Now, Action, Then
Recap
What areas should you look at when you
judge?
What is it?
Now: The present situation. What is it? What
needs changing? Why do you need to
change it?
Action: What you as the government will do.
How you will do it? Who will do it?
Then: your beautiful new world.
Proposition
• Given the action in the motion
• Mechanism gives options for action
• Now= Status quo
• Find a number of harms
• Show how they would change
• Find a lovely pretty new world
• How will your mech lead you to it?
Opposition
• Take a step back
• What info haven’t they given us?
• Pick up on the assertions
• Break the links they make
Common Attacks
1. Status quo is wrong
2. Action will not lead to the then
3. Then is worse than the now
4. Harm isn’t really a harm
5. Logical inconsistency
6. Holes in the mech
7. Action leads to a different then
8. Then doesn’t change the status quo
9. Counter prop, find a better action for the same then
10.Action is more harmful then the now
11.Action leads to a greater harm
Practice Debate
It is the year 3000, man has sorted
out space travel but aids is
destroying our population. An alien
race has been discovered with a
hormone in their brains which will
save man kind. These aliens have
the ability of man in the middle
ages. Extracting the hormone will
kill the alien.
Practice Debate
THW harvest
the brains