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Topic ramblings

Ursa Swami predicts:

1. Massive criminal justice hardline vs. softline battles consisting
    of non-clashing criminal justice system turns. Weighing defendant
    rights versus crime impacts should make for some interesting
    discussions.

2. Affirmatives trying to capture the hardline bad ground by arguing
    that more severe punishments now prevent far more severe
    sentencing reforms in the future by acquiescing the emerging
    public backlash against criminals.

3. Many negatives trying to argue that the FBI's official definition
    of violent crimes is the best way to avoid the unlimitation of the
    topic.

4. Many death penalty bad disads based off the link of more severe
    punishment in one area spilling over to more support of the death
    penalty. The spillover links will be needed to directly respond to
    the acquiesce public hardline position explained above.

5. The public's fear of crime should provide fertile ground for
    Clinton and Bipartisanship Disads.

6. The wording "more severe" will lead to cases that simply increase
    some aspect of the required punishment. CPR education while in
    prison? Mandatory viewing of Beavis and Butthead? Forced listening
    to the trauma of murder relatives? Public service requirement of
    judging novice rounds? Can you say "unlimited"?

7. More theory arguments created by the legitimation of justification
    arguments caused by the word "throughout". Indian reservations,
    Puerto Rico, religious enclaves, and individual states with
    progressive approaches should all serve as adequate fodder for
    examinations of the justifications for choosing the specifc term
    of "throughout". Exclusion counterplans will rear their ugly
    little heads, and the alternative approach of running the argument
    as a  justification argument will force re-examination of whether
    plan or resolution is best focus.

8. Interesting Kritik ground in examination of the philosophical
    assumptions of both punishment and retribution theory.

Overall, its an interesting topic that seems drastically open to
affirmative attempts to expand the size of resolutional ground to
cope with the fact that the initial view of the topic greatly favors
the negative. Good overlap with the NDT topic, too.

Bear, aka
Michael Bryant
Weber State
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