Weighing Devices

Magnitude

• How many people are affected and how?

• How severe is the impact?

• How direct is the harm?

Answer explanation

Magnitude is a quantitative or qualitative device used to measure how severe the impact is

Reversibility

Answer explanation

Reversibility is used to weigh two arguments, one of which is reversible, and one of which isn't, always weighing the irreversible consequence as more impactful.

Probability

• How likely is the resolution to be passed?

• How directly does the impact occur?

• How likely is the impact to occur?

Answer explanation

Probability is used to counter really long link chains that lead to some massive magnitude impact, such as mutually assured destruction or extinction.

Timeline

• How linear are the link chains?

• How likely is the impact to happen?

• How long and in how long does the impact take place?

• How fast does the resolution pass?

Answer explanation

Timeline is a quantitative device used to measure how fast and for how long an impact manifests.

Qualitative

• Does the impact inherently include other impacts used by the other side?

• How probable is the impact?

• Which weighing device is more important?

• Which side has risk of solvency for a more important impact, and which side taints their impacts with it?

Answer explanation

Qualitative weighing is used to emphasize that the other side's world makes an issue more important (by other weighing devices) than theirs unsolvable, while your world solves.

Scope

• How many people are affected and how severely?

• How big is the impact?

• Which side has risk of solvency?

• How many impacts are included in another one?

Answer explanation

Scope is a device similar to magnitude, but which accounts for how severe the impact is for peoples lives and is specific to how many people are affected.

Impact Inclusivity

• Does the impact include another impact?

• Which impact is more significant towards the minority rather than the majority?

• Does the impact affect the same people?

Answer explanation

Impact Inclusivity is a very simple device which is a term for applying your impact to one that the other side has and arguing that yours includes the other.

Root Cause

• Do the links correlate to the impact?

• Does the resolution actually cause the impact?

• Is one impact the cause of another?

Answer explanation

Root Cause is a device used to convey that your impact actually causes the other sides impact, so you outweigh on that argument.

Internal Link Short Circuit

• Is one impact bigger than another?

• Does one impact prevent another from manifesting?

• Does one impact reverse another?

Answer explanation

Internal Link Short Circuit is used to apply an impact, usually high magnitude, as a force that prevents the impact of the other side and thus outweighs.

Meta Weighing

• creek

• Which weighing mechanism outweighs?

Answer explanation

Meta Weighing is used when you need to convey to the judge that your weighing matters more.