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Re: opportunity benefits


On Fri, 23 May 1997 23:29:18 -0600 Chris Smith <cdsmith@BRAIN.UCCS.EDU>
writes:
>There is definitely a defendable justification for considering 
>opportunity
>costs, and I have defended it on the list.  

Please, refresh my memory.  I can't seem to recall any justification.

>You really haven't given 
>any
>justification for opportunity benefits except some vague concept of
>reciprocity.  

Sure.  If you can claim that by stoping the opportunity for a more benificial policy to exist is the result of fiating the plan, no mater how
rediculous the odds of this option passing are, is a warrant for
rejecting the plan then why can't I claim that fiating the plan would
stop the opportunity for a detrimental policy to exist, no matter how
rediculous the odds of the status quo passing this option are, is a
warrant for accepting the plan. 

>If this is true, I ask you to take my last justification 
>for
>considering opp cost and apply it the other direction.  

Which is?

>The best you 
>get is
>a vague non-unique advantage that one less bad choice exists for 
>policy
>makers, but so many bad choices exist anyway that it probably doesn't 
>make
>a bit of difference.

Which is all you get with an opportunity cost counterplan.


>Chris Smith
>Woodland Park HS Debate


					Dom Battistella
					ODU Debate
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