Tournament: NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: RatCha VJ | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin
1~ In setting an end, every agent must recognize freedom as a necessary good, Gewirth 84 bracketed for grammar and gendered language
~Alan Gewirth, () "The Ontological Basis of Natural Law: A Critique and an Alternative" American Journal Of Jurisprudence: Vol. 29: Iss. 1 Article 5, 1984, https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ajj/vol29/iss1/5/, DOA:9-10-2018 WWBW Recut LHP AV~
Let me briefly sketch the main line of argument that leads to this conclusion.
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consistency with the material consideration of the generic features and rights of action.
Wood 07 ~Allen W. Wood, (Stanford University, California) "Kantian Ethics" Cambridge University Press, 2007, https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/kantian-ethics/769B8CD9FCC74DB6870189AE1645FAC8, DOA:8-12-2020 WWBW~
Kant holds that the most basic act through which people exercise their practical rationality is
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is an end in itself whether the person is morally good or bad.
There are two models of freedom—the non-interference model and the non-domination model. The non-interference model holds that a person’s freedom is violated if they are actually interfered with, while the non-domination model holds that a person’s freedom is violated if someone has the capacity to arbitrarily interfere in their life. Only the non-domination model can ground legitimate state interference and cohere with intuitions about freedom. Pettit 12:
Philip Pettit, "Legitimacy and Justice in Republican Perspective" Current Legal Problems, 2012 RE Recut LHP AV
But while the conception of freedom as non-interference makes it impossible to argue
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, I turn to a consideration of this challenge in the final section.
Thus, the standard is consistency with freedom as non-domination, defined as establishing institutional constraints that eliminate the capacity for arbitrary interference.
Pettit P. Freedom in the market. Politics, Philosophy and Economics. 2006;5(2):131-149. doi:10.1177/1470594X06064218 LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
In order to understand the republican conception of social freedom, we need to do
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, but under the republican approach it will not take such freedom away.
1~ Discourse – Any genuine discourse requires non-domination and concedes its authority. Pettit 3 bracketed for glang:
PETTIT, PHILIP. "THE DOMINATION COMPLAINT." Nomos, vol. 46, 2005, pp. 87–117. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24220143. Accessed 19 Aug. 2020.
When a number of people engage in discourse, their aim being to determine what
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that person a real voice or give him or her a genuine hearing.
PETTIT, PHILIP. "THE DOMINATION COMPLAINT." Nomos, vol. 46, 2005, pp. 87–117. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24220143. Accessed 19 Aug. 2020.
The primary reason why the complaint about being dominated is of the first significance is
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that cower at their masters' feet or snuggle that up their mistress’s skirt.
Allen W. Wood, "Fichte's Philosophy of Right and Ethics," forthcoming in Günter Zöller (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Fichte. New York: Cambridge University Press.
To understand another as a rational being making such a demand, and to display
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the starting point of the external sphere recognized by others must be its body
1~ Structural Domination – a labor market structurally requires exploitation and domination – workers need an alternative, Gourevitch 16:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
The commodification of labor I: structural domination and exploitation So long as we view
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refuse to believe that they can overcome their exploitation through purely individual efforts.
2~ Workplace Domination – authority within the workplace arbitrarily resides in the hands of employers, which alienates and dominates workers, Gourevitch 2:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
The commodification of labor 2: contracts and government of the workplace Strikes are ways
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labor legislation) or that she owes obligations of deference to the employer.
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
"Is it peace or war:"1 What is a right to strike?
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jobs from which they have withdrawn performance belong to them, they maintain.
1~ Power – it reverses power relationships and challenges the structure of economic control itself – that alleviates domination, Gourevitch 4:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
Quitting the work not the job We now have a way of explaining the right
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is why they may not take jobs that striking workers refuse to perform.
2~ Decommodification – strikes challenge the notion of labor as a mere commodity – that empowers workers and resists arbitrary managerial authority, Gourevitch 5:
Gourevitch, A.. "Quitting Work but Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike." Perspectives on Politics 14 (2016): 307 - 323. LHP AV Accessed 7/4/21
As we have seen, workers resist these accounts on the grounds that their capacity
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Burns 2011, 47-55; Atleson 1983, 67-96).
B~ drop the debater because the 1ar is too short to win theory and substance
C~ no RVIs – the 2nr has enough time and the 2ar needs strategic flexibility
The role of the ballot is to evaluate the truth or falsity of the resolution through a normatively justified framework via fair, safe, and educational arguments. Prefer it –
1~ Reciprocity – normative frameworks provide a reciprocal burden of justifying an obligation with the ability to turn them – other frameworks are arbitrarily impact exclusive and don’t articulate a 1-1 burden
The aff aligns itself with historical labor movements that challenged industrial capitalism and wage-slavery – that opens up the potentiality for cooperative control over the means of production, Gourevitch 6:
Gourevitch, Alex. "Labor Republicanism and the Transformation of Work." Political Theory, vol. 41, no. 4, 2013, pp. 591–617. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23484596. Accessed 6 July 2021. LHP AV
The Labor Republicans Labor republicanism developed out of farmers' and urban artisans' reaction to the
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conceptual possibilities for thinking about work and economy that these labor republicans inspire.
Laurence, Ben. "The Priority of Ideal Theory." PDF File. LHPYA
However, Rawls appears to differ in holding that we can only achieve a systematic
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about practical reasoning, which all depend on ideal theory for their systematic character