How much privacy are you willing to give up for safety, convenience or trust? Should parents be allowed to track their teenagers without telling them? Should governments be able to access private messages when investigating serious crimes? And should your partner know the password to your phone?

Let's debate!

In tonight's debate session, we'll look at privacy in the modern world. Davie will lead us through the increasingly blurry boundaries between our private lives and the people, companies and institutions that want access to them. You’ll take different sides, challenge your own assumptions and wrestle with situations where both “I have a right to privacy” and “but what if...?” can be surprisingly convincing.

This is Davie’s “street smart” style of debate: there are no winners or losers and no need to know formal academic debate techniques. Everybody will speak and receive supportive feedback throughout as you practice the skills that make arguments work in the real world: logic, active listening, empathy, reading the room, staying focused and using a little theatricality when it helps your point land. You may find yourself defending a position you never expected to defend, changing your mind halfway through, or discovering that the strongest argument isn’t always the loudest one. No debate experience or prior knowledge is necessary, and all levels are welcome.

为了安全、便利或信任，你愿意让出多少隐私？父母应该被允许在不让青少年知情的情况下追踪他们吗？政府在调查严重犯罪时，应该能访问私人信息吗？你的伴侣该知道你手机的密码吗？

来辩论吧！

今晚的辩论，我们会聊聊现代世界里的隐私。Davie会带我们穿过私人生活和那些想进入它的人、公司、机构之间越来越模糊的边界。你会站到不同立场上，挑战自己的假设，并在一堆“我有隐私权”和“但万一呢……？”都意外有说服力的情境里挣扎一下。

这是Davie那种“街头智慧”式的辩论：没有输赢，也不需要懂正式学术辩论技巧。每个人都会发言，全程会收到支持性反馈，同时练习那些在现实世界里让论点真正管用的技能：逻辑、积极倾听、共情、察言观色、保持专注，以及在有助于观点落地时用一点戏剧感。你可能会发现自己为一个从没想过要辩护的立场辩护，中途改变主意，或者发现最强的论点不一定是最响的那个。不需要任何辩论经验或背景知识，欢迎所有水平的人来一起辩论。