MOTION ANALYSIS

POLICY MOTION
(basically call for a certain ACTION)
- for OPPO (inaction / alternative action)

 How do you decide what a society SHOULD

DO or SHOULDN’T DO?
 or what a target group SHOULD /SHOULDN’T
DO?

POLICY MOTION SHOULD / WOULD

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POLICY MOTION
POLICY MOTION SHOULD / WOULD
 ‘changed debate’
 asking the people to change the statusquo
 or asking the people somehow to do
something different

Why SHOULD we DO something different?

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POLICY MOTION
POLICY MOTION FORMULA:
[NEED + PLAN + BENEFITS = ACTION]

e.g. THBT hate speech SHOULD be a

crime

Key question is WHY??? What exactly is the

need for this particular policy?
Why should we make it as a crime?
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POLICY MOTION
Another Question:
 Which group is needing this thing?

What’s your idea about Hate Speech?

Ans.: derogatory, including hatred
- speech targeting a certain group
Q: What is the need to restrict speech?
A: - it can lead to crime
- tons of negative consequences
- can lead to tensions of a certain group
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POLICY MOTION
Another Question:
Q: What is this particular group?
A: - all minority group
- genders
- sexuality
- religions (e.g. hatred against the
Jews)
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POLICY MOTION
TARGET GROUP must be identified

NEED A PLAN a practical way of

achieving what you say are the NEEDS of
this target group.

NOTE: If you don’t have that practical

plan, no practical way --- You CANNOT
come up with the POLICY.
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POLICY MOTION
e.g. The real need is to prevent racism.
Q: What plan exactly are you going to propose in
order to prevent racism?
To make it a crime? What does it mean exactly?

You need to ask BASIC QUESTIONS, such as:

1. Who is going to do this? The gov’t.?
2. Why will they do it?
3. Will they actually do it?
4. Can they actually do it?