Topic Slate for 2015-2016
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The following are the potential topics for the next season:
- Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.
- Resolved: The United States ought to promote democracy in the Middle East.
- Resolved: In the United States criminal justice system, jury nullification ought to be used in the face of perceived injustice.
- Resolved: In the United States, campaigns that support candidates for public office ought to be financed exclusively by public funds.
- Resolved: Immigration ought to be recognized as a human right.
- Resolved: Democracies ought to incorporate provisions for legal secession into their national constitutions.
- Resolved: The United States ought to adopt carbon pricing.
- Resolved: Corporations ought to value their responsibility to shareholders over the public interest when the two conflict.
- Resolved: The privatization of civil services undermines democracy.
- Resolved: In the United States, private ownership of handguns ought to be banned.
Which do you all want to debate? How would you rank the best and the worst?
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In which LD has become PF
More like CX
Oh topic #9. What was the committee thinking?
I really wish the #1 had been worded more precisely, and had specified a country. You can’t really discuss nuclear energy “as a whole” because, like someone said in the other thread, there’s a big difference between France and Syria. Now actual substantive affs will be hit with dumb T arguments nearly every round. Thanks topic committee!
I wrote a note to the topic committee a year ago about the necessity of precision and specificity in a lot of these topics. I take it that five United States topics this year is a step in the right direction (whereas there were only two last year).
Honestly, things getting more specific and focusing on the U.S. is more like PF or CX than LD :'(
All of these are terrible.
Hi Derek Zhang
ayyyyy lmaaoooo
You preached spec theory to the topic committee? LOVE that dedication bob! #hutt4lyfe
Which one is the camp topic for PDI?