1. LD Debate
(yay!)

2. Format of a Case Claim  Warrant  Data  Impact
Claim- a statement made by you based off of the data and/or warrants. There are 3 kinds of claims:
Fact
Value
Policy

3. Format of a Case (cont.) Claim  Warrant  Data  Impact
Warrant (reason)- the part of the argument that is most likely to have flaws. It’s important to really back these things up. Again 3 is the magic number.
cause/effect
sign of
characteristic

4. Format of a Case (cont.) Claim  Warrant  Data  Impact
Data- These are facts to support your warrants, but they aren’t as necessary in LD as they are in Policy.
Impact- This is showing what will happen if the judge votes for your value vs. if they don’t.

5. Key parts to an LD case
Value- Something that is considered important to function in your ideal society. An end goal that you want to base your argument on.
Criterion- a philosophy that supports your value, the way to get to your value.
Ex: individualism as a value, best for individual is the criterion
You can’t “value” a philosophy

6. Confidence Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Safety and security
Self-Actualization
Confidence
Friendship and Family
Safety and security
Air, water, shelter, food, sleep

7. Utilitarianism Greatest good for the greatest number
The ends justify the means
Ends-goal
Means- your way of getting there
Situational Ethics- when something is moral in 1 situation & not in another
Ex: stealing money to become rich
Ex: earning money to become rich

8. Deontology Immanuel Kant (changed his name to mean “blessed”)
1. treating people as ends in and of themselves
2. Universal Maxim- golden rule “do unto others as you would have done to you”

9. Veil of Ignorance Rawls
Equality when we take away the subjective concepts down to the objectivity of people.
Where we all agree because we all see ourselves at the worst we could be in the society.

10. Natural Rights Right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Human Worth- all people are worth something.
Dehumanization- something that makes humans less than they are or placing one human above another.

11. Social Contract John Locke, John Rawls, John Stuart Mill.
An agreement to give up certain natural rights to get something else.
We all agree to this contract when we conform to a society.
Communitarianism

12. Libertarianism
Right to do what we want with what we have if it doesn’t infringe on someone else’s rights.
Autonomy- the capacity of an agent to act on choice over desire
Anarchy- the “refresh button” on society

13. Relativism
People believe different things depending on where they’re from.
Cultural pressure- how many people doing a bad thing make it “okay”.

14. Voters
These are reasons for why your judge should vote on your side of the debate. You should give these reasons in your last speech after attacking their case & defending yours.
It’s meant to clarify to your judge exactly how the debate went and what arguments made your side the most moral/ logical.

15. Kritiks
We’ll tell you when you’re older (: