Kritik - The affirmative can make critical arguments as to why topicality is an unnecessary and oppressive burden placed upon the affirmative.

"It is simply lessening an oppressive burden and micromanagement that has been imposed by the state."

It seemed lighter, as though an oppressive burden had been lifted.

She had Helen's story to tell, and that might encourage others to bear equally oppressive burdens.

Rosala, watching him, felt an oppressive burden settling upon her like a weight of stones.

If more people shared the oppressive burden, tax reductions would be the norm.

Instead of becoming an oppressive burden, his body was a warm and comforting presence.

The Medicine Stamp Tax; an oppressive burden on the sick, an encouragement to quackery, etc(1884)

Fifty-four years of pent-up frustration is a very oppressive burden.

It must be the heat, or all this emotion-babble.... But the press of minds around her was a more oppressive burden than the heat.