THBT females should never ride strangers’ cars
- Clarification: by strangers, we don’t mean licensed taxis or vehicles hailed through official ride-sharing platforms such as Didi, but mainly hitchhiking or informal arrangements where the
- Metrics - Personal safety
- females are more vulnerable
- can lead to traumatic experience, both bodily and mentally.
- current protection methods are very flawed
- we have the safe alternative - licensed taxis Societal cost
- The emotional, physical, and financial toll of assault creates long-term trauma for individuals and burdens healthcare and legal systems. precautionary measures, flawed status-quo, redressive measures
Opposition: potential for blame shifting: abuse personal freedom justice: unfair to make the victim do something that is completely normal, female should not be regarded as the second sex.
- Opening house: why females?
- Closing house: why riding strangers’ cars will be particularly dangerous → instead of wearing mini-skirts (cars are enclosed space; the driver has an extra layer of power; almost impossible for others to notice, let alone to intervene; it is likely the culprit is at large, legally difficult)
- Proposition → pragmatism for female safety
- Opposition → idealism: the symbolic message
THW impose criminal liability on the violent party of school bullying
time is up → impacts
Criminal bullying → age (no charges under 12, but strict penalties for teens 14+) / severity (This does not apply to minor conflicts but targets repeated, intentional, and harmful acts that are considered crimes)
- serious harms: → long-term effects, turn into bullies, the failure of the current system to protect the innocent (stakeholder - innocent, and vulnerable students) → impacts
- it can teach responsibility deterrent
- consistency within the current legal system
- tough measure sends a symbolic message on a societal level
perpetuate the pattern as a violent criminal
- many young people have done something violent (stakeholders are many) taken control by impulses
- labelling effect (regard themselves as culprits → low self-esteem; people around → social circle don’t respect them, regarding them as criminals instead of behaving like a young person)