In order to give information clearly, usually a debater used a some jargon or particular sentences to explain. For common peoples, listeners, or maybe a new debater it will make them confused with those jargons since they never listen before. Here I explain the big ten jargon that you should know :
- Social Contract, trades of between government and society where the society surrenders some of their rights to the goverment (i.e. through law obedience and tax) in return for greater rights (i.e. speech, welfare, etc)
- Mutually Exclusive, two actions that cannot happen at the same time
- Affirmative Action means active govermental involvement to treat a minority group better than the majority, often discriminating the majority in the process, in order to provide welfare to the minority
- Slippery Slope also known as snowball effect or dam effect is a logical fallacy stating that, once an action is taken, there will be no holding back for more similiar actions to occur. Often due to similiar legal justification
- Political Capital, the currency in politics. Often refers to a person or party's capacity of implementing their political agenda
- Organic Change is a social change that occurs naturally without government intervention
- Meritocracy, a system where a choice of candidates is made based on actual capability and talent instead of other factor (i.e. social stature of position, wealth, sex, etc)
- Social Engineering, the process of shaping the society's value to fit the principles with the government upholds and expects the people to
- Social Battering Ram, an occurrence where the government utilizes the society to achieve social blending or unity, often irrespective of their rights
- Trickle Down Effect, an effect often benefit that starts at the top level (i.e. the government, big businesses) but is also felt, eventually, by the grassroot society
For your information, this kind of jargons actually often used in debate competitions. So, it will good for you to understand and to practice it.
