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SUMMARY OF THE PROPOSITION We would like to start the summation by reviewing the proposition arguments. In the debate they have deliver three opinions about dictatorship;1) that the dictator could establish any policy they want 2) is cheaper than democracy, and 3) has better control. The rest of the arguments were irrelevant. Let us review it, starting with the irrelevant: Irrelevant 1. Dictatorships breed development though efficient and straightforward decision making 2. Dictatorships better control the variables of human development 3. Dictatorships regimes can be a path for countries move on from civil wars and focus on development For these three arguments, just by reviewing the proposition statements, it is clear that those are irrelevant. Let see the first two. Once stating that the decision making will be efficient and straightforward, in defending the better control on variables of human development it was revealed that dictators actually did not always get optimal results, and this failure or success comes from their decisions. It indicates that there is nothing superior with the decision making by the dictator. There are advantages on control, and the ease of making decision (because no one controls them). These are advantages on decision making process, but it was clearly did not result on better decision. The weakness is on the lack of check and balances in the dictatorial government, enables the dictator to control anything, except the result. For the last argument, the evidence show how the civil war was ended by dictatorship, but no evidence directs it to a better development. So, these arguments may be true, but to link it back as supporting arguments of the motions is clearly wrong. Policy 4. Dictatorships have flexibility in economic policy that breeds growth 5. Dictatorships resist to income Redistribution Pressures 6. The longer lasting and biggest economic miracles have occurred under dictatorships 7. Dictatorship outperforms democracy in growth and economic development If a sparrow always appears in the funerals, can we conclude that the sparrow is the grim reaper? If we follow the proposition's way of deduction, the answer is YES. While they propose to reject bad stigma to the dictators (which is respected by us), on the same time they lost the neutrality, putting dictators as a smart leader, taking a better decision than other. They claimed it is dictators who can settle pro-investment legal and institutional framework (e.g. Low taxes, subsidies, ensuring economical liberties), the only one who can resist from redistribution pressure, performs good economy policy, and by giving China and India as example, claiming dictatorship outperforms democracy (which was a wrong example, since it was all about economic policy). For them, those are a natural characteristic of a dictatorship, for us it is just a random coincidence. If all good things that was claimed is really a natural character of a dictatorship, then we should not have witnessed the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe or the irregularities in Burma. We are not going to play the same game as them, by concluding dictatorship just from the examples of Zimbabwe and Burma. We see all the examples as a whole, and by doing so we believe those cases just brings to us one fact, that dictator can do anything, and can decide anything. The result is varied from the economic miracle, to monstrous hyperinflation. Cheap 8. Dictatorship is a more economic institution: elections are a luxury reserved for developed countries. 9. A dictatorship breeds order and it's a needed step for both development and liberal democracy. Maybe the only person that is happy for these arguments is Brad Pitt. But Pitt should wait for it , since he is not a dictator who can skip the election. As the opposition, we did not really concern on the case whether the dictatorship was cheaper or not, since there are no evidence that the cheaper government will do better development. Control 10. Dictators have incentives to promote development and diminish social differences 11. Dictatorship is a good breeding ground for personal discipline and order 12. Dictatorship helps achieve social stability The last aspect of the dictators is that they have bigger control. This control allows them to promote development and diminish social differences. But it should be noticed, that democratic country can do the same thing. Moreover, from the motives it is done, social benefits in democracy is inbuilt in the power mechanisms of “one man – one vote” and form inevitable nature of society. On the other hand, dictatorship's incentives are merely formed according to an arbitrary judgment, prudence and free will of dictator. On viewing dictatorship as a good breeding ground for personal discipline and order, the proposition takes Taiwan as an example. Yes, Taiwan was once a under dictatorship, but it was before 1990s. The example they brought was Taiwan success on 2007 [[http://www.bls.gov/news.release/prod4.nr0.htm]]. Their examples lead us to believe that it is democracy, not dictatorship that is a good breeding ground for personal discipline, as John Dewey proposed. At last, social stability that is proposed by dictatorship has a serious threat. The problem that is proposed was not fundamental, because it happened under bad management in Mexico, not because of the flaws on the system itself. Contrary to Mexico, Yugoslavia dictatorship stability was shaken, even though it is in a good management. When Josip Broz Tito died, the country's history ended. It is showed that while the democracy's succession failure was a case-based failure, dictatorship's failure is a systemic failure. SUMMARY OF THE OPPOSITION Obviously this debate was created to prove that dictatorship is the BEST PATH to development. Countries such as those of Burma, Iran, and Honduras should be accepted as a valid form of government by the democratic countries. Or at least that was what we thought it would be. The debate started by “irregularities” in the proposition arguments and definition (lacking one) that forced us to create a definition for a Dictatorship in the first phase. However, after realizing that the proposition will not take the direction of this debate according to the spirit of the motion, we opt to silence the opposition by releasing 8 of our own arguments against their case. In summary there is no question that we believe "DICTATORSHIP IS NEVER THE BEST PATH TO DEVELOPMENT, for three simple reasons. 1. Dictatorships are unstable. Development needs stability, and dictatorship is never a stable form of government. There lays, in a dictatorship, a certain characteristic that creates instability. For example, a dictatorship lacks a mechanism to control its policies thus creating irregularities within the countries or that a dictatorship doesn't have a clear succession method between governments. By definition alone a dictatorship breeds dissent from the people they govern, since dictatorship uses repression to gain loyalty. Those elements of a dictatorship create a question mark regarding the government, whether or not it will provide stability in the country and the government. It is not surprising then that other country found it risky to lend these dictatorships capital or for foreign companies to build factory or infrastructure, thus curbing the level of development within the country. 2. Dictatorship has other priority Dictatorship number one priority is to stay in power. This is probably the only form of stability a dictatorship can offer, a stable personality as a leader. This ultimately puts the development of the country in question, since for the sake of power dictatorship has been proved to place a high tax upon the people (due to the increase of their military and security budget). This situation can never attain development, where the definition of development for dictatorship is the development of their Might and Right. 3. Dictatorship was never responsible for any development There has been some 'propaganda' to mislead readers regarding the merits of dictatorship. Certainly the readers can see through those façade, though there is no wrong in assuming the worst has happened. We want to emphasized that there is no question that there was never a country that achieve development due to dictatorship as a form of government. We can argue that, development occurs because of a good economic policy, for example the China free market policy. But we should underline that free market policy can be done with any form of government, and is not a system that is exclusively attached to dictatorship. Any countries with any system can manage it. "Development" may also come from the regional growth, where the economy of the country, regardless of the political system, to get the advantage. We can see that economic growth in East Asia has nothing to do with dictatorship. Even, after the democratization, the GNP per capita in South Korea increase for more than 100%. We should also notice that although an economy may grow, but can we consider it a best path of development? By a greater average volume of GNP than democratic countries, GNP per capita of dictatorship country was surprisingly lower than democratic country. It means that the economic growth is not enjoyed by most of the people. The gap may be used by the dictator to his and his clique’s personal assets, or to increase their military budget, to protect them from both foreign or local attack. Having stated all of the above, it is clearly evident that the proposition has no standing case and that although dictatorship continues to run some countries of the worlds, we shall not, as witness to a democratic system accept reasoning that dictatorship is the best path to development. That it is in our best interest as the future of this world to promote democracy, freedom, and development of the world. So those that may not enjoy it today, can live knowing that their children or their children's children will one day enjoy freedom under a developed democratic state. Therefore we beg to oppose. TMTHENG TMTHENU