Now, Action, Then

Recap What areas should you look at when you judge?

What is it? Now: The present situation. What is it? What needs changing? Why do you need to change it? Action: What you as the government will do. How you will do it? Who will do it? Then: your beautiful new world.

Proposition Given the action in the motion Mechanism gives options for action Now= Status quo Find a number of harms Show how they would change Find a lovely pretty new world How will your mech lead you to it?

Opposition Take a step back What info haven’t they given us? Pick up on the assertions Break the links they make

Common Attacks 1.Status quo is wrong 2.Action will not lead to the then 3.Then is worse than the now 4.Harm isn’t really a harm 5.Logical inconsistency 6.Holes in the mech 7.Action leads to a different then 8.Then doesn’t change the status quo 9.Counter prop, find a better action for the same then 10.Action is more harmful then the now 11.Action leads to a greater harm

Practice Debate It is the year 3000, man has sorted out space travel but aids is destroying our population. An alien race has been discovered with a hormone in their brains which will save man kind. These aliens have the ability of man in the middle ages. Extracting the hormone will kill the alien.

Practice Debate THW harvest the brains