As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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• As soon as you trust yourself,
  you will know how to live.
• 
  --??(Goethe)

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Lesson 14 Social Issues

• Traffic regulations Social Ethics
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Environment Protection

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Tips On Giving Good Talks Debate(pp111-113)

• 1. Consciously or unconsciously, we are
  involved in dozens of debates every day. These
  can range from informal discussion with friends
  or with yourself about the advantages and
  disadvantages of taking a particular action to
  formal discussions in business meetings or in
  class about issues concerned.
• 2. Regardless of the situation, we are
  evaluating the merits of one proposition against
  the other. The weighing of the evidence,
  advantages, and appeals of one side of an
  argument or situation against the other is the
  basis of the debate.
• 3. While debating, only the first speaker can
  have a prepared speech, all the others must adapt
  their presentation to the requirements of the
  debates as it progresses.Hence, a persons
  speaking skills can receive an exciting test in
  debate of any kind.
• 4. Aristotle said there are three ways of
  arguing in the first you hope that people will
  believe you because they trust you in the second
  you try to persuade the other person that you are
  right by being reasonable and by referring to
  facts and in the third you try to persuade the
  other person by the strength of your belief and
  by changing their feelings.

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Debating topic I Should the driver open the
door, or keep it closed?

• Background As the bus approached a bus station,
  a girl cried out My mobile phone has been
  stolen by somebody on the bus. Please do not open
  the door until the police come. Some other
  passengers opposed Ive got very urgent things
  to do. Open the door, let me get off. Who should
  the driver listen to?
• Side A 1) We should show sympathy to the girl
  since she is the victim.
• 2) The thief should not be spared.
• 3) Its everyones duty to protect
  the good social order.
• Side B 1) The girl should think out a better
  way to solve the problem than to keep so many
  people wasting time because of her, since in
  this modern world
  time is money.
• 2) The over-majoritys opinions
  should be counted..
• 3) The driver should listen to
  neither of the girl or the passenger but call
  the police and obey their orders.
• Judge It may be debatable whether the door
  should be open or remain shut. Yet one thing can
  never be over-emphasized people should show more
  concern to each other. People should try to stand
  in each others shoes and have a better
  understanding of each others position so that
  they unite to better combat thieves and other bad
  things in the society.

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Another real story the teacher would like to
relate Hey, mind your mobile phone, my
lady. There are frequent mobile thefts these days
and most victims are people who doze off leaving
the phone by their side.The girl was cautioned
by a librarian when she was about to doze off at
the library. She thanked her sincerely.

• The teachers
  comments
• The idea of living in an atomized society is
  gaining popularity in China now. Some people
  believe in good fences make good neighbors.
  What people once shared , they now claim to
  divide. What people once gossiped about, they now
  pass over in silence.What people were once
  willing to offer, they now keep. What people were
  once enthusiastic to help with, they now refrain
  from.
• The notion of an atomistic society,
  glorified by centuries of western splendors and
  imported along with other wonderful notions into
  China, is largely based on the rational person
  assumption, which depicts every human being as
  rational enough to take both care and
  responsibility for their own business. Outside
  intervention is not only unnecessary but also
  unwelcome.
• Having played a vital role in the
  development of human civilization , this notion
  has no current rival. However, its role should
  not be exaggerated or stretched too far. Men do
  not deserve mutual indifference merely because
  they have progressed so much in commercial
  civilization, achieved so much material wealth
  and simply been rational being for a long time.
• Kindness is the golden chain by which society is
  bound together.-- ??(Goethe)
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Debating topic 2 Should the doctor keep the
patient or let her die uncared outside?

• Background In Nanjiang County of Southwest
  Chinas Sichuan Province, a non-native woman who
  had fallen off a cliff was rescued by firemen and
  sent to the traditional Chinese Medical Hospital
  of Nanjiang County, where doctors conducted a
  physical examination. After the check-up the
  hospital director concluded that this woman must
  be a beggar. And he gave permission for the
  deputy director to take the patient out and drop
  her off in a deserted place, leaving the woman to
  die which she did the next morning.
• Side A 1)Hospital medical staff are obliged to
  help patients who are in need regardless of their
  occupation or economical status.
• 2)Leaving a patient to die
  unattended to is as bad as murdering him(her).
• Side B 1)The hospital or clinic is a provider
  of health heath care and patients are consumers
  who ought to pay for services provided.
• 2)Hospitals need to make
  money so they can pay their employees.
• Judge This episode may, in a way, serve as a
  good example of the negative consequences of the
  prevalence of money worship and the loss of moral
  values. Being a doctor is not only a professional
  job, but also a job of conscience and
  responsibility to patients who are sick or dying.
  The patients well being should always be placed
  in the first place.Its rightful that the
  hospital chiefs were finally arrested on the
  charge of causing death by negligence.(Resource
  from starcomment_at_yahoo.com)

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Another real story the teacher would like to
relate A number of new-born babies have died
from being fed fake and shoddy milk powder in
Fuyang County in East Chinas Anhui Province and
in other cities.

• The teachers comments
• 1) Fake products, fake diplomas,plagiarism,
  cheating in examinations, business and accounting
  fraudnews of these crimes appears frequently in
  the media, putting the subject of honesty in the
  limelight.
• Can you cite some more examples
  regarding dishonesty in the society?
• a) Wang Mingming, a professor at
  Beijing University, was guilty of plagiarism in
  an anthropological work he was preparing.
• b) Mooncake with fillings left over
  from the previous year were found related to the
  Guanshengyuan Company in Nanjing.
• c)Four years ago, fake wine made from
  industrial materials caused death and injury
  affecting over 200 people in Shanxi Province.

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2) The Chinese do have the tradition to emphasize
honesty.

• Confucius placed honesty and trust as the
  most important elements for a government, above
  economic and military power.
• A word from an honorable man cannot
  be withdrawn.
• One can easily borrow money again if
  he pays back what he borrowed before.
• Genuine goods at a fair price,
  equally honest with aged and child customers.
• 3) Lessons learned The up-and- down
  story of Wenzhou shoe business. It has taken
  many years for the city to get its good name
  back.
• 4)A sound credit system is in need in
  China However high the moral criterion is,
  effective supervision is necessary.
• Its high time the Chinese considered
  the basic value of trust.

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Do you think the doctor should inform the
patients of cancer?

• Positive
• Patients want to know and have the right to know.
• 2) Its wrong to hide the truth, for in most
  cases, it is not a shock for the patient but for
  his family.
• 3) Its the patients body. The patient must have
  a say in choosing alternate means of treatment.

• Negative
• 1) It is heartless and cruel to tell for it may
  make the patient give up, cause depression, or
  even lead to suicide.
• 2) A white lie(???????) can save undue suffering
  so most relatives are for it.
• 3) Patients are usually too sick to make a wise
  decision on his own case.

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According to Rousseau Chen(weihua_chen_at_yahoo.com),
the development of the city has been achieved at
a high cost to the environment. Do you
agree?Argue with reason and evidence (Focus the
price of environmental neglect).

• Chens points are summarized as follows
• 1) While the forest of chimneys has vanished
  from downtown Shanghai, it has moved to the
  suburbs,polluting the land where our food grows.
• 2) The pollution of rivers and lakes has
  caused the problem of clean drinking water.
• 3) Promoting family cars will result in the
  environmental hazards or the impact on local
  traffic.
• 4) Many citizens who are not so generous in
  their daily lives are big-hearted when it comes
  to the environment. They spoil our green spaces
  with spit, nasal mucus,litter and all kinds of
  filthy garbage.
• 5) Officials are being assessed according to
  the growth of GDP and local revenue income,not
  according to any efforts they might make to
  protect the environment.
• 6) Many of the city hotels offer guests new
  toothbrushes every day and change towels daily
  regardless of the fact they are still clean and
  could be reused.

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Homework

• Going over the 100 super sentence patterns from
  71 to 85 and using them as much as possible in
  your daily life.