Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: Northland Christian CS | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield
Interpretation – the Aff may not specify medicines.
Medicines is a generic bare plural
Nebel 20 Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh. “Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate” Victory Briefs, 19 August 2020. no url AG
It applies to this topic – democracy was the subject of SeptOct that year the same way medicines are the subject of SeptOct because “Member nations ought to eliminate IP for covid – therefore, member nations ought to eliminate IP protections for all” is illogical
1 Limits: There’s inf medicines they could specify, coupled with various types of countries. Kills neg burdens – it’s impossible for me to research every possible combination of the 195 countries and medicines.
2 TVA Solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. We aren’t stopping them from reading new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don’t solve – it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff making it impossible for me to win