Tournament: Holy Cross | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cypress Woods LC | Judge: William Ponder
A is the Interpretation – ‘ought’ entails an ideal without an action or imperative.
Robinson 71 Richard Robinson, “Ought and Ought Not,” Philosophy, Vol. 46, No. 177 (Jul., 1971), pp. 193-202.
Many ought-sentences are not prescriptive at all, either prudentially or morally,
AND
existence by the passage of a law. They are expressing an ideal.
To clarify this means that the aff can’t defend implementation- they must defend the desirability of affirming the entire resolution through truth testing
B is the Violation – They defend (implementation/competing worlds/parametricized advocacy)
C is the Standards –
1) Predictability and Clash
2) Limits
3) Philosophical Education
Fairness
Education
Drop the debater on T –
T is competing interps-
no RVI on T –