Topicality On Incentive

Topicality

“Incentive”

Thesis – The key phrase in this resolution is “alternative energy incentives”. The affirmative team has met one part of this phrase, in that they are dealing with alternative energy, but they fail to be increasing it through an “incentive”. Incentives must be positive rewards that entice people. The affirmative you just heard only _____________. This is not an incentive and therefore isn’t topical.

Definition: Incentive “something that incites or tends to incite to action or greater effort, as a reward offered for increased productivity.” Dictionary.com. 2008. Accessed online July 8, 2008 at http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Incentive&r=66

Violation: The Affirmative Case fails to utilize a reward or positive incentive. Rather, they try to cause resolutional action through fear of a punishment.

Standards – 1.

Limits – Allowing all positive and negative incentive cases would under limit the topic to the point where any action, whether it be reward, punishment, regulation or ANY combination of the three would be topical. Our interpretation allows for a reasonable amount of positive incentive cases that all can be researched and debated fairly.

2. Brightline – Either a case is a rewarding positive incentive or its not. There is no question. 3. Common Best – Our source comes from Dictionary.com. This common source ensures that every debater can access it ensuring prepared and equitable debate. Voters – A-Priori – Topicality should be looked to before any other issue because it is a precorsur to the policy level discussion. Procedural – Topicality is a burden of the Affirmative team. If they lose this topicality the round is decided.