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Old 02-27-2006, 11:15 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mandiejo
no problem, here goes.

Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially decrease its authority either to detain without charge or search without probable cause.

that's basically the whole deal with debate, you have to be able to argue pro and con on something no matter what just as convincingly both ways. forget how you really feel, it comes with the territory.
When I was in high school many moons ago, the resolutions were always picked to try and ensure that neither the affirmative or the negative side had an obvious advantage.

Elderly care could be confronted on solvency and disadvantage issues.
South American stability could be confronted as the same, along with inherency.

In the area we are discussing, this resolution seems to give a clear advantage to the affirmative, IMO. The main response might seem to center around significance or disadvantages (IMO), but even then the affirmative team has a fairly obvious means to proceed.
Possibly an inherency issue response? But even then I would say that would be negated by the issue we are discussing. The solution is significantly different from the status quo.

Proving the resolution, just by itself, seems almost simple for the areas we are discussing.