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GAMSAT Section 2 quote prompts: Conflict

1 GAMSAT-style prompt on conflict. Each gives you five comments that disagree, so your job is to find the tension and argue a clear position. Give yourself about 30 minutes per essay.

Task A · ArgumentPrompt 1 of 1

Consider the following comments on conflict.

  • Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

    Immanuel Kant

  • Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

    Anonymous

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.

    Proverb

  • The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

    Sun Tzu

Write a piece in response to one or more of these comments. Your essay will be assessed on the quality of your argument and the way you express it.

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