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The purpose of a K is not to argue that you should be arguing about Z, it's to say, "X is based on this fundamental assumption, and that assumption is flawed in this way..."

A Neg team running a K has to link directly to the Aff's plan or argument, or they'll just 'no-link' it and move on.

On the K-Aff side, they need to convince the judge(s) that some fundamental assumption of the Topic itself is flawed, which you still have to directly engage with the Topic in order to do.

There is no such thing as a K debate which just says "I'm arguing about some unrelated thing instead".