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| Springboard Series | 1 | Henry Clay DG | Gabriela Salamanca |
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| Springboard Series | 1 | Opponent: Henry Clay DG | Judge: Gabriela Salamanca 1AC - Kant |
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Kant ACTournament: Springboard Series | Round: 1 | Opponent: Henry Clay DG | Judge: Gabriela Salamanca Kant ACFramingThe existence of extrinsic goodness requires unconditional human worth—that means we must treat others as ends in themselves.Christine Korsgaard writes in 1983 that~Christine Korsgaard American Philosopher and Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, April 1983, "Two Distinctions in Goodness", The Philosophical Review, Vol. 92, No. 2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184924 ~ MS and ZG Thus because Humanity is the only unconditionally valuable thing the value for today's round is Humanity.Freedom is the only innate right and is key to respecting humanity, this means that freedom must be the basis of government Rauscher 2016~Frederick Rauscher, Philosophy Professor at Michigan State University, 2016, "Kant's Social and Political Philosophy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-social-political/ ~ MS and ZG Thus the value criterion for today's round is respecting freedom, prefer this because respecting freedom is the only way to respect ones humanity.Contention 1 – Patent TrollsPatent trolls haven't started targeting the pharmaceutical industry, but will soon. Feldman and Price 2014~Robin Feldman of UC Hastings College of Law, Nicholson W. Price II Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, 2014, "Patent Trolling Why Bio and Pharmaceuticals Are at Risk", Stanford Technology Law Review, https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2048andcontext=faculty_scholarship ~ MS and ZG ANDThe technology industry proves, only policy implementation can stop patent trolls. Feldman and Price 2014~Robin Feldman of UC Hastings College of Law, Nicholson W. Price II Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Law, 2014, "Patent Trolling Why Bio and Pharmaceuticals Are at Risk", Stanford Technology Law Review, https://repository.uchastings.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2048andcontext=faculty_scholarship ~ MS and ZG Patent Trolls violate freedom, and can't be universalized. Pievaltolo 2010~Maria Chiara Pievatolo, University of Pisa, Department of Political Sciences, "Freedom, ownership, and copyright: why does Kant reject the concept of intellectual property?", July 2nd 2010, http://bfp.sp.unipi.it/chiara/lm/kantpisa1.html~~#athing ~ MS and ZG Thus, because Patents pose a threat to freedom by preventing innovation through the ownership of Ideas, vote Aff and reduce IP Protections to stop patent trolls.Contention 2 – Derivative Works and VariationsDerivative works are key to getting low priced generics to market, but AI threatens to change that. Maloney 2019~Dan Maloney, Staff Writer and Community Engineer at Hackaday, MS in Biology from University of Rochester, January 30th 2019, "AI Patent Trolls Now on the Job for Drug Companies", Hackaday, https://hackaday.com/2019/01/30/ai-patent-trolls-now-on-the-job-for-drug-companies~~ MS and ZG Creating derivative works is protected under freedom. Pievatolo 2010~Maria Chiara Pievatolo, University of Pisa, Department of Political Sciences, "Freedom, ownership, and copyright: why does Kant reject the concept of intellectual property?", July 2nd 2010, http://bfp.sp.unipi.it/chiara/lm/kantpisa1.html~~#athing ~ MS and ZG Therefore, because current IP law restricts freedom by preventing the free use of ideas, affirm to respect freedom. | 9/24/21 |
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