Plan Inclusive Counterplans (PICs)
- Overview
- Examples
PICs Bad (Affirmative)
PICs are a voter
- Aff Ground – extreme aff inclusion makes solvency deficits impossible and forces a 1AR reset by stealing the 1AC – that decreases depth of clash and education – disads of the PIC net benefit alone solve
- Education - encourages vague plans to avoid PICs – that undermines specificity of args and causes stale debates
- Infinitely regressive – there always can be some miniscule problem with the plan – causes debate on comma placement, word choice, and grammar – crowds out substance and predictability
PICs Good (Negative)
We get [___] PICs PICs are good
- Real World – policy makers routinely debate the merits of exceptions of general rules - solvency advocates prove it’s a relevant topic question and there’s answers to the CP in the literature
- Neg Flex - we ought test from multiple angles to find the best possible policy option – reading a better aff solves if the CP is abusive because agent key warrants should answer the CP
- Counterplan competition prevents abuse – requiring net benefits and answering perms sets a functional limit on breadth over depth
Reject the arg, not the team
