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Answering the CP

Casey ParsonsSlide2

Review

CP’s have two parts:

The CP text

The net benefit

CP’s are designed to solve either part of or all of the

aff

CP’s are designed to get around the majority of the case debate Slide3

Answering them

We have a useful acronym for answering CP’s

SPOT:

Solvency Deficit

Permutation

Offense

TheorySlide4

Solvency Deficit

By far the most important argument – any risk that the CP doesn’t solve the

aff

means the

aff

is preferable to the CP

Even winning that the plan solves better than the CP is usually enough

It really depends on the specific CP

You often times won’t have a block for this – you have to make this argument analytically and on the fly Slide5

Permutation

The CP and the plan aren’t mutually exclusive – in other words, they don’t compete

If the CP doesn’t compete with the

aff

then it doesn’t disprove the resolution

Permutations have two parts:

Perm text

Examples include: Perm do both, perm do the plan then the CP,

etc

Explanation of how the perm functions

Explain why the perm solves better than the CP and how it works

Make several perm arguments Slide6

Offense

Offensive reasons as to why the CP is a bad idea

If the CP doesn’t solve all of the

aff

, use the advantages that it doesn’t solve

You can also read DA’s that the CP links to that the plan doesn’t, but this is a pretty last ditch ideaSlide7

Theory

Theoretical reasons as to why the CP is a bad idea

We’ll talk about this more on the theory lecture