prepare, you should spend some time thinking about and/or reading up about these two topics. You will get a little bit of time to prepare tomorrow but the more prepared you are, the more fruitful I expect the debate to be so be sure to look up facts, precedents, policies, and add them in as a comment below if you want to collect them all in one place for easy access.
To prepare, you should spend some time thinking about and/or reading up about this topic.
You will get a little bit of time to prepare tomorrow but the more prepared you are, the more fruitful I expect the debate to be so be sure to look up facts, precedents, policies, and take note of them in so you have them all in one place for easy access.

Thanks, looking forward to this!



<!--
## Class slides
Below are the slides from today's class embedded.
Feel free to download them to keep them locally, or leave them archived here and just bookmark them.
We will leave the website open even after the course is over for a reasonable number of years.
<div>
<iframe src="../../2024_S2_Class3B.pdf" width="100%" height="600px" frameBorder="0"> </iframe>
</div>
[Download the Slides from today](https://github.com/ubc-cs/cpsc430/raw/main/files/2024_S2_Class3B.pdf)
## Important links for today:
-->


## Acknowledgements

Slides for {{ COURSE_CODE }} were developed and created by [Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown](https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~kevinlb/). The current iteration of the course resulted in minor adaptations and updates, but by in large, all credit of these slides belongs to Dr. Kevin Leyton-Brown and Hedayat Zarkoob.

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