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| Holy Cross | 2 | Opponent: St Marys Dominican SR | Judge: Dacheux, Tiffany 1ac - Evergreening |
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| TFA State | 4 | Opponent: Clements MM | Judge: JAY CONKLIN 1AC - Stock V2 |
| TFA State | 1 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit DL | Judge: Quisenberry, Jack 1AC - stock |
| TFA State | 6 | Opponent: La Vernia JR | Judge: Stearns, John 1AC - Stock v2 |
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MA - Stock V2Tournament: TFA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Clements MM | Judge: JAY CONKLIN 1AC R31AC: FWMoral realism must start by being mind-independent –realism wouldn't make sense if our moral laws were based on an agent's cognitive thinking because then moral truths wouldn't exist outside of the ways we cohere them. Thus, the meta-ethic is substantive moral naturalism.That outweighs on moral disagreement – ethics are regressive in principle since controversy prevents acting on moral laws. Prefer naturalism since there is no philosophical controversy on the correlation between moral facts and natural facts. Pleasure is an intrinsic good.Moen 16 Ole Martin, PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo. "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50(2). 2016. https://www.academia.edu/26656561/_An_Argument_for_Hedonism_by_Ole_Martin_Moen. PeteZ Thus, moral naturalism prima facie justifies hedonism through naturalism, empirical facts that are explained and physically verified from science should be used which only a theory of pain and pleasure can provide since there is a psychological grounding for why they are good and bad. Thus, the standard is consistency with hedonic act utilitarianismExtinction outweighs—-it's the upmost moral evil and disavowal of the risk makes it more likely.Elizabeth Finneron-Burns 17, Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, "What's wrong with human extinction?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2017, TandF. 1AC: PlanI Affirm the Whole Resolution – Resolved: In a democracy, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy.Objective Journalism lies in Objectivity of its methodology.Jones 9 Alex Jones 9-15-2009 "An Argument Why Journalists Should Not Abandon Objectivity" https://niemanreports.org/articles/an-argument-why-journalists-should-not-abandon-objectivity/ (Alex S. Jones, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, is director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.)Elmer Do not conflate Objectivity with Neutrality – the truth doesn't always lie in the Center.Gutman 12 David Gutman 10-25-2012 "Objectivity Does Not Mean Neutrality: The Danger of False Equivalency in the Media" https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/10/25/objectivity-does-not-mean-neutrality-danger-false-equivalency-media (Ph.D. Assistant Professor. IMSE.)Elmer Policy debates motivate activism—apolitical approaches are coopted and cede the political.Coverstone 05 ~Alan Coverstone, "Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact," (Nov. 17, 2005). Coverstone is debate coach at Wake Forest University.~ TJHSSTAD 1AC: DemocracyThe advantage is democracy.News has hit a Commercialization Crisis – Corporate interests directly undermine Objective and Truthful reporting.Omenugha et Al 8, Kate Azuka, and Majority Oji. "News commercialization, ethics and objectivity in journalism practice in Nigeria: strange bedfellows?." Revista Estudos em Comunicação-Communication Studies (2008). (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)Elmer Commercial Interests threaten Democratic Ideals - undermines the principal foundations of ethical journalism.Asogwa et Al 12, Chika Euphemia, and Ezekiel S. Asemah. "News commercialisation, objective journalism practice and the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria." Higher education of social science 3.2 (2012): 27-34. (Head, Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria.)Elmer Prioritizing Objectivity shifts Media Reporting to the Public Interest of Truth and Free Information Flows – that's vital to any Functioning Democracy.Asogwa et Al 12, Chika Euphemia, and Ezekiel S. Asemah. "News commercialisation, objective journalism practice and the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria." Higher education of social science 3.2 (2012): 27-34. (Head, Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria.)Elmer Studies prove Perception of Corporate-Media Ties hurts News Credibility.Oberiri 16, Apuke Destiny. "Journalists' perception of news commercialization and its implication on media credibility in Nigeria." World Scientific News 55 (2016): 63-76. (Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Taraba State University)Elmer Best studies prove declining distrust in news objectivity diminishes Democratic accountability.Sands 20 John Sands 8-4-2020 "Americans are losing faith in an objective media. A new Gallup/Knight study explores why." https://knightfoundation.org/articles/americans-are-losing-faith-in-an-objective-media-a-new-gallup-knight-study-explores-why/ (Researcher at the Knights Foundation)Elmer Accountability is critical to a functioning democracy – specifically by an Objective Press.Hamilton and Krosnick 20 James Hamilton and Jon Krosnick 2-27-2020 "Stanford researchers discuss journalism and democracy in lead up to Super Tuesday" https://news.stanford.edu/2020/02/27/journalism-and-democracy/ (Hamilton also directs the Stanford Journalism Program, is a co-founder of the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Krosnick also directs the Political Psychology Research Group and is a professor, by courtesy, of psychology.)Elmer Democracy solves war and even Nuclear War.Diamond 19, Larry. Ill winds: Saving democracy from Russian rage, Chinese ambition, and American complacency. Penguin Books, 2019. (professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University, PhD in Sociology)Elmer Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risksPND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock's 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans' International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer | 3/11/22 |
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