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NEG: “Love”
What is love? I don’t mean ‘what does the dictionary say love is’. I mean what is love. What does love
require before it can exist? Can it come through competition or cooperation? Through the course of this
speech I’ll be going over two things: first, how love is upheld by cooperation, not competition, and
second, how the affirmative’s case is, as a whole, a vague interpretation of the resolution: this leads me
to negate the resolution and stand Resolved: that cooperation is superior to competition as a means of
achieving excellence.
Let’s start with love – I’ll be presenting three contentions to show you how love is not upheld by
competition, but by cooperation. Let’s start with love as a whole:
Look at the case as a whole: how exactly does love come from a free market? Is it a commodity, to be
bought and sold? But that would trivialize love. The affirmative speaker hasn’t given us a clear reason
why love can only come from a free market, and how love is a commodity, or isn’t! It’s just plain vague.
Let’s examine why vagueness is bad in my observations: