counter plan lecture
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Counter Plan Lecture
10/9/13NYU Policy Debate
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Thought Experiment
Counter Plans (CP) exist because the negativehas the right to counter the Affirmative casewith a competing option.
Must be Mutually Exclusive with the plan Example of how it can be abusive
Do the plan and also give out subsidized food to
solve world hunger Do the plan but save a penny
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Competition
A fair way in which the CP is mutually exclusivewith the plan
The way a CP competes is through having a Net
Benefit A Net Benefit is a bonus that the counter plan solves
for that the plan cannot.
A Net Benefit is also a reason why doing the plan and
CP together would be worse then just doing the CP Ex: A Politics Disadvantage, Another Disadvantage,
Impact Turns
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Functional Competition
A Counterplan that competes with the plan on
a mechanism basis.
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Textual Competition
A Counterplan that competes because of the
plan text and CP text are different
A word PIK would be an example of textual
competition
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Types of CPs
Plan Inclusive (PICs): Do some or all parts of theaffirmative
Delay: Delay the plan or do it contingent on afuture event
Consult: Ask another actor if it is ok to do theplan
Exclusionary: Do a specific part of the plan andclaim Net Benefits of parts excluded
Agent: Have another actor do the plan
Plan Exclusive: Do no part of the plan
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Question #1
Plan: Remove Drones
1NC: Executive Order CP, Terrorism DA(removing Drones lets the terrorist win),
Presidential Powers DA, Global WarmingImpact Defense, Proliferation Good ImpactTurns
Executive Order Counterplan is have thepresident do the plan by himself
What are the possible Net Benefits to CP?
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Question #2
Plan: Remove Drones
Advantages: Hegemony, Proliferation and
Warming
1NC: SPS CP (solves for warming but nothing
else), Presidential Powers DA, Terrorism DA
(same as the previous question), Heg Bad
Impact turns, Prolif Bad Impact turns
What are the possible Net Benefits to the CP?
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Question #3
Textual or Functional Competition
1AC Plan Text: The USFG should ban the use of
drones for targeted killing
CP 1: The USFG should ban the use of drones for
assassinations
CP 2: The USFG
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SPOT
Solvency
Perm
Offense Theory
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Permutations
A permutation (perm) is a test of competition
that questions whether the Counterplan and
the plan are mutually exclusive.
You should always make a perm on the
Counterplan and should always answer it
when you read a counterplan. Failure to do so
typically means you will lose.
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The major types of Perms
Perm do both
Perm do the CP
Perm do plan and non-mutually exclusiveparts of the CP
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Perm do both
This perm says that we should enact both the
CP and Plan at the same time.
This perm is functionally saying that there is
no reason the plan and CP cannot happen at
the same time (No net benefit).
This is always a perm that you should be
making because it can almost never have
theory read against it
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Perm do the CP
This perm is basically saying that there is no legitimatereason the CP and Plan are any different.
This perm is usually used against CPs that are insanelyabusive and steal the majority of the plan
Typically CPs that steal your Aff do so because theyover clarify something. You should argue, whenmaking this perm, that their clarification of what theirCP does is the same clarification as what your plan
does
This can also be used against word PIKs
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Perm do the plan and non-mutually
exclusive parts of the CP
This perm is also very usefully because it allowsyou to win even though you may not be able todo the entire CP in the world of the plan passing
With this perm you argue that we can do certainparts of the CP and the entire plan which is themost beneficial outcome.
Ex: CP Text: Dont do the plan and feed starvingchildren Aff says: PDPNME-No reason we cant also feed the
starving children and our entire case proves that notdoing the plan is bad
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Perm Theory
Just like how CPs can be abusive, the types of
perms you make are also abusive. We can all
agree that CPs are probably a good thing in
debate. If the affirmative can do tricky thingswith their perms, CPs may never win that they
are competitive.
There are two ways a Perm can be abusive:Severance and Intrinsicness
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Severance
A perm is severance when it spikes out of part ofthe 1AC
Image if the affirmative could stop advocatingpart of their 1AC just because you read anargument against it.
Ex: CP text: Dont do the plan If the affirmative stood up and said perm do the cp, it
would mean they are no longer advocating their plan
which is unfair
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Intrinsicness
When you add something to your perm text thatwasnt in the CP or plan text
Ex: CP Text: Have the president do the planthrough an executive order (The net benefits arepremised on how Xos make Obama look strong) Perm do the plan and have Obama issue an XO on
something else.
Though this solves for the Net Benefits of the CP, it is
totally illegit because it allows the affirmative to addany additional action to solve the Net Benefits(remember CP needs Net Benefits or it is illegit)
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CP Status Theory
A status of a CP is simply a statement by the
negative on whether or not they have a right to
stop advocating (kick out of) for it as the round
continues DAs, Ts and case arguments can be kicked out of
and no one cares
Because CPs are harder to answer, because theyhave the potential to steal the entire aff, people
care more when teams kick out of CPs
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The Three Statuses of the CP
Conditional: Sometimes phrased as the
status quo is always an option or Condo
Dispositional
Unconditional
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Unconditional
This is pretty simple: They are saying that we
are not allowed to stop advocating for the CP
In other words: This is our winning and only
strategy
Very rarely do you see a CP run unconditionally
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Conditional
This says that we are allowed to stop advocating for the CPwhenever we want.
This is the most traditional way of reading a CP and if youare unsure in round, unless told by a coach, you shouldread all CPs conditionally.
Conditionality used to be a bad word in debate and if youread a CP this way you would usually lose because the affwould say you are being unfair. However, over the past 10years debate has become very tolerant of conditionalityand now it is very hard to win that conditionality is bad.With that being said, most teams still read conditionalitybad and if you dont answer it you automatically lose.
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Dispositional
This status actually means that you have to agree withthe negative on the terms of when you are allowed tokick it. Typically, almost exclusively, it is assumed tomean that we are allowed to stop advocating for the
CP as soon as it is straight turned (there is only offensearguments on the CP flow)
A good rule to follow is that if someone says the CP isdispositional, you ask what do you mean by this. It
doesnt make you sound silly. The judge will probablylike it because it will clear up any confusion right fromthe get go.