Tournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AT | Judge: Fagan, Donald
Interpretation: medicine refers to treatments and cures only. Affirmatives must not reduce other medical IP protections.
CDC 14
No Author, 5-14-2019, "Medication Safety Program," No Publication, https://www.cdc.gov/medicationsafety/index.html
Medicines are used to treat diseases, manage conditions, and relieve symptoms. Medicines are generally safe when used as prescribed or as directed on the label, but there are risks in taking any medicine.Violation: they read only covid medicines
Prefer –
Precision -- we cite the CDC and WHO which proves common usage -- they add a whole new caselist based on social medicine which kills predictability -- that's k2 pre-tournament prep and deep clash around the core topic controversy. Reject counter-interps without a positive vision of the topic -- otherwise they can always shift the goalposts
No RVIs – a) illogical – you shouldn’t win for being fair – it’s a litmus test for engaging in substance, b) norming – I can’t concede the counterinterp if I realize I’m wrong which forces me to argue for bad norms, c) baiting – incentivizes good debaters to be abusive, bait theory, then collapse to the 1AR RVI, d) topic ed – prevents 1AR blipstorm scripts and allows us to get back to substance after resolving theory
Evaluate T before 1AR theory – a) norms – we only have a couple months to set T norms but can set 1AR theory norms anytime, b) magnitude – T affects a larger portion of the debate since the aff advocacy determines every speech after it