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+A. Interp: The aff must defend that two or more countries prohibit the production of nuclear power. “Countries” in the resolution is a plural noun which implicates more than one country. Scocco 07. |
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+Daniel Scocco, 2007 (English Grammar 101: Plural Form of Nouns. Online. Internet. Accessed May 13, 2014 at http://www.dailywritingtips.com/english-grammar-101-plural-form-of-nouns/) |
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+The English language has both regular and irregular plural forms of nouns. The most common case is when you need to add -s to the noun. For example one car and two cars. |
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+Countries is definitely plural. Meriam-Webster |
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+“Country”, Meriam-Webster, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/countries |
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+country plural countries 1 : an indefinite usually extended expanse of land |
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+B. Violation: The plan only prohibits nuclear power in one country |
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+C) Standards: |
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+1) Limits: their interp allows for a variety of single country cases as opposed to cases that affect the nuclear power production more broadly. Small cases are bad because of link magnitude – the warming DA doesn’t link hard to the Belgium aff |
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+2) Resolution context: the resolution pluralizes countries for a reason. |
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+D) Voting issue: you can’t vote for the aff regardless of fairness or education if they don’t meet the resolutional burden. Hold them accountable for their interp – topical advocacy frames the debate. You are literally not topical |
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+Competing interps since reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention based on preference rather than argumentation and encourages a race to the bottom in which debaters exploit a judge’s tolerance for questionable argumentation. You cant be reasonably topical |
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+No RVIs: |
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+They incentivize debaters to go all in in theory and bait it with abusive practices, killing substantive clash on other flows |