Tournament: 2021 NSD CAMP TOURNAMENT | Round: 1 | Opponent: McCAnd Teja Katipalli | Judge: Traber, Becca
A~ Uncertainty – if we base ethics on a postieri knowledge, our experiences are subjective and unverifiable, but principles created with the bases if a priori in the noumenal world are universally the same with all agents. That outweighs because if ethics are subjective that allows people to justify atrocities by saying they don't experience the same
B~ Is/Ought Gap – experience in the physical world only descriptively tells us what is, not what ought to because we won't know the best course of action, only what we can perceive. Thus it's not possible to create an ought statement through descriptive premises which means there must be a premises created in the noumenal a priori world to make a moral theory so we can see if an action is good in a vacuum and in all situations.
A~ Inescapability – to deny agency is self-contradictory because questioning your agency is exercising that same agency. Thus, exercising free agency – justifying judgements and freely taking actions – is constitutive of subjectivity
B~ Principle of Generic Consistency – freedom is constitutive of agency and is necessary good. Denying freedom in general in contradictory since it justifies interference in your ability to take actions and make judgements in the first place.
Gewirth '84 ~Alan Gewirth, "The Ontological Basis of Natural Law: A Critique and an Alternative," The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Vol. 29, No. 1 (1984), Pg. 95–121. Gewirth was professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago.~ CHSTM Brackets for gendered language ~Recut Lex JB~
Let me briefly sketch the main line of argument that leads to this conclusion.
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of consistency with the material consideration of the generic features and rights of action
Pettit '96 ~Philip Pettit, "Freedom as Antipower," Ethics, Vol. 106, No. 3 (Apr. 1996), pp. 576-604. Pettit is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of University Center for Human Values at Princeton University and also Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University.~ CHSTMJB ~Recut Lex JB~
There are two characteristic marks of the conception of freedom as noninterference. The first
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measure, and to that extent they live in a condition of servitude.
Pettit '05 ~Philip Pettit, "The Domination Complaint", Nomos, Vol. 46, POLITICAL EXCLUSION AND DOMINATION (2005), pp. 87-117.~ CHSTM ~Recut LEX JB~
This condition already ensures a connection between nondomination and community, for it means that
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sort of community that is bound to have the aspect of an ideal.
Thus, the standard is establishing checks against domination.
2~ Actor-specificity – non-domination is the only notion of freedom that can apply to state actors since individuals always exist in communities and communal governance always involves restrictions
Findlaw 17 ~Created By Findlaw'S, 5-2-2017, "Labor Strike FAQs," Findlaw, https://www.findlaw.com/employment/wages-and-benefits/labor-strike-faqs.html LEX JB~
Definition of worker and strike, explains process
For a strike to occur,
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puts pressure on the employer and gives the workers leverage in the negotiations.
https://www.ldoceonline.com/Government-topic/recognition LEX JB
Dictionary in the context of governments
the act of realizing and accepting that something is true or important
Gourevitch 16 ~Gourevitch, Alex. "Quitting work but not the job: Liberty and the right to strike." Perspectives on Politics 14.2 (2016): 307. Yoaks + JB~
In the United States the law says that private sector workers have a right to
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and precedents, but this gives a vivid enough picture as it is.
~2~ CPs don't solve – strikes are uniquely good to and the best method of resisting domination through collective methods of resistance – anything else gets coopted
Gourevitch 18 ~Gourevitch, Alex. "The right to strike: A radical view." American Political Science Review 112.4 (2018): 905-917. Yoaks + JB~
The radical view has a number of advantages over the liberal and social democratic accounts
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way around that stark fact about the liberal state and coercive strike tactics.
~3~ Strikes are just an extension of the right to self defense and a core part of human value
Waas 12 ~Professor Dr. Bernd Waas, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany https://islssl.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Strike-Waas.pdf September 2012~
Second, entirely different attitudes exist towards strikes. In some countries, strikes are
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technical" with a considerable power to dispose of the right to strike.
Benjamin 78 ~Walter Benjamin, On Violence, Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings ~Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist~
This is above all the case in the class struggle, in the form of
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strike was not "so intended," and take emergency measures.
~1~ 1ar theory since the neg can do infinite bad things and I can't check. It's drop the debater since the 1ar is too short to win both layers. No RVI since they'd dump on it for 6 minutes. CI since reasonability is arbitrary and bites intervention.
~2~ Permissibility and presumption substantively affirm: a) Statements are true before false since if I told you my name, you'd believe me b) Epistemics – we wouldn't be able to start a strand of reasoning since we'd have to question that reason. c) If anything is permissible, then definitionally so is the aff since there is nothing that prevents us from doing it d) Vote aff on optimism – act in optimistic ways because that's happy
~3~ No omissions: All neg theory violations and kritik links must come from the text of the AC, not the absence of specification a) I have a limited time to speak so it's an infinite aff burden b) Race to bottom – incentivizes people to not engage the aff and make a bunch spec argument to preclude
~4~ No neg fiat a) The resolution is a question of ought-reading a more desirable advocacy doesn't prove that the negative is a good idea b) Resolved means firmly determined and I'm firmly determined c) Aff has to indict the squo, but they don't defend that, nullifying any possible reason to do the aff – that's half my speech time and all my offense