DEBATE

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Small Seminar
Bench
Constructive
Clash
Roadmap
Vertical Extension
Horizontal Extension
Framework
Weighing
Mechanisms
Derivative (argument)
Small Seminar - 2

Weighing
Comparing arguments against each other

We're doing the job of a judge

Magnitude How severe is the impact

Scope How broadly is the impact felt across a

population or the world

Probability How likely is the event to happen?

Timeframe Is it a short term or a long term harm?

Reversibility Can it be done or undone?

Moral Requirement = affirming or negating creates an ethical
obligation to act

whether an advantage or a disadvantage

actively or indirectly occurs – do you
Voluntary Risk tacitly consent to a harm happening or do
you actually commit the harm (worse to
actively harm than passively harm)
Institutional obligations

= some impacts are the responsibilities of a given institution – even if I

commit some harms/violate some rights whatever, it’s still more important
to affirm the resolution because I’m at least keeping w/ the obligations of
the institution in question
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Some Debate topics from
the tournament
 Round 1
THBT children's media should have clearly defined
good and evil characters
 Round 2
THO "no child left behind"
What is "no child left behind"?
 Round 3
THR the rise of digital nomadism
 Regret motions
Not about what is good or bad about it

SHOULD IT EXIST AT ALL

Preparing for Regrets Motions (saskdebate.ca)

https://saskdebate.ca/Portals/0/Preparing%20for%20Regrets%20Motions.pdf
What is digital nomadism?
 Round 4
THW implement mandatory national
environmental service for all 18 year olds
 Round 5
THBT social justice movements should prioritize
local issues over national issues
 Grand Final
THP a world where people are born as fully-
developed adults
 Today's Debate:
THBT there is no such thing
as a good lie.