Re: Croasmun's plan-plan

[mattloch@chiba.netxn.com (Matthew Hall)]

In which case its too late to do anything about it.

>(2) the negative is not prepared to debate against this
>particular affirmative plan even though it is topical and defensible, 
>

Or there isn't any ev on it (or what two cards there are have three cards to
answer it and THATS IT).

>
>(3) the negative is too insecure to go with what it has, using analysis,
>reasoning, skillful cross-ex, topicality arguments, and so on, to
>compensate for the evidence imbalance, 
>

Sometimes this works, but a lot of time the neg is pushed into a position of
looking bad by having to argue "rape is good" or "it doesn't matter THAT
much", which brings us to.....

>
>and/or (4) the negative feels that the judge has an affirmative bias.  
>

In which case if the aff case is just plain chintzy the neg is screwed out
of a whole lot of arguements/positions that it could run in front of
unbiased judges.

>
>For whatever reason, the negative wants to be affirmative.  

>Hardly a rationale to restructure all policy
>debate.  These situations can be better dealt with in other ways.  [And of
>course, by "plan-plan" theory, this new paradigm has to be the best
>possible solution.]
>
>

All of the above cases have happened to me in rounds this year (often with
more than one of the above problems in the same round), so I made the
tactical choice (well, actually my partner made the choice, but I had the
final say-so being the 1N) to try plan-plan. It just happens to be another
weapon in the negs arsenal that we have access to.

Besides, is the current level of policy debate being taxed THAT MUCH by
plan-plan?

Latez.

Mattloch
Bakersfield Renegade Debate

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