Answering Counterplans

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Answering Counterplans

• Acronym is PLOTS
• Permutation
• Links to their disads
• Other disads to the Counterplan
• Theory Objections
• Doesnt Solve the case
• The plot thickens when
• they run a counterplan

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Doesnt Solve Your Case

• Doesnt solve your case
• Why might a counterplan that uses the states not
  solve your advantages?
• Federal Domain (Natives/Military)
• Federal Symbol (raises profile of anti-poverty)
• Modelling
• Plan fills a federal gap (federal law has
  excluded a group)

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Links to their disads

• Links to their disads
• AFF teams often forget to make this answer
• Inflation Disad (states still put money into the
  economy/causing inflation)
• Net Widening Disad (states still increase control
  over people)
• How might other disadvantages/kritiks link to the
  states counterplan?

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Other Disads to A Counterplan

• Affirmative can run disads to a counterplan
• Usually the affirmative will skip the uniqueness,
  and read a two card disad
• Can we think of disads

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Theoretical Objections to Counterplans

• There are certain reasons why some counterplans
  might be unfair
• One reason is that
• international FIAT
• might be bad
• Not this kind of Fiat

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FIAT

• FIAT the power to put your plan into action
• We pretend in debate that we are the Congress, or
  the President, or the Supreme Court
• There is an argument that FIAT should be limited
  to the United States

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Status of Counterplans

• A good cross-x question is
• what is the status of your CP?
• An unconditional Counterplan
• has to be defended
• A conditional counterplan allows
• the negative to switch back to the
• status quo in the debate

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Status Part 2

• A dispositional counterplan is like limited
  conditionality.
• We can revert back if you make certain answers
• Most judges think some version of
  dispositionality or conditionality is fair

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Permutations

• A counterplan must COMPETE it must provide an
  answer to the question, why not do both?
• A permutation is an affirmative answer that says
  we should do both
• A permutation is designed to prove, the
  counterplan doesnt compete

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Answering Permutations

• 1) Still links to the disadvantages.
• So the answer to why not do both is the
  disadvantage
• There may be disadvangtes to the permutation by
  itself, separate from the aff
• Two basic answers
• 1) we shouldnt do both
• It links to the disadvantages
• It has disadvantages to it (do both worse)
• 2) we cant do both

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Plan Inclusive Counterplan

• Plan is give money to Afghanistan and Lebanon
• Counterplan is only give money to Lebanon
• Ban giving aid to Afghanistan
• Cant give aid to Afghanistan and ban aid (you
  would have to ban ALL OTHER AID and then give
  aid)
• Mutually exclusive cant do both

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Illegitimate Permutations

• Permutation has to be the combination of ALL of
  the PLAN and PART or ALL of the Counterplan
• Why must a permutation be all of the plan?
• Plan was give aid to A L
• Counterplan only give aid to L
• Disad Afghan leader bad
• Permutation only give aid to L
• You are not allowed to sever or get rid of parts
  of your plan
• Plans arent conditional, you have to defend your
  plan
• Sever permutation

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Other permutations

• and PART or ALL of the Counterplan
• Permutation cannot ADD anything into the mix
• Intrinsiciness Permutation adds something to the
  mix
• Run a spending disad
• A) Cost a lot of money to give aid to afg
• B) Destroy the deficit
• C) Wreck economy
• D) Big boom
• Counterplan EU give aid
• Permute do the plan, have the EU give aid, and
  then cut the budget for boll wievel aid
• We cant run disads, you would always solve for
  them with your intrinsicness permutation

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Why are you allowed to only do part of the
counterplan

• Do all of the plan
• But only part of the counterplan?
• Plank 1 Ban your plan
• Plank 2 Feed the world
• Afghan stability 10 feed the world 1000