Verdict+Deborah

The opposition (position 2) won this trial and disproved the statement: //“The world and everything in it is unplanned accident, existence is meaningless; the past is irrelevant; nothing matters.”// There were series of evidence from position two, stated by the witnesses, that allowed the opposition to prove the statement to be wrong. First, the Ork stated the significance and reasoning to why things exist; beauty cannot exist without the contrast of ugliness, and thus ugliness exists for people to acknowledge and notice beauty in life. The proposition was not able to question back at this. Also, when the dragons from position two came to testify, they contradicted themselves several times and could not answer some of the questions that were asked during the cross-examination. For example, the dragon could not explain that his words "Go seek gold and sit on it" (page 56) when asked if gold was not a purpose and meaning in life that brought him joy. One of the lawyers from position 2 asked a question about the Dragon feeling joy and considering the gold precious to be a significance to life, and gave specific evidence where the Dragon became angered when a human stole a small golden cup. The dragon could not elaborate on the answer he gave the opposition and did not answer why he got so mad and even threatened Grendel when he touched his golds. Would not that mean dragon thought the gold were something special in his life? Grendel and Dragon witnesses kept on referring to specific incidents in the book //Grendel// such as Grendel slipping on blood and falling over, and consequently losing the battle. However, the proposition did not do a good job providing or persuading the opposition why the ‘accident’ was unplanned. Thus, the opposition won the trial.