What's your thoughts on the current NFA LD topic? It seemed fine at first, but I cannot find any Affs without serious flaws. But it's only me and my coach doing all the research. I read the topic paper and it's really flimsy.
Straight up: Haven't put any thought into the topic at all yet. My team this year has like 50 kids and something like 15 to 20 of them are debaters and of that group 2 are returners so I haven't put a high priority on getting LD work since we are likely to not compete until later in our semester. This weekend is the opener at Washburn so I will probably check out where the top schools are headed in terms of the topic. My issues with the topic is that we are going to have to wait and see where the community lands with regards to how much of the areas the aff has to effect. Under law enforcement is banning the US of AI in traffic cameras substantial enough? under privacy, arguably the broadest area, the fact that we can prohibit develop as well as use seems to beg a similar question. If my aff is just "prohibit AI automated taxis" is that sufficient? I am not saying any of these are great affs, but until there is a broader consensus about how small the aff gets to be I try not to even waste my time. I will let Tanya know that someone asked this question and see if she has thoughts because she is better than me at LD and much closer to that circuit.
BTW I lied, we needed to fit in 2 debates on the day we recorded this so I only covered reading T. I will cover Answering T next week most likely.
What's your thoughts on the current NFA LD topic? It seemed fine at first, but I cannot find any Affs without serious flaws. But it's only me and my coach doing all the research. I read the topic paper and it's really flimsy.
Straight up: Haven't put any thought into the topic at all yet. My team this year has like 50 kids and something like 15 to 20 of them are debaters and of that group 2 are returners so I haven't put a high priority on getting LD work since we are likely to not compete until later in our semester.
This weekend is the opener at Washburn so I will probably check out where the top schools are headed in terms of the topic. My issues with the topic is that we are going to have to wait and see where the community lands with regards to how much of the areas the aff has to effect. Under law enforcement is banning the US of AI in traffic cameras substantial enough? under privacy, arguably the broadest area, the fact that we can prohibit develop as well as use seems to beg a similar question. If my aff is just "prohibit AI automated taxis" is that sufficient? I am not saying any of these are great affs, but until there is a broader consensus about how small the aff gets to be I try not to even waste my time.
I will let Tanya know that someone asked this question and see if she has thoughts because she is better than me at LD and much closer to that circuit.