Ice Hockey Players
09-08-2006, 18:54
In idle conversation, your advisor mentioned that a former family friend sent his wayward son to a fancy boarding school called Serenity Beach. Upon further research, it turns out to be a secretive detention camp that parents send difficult children to in order to straighten them out. For a mere fifty thousand @@CURRENCY@@s a year, parents have their children placed at Serentiy Beach, getting them there by any means necessary.
The Debate
1. "This is why he's a former family friend now; what he did to his son was wrong!" clamors your advisor, who is visibly upset. "There are plenty of ways to set a child right, but sending them to a detention center without even being charged with a crime is ludicrous! Why, he even told me that he knows of people who sent their children there just because their children had friends of a different lifestyle! This Serenity Beach might be offshore, but we must arrest any parent who tries to send their child there and work with the host nation to shut this place down! It's sickening! Parents should deal with out-of-control children thesmelves!"
[effect]parents often take classes to learn to deal with difficult children
2. At this time, your cell phone rings; the ID says, "Private Name, Private Number." You answer, and a voice on the other end says, "Serenity Beach must stay open. For years, we have kept the operation secret and offshore, but now that you know about it, I must tell you that what we're doing is fantastic. Kids come here looking for fights, drugs, and places to rob, and after we set the little boogers straight, they come out well-rounded members of society. Sure, we make the bad ones stand in corners for hours, even days, if we have to, and the kids are isolated and trapped here, but we do what we have to. By the way, tell your staff we're accepting new enrollments year-round."
[effect]young law-breakers disappear out of their homes and return years later appearing brainwashed
3. After you hang up the phone, Judge @@RANDOMNAME@@, known for being tough, walks in. "Look, this whole Serenity Beach thing got me thinking. It's insane that parents send their kids there just to get them out of the house. But it's also a good idea to have something like this. Judges should be allowed to sentence repeat-offending youth to a place like Serenity Beach to calm them down. But the heck with Serenity Beach itself; that guy should be put out of business and we need to open our own facility like that here in @@NAME@@. For the young people, of course. It is to their benefit, after all."
[effect]juvenile delinquents live in fear of being sentenced to detention facilities
The Debate
1. "This is why he's a former family friend now; what he did to his son was wrong!" clamors your advisor, who is visibly upset. "There are plenty of ways to set a child right, but sending them to a detention center without even being charged with a crime is ludicrous! Why, he even told me that he knows of people who sent their children there just because their children had friends of a different lifestyle! This Serenity Beach might be offshore, but we must arrest any parent who tries to send their child there and work with the host nation to shut this place down! It's sickening! Parents should deal with out-of-control children thesmelves!"
[effect]parents often take classes to learn to deal with difficult children
2. At this time, your cell phone rings; the ID says, "Private Name, Private Number." You answer, and a voice on the other end says, "Serenity Beach must stay open. For years, we have kept the operation secret and offshore, but now that you know about it, I must tell you that what we're doing is fantastic. Kids come here looking for fights, drugs, and places to rob, and after we set the little boogers straight, they come out well-rounded members of society. Sure, we make the bad ones stand in corners for hours, even days, if we have to, and the kids are isolated and trapped here, but we do what we have to. By the way, tell your staff we're accepting new enrollments year-round."
[effect]young law-breakers disappear out of their homes and return years later appearing brainwashed
3. After you hang up the phone, Judge @@RANDOMNAME@@, known for being tough, walks in. "Look, this whole Serenity Beach thing got me thinking. It's insane that parents send their kids there just to get them out of the house. But it's also a good idea to have something like this. Judges should be allowed to sentence repeat-offending youth to a place like Serenity Beach to calm them down. But the heck with Serenity Beach itself; that guy should be put out of business and we need to open our own facility like that here in @@NAME@@. For the young people, of course. It is to their benefit, after all."
[effect]juvenile delinquents live in fear of being sentenced to detention facilities