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Korcokian Opp Cost Questions

Kudos to Korcok for some well-written and thought-provoking posts! Some quick
questions for either "the Big K" or any of the other quickly emerging

advocates of this new perspective:

1. Who spells out the appropriate decision-maker? Given that most of our
topics spell out resolutional action on the part of the USFG, couldn't this
be anyone? I can see arguments that can easily be launched justifying a
decision through the specific prism of a virtually endless gamut of actors -
executive, legislative, judicial, public citizen, community opinion leader,
corporation decision-maker, philosophical critic, etc.

2. Who spells out the inherent limits of any appropriate decision-maker? Why
can't the President of the US defer to international efforts? We've already
discussed how federal authorities defer constantly to state jurisdiction.
Should federal traditions of constitutional deference not be questioned,
particularly in the presence of critiques to the document? Exactly, what are
the limits that limit the scope of decisions that federal executives can
consider? Do negative kritiks which urge broader mindsets legitimate
counterplans under this theoretical framework? Are we really wanting to open
the entire process of debate to critiques about the fallacies and
shortcomings of the economic decision-making upon which opportunity cost is
based?

3. Why should we force the limits of others decision-makers upon judges? In
other words, I am not a corporation decision-maker. I don't really know how
they think, nor am I really aware of the limits of their decision-making
mindsets. Why make me pretend to be what I am not? I know some will say that
I should base my limits upon the limits argued by the participants in the
debate,but they're not corporation executives, either. Isn't the model of
citizen policy advocacy more akin to what we hope to achieve educationally?
Shouldn't policy-makers constantly question past assumptions which create
mindset limits?

4. Doesn't this whole alternative way of conceptualizing counterplans start
to seem "gooier" than the age of "whole rez"....

Waiting for interesting answers,

Bear
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