Date: Sunday May 15, 2016

Participants (from 16 countries):

Teams

Panel PRO (Team A): Elham, Behnam, Boboty, Jesson, Rojhano, Zivar

Panel CON (Team B): Taregh, Marwa, Hanieh, Mitchz, Johny, Djamila, Soso, Salima

Audience (Team C): Amy, Mhikie, Haitham, Salima

Joined late: George, Guineyli, Naemullah, Zahir, Salavat, Noorola, Khizar, Azamu, Adnan

Team A summary:

Not wearing the appropriate clothing is being immature and comes across as being disrespectful towards other people.
Beaches should be the most important place to have rules about clothing.
Not wearing the appropriate clothing can have impacts on people from different cultures.
A beach is a public place which means people should not have complete freedom, their actions and appearance has a direct impact on others.
Having rules will bring more freedom and peace.
If we don’t limit what people can do, they will do whatever they want.
Children are easily influenced and a person's appearance can impact the way that children think.
Some families are conservative and for them it could be gross and disrespectful if people do not wear something more modest in appearance.
People can take pictures of you if you wear embarrassing clothes.

Team B summary:

Sometimes we don’t need to have laws to know what is appropriate and what’s not.
Some places should not need to have rules because it’s common sense; people should know better already.
Obliging people to wear certain things instead of others is not freedom.
People should wear something but the type of swimming suite they choose is up to them.
We don’t own the beaches anyway so we shouldn’t be going about telling other people what they can and what they cannot wear.

Team C summary:

Votes

It was a tie. Thanks everyone for participating. Below are the links to listen to this discussion.

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