1. Answering the CP
Casey Parsons

2. Review CP’s have two parts:
The CP text
The net benefit
CP’s are designed to solve either part of or all of the aff
CP’s are designed to get around the majority of the case debate

3. Answering them We have a useful acronym for answering CP’s SPOT:
Solvency Deficit
Permutation
Offense
Theory

4. Solvency Deficit
By far the most important argument – any risk that the CP doesn’t solve the aff means the aff is preferable to the CP
Even winning that the plan solves better than the CP is usually enough
It really depends on the specific CP
You often times won’t have a block for this – you have to make this argument analytically and on the fly

5. Permutation
The CP and the plan aren’t mutually exclusive – in other words, they don’t compete
If the CP doesn’t compete with the aff then it doesn’t disprove the resolution
Permutations have two parts:
Perm text
Examples include: Perm do both, perm do the plan then the CP, etc
Explanation of how the perm functions
Explain why the perm solves better than the CP and how it works
Make several perm arguments

6. Offense Offensive reasons as to why the CP is a bad idea
If the CP doesn’t solve all of the aff, use the advantages that it doesn’t solve
You can also read DA’s that the CP links to that the plan doesn’t, but this is a pretty last ditch idea

7. Theory Theoretical reasons as to why the CP is a bad idea
We’ll talk about this more on the theory lecture