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Re: Disclosure
While I do believe that abuse of disclosure etiquette is something
that should be strongly discouraged, I urge judges not to consider
this issue to be an absolute voting issue. The judge is often not in
the room when this disclosure needs to occur to be useful. Debaters
could disclose to the best of their abilities and still be accused on
ethical grounds by unscrupulous opponents or by opponents who simply
misinterpreted the info that was provided. How a judge could possibly
employ anything near objectivity in resolving this type of "we
said/they said" ethical charge is beyond my ability to imagine. Just
as traded evidence can unethically be used against the team that
produced it, incomplete or inaccurate disclosures are an assumed
risk. We should encourage judges to stick to evaluation of in-round
practices instead of broadening the scope of evaluation to include
pre-round behaviors.
Michael Bryant
Weber State University
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