ROUND 1; JUDGES: Mitch Dunn and Henry Chen I affirm: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States. Resolutional Analysis: The resolution specifies that ONLY incentives need to be "substantially increased" for the affirmative. Certainly the debate can talk about these effects (good and bad) but affirmative must only provide a plan to increase the incentives of the specified energy source. INHERENCY A...

This is a policy debate with Inherency, Harms, Plan, Solvency, Disadvantages, Topicality's, Counter-Plans, and the works. Evidence is necessary to prove points that need it. Since I can't begin without an affirmative case, I will wait for my opponents case before beginning. The topic is the 2008-2009 NFL Policy debate topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States. Thanks and good luck to my challenger!...

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ATTENTION: This is intended to be a Policy Debate for the 2008-2009 topic. Thanks and good luck to my opponent… Round 1/2: Constructives Round 3/4: Rebuttals I affirm: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States. Resolutional Analysis: The resolution specifies that ONLY incentives need to be "substantially increased" for the affirmative. Certainly the debate can talk about these effects (good and bad...

Round 5 of the tournament… getting down to it, good luck Derek: Resolved: It is morally permissible to kill one innocent person to save the lives of many innocent people. Analysis: Under this resolution, there is really two ways to view it, 1) Realistically and 2) Philosophically… In this debate, I will use both (in a weird mesh together) as a tool to prove that it is indeed morally permissible to kill one innocent to save many innocent people. Before beginning with my arguments, let's fir...

Resolved: The Death Penalty is a just punishment. Definitions: Death Penalty: The execution of a criminal for a capital crime. Just: Giving each their due Punishment: the infliction of a negative for the breaking of the law or for a right violation. Contentions: I. The Death Penalty is the only true proportionate punishment for killers. Killers take away the greatest right, the right to life. When this is violated, no earthly punishment is great enough to "balance the scale of just...

Let me give some examples to start things off: 1) Kid spells the word dog correctly. He is perfect in spelling the word dog. 2) Someone is nice one day and a jerk another day. He is perfect in being imperfect. 3) The sun rises and falls. It is perfect for bringing light and heat for that day. Analysis: As in the individual (which is in the topic of debate), it is meant to show as a thing or person. Any external acts are not a part of the individual. So if the sun rose and fell, it wo...

Hable Goble numy num nums sometimes make a certain whistle in my teeth. Then the trowl came from the mountain and saw that he was unliked by the other children. Once i had some fun on a merry go round with the trowl. He's very strong and at some point in his life was a happy trowl. He was in a competition of the frogs. This competition has to do with frogs and he lost the comptetition. He was again unlkiked by all the children and killed himself. why the F*ck is he sitting here??...

This is a policy debate with Inherency, Harms, Plan, Solvency, Disadvantages, Topicality's, Counter-Plans, and the works. Evidence is necessary to prove points that need it. Since I can't begin without an affirmative case, I will wait for my opponents case before beginning. The topic is the 2008-2009 NFL Policy debate topic: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States. Thanks and good luck to my challenger...