Weighing Five Important Weighing Arguments PROBABILITY MAGNITUDE DURATION
Weighing
Five Important Weighing Arguments • PROBABILITY • MAGNITUDE • DURATION • REVERSIBILITY • TIMEFRAME • YOU ARE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT THEIR CLAIM VERSUS YOURS!!
PROBABILITY • How likely? • Magnitude x likihood – astroid strike • My opponet claims that we should spend millions of dollars to prevent voter fraud and dispropotionatel disenfranchise minorities and women. • Make up an argument that outweight in magnitude.
MAGNITUDE • HOW much? • My opponet claims that justice systems sthat emphasize punishment have recidivism rates of only 24%. . . • Use the concept of rehabilitation to outweigh in magnitude
DURATION • How long? • My opponet claims that if we simply give every person $25, 000 a year we will reduce poverty immediately by 40%. Poverty reductions will continue for 5 years. • How would you outwieght by using duration?
REVERSIBILITY • The Affirmative wishes to replace all the dictators of the Middle East with democratic governments. • If he is successful, all the better but once he starts down this path , if anything goes wrong, he cannot return the affected nations back into stable if unfree states. We are stuck with the chaos this policy make cause. • If we follow the negative adovacy and simply economic pressure and diplomatic isolation, we can always reverse course if the policy is not working without creating general choas in the area.
TIMEFRAME • How soon does yours kick in as opposed to theirs?
4 Steps of refutation • • * STEP 1: They say…. Step 2: “But I disagree…. ” Step 3: “Because …. ” Step 4: “Therefore…. ”
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