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The Stock Issues of Debate. 5 Things Every Debater Needs, and Needs to Know !. What are Stock Issues?. Stock issues are 5 basic categories of information that must be provided in every debate round. Inherency. The thing that is preventing the Status quo from changing.
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The Stock Issues of Debate 5 Things Every Debater Needs, and Needs to Know!
What are Stock Issues? • Stock issues are 5 basic categories of information that must be provided in every debate round.
Inherency • The thing that is preventing the Status quo from changing. • Structural Barrier: A law or rule that prevents a change. • Attitudinal Barrier: Attitudes of people are preventing a change.
Harms are the bad things that the status quo does, and what the affirmative plans to solve. Remember, The affirmative must solve for all of the harms they list!
Plan • The plan is the affirmative’s ideas to solve the harms listed earlier in their case. The Plan also has several steps that the affirmative must consider. • Mandates: • Funding: • Enforcement:
Solvency Solvency is the place in which the affirmative proves that their plan will solve for the harms they talked about earlier. Remember ! You must solve for all of your harms.
Topicality Topicality is an argument made by the negative team that says the affirmative is not debating the resolution. To develop a topicality argument the negative must show how the affirmative is non-topical (not debating the current topic).
Parts of Topicality 1. Definition- Define the word(s) that they are violating. 2. Violation- Explain how the negative’s case does not meet that definition. 3. Standards- Ways in which definitions can be used to check for topicality. 4. Voting- Explain why the judge should vote on topicality.
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