Applying Weighing Devices

Magnitude: Which impact is more severe and what is its comparative general effect?

Use Magnitude to weigh the following two arguments as you would in a speech. Warrant:

PRO: Federal Investment in HSR will reduce annual carbon monoxide emission by at least 3 million tons, which speeds up climate change, which on the current track can cause 83 million deaths by 2100

CON: Federal Investment into High speed rail would add $4 trillion to the national debt

Probability: How likely the impact is to occur

Use probability to weigh the following two arguments a you would in a speech. Warrant.

PRO: Great Power Competition prevents extinction (impact) by causing green innovation (carded)

CON: Great power competition directly causes the proliferation of the Belt and Road Initiative (carded) which empirically puts countries into debt (impact)

Qualitative: Which side has risk of solvency for an issue and which side makes it worse or keeps it?

Use qualitative weighing to weigh the following two arguments as you would in a speech. Warrant.

PRO: U.S. Investment into high speed rail decreases foreign oil dependence.

CON: U.S. investment into high speed rail directly forces increased dependence and usage of environmentally harmfully & unethically mined materials, which would otherwise be solved

Meta Weighing: Which weighing device(s) is/are more important in the argument?

Apply meta weighing to the following arguments as you would in a speech. Warrant.

PRO: Scope & Magnitude - India signing the Artemis accords leads to an increased amount of satellites which solves climate change (magnitude) (impact) by monitoring atmospheric gases, preventing extinction which effects everybody (scope)

CON: Probability - Indian satellites launched as a result of signing the Artemis accords are very unlikely to prevent extinction and lead to said impact. It is more probable that the Artemis Accords will not be effective at all due to a lack of international consensus.

Scope - How many people are affected by the impact?

Magnitude - How severe is the impact?

Use scope & magnitude independently to weigh the following arguments as you would in a speech. Warrant.

PRO: The use of biometric recognition technology is harder to hack into, so less people have their data compromised

CON: When an individual's biometrics are compromised it is forever compromised and can be used infinitely by the hacker.

Reversibility - Can the impact be reversed?

Internal Link Shortcircuit - Does one impact prevent the other?

Weigh the following two arguments using reversibility and internal link shortcircuit independently as you would in a speech.

PRO - India signing the Artemis accords increases quad cooperation, which helps prevent Chinese aggression, including nuclear attacks, the effects of which are irreversible.

CON - India signing the Artemis accords could cause Chinese grid attacks, as have happened in the past when China was aggravated (Hint, the effects of grid attacks are manageable)

Root Cause - Is one impact the cause of another?

Impact Inclusivity - Does one impact include the other?

Apply root cause and impact inclusivity independently to the following arguments as you would in a speech. Warrant.

PRO: Right to Work Laws lower economic growth

CON: Right to Work Laws increase wages