Tournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ayman Badawy | Judge: Eric He
Interpretation: On the 2022 January February LD Topic, the affirmative must not defend a non-status quo policy option. To clarify, the affirmative may not fiat actors or actions into the resolution.
Violation: They do. Its in the plan text.
Vote neg:
1 Precision – the resolution doesn’t entail an actor nor does it an action – they are definitionally not topical for even a subset of the resolution – vote them down – Key to having a stasis point – topic focus is reasonable – anything else destroys debate because we will be two ships passing in the night
2 Limits – they explode them – super Extra T and justify an infinite possible number of affirmatives and different actors – none of which are part of the res . Multiple Impacts – A Predictability – no actor or action means its impossible to have a way to predict affs on this topic means we cant engage – B Infinite Abuse – they can pick a trivially true aff which means they always win
3 TVA – don’t defend an action and use ideal theory to explain why appropriation is bad - That’s better – it promotes in-depth philosophical clash over law that’s constitutive to LD
Cross Apply Paradigms
Interpretation: “appropriation of outer space” by private entities refers to the exercise of exclusive control of space.
Trapp 13’ TIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW (Vol. 2013 No. 4) Recut Sachin
The issues presented in relation to the nonappropriation article of the Outer Space Treaty should
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the Bogotá Declaration were trying to accomplish, albeit through different means.219