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+A. Interpretation: The term “Countries” means the aff can only defend countries in general, not any specific country or a set of countries. Debois 16 |
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+Debois 16, Danny, VBI Topic Analysis Sept-Oct, p.11, 2016 |
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+Importantly, "countries" in...should prohibit it. |
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+B. Violation: They defend a subset- either 1 or group |
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+C. Standards: |
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+Textual Precision- Generic bare plurals lack a quantifier before it which means debate is supposed to be about countries in general, not any specific group of employers.. Leslie |
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+Sarah Jane Leslie. Prof. of Linguistics. “Generics.” https://www.princeton.edu/~sjleslie/RoutledgeEncyclopediaEntry2.pdf |
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+Generics are statements...this practice here.) |
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+And there’s a topical version of the aff: Countries prohibiting the production of nuclear power through a phase-out program. Lucas et. al 12 |
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+Lucas, Caroline, Rebecca Harms, and Dany Cohn-Bendit. "Why We Must Phase out Nuclear Power." Theguardian. Theguardian, 17 Feb. 2012. Web. 8 Oct. 2016. PH |
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+There’s inherent risk...nuclear on power. |
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+Limits- There are about 195 countries. The aff vastly underlimits the topic by allowing them to defend ANY ONE of them. |
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+D. Voter: |
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+Fairness, Education, Drop the Debater, Competing Interps, and No RVI |