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ND - Kant AC V1Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Micah Thode FrameworkI affirm the resolution resolved: a just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike The meta-ethic is practical reason:A – Action theory – any action can be infinitely subdivided into smaller actions. For example, my walk to the door can be split into steps or moments in time. Only practical reason, my intention to walk to the door, can unify these pieces into a single, coherent action.B – Bindingness – external accounts of the good cannot motivate action since we can always ask why we should care about that thing. Only practical reason solves regress since ‘why should I follow reason’ is asking for a reason, conceding its authority – proves my framework is inescapable and that others collapse.Next, actions must be willed freely from the choices of others. Otherwise, that would violate practical reason since you cannot will your unfreedom while also relying on your freedom to act to begin with. But, agents can’t individually secure their own freedom since they can’t wholly control what others do.Instead, they must jointly will the freedom of all, so that no one can subject another to their choice. Only a state, with power deriving from the participation of all, can enforce spheres of mutual independence while remaining impartial to each agent.Thus, the standard is protecting equal outer freedom. Impact calc—only intents matter—A~ Induction is wrong – since induction describes the empirical world, it can only be justified by empirical evidence. However, using examples to prove induction relies on an inductive step, which is circular.B~ No aggregation – freedom is a property of action and not a countable object. Saying that two free actions are "more free" than one actions is like saying two circles are more "circular" than one.Prefer—1~ Universalizability – Maxims are based on situations and not on agents. If an action is rational for me, then it must be rational for all, since nothing about me taking the action makes my situation morally unique. Violating freedom is not universalizable because you presuppose your own independence in taking the action.2~ Epistemology – Ethics must be a-priori –A~ Is/ought gap – empirical facts only describe how the world is, not why it ought to be that way. For example, just because I do pursue pleasure doesn’t mean I ought to pursue pleasure.B~ Noumena/phenomena distinction – we can’t discover any genuine properties of objects through experience alone, only how they appear.C~ Uncertainty – we don’t know others’ experiences so empiricism is unreliable for universal ethics. People would just say they don’t experience the same, which outweighs since it would be escapable.D~ Circular – Using experiences to prove that moral facts can be derived from experiences causes regress.3~ Performativity – communication presupposes self-ownership.Hoppe ~Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (Hans-Hermann Hoppe is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada,). "A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics." Chapter 7, pg. 159, 1989. 2/17/18 BRACKETED FOR GENDERED LANGUAGE~ PZ AND precisely its opposite, i.e., the aforementioned principle of nonaggresslon. 4~ TJFsCritical thinking – my FW forces you to think critically about the resolution. People may not remember various facts and statistics about strikes, and it is unlikely that any of us will be lawmakers in the future. However, the ability to generate and respond to ideas about ethics will benefit all of us in the future for years to come AND make analytical arguments and responses, thus avoiding unfairness due to resource disparities. Advocacy:I defend the resolution as a general principle. PICs affirm since they don’t deny my advocacy. CX checks all theory: (A) I have to take stances on bidirectional interps. (B) Frivolous theory debates kill substantive education. Also, spec interps are irreciprocal since there’s no stable neg advocacy for aff prep.Enforcement through International Framework Agreements is normal means - but it’s irrelevant under our framework.Neill 12 ~Emily CM; "The Right to Strike: How the United States Reduces it to the Freedom to Strike and How International Framework Agreements can Redeem it," 1/1/12; Labor and Employment Law Forum Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 6; https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1047andcontext=lelb~~ AND for workers, but not one afforded the status of a protected right. offenseWorkers rely on their employers for money, security, and all other additional benefits. This means that the relationship between the two is inherently coercive since there is a massive power disparity.Bowie 98: ~Norman E., professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota "A Kantian Theory of Meaningful Work." Springer, 01 July 1998.~ LADI AND to be addressed. Otherwise, industrial relations rests on an unethical foundation. Workers are treated as means to an end, because their individual desires are ignored for the purpose of benefiting their employers and society as a whole.Chima 13 (Sylvester Chima, Programme of Bio and Research Ethics and Medical Law, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine and School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 11-18-2013, accessed on 6-22-2021, BMC Medical Ethics, "Global medicine: Is it ethical or morally justifiable for doctors and other healthcare workers to go on strike?", https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6939-14-S1-S5) AND none of this requires a revision in my original account of meaningful work. The government has a moral obligation to ensure and protect the universal right to strike. Since employers have domination over workers, workers are frequently treated as means to an end. Governments must prevent employers from using their employees as mere means.
AND system of contracts, that even the "most voluntary" arrangements conceal. | 11/14/21 |
ND - Kant AC v2Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 6 | Opponent: NDSJ AG | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi FrameworkI affirm the resolution resolved: a just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike The meta-ethic is practical reason:A – Action theory – any action can be infinitely subdivided into smaller actions. For example, my walk to the door can be split into steps or moments in time. Only practical reason, my intention to walk to the door, can unify these pieces into a single, coherent action.B – Bindingness – external accounts of the good cannot motivate action since we can always ask why we should care about that thing. Only practical reason solves regress since ‘why should I follow reason’ is asking for a reason, conceding its authority – proves my framework is inescapable and that others collapse.Next, actions must be willed freely from the choices of others. Otherwise, that would violate practical reason since you cannot will your unfreedom while also relying on your freedom to act to begin with. But, agents can’t individually secure their own freedom since they can’t wholly control what others do.Instead, they must jointly will the freedom of all, so that no one can subject another to their choice. Only a state, with power deriving from the participation of all, can enforce spheres of mutual independence while remaining impartial to each agent.Thus, the standard is protecting equal outer freedom. Impact calc—only intents matter—A~ Induction is wrong – since induction describes the empirical world, it can only be justified by empirical evidence. However, using examples to prove induction relies on an inductive step, which is circular.B~ No aggregation – freedom is a property of action and not a countable object. Saying that two free actions are "more free" than one actions is like saying two circles are more "circular" than one.Prefer—1~ Universalizability – Maxims are based on situations and not on agents. If an action is rational for me, then it must be rational for all, since nothing about me taking the action makes my situation morally unique. Violating freedom is not universalizable because you presuppose your own independence in taking the action.2~ Epistemology – Ethics must be a-priori –A~ Is/ought gap – empirical facts only describe how the world is, not why it ought to be that way. For example, just because I do pursue pleasure doesn’t mean I ought to pursue pleasure.B~ Noumena/phenomena distinction – we can’t discover any genuine properties of objects through experience alone, only how they appear.C~ Uncertainty – we don’t know others’ experiences so empiricism is unreliable for universal ethics. People would just say they don’t experience the same, which outweighs since it would be escapable.D~ Circular – Using experiences to prove that moral facts can be derived from experiences causes regress.3~ Oppression – the categorical imperative is the only way to recognize necessary worth of all agents.Farr 02 Arnold Farr (prof of phil @ UKentucky, focusing on German idealism, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy). "Can a Philosophy of Race Afford to Abandon the Kantian Categorical Imperative?" JOURNAL of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2002, 17–32. AND choosing my maxims I attempt to include the perspective of other moral agents. 4~ Performativity – communication presupposes self-ownership.Hoppe ~Hoppe, Hans-Hermann (Hans-Hermann Hoppe is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Nevada,). "A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism: Economics, Politics, and Ethics." Chapter 7, pg. 159, 1989. 2/17/18 BRACKETED FOR GENDERED LANGUAGE~ PZ AND precisely its opposite, i.e., the aforementioned principle of nonaggresslon. 5~ TJFsCritical thinking – my FW forces you to think critically about the resolution. People may not remember various facts and statistics about strikes, and it is unlikely that any of us will be lawmakers in the future. However, the ability to generate and respond to ideas about ethics will benefit all of us in the future for years to come AND make analytical arguments and responses, thus avoiding unfairness due to resource disparities. Advocacy:I defend the resolution as a general principle. PICs affirm since they don’t deny my advocacy. CX checks all theory: (A) I have to take stances on bidirectional interps. (B) Frivolous theory debates kill substantive education. Also, spec interps are irreciprocal since there’s no stable neg advocacy for aff prep.Enforcement through International Framework Agreements is normal means - but it’s irrelevant under our framework.Neill 12 ~Emily CM; "The Right to Strike: How the United States Reduces it to the Freedom to Strike and How International Framework Agreements can Redeem it," 1/1/12; Labor and Employment Law Forum Volume 2 Issue 2 Article 6; https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1047andcontext=lelb~~ AND for workers, but not one afforded the status of a protected right. offenseWorkers rely on their employers for money, security, and all other additional benefits. This means that the relationship between the two is inherently coercive since there is a massive power disparity.Bowie 98: ~Norman E., professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota "A Kantian Theory of Meaningful Work." Springer, 01 July 1998.~ LADI AND to be addressed. Otherwise, industrial relations rests on an unethical foundation. Workers are treated as means to an end, because their individual desires are ignored for the purpose of benefiting their employers and society as a whole.Chima 13 (Sylvester Chima, Programme of Bio and Research Ethics and Medical Law, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine and School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 11-18-2013, accessed on 6-22-2021, BMC Medical Ethics, "Global medicine: Is it ethical or morally justifiable for doctors and other healthcare workers to go on strike?", https://bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6939-14-S1-S5) AND ) or employees of public health services ~2,34-36~. The government has a moral obligation to ensure and protect the universal right to strike. Since employers have domination over workers, workers are frequently treated as means to an end. Governments must prevent employers from using their employees as mere means.
AND system of contracts, that even the "most voluntary" arrangements conceal. Method:The role of the ballot is evaluate the normative desirability of the resolution. The neg burden is to prove that a just government ought to not recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike Prefer—Competing worlds is constitutive, fair, and educational.Nelson ‘08 Adam F., J.D.1. Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Lincoln-Douglas Debate. 2008. http://ldtheoryjournal.blogspot.com/2008/04/towards-comprehensive-theory-of-ld-adam.html. MBPZ *modified for language AND saving lives or maximizing economic efficiency, for reasons I will explore shortly. | 11/14/21 |
ND - Util advTournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Micah Thode The Global Economy is stabilizing and set for increases in 2021 but is still falling behindWorld Bank 6-8 6-8-2021 "The Global Economy: on Track for Strong but Uneven Growth as COVID-19 Still Weighs" https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/06/08/the-global-economy-on-track-for-strong-but-uneven-growth-as-covid-19-still-weighs AND continues to flare, it will shape the path of global economic activity. Strikes spill-over to broader support of the labor movement and unions – every strike encourages more strikesHertel-Fernandez et al. 20 ~Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, associate professor of public affairs at Columbia University, where he studies American political economy, with a focus on the politics of business, labor, wealthy donors, and policy, Suresh Naidu, professor of economics and public affairs at Columbia University, where he researches economic effects of political transitions, the economic history of slavery and labor institutions, international migration, and economic applications of naturallanguage processing, and Adam Reich, associate professor of sociology at Columbia University, where he studies economic and cultural sociology, especially how people make sense of their economic activities and economic positions within organizations, 2020, "Schooled by Strikes? The Effects of Large-Scale Labor Unrest on Mass Attitudes toward the Labor Movement," American Political Science Association, https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592720001279~~/Kankee AND suggests that the strike must be a central strategy of the labor movement. Reviving unions revives the economyHindrey 20 ~Leo Hindrey Jr., columnist for Fortune, 10-19-2020, "Commentary: Why stronger labor unions would speed up America's post-COVID recovery," https://fortune.com/2020/10/19/labor-unions-covid-19-economic-recovery/~~/Kankee AND right which is just as codified and protected as all other civil rights. Wage growth key to avoid recession and deflation – Great Depression provesStewart 17 (Hale, financial adviser with Thompson Creek Wealth Advisers, 12/12/17, "The Wage-Debt Deflation Dynamic And The Next Recession", https://seekingalpha.com/article/4131215-wage-debt-deflation-dynamic-next-recession, AZG)
AND unlike prices, do not decline, overwhelms the possibility of spending. Recessions cause immense amount of death, pain and sufferingDoerr 20’ ~https://www.bis.org/publ/bisbull35.pdf The recession-mortality nexus and Covid-19 Sebastian Doerr and Boris Hofmann~ AND the economic fallout of the pandemic could also reduce excess mortality. | 11/14/21 |
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