Affirmative Values I am aware that there are some out in the Lincoln-Douglas community who believe the value to bean outdated device. I beg to differ – not only are these people a minority who will have to fight uphill against judging bias, but LDʼs value debate structure makes this a lot more important than many give it credit. In this debate, the affirmative wants to control the moral thrust of the debate, and since that happens before the first contention, the value is paramount. I propose three potential values to run for this case. They are
