LD and PF Club Team registration for the 2022-2023 debate season is now open!

Public Forum 2024 November/December Topic

Paras Kumar | Oct 01, 2024
1 min read

Resolved: The United States should substantially reduce its military support of Taiwan.

A total of 814 coaches and 3,184 students voted for the resolution. The winning resolution received 57% of the coach vote and 51% of the student vote.

‍

The Opinions Expressed In This Blog Post Are Solely Those of the Author And Not Necessarily Those Of DebateDrills

Related Articles

A Defense of Infinite Conditionality

In the proceeding discussion, I will present two independent justifications for conditionality, one axiomatic, the second inductive. The end goal of both is to demonstrate that conditionality, much like counterplans and negative fiat, is a logical consequence of the structure of debate.

 | 

September 14, 2021

 | 

8

 min 

An Argument for Reasonability Pt. 1

Competing interpretations is the idea that judges should evaluate two models of debate and vote for the better one. Under this model, any marginal risk of offense is sufficient to win. Reasonability rejects this “risk of offense” paradigm and instead says some abuse is permissible as long as it’s not “unreasonable”.

 | 

September 14, 2021

 | 

3

 min 

An Argument for Reasonability Pt. 2

Why might reasonability be the preferred paradigm for evaluating theory debates? See the continuation of the debate from the first iteration of this article.

 | 

September 14, 2021

 | 

3

 min