Hello, I’m Pang Ying. Welcome to the Q&A for Episode 3 of Think Like a Debater. As usual, we have three questions.

I will not discuss this in detail. Rescue torture is itself a form, or subset, of fighting violence with violence. The main episode’s analysis of whether rescue torture works and whether it is right can be transferred almost entirely to this question.

Rather than repeat it, run the reasoning through your own mind or explain it aloud to someone else. The Feynman technique distinguishes passive learning through listening and reading from active learning through discussion, practice, and teaching, which better supports understanding and internalization.

Of course, fighting violence with violence applies more broadly than rescue torture.For example, when faced with malicious abuse online, should you insult the speaker in return? That too extends the same question.

Last year Zhan Qingyun and I debated this in a Vistopia livestream: “Should we treat malicious people with malice?” We discussed rescue torture, retaliation, and many specific cases.

One point from that debate not mentioned in the main episode was this:after racking your brain for an evil, violent method to punish bad people, can you truly emerge unchanged?When you labor to invent an insult even more vicious, hurtful, and disturbing than telling someone their mother is dead,will it change how you think and what kind of person you become?

For more, go to Think Like a Lawyerand find the special episode. You can also search Bilibili for Pang Ying and Zhan Qingyun debating whether malicious people should be met with malice. That answers the first question.

An obesity or junk-food tax applies to high-fat, salty, sugary, low-protein, low-nutrition, high-calorie food and drink. By raising prices and reducing sales, it aims to shift consumption toward healthier food, improving both personal well-being and the health system’s burden.

I know this issue well from a policy debate. When I planned to pursue a public-policy master’s at Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School, the interview question was a sugar tax. Its disputes fall into two dimensions:Does it workandis it right?