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TV Debate About New National Policy: ID Chips
Anchor: A very good evening to our viewers today, it is 2100 hours on the clock, and it is time for yet another episode of Reporting to the Lion's Den. We bring you a new debate everyday with representatives of different ideologies and schools of thought, on the freshest, most in-trend topics. We also give you, our viewers a chance to participate by sending in your questions, that our guests will answer at the end of the episode. You can send in your questions everyday from between 0700 hours to 1900 hours via our Email ID listed at the bottom of our screen, or drop a message to any of the numbers listed below. With that let's begin today's episode by inviting Mr. Davin Rosthus, a renowned spokesperson of the Aeraven Aristocratic People's Alliance (AAPA), and Miss. Maria Catharsi, President of the youth NGO Feminists for Aeraven.Anchor: Please be seated.
Maria: Thank you for having us ma'am.
Davin: Thank you.
Anchor: Beginning with the topic for our debate today, we all know about the very recent installment of ID chips in people's bodies by the government, with the claim that it will lower crime rates and create discipline among citizens. Some people have been happy with the decision, but more have been opposing it. Davin, the decision came from your party, you are in favour of it I assume. Maria on the other hand represents an organization that stands against these exact beliefs. But we want to hear more from both of you, your reasoning and views on the policy. Let's start with you Davin.
Davin: According to me, some discipline is vital in the country, and these chips are an instrument of that exact discipline.
Maria: Excuse me, we are not school going children, Davin, we are citizens of this country.
Davin: So are you implying citizens of a country should not have discipline? Should we go back to the stone age and live lawlessly?
Maria: The system must make rules that we are comfortable following, not those that invade our privacy, and then they call it discipline. This is not about becoming primitive, this is about misusing your powers to violate people's rights.
Davin: What law do you want to break so badly that the ID chip system scares you? There should be no problem right, if you're not doing anything wrong?
Ohhhs heard from the audience.
Maria: But that's for me to decide what I want to do, whether I want to break the law at all or not. Who is the government to take that choice away from me?
Davin: Ma'am, the point is to not give lawbreakers the chance to commit a crime at all. If there was news for a possible epidemic, would you protect yourself to prevent disease or give the disease a chance to infect you or not, to see if it is worth protecting yourself?
Maria: Are you comparing us, the population to diseases? This is dehumanizing and so wrong! I'm seeing exactly what Bhanupratap has in his mind while making these laws!
Davin: Please show some respect, he is your leader.
Maria: I will do so when my existence, my rights are respected.
Clapping and hooting heard from the audience.
Davin: You targeted our leader for something you took personally, why are you even in a political debate?
Maria: Ma'am please, tell him to not cross the limits. I am being very professional here, but this is not something I will tolerate.
Davin: She is being disrespectful to our leader and asking me not to cross the limits, changed the topic so conveniently cause she couldn't make a point.
Maria: Davin, the point is that there are hungry, poor and homeless Aeravenese also, if you look away from the non tax paying, capitalist demons. This policy takes away their right to free food, the least they could obtain from stores.
Davin: Did you say obtain? I'm pretty sure you mean stealing, and that, ma'am is not a right. Stealing is not a universal human right or one in the Aeravanese law. You want the ID chip gone so people can start being lazy again, shoplift to fill their stomachs and possibly also resort to worse criminal activities in the future.
Some people in the audience clap.
Maria: What's wrong in people wanting to fill their stomachs? The bigger crime than stealing is making someone go to sleep hungry, how can you be so cruel?
Anchor: Sorry to interrupt, before Davin continues, we have to take a short break. We will continue with Maria Catharsi and Davin Rosthus when we're back, keep watching Reporting to the Lion's Den!
