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0 -- contactTournament: contact | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: | 2/18/22 |
1 -- UtilTournament: harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Krause The meta ethic is desire~1~ We can't obtain evidence of goodness without desire – aposteriori knowledge outweighs.Sayre-McCord 01 ~2~ Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses. Evolutionary knowledge is reliable – broad consensus and robust neuroscience prove.Blum et al. 18 The standard is maximizing wellbeing.~3~ Extinction first –a – Moral uncertainty – if we're unsure about which interpretation of the world is true – we ought to preserve the world to keep debating about itb – Quantifiability – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical~4~ TJFs – Prefer util –Ground – theres a roughly equal division of ground on both sides. Plan and counterplan solvency advocates prove. Other frameworks are unidirectional – kills engagement on link and impact debates.Topic ed. Most articles about space are written through util – means other frameworks can never engage with the core questions of the literature which decks predictability. | 2/19/22 |
JF -- disarm nukes cpTournament: harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: Byram Hills EW | Judge: Shields Counterplan text – states ought to eliminate their nuclear arsenals – this card explains implementation and takes out circumvention.Van Der Meer '16 (Sico Van Der Meer; research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute. His research is focussing on non-conventional weapons like Weapons of Mass Destruction and cyber weapons from a strategic policy perspective. He also has a special interest in North Korea and relations between North and South Korea. He graduated from the Radboud University Nijmegen in 1999 with a Master's in History. Before joining the Clingendael Institute, he worked as a journalist and as a Fellow of a think tank on civil-military relations. In 2016 he was seconded to the Taskforce International Cyber Policies of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs; 2-15-2016; "Accelerating global nuclear disarmament: a menu of 16 policy options"; https://www.clingendael.org/publication/accelerating-global-nuclear-disarmament-menu-16-policy-options, No Publication, accessed 12-2-2019; JPark) | 2/20/22 |
JF -- heg DATournament: harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Krause US heg is strong now, but Russia and China are gaining.Hunt 17 ~Edward Hunt, () "The American Empire Isn't In Decline" Jacobin, 3-13-2017, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/03/obama-trump-mattis-united-states-empire/, DOA:9-15-2017 WWBW~ Space is crucial to US heg – China is beating the DoD now but commercial companies cement US advantage. Pullback greenlights Chinese dominance across the boardAutry and Kwast 19 Greg Autry and Steve Kwast 8-22-2019 "America Is Losing the Second Space Race to China" (Greg Autry, a clinical professor of space leadership, policy, and business at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management, and Steve Kwast)Elmer Heg solves every threat – collapse means return to spheres of influence and great power rivalryIkenberry 20 John Ikenberry 6-9-2020 "The Next Liberal Order: The Age of Contagion Demands More Internationalism, Not Less" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-09/next-liberal-order (Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University and Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University, in South Korea)Elmer US-China war goes nuclear~Caitlin Talmadge (10-15-2018), PhD in Political Science from MIT, BA in Government from Harvard, Professor of Security Studies at Georgetown University, "Beijing's Nuclear Option," Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-15/beijings-nuclear-option~~//recut CHS PK | 2/19/22 |
JF -- internet daTournament: harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: Byram Hills EW | Judge: Shields Internet is open to massive vulnerabilities nowGriffiths 19 James Griffiths 7-26-2019 "The global internet is powered by vast undersea cables. But they're vulnerable." https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/25/asia/internet-undersea-cables-intl-hnk/index.html (CNN Analyst)ELmer SpaceX satellites are key to internet accessJames Pethokoukis 21 ~James Pethokoukis, a columnist and an economic policy analyst, is the Dewitt Wallace Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he writes and edits the AEIdeas blog and hosts a weekly podcast, "Political Economy with James Pethokoukis." He is also a columnist for The Week and an official contributor to CNBC. "Why a SpaceX bankruptcy would hurt the global poor" Faster, Please! November 30, 2021 https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/-why-a-spacex-bankruptcy-would-hurt Internet access checks multiple existential threatsEagleman '10 ~Dr. David; 11/9/2010; PhD in Neuroscience @ Baylor University, Adjunct Professor of Neoroscience @ Stanford University, Former Guggenheim Fellow, Director of the Center for Science and Law, BA @ Rice University; "Six Ways The Internet Will Save Civilization"; https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apocalypse-no~~ | 2/20/22 |
JF -- ssp daTournament: harvard | Round: 6 | Opponent: duPont Manual HS Youth Performing Arts AE | Judge: Arjon Private mega-constellations make space solar power a reality – low costs, operational benefits and mass production – that solves warming and creates effective energy transitionLeonard David, 21 (Leonard David, Space solar power's time may finally be coming, Space, https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-research-advances, 11-3-2021)iLake- SSP has net 0 emissions with no pollutionEsther Katete, 21 (Esther Katete, Is Space-Based Solar Power Our Future? (2022), No Publication, https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2020/02/space-based-solar-power, 12-17-2021)iLake- Warming leads to extinction — it's a conflict-multiplier and unknown feedback loops means we need to stop nowKareiva 18, Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al. (Peter, "Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back," Futures, 102) | 2/20/22 |
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