Academy Of Classical Christian Studies Miller Neg
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| Bluekey | 2 | Lexington AT | James Stuckert |
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| Bluekey | 4 | Durham RL | Kristen Arnold |
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| Bluekey | 6 | Southlake Carroll SD | Matthew Berhe |
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| Bronx | 2 | University AP | Roberto Fernandez |
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| Bronx | 4 | Lexington AT | Sesh Joe |
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| Bronx | 6 | Scripps Ranch AS | Amanda Ciocca |
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| Bronx | Octas | Harrison JP | Howard Wang, Silma Bathily, Austin Broussard |
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| Bronx | Quarters | Prospect ST | Fabrice Etienne, Silma Bathily, Grant Brown |
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| Bronx | Semis | BASIS Peoria PY | Muhammad Khattak, Grant Brown, Nelson Okunlola |
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| Emory | 1 | New Trier RK | Becca Traber |
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| Emory | 4 | Immaculate Heart RR | Rishi Mukherjee |
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| Glenbrooks | 1 | Westside SY | Holden Bukowsky |
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| Glenbrooks | 3 | Diego DA | Andrew Qin |
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| Glenbrooks | 7 | Eden Prairie | Morgan Copeland |
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| Glenbrooks | 6 | Aragon ZA | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Glenbrooks | Doubles | Westwood BJ | Chris Castillo, Colton Gilbert, Nelson Okunlola |
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| Harvard | 2 | Acton-Boxborough ALi | Nam Nguyen |
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| Harvard | 4 | Bronx Science RP | James Stuckert |
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| Harvard | 5 | Chattahoochee EK | Henry Eberhart |
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| Harvard | 7 | Princeton JG | Fabrice Etienne |
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| JW Patterson | 2 | Coppell RM | Colton Gilbert |
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| JW Patterson | 4 | James Bowie NW | Amanda Nobra |
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| JW Patterson | 5 | Harvard-Westlake ML | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Lexington | 1 | Scarsdale DH | Evan Li |
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| Lexington | 4 | Chaminade ZS | Braedon Kirkpatrick |
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| Lexington | Doubles | Scarsdale BS | Keshav Dandu, TJ Maher, Delon Fuller |
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| Lexington | Octas | Oxford VM | Grant Brown, Muhammad Khattak, Lauren McBlain |
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| Loyola | 1 | Tays KM | Abhinav Sinha |
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| Loyola | 4 | Mountain View EN | Neville Tom |
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| Loyola | 5 | Wenatchee JK | James Stuckert |
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| Princeton | 2 | Princeton VC | Muhammad Khattak |
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| Princeton | 4 | Scarsdale RM | Katherine Burke |
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| Strake Invitational | 2 | Lake Highland Prep AB | Michael Kurian |
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| Strake Invitational | 3 | Samammish LW | Amadea Datel |
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| Tournament of Champions | 1 | McNeil AG | Brianna Aaron |
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| Yale | 3 | North Mecklenburg PM | Beckford, Saied |
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| Yale | 2 | Syosset BL | Ashish Tripathi |
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| Yale | 5 | Lincoln JR | David McGinnis |
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| Yale | Triples | Mountain View EN | Dumas, Cyprian Scopa, Stephen Lee, Andrew |
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| Yale | Doubles | Lexington AK | Lakshman, Rohit Natchukuri, Ananya Chang, Curtis |
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| Yale | Octas | American Heritage Broward SS | Rohit Lakshman, Ananya Natchukuri, Curtis Chang |
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| Tournament | Round | Report |
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| Bluekey | 2 | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: James Stuckert 1AC - Larp |
| Bluekey | 4 | Opponent: Durham RL | Judge: Kristen Arnold 1AC - Policy |
| Bluekey | 6 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Matthew Berhe 1AC - Policy |
| Bronx | 2 | Opponent: University AP | Judge: Roberto Fernandez 1AC - Lay |
| Bronx | 4 | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: Sesh Joe 1AC - Prag Advantage |
| Bronx | 6 | Opponent: Scripps Ranch AS | Judge: Amanda Ciocca 1AC - Deleuze |
| Bronx | Octas | Opponent: Harrison JP | Judge: Howard Wang, Silma Bathily, Austin Broussard 1AC - Fem |
| Bronx | Quarters | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Fabrice Etienne, Silma Bathily, Grant Brown 1AC - Kant AFC |
| Bronx | Semis | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Muhammad Khattak, Grant Brown, Nelson Okunlola 1AC - Afropess |
| Emory | 1 | Opponent: New Trier RK | Judge: Becca Traber 1AC - Psychoanalysis |
| Emory | 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Rishi Mukherjee 1AC - China |
| Glenbrooks | 1 | Opponent: Westside SY | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Moten Harney |
| Glenbrooks | 3 | Opponent: Diego DA | Judge: Andrew Qin 1AC - Courts |
| Glenbrooks | 7 | Opponent: Eden Prairie | Judge: Morgan Copeland 1AC - Agriculture |
| Glenbrooks | 6 | Opponent: Aragon ZA | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - "Policy" with 5 minutes of trix |
| Glenbrooks | Doubles | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Chris Castillo, Colton Gilbert, Nelson Okunlola 1AC - Policy |
| Harvard | 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough ALi | Judge: Nam Nguyen 1AC - Debris Space War |
| Harvard | 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: James Stuckert 1AC - Virtue Ethics |
| Harvard | 5 | Opponent: Chattahoochee EK | Judge: Henry Eberhart 1AC - idek wtf it was some scientology bataille shit no cap |
| Harvard | 7 | Opponent: Princeton JG | Judge: Fabrice Etienne 1AC - Mollow |
| JW Patterson | 2 | Opponent: Coppell RM | Judge: Colton Gilbert 1AC - Capitalism K |
| JW Patterson | 4 | Opponent: James Bowie NW | Judge: Amanda Nobra 1AC - Larp |
| JW Patterson | 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake ML | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Policy |
| Lexington | 1 | Opponent: Scarsdale DH | Judge: Evan Li 1AC - Virilio |
| Lexington | 4 | Opponent: Chaminade ZS | Judge: Braedon Kirkpatrick 1AC - Satellites |
| Lexington | Doubles | Opponent: Scarsdale BS | Judge: Keshav Dandu, TJ Maher, Delon Fuller 1AC - Kant |
| Lexington | Octas | Opponent: Oxford VM | Judge: Grant Brown, Muhammad Khattak, Lauren McBlain 1AC - Policy |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Tays KM | Judge: Abhinav Sinha 1AC - larp |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Neville Tom 1AC - larp |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: Wenatchee JK | Judge: James Stuckert 1AC - Policy |
| Princeton | 2 | Opponent: Princeton VC | Judge: Muhammad Khattak 1AC - Deleuze |
| Princeton | 4 | Opponent: Scarsdale RM | Judge: Katherine Burke 1AC - Kant |
| Strake Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Michael Kurian 1AC - Policy |
| Strake Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Samammish LW | Judge: Amadea Datel 1AC - Asteroids |
| Tournament of Champions | 1 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Brianna Aaron 1AC - Militarism |
| Yale | 3 | Opponent: North Mecklenburg PM | Judge: Beckford, Saied 1AC - Policy |
| Yale | 2 | Opponent: Syosset BL | Judge: Ashish Tripathi It was lay lol every speech was AC NC |
| Yale | 5 | Opponent: Lincoln JR | Judge: David McGinnis 1AC - Kant |
| Yale | Triples | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Dumas, Cyprian Scopa, Stephen Lee, Andrew 1AC - Policy |
| Yale | Doubles | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Lakshman, Rohit Natchukuri, Ananya Chang, Curtis 1AC - Policy |
| Yale | Octas | Opponent: American Heritage Broward SS | Judge: Rohit Lakshman, Ananya Natchukuri, Curtis Chang 1AC - Virtue Ethics Must Grant Permissibility or Presumption |
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0 - Accessibility FormattingTournament: - | Round: Finals | Opponent: - | Judge: - | 9/4/21 |
0 - Contact InfoTournament: - | Round: Finals | Opponent: - | Judge: - If you need to contact me for ANY reason, you can reach me through: I am most likely to respond to text, followed by Facebook, and am least likely to reply via email but I'll be checking each of them frequently so it shouldn't be a problem! | 9/4/21 |
0 - Content WarningsTournament: - | Round: Finals | Opponent: - | Judge: - As for me personally, I would request that you avoid purposeful shiftiness. ADHD combined with sensory processing disorders make it very hard for me to pay attention to fine-tuned details such as hidden arguments. Therefore, I would kindly request that for those of you who read long underviews, please be straight up about the arguments in cross-ex. (to clarify, I have nothing wrong with reading underviews; just don't be purposefully shifty) | 9/4/21 |
0 - Wiki InfoTournament: - | Round: Finals | Opponent: - | Judge: - | 9/4/21 |
1 - Potential InterpsTournament: - | Round: Finals | Opponent: - | Judge: - DisclosureInterpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source in an accessible format on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD wiki after the round in which they read them in conjunction with a highlighted version. Interpretation: The aff must disclose the plan text, framework, and advantage area 30 minutes before the round. To clarify, disclosure can occur on the wiki or over message. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki after the round in which they read them. Interpretation: For each position on their corresponding 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki page, debaters must disclose a summary of each analytic argument in their cases. To clarify – you don’t have to include the full text of each, you just have to substitute them with a few words that summarize the thesis of the argument i.e. ‘actor specificity’ rather than ‘analytic’ Interpretation: If debaters disclose full text, they must not post the full text of the cards in the cite box, but must upload an open source document with the full text of their cards. To clarify, you don’t have to disclose highlighting or underlining, you just need an open source document with minimally the full, un-underlined text of cards. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose round reports on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech. Interpretation: if the aff reads an advocacy other than the current NSDA resolution, then they must disclose the advocacy on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD wiki before the round. To clarify, if you do not defend the topic, you must disclose the aff before the round. MiscInterpretation: The affirmative debater may not defend fiat for more than one Interpretation: Debaters may not defend implementation of the resolution through state or location action. They must defend either federal legislation, an executive order, or a reversal of current decisions through the Supreme Court. Interpretation: If either debater reads a truth testing role of the ballot, they must explicitly specify in a text how the round ought to play out under the role of the ballot. Interpretation: If debaters disclose multiple disclosure interpretations, then those interpretations must not conflict with one another. Interpretation: The affirmative debater must articulate a distinct ROB in the form of a delineated text in the first affirmative speech. Interpretation: All theory paradigms in the aff must be phrased as proactively bidirectional. Interpretation: If the affirmative debater claims that the rule following paradox is a relevant problem ethical theories must be able to resolve, and claim that social practices solve the rule following paradox, they must clarify in the form of a text in the AC what counts as an ethical practice verified by the community. Interpretation: All arguments concerning fairness or education that the negative could violate must be read first in the affirmative speech. To clarify, theory arguments must be read at the top of the affirmative case before all substantive arguments. Interpretation: If the aff claims they get to choose the framework for the round, they get to defend the framework they justify in the 1AC but must choose a different theoretically legitimate framework for the neg. Interpretation: The aff must defend theory interpretations and arguments unconditionally as presented in the 1AC. Interpretation: Debaters who make presumption arguments must articulate the set of conditions under which presumption can become relevant in the evaluation of the round. Interpretation: Debaters may not read affirming is harder arguments to justify any theoretical or substantive paradigm issues in the aff. Interpretation: Debaters may not read affirming is harder arguments. Interpretation: If the affirmative reads affirming is harder arguments, they may not specify more than one implication. Interpretation: If the affirmative defends anything other than the exact text of the resolution, then they must provide a counter-solvency advocate for their specific advocacy. Interpretation: If the affirmative defends a consequentialist framework, they must explicitly delineate which theory of the good they defend in the form of a text in the 1AC. Interpretation: All evidence that derives claims from historical events must have a citation. To clarify, this isn’t saying that you should cite that something like WWII happened, but nuanced empirical claims about historical projects and society’s reactions to those projects should have a citation. Interpretation: Debaters may not read epistemic modesty. Interpretation: Debaters may not justify both epistemic modesty and extinction outweighs. Interpretation: Debaters may not read extinction first under any framework. Interpretation: The neg may not derive a route to the ballot premised on the flaws of the aff framework. To clarify, framework Ks are bad. Interpretation: On the 2021-2022 September-October LD Topic, the affirmative may not gain offense from outside the scope of the resolution. Interpretation: Debaters must ask everyone in the room if they are okay with spreading before their first speech. Interpretation: If the aff differs from the conventional truth testing model, they must explicitly specify a comprehensive role of the ballot and clarify how the round will play out under that role of the ballot in the form of a text in the 1AC. Interpretation: If the affirmative reads graphic depictions of ableism, they must give a content warning before their speech. Interpretation: If the affirmative reads an offensive theoretical argument that claims that the negative must concede the affirmative framework, they must provide a list of potential violations and permissible practices under that interpretation. Interpretation: Debaters cannot impose race specific burdens. To clarify, they can’t set certain conditions that are contingent based on the racial identity of the debater. Interpretation: Debaters cannot impose disability specific burdens. To clarify, they can’t set certain conditions that are contingent based on the ability status of the debater. Interpretation: Debaters cannot impose queerness specific burdens. To clarify, they can’t set certain conditions that are contingent based on the sexual orientation or gender of the debater. Clarification about the three shells above, this is NOT saying identity based arguments are bad, but rather that you shouldn't make arguments like "disabled debaters get RVIs." Interpretation: The affirmative must use personal knowledge, organic intellectuals, and academic intellectuals, to garner offense. Interpretation: Debaters may not read offensive theoretical interpretations in the 1AC. Interpretation: Debaters may not defend implementation of the resolutional action. Interpretation: All debater’s theory shells must operate through NCM, or the norm-creation model, not the abuse model. To clarify, an interpretation under NCM necessitates that a proposed interpretation would produce better norms for debate than the mutually exclusive counter-interp and that those norms should be endorsed. Interpretation: Debaters may not defend the resolution in active voice. Interpretation: The Aff must present a concrete strategy for the operationalization of their advocacy through specific institution outside of debate. Interpretation: The affirmative debater may not read multiple necessary burdens for themselves but is also an insufficient burden for me. To clarify more than one NIBs bad. Interpretation: The affirmative must explicitly indicate their standards conception of the subject or their identity if it exists in a delineated text in the 1AC. Interpretation: Debaters may not read descriptive frameworks. Interpretation: If debaters read evidence whose text is modified with brackets, for each affected card the debater must say out loud that the evidence is bracketed and for what purpose, either immediately before or after reading the evidence. Interpretation: Debaters cannot have graphs, images, or charts used to garner offense in their speech doc. Interpretation: All offense proving the resolution true or false must impact to a necessary and sufficient standard. Standards must have only one evaluative mechanism, which is a comprehensive normative theory that entails all true normative propositions. Interpretation: All theoretical interpretations must be worded proactively to indicate what debaters must do. Note: I reserve the right to read shells contextual to the round in order to check for abuse if I feel as though the violation is particularly egregious. | 9/4/21 |
2 - Activism GamesTournament: JW Patterson | Round: 4 | Opponent: James Bowie NW | Judge: Amanda Nobra 1The 1AC is an activist game – they trade violence for points and collect the ballot for passing "Go" – vote negative to induce a break in that operationality in favor of critical reflection.Schleiner 19 Anne-Marie Schleiner, 2019, "The broken toy tactic: Clockwork worlds and activist games," from "The Playful Citizen Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture," edited by René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries, SJBE AND a realm of politics that he or she is otherwise quite busy avoiding. They’ll say voting negative does nothing, but I’ll say they should be more creative – what does voting aff accomplish?OUCB 09 Occupied UC Berkeley, 10-18-2009, "The Necrosocial: Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC." Anti-Capital Projects, https://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/, SJBE AND , we are so practiced at stomaching horror that the horror is thoughtless. | 10/9/21 |
2 - Activism Games v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westside SY | Judge: Holden Bukowsky The 1AC is an activist game – they trade violence for points and collect the ballot for passing "Go" – vote negative to induce a break in that operationality in favor of critical reflection.Schleiner 19 Anne-Marie Schleiner, 2019, "The broken toy tactic: Clockwork worlds and activist games," from "The Playful Citizen Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture," edited by René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries, SJBE AND a realm of politics that he or she is otherwise quite busy avoiding. Their discourse intends to maximize speech without creating change. Baudrillard, (Jean Baudrillard, sociologist, philosopher and cultural theorist, "Symbolic Exchange and Death," https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5o2oXdmBrRYbHR5VGlWM242LVE/view) We will not destroy the system by a direct, dialectical revolution of the economic or political infrastructure. Everything produced by contradiction, by the relation of forces, or by energy in general, will only feed back into the mechanism and give it impetus, following a circular distortion similar to a Moebius strip. We will never defeat it by following its own logic of energy, calculation, reason and revolution, history and power, or some finality or counter-finality. The worst violence at this level has no purchase, and will only backfire against itself. We will never defeat the system on the plane of the real: the worst error of all our revolutionary strategies is to believe that we will put an end to the system on the plane of the real: this is their imaginary, imposed on them by the system itself, living or surviving only by always leading those who attack the system to fight amongst each other on the terrain of reality, which is always the reality of the system. This is where they throw all their energies, their imaginary violence, where an implacable logic constantly turns back into the system. We have only to do it violence or counter-violence since it thrives on symbolic violence not in the degraded sense in which this formula has found fortune, as a violence 'of signs', from which the system draws strength, or with which it 'masks' its material violence: symbolic violence is deduced from a logic of the symbolic (which has nothing to do with the sign or with energy): reversal, the incessant reversibility of the counter-gift and, conversely, the seizing of power by the unilateral exercise of the gift. 25 We must therefore displace everything into the sphere of the symbolic, where challenge, reversal and overbidding are the law, so that we can respond to death only by an equal or superior death. There is no question here of real violence or force, the only question concerns the challenge and the logic of the symbolic. If domination comes from the system's retention of the exclusivity of the gift without counter-gift the gift of work which can only be responded to by destruction or sacrifice, if not in consumption, which is only a spiral of the system of surplus-gratification without result, therefore a spiral of surplus-domination; a gift of media and messages to which, due to the monopoly of the code, nothing is allowed to retort; the gift, everywhere and at every instant, of the social, of the protection agency, security, gratification and the solicitation of the social from which nothing is any longer permitted to escape then the only solution is to turn the principle of its power back against the system itself: the impossibility of responding or retorting. To defy the system with a gift to which it cannot respond save by its own collapse and death. Nothing, not even the system, can avoid the symbolic obligation, and it is in this trap that the only chance of a catastrophe for capital remains.Their linkage of identity politics with trauma maintains affective structures that undergird liberalism. Baudrillard 94, Jean, Baudrillard The illusion of the End, Page 66-70We have long denounced the capitalistic, economic exploitation of the poverty of the 'other half of the world' ~~'autre monde~. We must today denounce the moral and sentimental exploitation of that poverty - charity cannibalism being worse than oppressive violence. The extraction and humanitarian reprocessing of a destitution which has become the equivalent of oil deposits and gold mines. The extortion of the spectacle of poverty and, at the same time, of our charitable condescension: a worldwide appreciated surplus of fine sentiments and bad conscience. We should, in fact, see this not as the extraction of raw materials, but as a waste-reprocessing enterprise. Their destitution and our bad conscience are, in effect, all part of the waste-products of history- the main thing is to recycle them to produce a new energy source. We have here an escalation in the psychological balance of terror. World capitalist oppression is now merely the vehicle and alibi for this other, much more ferocious, form of moral predation. One might almost say, contrary to the Marxist analysis, that material exploitation is only there to extract that spiritual raw material that is the misery of peoples, which serves as psychological nourishment for the rich countries and media nourishment for our daily lives. The 'Fourth World' (we are no longer dealing with a 'developing' Third World) is once again beleaguered, this time as a catastrophe-bearing stratum. The West is whitewashed in the reprocessing of the rest of the world as waste and residue. And the white world repents and seeks absolution - it, too, the waste-product of its own history. The South is a natural producer of raw materials, the latest of which is catastrophe. The North, for its part, specializes in the reprocessing of raw materials and hence also in the reprocessing of catastrophe. Bloodsucking protection, humanitarian interference, Medecins sans frontieres, international solidarity, etc. The last phase of colonialism: the New Sentimental Order is merely the latest form of the New World Order. Other people's destitution becomes our adventure playground. Thus, the humanitarian offensive aimed at the Kurds - a show of repentance on the part of the Western powers after allowing Saddam Hussein to crush them - is in reality merely the second phase of the war, a phase in which charitable intervention finishes off the work of extermination. We are the consumers of the ever delightful spectacle of poverty and catastrophe, and of the moving spectacle of our own efforts to alleviate it (which, in fact, merely function to secure the conditions of reproduction of the catastrophe market); there, at least, in the order of moral profits, the Marxist analysis is wholly applicable: we see to it that extreme poverty is reproduced as a symbolic deposit, as a fuel essential to the moral and sentimental equilibrium of the West. In our defence, it might be said that this extreme poverty was largely of our own making and it is therefore normal that we should profit by it. There can be no finer proof that the distress of the rest of the world is at the root of Western power and that the spectacle of that distress is its crowning glory than the inauguration, on the roof of the Arche de la Defense, with a sumptuous buffet laid on by the Fondation des Droits de l'homme, of an exhibition of the finest photos of world poverty. Should we be surprised that spaces are set aside in the Arche d' Alliance. for universal suffering hallowed by caviar and champagne? Just as the economic crisis of the West will not be complete so long as it can still exploit the resources of the rest of the world, so the symbolic crisis will be complete only when it is no longer able to feed on the other half's human and natural catastrophes (Eastern Europe, the Gulf, the Kurds, Bangladesh, etc.). We need this drug, which serves us as an aphrodisiac and hallucinogen. And the poor countries are the best suppliers - as, indeed, they are of other drugs. We provide them, through our media, with the means to exploit this paradoxical resource, just as we give them the means to exhaust their natural resources with our technologies. Our whole culture lives off this catastrophic cannibalism, relayed in cynical mode by the news media, and carried forward in moral mode by our humanitarian aid, which is a way of encouraging it and ensuring its continuity, just as economic aid is a strategy for perpetuating under-development. Up to now, the financial sacrifice has been compensated a hundredfold by the moral gain. But when the catastrophe market itself reaches crisis point, in accordance with the implacable logic of the market, when distress becomes scarce or the marginal returns on it fall from overexploitation, when we run out of disasters from elsewhere or when they can no longer be traded like coffee or other commodities, the West will be forced to produce its own catastrophe for itself, in order to meet its need for spectacle and that voracious appetite for symbols which characterizes it even more than its voracious appetite for food. It will reach the point where it devours itself. When we have finished sucking out the destiny of others, we shall have to invent one for ourselves. The Great Crash, the symbolic crash, will come in the end from us Westerners, but only when we are no longer able to feed on the hallucinogenic misery which comes to us from the other half of the world. Yet they do not seem keen to give up their monopoly. The Middle East, Bangladesh, black Africa and Latin America are really going flat out in the distress and catastrophe stakes, and thus in providing symbolic nourishment for the rich world. They might be said to be overdoing it: heaping earthquakes, floods, famines and ecological disasters one upon another, and finding the means to massacre each other most of the time. The 'disaster show' goes on without any let-up and our sacrificial debt to them far exceeds their economic debt. The misery with which they generously overwhelm us is something we shall never be able to repay. The sacrifices we offer in return are laughable (a tornado or two, a few tiny holocausts on the roads, the odd financial sacrifice) and, moreover, by some infernal logic, these work out as much greater gains for us, whereas our kindnesses have merely added to the natural catastrophes another one immeasurably worse: the demographic catastrophe, a veritable epidemic which we deplore each day in pictures. In short, there is such distortion between North and South, to the symbolic advantage of the South (a hundred thousand Iraqi dead against casualties numbered in tens on our side: in every case we are the losers), that one day everything will break down. One day, the West will break down if we are not soon washed clean of this shame, if an international congress of the poor countries does not very quickly decide to share out this symbolic privilege of misery and catastrophe. It is of course normal, since we refuse to allow the spread of nuclear weapons, that they should refuse to allow the spread of the catastrophe weapon. But it is not right that they should exert that monopoly indefinitely. In any case, the under-developed are only so by comparison with the Western system and its presumed success. In the light of its assumed failure, they are not under-developed at all. They are only so in terms of a dominant evolutionism which has always been the worst of colonial ideologies. The argument here is that there is a line of objective progress and everyone is supposed to pass through its various stages (we find the same eyewash with regard to the evolution of species and in that evolutionism which unilaterally sanctions the superiority of the human race). In the light of current upheavals, which put an end to any idea of history as a linear process, there are no longer either developed or under-developed peoples. Thus, to encourage hope of evolution - albeit by revolution - among the poor and to doom them, in keeping with the objective illusion of progress, to technological salvation is a criminal absurdity. In actual fact, it is their good fortune to be able to escape from evolution just at the point when we no longer know where it is leading. In any case, a majority of these peoples, including those of Eastern Europe, do not seem keen to enter this evolutionist modernity, and their weight in the balance is certainly no small factor in the West's repudiation of its own history, of its own utopias and its own modernity. It might be said that the routes of violence, historical or otherwise, are being turned around and that the viruses now pass from South to North, there being every chance that, five hundred years after America was conquered, 1992 and the end of the century will mark the comeback of the defeated and the sudden reversal of that modernity. The sense of pride is no longer on the side of wealth but of poverty, of those who - fortunately for them - have nothing to repent, and may indeed glory in being privileged in terms of catastrophes. Admittedly, this is a privilege they could hardly renounce, even if they wished to, but natural disasters merely reinforce the sense of guilt felt towards them by the wealthy – by those whom God visibly scorns since he no longer even strikes them down. One day it will be the Whites themselves who will give up their whiteness. It is a good bet that repentance will reach its highest pitch with the five-hundredth anniversary of the conquest of the Americas. We are going to have to lift the curse of the defeated - but symbolically victorious - peoples, which is insinuating itself five hundred years later, by way of repentance, into the heart of the white race. No solution has been found to the dramatic situation of the under-developed, and none will be found since their drama has now been overtaken by that of the overdeveloped, of the rich nations. The psychodrama of congestion, saturation, super abundance, neurosis and the breaking of blood vessels which haunts us - the drama of the excess of means over ends – calls more urgently for attention than that of penury, lack and poverty. That is where the most imminent danger of catastrophe resides, in the societies which have run out of emptiness. Artificial catastrophes, like the beneficial aspects of civilization, progress much more quickly than natural ones. The underdeveloped are still at the primary stage of the natural, unforeseeable catastrophe. We are already at the second stage, that of the manufactured catastrophe - imminent and foreseeable - and we shall soon be at that of the pre-programmed catastrophe, the catastrophe of the third kind, deliberate and experimental. And, paradoxically, it is our pursuit of the means for averting natural catastrophe - the unpredictable form of destiny - which will take us there. Because it is unable to escape it, humanity will pretend to be the author of its destiny. Because it cannot accept being confronted with an end which is uncertain or governed by fate, it will prefer to stage its own death as a species. They’ll say voting negative does nothing, but I’ll say they should be more creative – what does voting aff accomplish?OUCB 09 Occupied UC Berkeley, 10-18-2009, "The Necrosocial: Civic Life, Social Death, and the UC." Anti-Capital Projects, https://anticapitalprojects.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-necrosocial/, SJBE AND , we are so practiced at stomaching horror that the horror is thoughtless. | 11/20/21 |
2 - Activism Games v3Tournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Brianna Aaron Vote neg even if they win their advantage – to clarify, they shouldn’t win by justifying their simulated consequences.The 1AC is an activist game – they trade violence for points and collect the ballot for passing "Go" – voting neg induces a break in that operationality in favor of critical reflection.Schleiner 19 Anne-Marie Schleiner, 2019, "The broken toy tactic: Clockwork worlds and activist games," from "The Playful Citizen Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture," edited by René Glas, Sybille Lammes, Michiel de Lange, Joost Raessens, and Imar de Vries, SJBE AND a realm of politics that he or she is otherwise quite busy avoiding. Scenario analysis is parasitic upon disabled bodies – engagement with simulation forces disability to contemplate the nature of ability and disability which fosters internalized ableism and necessitates crip death.Campbell 08 (Dr Fiona Kumari Campbell is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Wellbeing at the University of South Queensland http://www98.griffith.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/10072/21024/50540'1.pdf "Exploring Internalized Ableism using Critical Race Theory" Disability and Society, Vol. 23 (2), p. 151-162) ACCS JM AND become complicit in their own demise – reinforcing impairment as an outlaw ontology. | 4/23/22 |
2 - Affect Method DATournament: Harvard | Round: 7 | Opponent: Princeton JG | Judge: Fabrice Etienne | 2/20/22 |
2 - Becoming Animal KTournament: Harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: James Stuckert | 2/19/22 |
2 - EdelmanTournament: Yale | Round: Triples | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Dumas, Cyprian Scopa, Stephen Lee, Andrew Desire from lack projects identity which we can never fully reach which urges the political to determine which identities are legitimate. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater with the best method of traversing the fantasy.Edelman 1 (Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004, Duke University Press, p. 7-9) SJCPJG AND force of what insists outside or beyond, because foreclosed by, signification. Politics and futurism is built on the premise that any negation of the signifier of the child is essential in order to fulfill desire from lack which deems queerness out of the political – the impact is reproductive futurism which is a system of structural overkill that places queerness in a position of ontological exclusion.Edelman 2 (Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004, Duke University Press, p. 10-13) SJCPJG AND of social organization, collective reality, and, inevitably, life itself. Ignore statistics regarding material progress for queerness – they’re geared at hiding the truth of the situation which means only our ontology claim explains the reality of overkill.Stanley 11 (Eric Stanley, Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture, 2011, p. 5-6) SJCPJG AND of a body of a "man in a dress" discovered.15 The alternative is to embrace the death drive – a full affirmation of queer negativity in which we reject the 1AC in favor of traversing the fantasy and realizing the structural positionality of queer identity.Edelman 3 (Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, 2004, Duke University Press, p. 4-7) SJCPJG AND the sign by establishing the psychoanalytic context within which my argument takes shape. | 9/19/21 |
2 - FritschTournament: Tournament of Champions | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil AG | Judge: Brianna Aaron The affirmatives investment in the future is a product of neoliberal biocapitalism and operates through enhancing certain bodies at the expense of disabling others. Through the figure of the Child, biocapitalism sustains a reproductive order geared towards the future in the image of a better than able-bodied subject. In reality, this figure is impossible to satisfy and requires the simultaneous death and enhancement of disability.Fritsch 15 The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices by Kelly Fritsch June 2015 pg. 145-146 ACCS JM AND thus, one way of fulfilling the thinking that disability has no future. Happiness without an analysis of affect ignores that the objects we encounter are never neutral. The figure of the better than able-bodied Child circulates happy affects of pride, hope, cure, and progress, which sustains the promise of happiness and shapes our affective dispositions. This affective economy determines the projected value and circulation of social goods and allows biocapitalism to frame disability through a narrative of overcoming suffering, producing disability as tragedy, pity, and disgust.Fritsch 2 The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices by Kelly Fritsch June 2015 pg. 82-84 ACCS JM AND circulate, even in the face of contested understandings of disability or accessibility. Their framing is inextricably tied to ableism and proves try or die flips neg.Colebrook 17 Claire Colebrook, 2017. Acclaimed Australian cultural theorist, currently appointed Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University, "Lives Worth Living: Extinction, Persons, Disability," https://www.academia.edu/19843360/Lives'Worth'Living ACCS JM AND as instances of a way of life to be preserved, or not. The alternative is to engage in a heterotopic imagination of disability – our alternative operates as a method of seeing disability as good enough rather than an obstacle to overcome or fix. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best rejects linear models of optimism.Fritsch 3 The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices by Kelly Fritsch JUNE 2015 pp. 174-175 UTDD + ACCS JM AND disability is, how it is practiced, and what it can be. We shatter the conception of a singular view of health – subjects are not singular, but rather a result of constantly fluctuating affective connections between aspects of nature.Abrams and Adkins 20 Tragic Affirmation: Disability Beyond Optimism and Pessimism Thomas Abrams and Brent Adkins Journal of Medical Humanities, January 27, 2020 UTDD and ACCS JM AND and many others’ use of ideology, to which we turn to next. | 4/23/22 |
2 - Levinas KTournament: Emory | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Rishi Mukherjee The world is an extension of the self’s conceptual frames – however, the Other’s infinite nature interrupts our imposition of meaning. Totalization, or the attempt to reduce the Other to a one-dimensional object is the root cause of violence as it denies our obligation to preserve the Other’s mystery. Thus, the role of the ballot is to resist totalization – they can’t weigh the case if we win their starting point is flawed.Hooft 6 ~Stan Van Hooft "Understanding Virtue Ethics" 2006 pg. 99-101~ AND acknowledge and respect the mystery of that other person in those simple gestures. Util totalizes the Other to mechanical calculations which destroys ethics, politics, and the value to life. Vote negative to recognize the Other as a complex subject that demands a continual quest of understanding.Joseph 17 ~https://dspace.wlu.edu/bitstream/handle/11021/33878/RG38'TaylorZ'Poverty'2017'A.pdf?sequence=1andisAllowed=y " The Essential Poverty of the Face: A Case for Levinasian Responsibility and Justice in Poverty Studies" Zachary Taylor Joseph 2017 Washington and Lee University~ AND those who are concerned with poverty alleviation might find attractive in utilitarian responsibility. | 1/29/22 |
2 - MollowTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Neville Tom Abled subjectivity is tied up in a two-tiered affective response that explains disabled life – primary pity which reflects disability upon the ego threatening its ability status, which invokes secondary pity to overcorrect for the shattered-ego necessitating disabled death.Mollow 15 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND fantasmatically, perhaps already is—an image of one’s own self undone? The 1AC’s belief of a better future becomes complicit in the logic of rehabilitative futurism, which is threatened by the Disabled Child – that comes prior to materialism because the underlying structures that create the problems within society can only be understood and explained by an ontological thesis stemming from ableism.Mollow 2 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND promised, would bring forth a better future." (68-69) The only ethical alternative is to affirm crippessimism – only a refusal of the world can disrupt the current notion of optimism to validate the fragmented subject. If we win their starting point is ableist they cannot weigh the consequences of it.Selck 16 ~Selck, Michael L. "Crip Pessimism: The Language of Dis/ability and the Culture that Isn't." (Jan 2016) WHSRS and Lex VM~ AND able-bodied standards, I have come to a comfort with pessimism. ====Academia is riddled with ableism – knowledge production requires assumptions to be made, and absent talking about disability, those assumptions are always violent. If you aren’t part of the solution, you’re part of the problem – their failure to proactively discuss questions of disability is both a link and an epistemic indict – fiat is illusory since the ballot can’t pass plans, so anything that doesn’t begin with the question of disability allows for ableism to infiltrate modes of thought which means we’re an epistemic prerequisite. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who bests methodologically deconstructs ableism.==== AND 2011). Purification has difficulty negotiating intersectional marginality and interdependent forms of impairment. | 9/5/21 |
2 - Mollow v13Tournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Chattahoochee EK | Judge: Henry Eberhart | 2/20/22 |
2 - Mollow v2Tournament: Yale | Round: Octas | Opponent: American Heritage Broward SS | Judge: Rohit Lakshman, Ananya Natchukuri, Curtis Chang Abled subjectivity is tied up in a two-tiered affective response that explains disabled life – primary pity which reflects disability upon the ego threatening its ability status, which invokes secondary pity to overcorrect for the shattered-ego necessitating disabled death.Mollow 15 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND fantasmatically, perhaps already is—an image of one’s own self undone? The 1AC’s belief of a better future becomes complicit in the logic of rehabilitative futurism, which is threatened by the Disabled Child – that comes prior to materialism because the underlying structures that create the problems within society can only be understood and explained by an ontological thesis stemming from ableism.Mollow 2 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND promised, would bring forth a better future." (68-69) The only ethical alternative is to affirm crippessimism – only a refusal of the world can disrupt the current notion of optimism to validate the fragmented subject. If we win their starting point is ableist they cannot weigh the consequences of it. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best disrupts notions of progress within civil society.Selck 16 Selck, Michael L. "Crip Pessimism: The Language of Dis/ability and the Culture that Isn't." (Jan 2016) ACCS JM AND able-bodied standards, I have come to a comfort with pessimism. | 10/8/21 |
2 - Mollow v3Tournament: JW Patterson | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake ML | Judge: Tajaih Robinson KAbled subjectivity is tied up in a two-tiered affective response that explains disabled life – primary pity which reflects disability upon the ego threatening its ability status, which invokes secondary pity to overcorrect for the shattered-ego necessitating disabled death.Mollow 15 AND . we feel primary pity and then deny that we have felt it. The 1AC’s belief of a better future becomes complicit in the logic of rehabilitative futurism, which is threatened by the Disabled Child.Mollow 2 AND Futurity is imagined that the eradication of disability would bring a better future. The only ethical alternative is to affirm crippessimism – only a refusal of the world can disrupt the current notion of optimism to validate the fragmented subject. If we win their starting point is ableist they cannot weigh the consequences of it.Selck 16 AND failing to rehabilitate able-bodied standards come to a comfort with pessimism. Communicative spheres always zone out disability – disrupting this falsification can break down notions of progress. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best disrupts notions of progress within civil society.Selck 2 AND death has occurred and we need discussions about how to break down progress. | 10/16/21 |
2 - Mollow v4Tournament: Bronx | Round: 6 | Opponent: Scripps Ranch AS | Judge: Amanda Ciocca 1KAbled subjectivity is tied up in a two-tiered affective response that explains disabled life – primary pity which reflects disability upon the ego threatening its ability status, which invokes secondary pity to overcorrect for the shattered-ego necessitating disabled death.Mollow 15 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND fantasmatically, perhaps already is—an image of one’s own self undone? The 1AC’s belief of a better future becomes complicit in the logic of rehabilitative futurism, which is threatened by the Disabled Child.Mollow 2 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND promised, would bring forth a better future." (68-69) The alternative is to disable the figure of the "human" – instead of seeing disability as a redeemable position within civil society, the alternative weaponizes disability’s structural position against the human. If we win their starting point is ableist they cannot weigh the consequences of it.Mollow 12 ~Mollow, Anna. "Is Sex Disability? Queer Theory and the Disability Drive." Sex and Disability, by R. McRuer and A. Mollow, Durham, Duke UP, 2012, pp. 306-10. http://www.sfu.ca/~~baw2/GSWS826/Mollow.pdf~~ ACCS JM AND acknowledged awareness that all sex is incurably, and perhaps desirably, disabled. Communicative spheres always zone out disability – breaking down notions of progress is necessary in the face of social death. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best disrupts notions of progress within civil society. No going for the advantage – it doesn’t disrupt progress.Selck 16 ~Selck, Michael L. "Crip Pessimism: The Language of Dis/ability and the Culture that Isn't." (Jan 2016) WHSRS and Lex VM~ AND cases all we need to witness those consequences is a slight perspectival shift. | 10/17/21 |
2 - Mollow v5Tournament: Bronx | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Fabrice Etienne, Silma Bathily, Grant Brown 1Abled subjectivity is tied up in a two-tiered affective response that explains disabled life – primary pity which reflects disability upon the ego threatening its ability status, which invokes secondary pity to overcorrect for the shattered-ego necessitating disabled death.Mollow 15 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND fantasmatically, perhaps already is—an image of one’s own self undone? The 1AC’s belief of a better future becomes complicit in the logic of rehabilitative futurism, which is threatened by the Disabled Child.Mollow 2 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND promised, would bring forth a better future." (68-69) The alternative is to disable the figure of the "human" – instead of seeing disability as a redeemable position within civil society, the alternative weaponizes disability’s structural position against the human. If we win their starting point is ableist they cannot weigh the consequences of it.Mollow 12 ~Mollow, Anna. "Is Sex Disability? Queer Theory and the Disability Drive." Sex and Disability, by R. McRuer and A. Mollow, Durham, Duke UP, 2012, pp. 306-10. http://www.sfu.ca/~~baw2/GSWS826/Mollow.pdf~~ ACCS JM AND acknowledged awareness that all sex is incurably, and perhaps desirably, disabled. You should adopt epistemological disablement over certainty. Their attempt to construct a universal guide to action ignores the ways in which uncertainty, confusion, and the overall drive determine us. This means their framework should be ep suspect because it is contingent on a complete knowledge of the self which the disability drive denies.Mollow 15 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow 2015 UTDD AND the basis of their perceived status as disabled or nondisabled." (4) Communicative spheres always zone out disability – breaking down notions of progress is necessary in the face of social death. Thus, the role of the judge is to question ideological optimism in the classroom, and the ballot is to vote for the debater who best disrupts notions of progress within civil society.Selck 16 ~Selck, Michael L. "Crip Pessimism: The Language of Dis/ability and the Culture that Isn't." (Jan 2016) WHSRS and Lex VM~ AND cases all we need to witness those consequences is a slight perspectival shift. | 10/29/21 |
2 - Mollow v6Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Aragon ZA | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Abled subjectivity is tied up in a two-tiered affective response that explains disabled life – primary pity which reflects disability upon the ego threatening its ability status, which invokes secondary pity to overcorrect for the shattered-ego necessitating disabled death.Mollow 15 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND fantasmatically, perhaps already is—an image of one’s own self undone? The 1AC’s belief of a better future becomes complicit in the logic of rehabilitative futurism, which is threatened by the Disabled Child.Mollow 2 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND promised, would bring forth a better future." (68-69) The alternative is to disable the figure of the "human" – instead of seeing disability as a redeemable position within civil society, the alternative weaponizes disability’s structural position against the human. If we win their starting point is ableist they cannot weigh the consequences of it.Mollow 3 Mollow, Anna. "Is Sex Disability? Queer Theory and the Disability Drive." Sex and Disability, by R. McRuer and A. Mollow, Durham, Duke UP, 2012, pp. 306-10. http://www.sfu.ca/~~baw2/GSWS826/Mollow.pdf ACCS JM AND acknowledged awareness that all sex is incurably, and perhaps desirably, disabled. Debate is governed through fluency which excludes semiotic disturbances to maintain stability. It consistently tries to maintain equal ground that forces the disabled object to keep up with modes of compulsive able-bodiedness.St. Pierre 17 (Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press) ~BRACKETED FOR ABLEIST RHETORIC~ Lex VM Recut by ACCS JM AND ends through the logic of optimization and closure." (342-344) Communicative spheres always zone out disability – breaking down notions of progress is necessary in the face of social death. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best disrupts notions of progress within civil society.Selck 16 Selck, Michael L. "Crip Pessimism: The Language of Dis/ability and the Culture that Isn't." (Jan 2016) ACCS JM AND cases all we need to witness those consequences is a slight perspectival shift. | 11/21/21 |
2 - Mollow v7Tournament: Princeton | Round: 2 | Opponent: Princeton VC | Judge: Muhammad Khattak Abled subjectivity is tied up in a two-tiered affective response that explains disabled life – primary pity which reflects disability upon the ego threatening its ability status, which invokes secondary pity to overcorrect for the shattered-ego necessitating disabled death.Mollow 15 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND fantasmatically, perhaps already is—an image of one’s own self undone? The 1AC’s belief of a better future becomes complicit in the logic of rehabilitative futurism, which is threatened by the Disabled Child.Mollow 2 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND promised, would bring forth a better future." (68-69) The alternative is to disable the figure of the "human" – instead of seeing disability as a redeemable position within civil society, the alternative weaponizes disability’s structural position against the human. If we win their starting point is ableist they cannot weigh the consequences of it.Mollow 12 ~Mollow, Anna. "Is Sex Disability? Queer Theory and the Disability Drive." Sex and Disability, by R. McRuer and A. Mollow, Durham, Duke UP, 2012, pp. 306-10. http://www.sfu.ca/~~baw2/GSWS826/Mollow.pdf~~ ACCS JM AND acknowledged awareness that all sex is incurably, and perhaps desirably, disabled. Their analysis ignores the ways in which uncertainty, confusion, and the overall drive determine us. Instead, you should adopt epistemological disablement and be suspect of complete knowledge of the self.Mollow 4 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND particular subjects on the basis of their perceived status as disabled or nondisabled. Communicative spheres always zone out disability – breaking down notions of progress is necessary in the face of social death. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best disrupts notions of progress within civil society. No going for the advantage – it doesn’t disrupt progress.Selck 16 ~Selck, Michael L. "Crip Pessimism: The Language of Dis/ability and the Culture that Isn't." (Jan 2016) WHSRS and Lex VM~ AND cases all we need to witness those consequences is a slight perspectival shift. The disability drive is not about stable conceptions of disability or identity politics – we instead theorize about suffering and lack as a disabling and psychic force that structures the subject and explains myriad forms of exclusion.Mollow 5 The Disability Drive by Anna Mollow A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Kent Puckett, Chair Professor Celeste G. Langan Professor Melinda Y. Chen Spring 2015 ACCS JM AND concept of the disability drive to bring those moments into view (157). | 12/4/21 |
2 - Mollow v8Tournament: Lexington | Round: Octas | Opponent: Oxford VM | Judge: Grant Brown, Muhammad Khattak, Lauren McBlain | 1/28/22 |
2 - Presumption K - TW Mentions Sexual AssaultTournament: Lexington | Round: 1 | Opponent: Scarsdale DH | Judge: Evan Li The AFF insists you presume their side in instances of uncertainty, this is the very foundation of rape culture and perpetuates the passive voice of the survivors of sexual violence and reinforces the notion that this violence is acceptable.Fraser ’15 – Brackets for clarity Fraser, Courtney. From "Ladies First" to "Asking for It": Benevolent Sexism in the Maintenance of Rape Culture (n.d.): n. pag. Jan. 2015. Web. AND to prove an absence of consent as men are taught to assume its presence This presumption is the cause of repeated sexual violence and the dominant ideology that justifies sexism and exploitation.Krohn ’14 – Brackets for clarity Jesse Krohn, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault, and Students with Special Needs: Crafting an Effective Response for Schools, 17 U. Pa. J.L. and Soc. Change 29 (2014). AND with an overall attitude towards sexuality that is grim and obsessed with exploitation. | 1/15/22 |
2 - PsychoanalysisTournament: Bluekey | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: James Stuckert The subject is alienated when it articulates its desires – incomplete signifiers structure the emergence of subjectivity and produce repetitive drives to fill the lack that justify coercive violence. Thus, the ROB is to traverse the fantasy – that means exposing drives.Matheson 15 Calum Matheson, PhD, 2015, "Desired Ground Zeroes: Nuclear Imagination and the Death Drive," University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, ~Calum Matheson is author of Desiring the Bomb: Communication, Psychoanalysis, and the Atomic Age (University of Alabama). He is a former high school debater. His research focuses on intersections of rhetoric, media, and theories of psychoanalysis and deconstruction. His current work focuses on right-wing political extremism, conspiracy thinking, and Lacanian concepts of anxiety and psychosis. He has also published work on argument, history of rhetoric, and games. Dr. Matheson is a former debate coach at Harvard University and a current candidate at the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.~, https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/6682x4537, SJBE AND fellow on the back, all laughing like happy children. (12) The 1AC is an ideological fantasy constructed by relentless planning at the expense of scapegoated identities, all for recognition from the Other in an attempt to fill the lack.Gunder 05 Michael Gunder, 2005, "The Production of Desirous Space: Mere Fantasies of the Utopian City?" Planning Theory 2005 4: 173, DOI: 10.1177/1473095205054604, all brackets were in the original text, SJBE AND and ourselves, that constitutes the social reality that is our lived space. The repetition of drives makes life the enemy and causes extinctionThemi 08 (Tim, Prof @ Deakin U, "How Lacan’s Ethics Might Improve Our Understanding of Nietzsche’s Critique of Platonism: The Neurosis and Nihilism of a ‘Life’ Against Life," Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 4.1-2, 2008) SJBE, recut from Harvard BoSu AND understood drive resurge of its own volition until it accidentally finishes us! Vote negative to embrace the lack – this requires being open to the anxiety that occurs from an encounter with the other and breaks down fantasy and drives.McGowan 13 Todd McGowan, 2013, "Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis," University of Nebraska Press/Lincoln and London, SJBE AND the liberal’s toler- ance within the conservative’s encounter with the real other. Best brain studies verify psychoanalysis!Guterl 2 ~Fred; "What Freud Got Right," Newsweek; 11/10/02; https://www.newsweek.com/what-freud-got-right-142575~~ Justin AND matter of proving Freud wrong or right, but of finishing the job. | 10/30/21 |
2 - SetcolTournament: Bluekey | Round: 4 | Opponent: Durham RL | Judge: Kristen Arnold Settler colonialism is the permeating structure of the nation-state which requires the elimination and erasure of indigenous life and land via the occupation of settlers.Tuck and Yang 12 (Eve Tuck, Unangax, State University of New York at New Paltz K. Wayne Yang University of California, San Diego, Decolonization is not a metaphor, Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society Vol. 1, No. 1, 2012, pp. 1-40) AND p. 36). Settler colonialism and its decolonization implicates and unsettles everyone. Any progress within civil society inevitably entails settler colonialist violence as notions of futurism are inextricably tied to native erasure which proves a fundamental antagonism.Tuck and Yang 12 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, 2012, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society SJCPJG AND desire to not have to deal with this (Indian) problem anymore. Extinction is a settler narrative that obscures the foundations of settler violence, justifies further violence, normalizes whiteness as normative, and precludes politics of decolonizationDalley 16 Hamish Dalley (2016): The deaths of settler colonialism: extinction as a metaphor of decolonization in contemporary settler literature, Settler Colonial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2016.1238160 SJBE AND and reify masculine and feminine roles in the putative de-colonial future. The alternative is one of decolonization – settlers need to enact an ethic of incommensurability to relinquish settler futurity.Tuck and Yang 12 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, 2012, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, SJ DL AND - these are the unwritten possibilities made possible by an ethic of incommensurability. The role of the ballot is to vote for who best centers indigenous scholarship and resistance— Any ethical commitment requires that the aff place themselves in the center of Native scholarship and demands.Carlson 16 (Elizabeth Carlson, PhD, is an Aamitigoozhi, Wemistigosi, and Wasicu (settler Canadian and American), whose Swedish, Saami, German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestors have settled on lands of the Anishinaabe and Omaha Nations which were unethically obtained by the US government. Elizabeth lives on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Nehiyawak, Dakota, Nakota, and Red River Metis peoples currently occupied by the city of Winnipeg, the province of Manitoba, (2016): Anti-colonial methodologies and practices for settler colonial studies, Settler Colonial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2016.1241213) recut SJ DL AND I believe our contributions to settler colonial studies are even more deeply problematic. | 10/30/21 |
2 - Utilitarianism KTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Tays KM | Judge: Abhinav Sinha The safety of the space is prima facie – we don’t know who’s winning if people can’t engage. Anything that doesn’t immediately denounce atrocities excludes people who have and can experience them.Teehan Ryan Teehan ~NSD staffer and competitor from the Delbarton School~ – NSD Update comment on the student protests at the TOC in 2014. Massa AND to ask yourselves whether you can justify making debate unsafe for certain people. Utilitarian calculus fails to account for moral atrocities.Jeffrey Gold, Utilitarian and Deontological Approaches to Criminal Justice Ethics Massa AND we are always treating the victim as a means to our own ends. Util justifies horrific conclusions, since no state of affairs could be intrinsically bad from its standpoint – it also literally doesn’t believe in rights.Vallentyne, Peter. Against Maximizing Act-Consequentialism. 2006, mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/10174/AgainstMaximizingActConsequentialism.pdf?sequence=1. Massa AND slightly happier. This would be sacrificing her for the benefit of others. The alt is to vote neg – it’s as simple as not to vibe with oppression – as an educator it’s your job to dismiss racist, sexist, homophobic, and ableist discourse that kills the spirit of marginalized debaters. | 9/4/21 |
2 - Utopian Method DA vs DisabilityTournament: Harvard | Round: 7 | Opponent: Princeton JG | Judge: Fabrice Etienne | 2/20/22 |
JF - Innovation DATournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough ALi | Judge: Nam Nguyen | 2/19/22 |
JF - Kant NCTournament: Lexington | Round: 1 | Opponent: Scarsdale DH | Judge: Evan Li The meta-ethic is procedural moral realism –~1~ Uncertainty –~2~ Naturalistic fallacy –Practical Reason is that procedure –Moral law must be universal –Thus, the standard is consistency with liberty. Prefer:1~ The state is obligated to prioritize freedom.Otteson 09 ~(James R., professor of philosophy and economics at Yeshiva University) "Kantian Individualism and Political Libertarianism," The Independent Review, v. 13, n. 3, Winter, 2009~ TDI AND in the absence of invasions or threats of invasions, it is inactive. 2~ Enterprise –3~ Performativity –Contention –1~ Libertarianism mandates a market-oriented approach to space—that negatesBroker 20 ~(Tyler, work has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review, the Albany Law Review and the University of Memphis Law Review.) "Space Law Can Only Be Libertarian Minded," Above the Law, 1-14-20, https://abovethelaw.com/2020/01/space-law-can-only-be-libertarian-minded/~~ TDI AND fidelity to a set of laws made possible, in such an existence. 2~ Property rights in space can be consistent with international lawSimberg 12 ~(Rand, MSE in technical management from West Coast University, recognized as an expert in space transportation by the Office of Technology Assessment) "Homesteading the Final Frontier A Practical Proposal for Securing Property Rights in Space," Competitive Enterprise Institute, April 2012, https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Rand-Simberg-Homesteading-the-Final-Frontier.pdf~~ TDI AND provides support for the concept of individual claims off planet under Article II. 3~ Space appropriation and exploration originates from private companies such as Space X and Blue Origin. Preventing such is a restriction on the ability of companies to set and pursue their ends and these companies gain contracts with the government for projects which turns promise breaking offense. | 1/15/22 |
JF - Kant NCTournament: Harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: James Stuckert | 2/19/22 |
JF - Mining DATournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough ALi | Judge: Nam Nguyen | 2/19/22 |
JF - Space SimulacrumTournament: Emory | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Rishi Mukherjee The space race is simulacra – the 1ACs mythos of a distinction between institutional space flight and the market fuels the image-machine.Dickens and Ormrod 16 – Peter Dickens, Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, member of the Red-Green Study Group in London, James S Ormrod, Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton, 2016, "Introduction: The Production of Outer Space" in The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space, pp 5-6, footnote 4 included in curly braces AND most significant (see, for example, Baran and Sweezy, 1966). This war of images plays on the terms of simulation – the aff reinforces technological forms and refashions a new space race headed by the government.Dickens and Ormrod 16 – Peter Dickens, Senior Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cambridge, member of the Red-Green Study Group in London, James S Ormrod, Principal Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton, 2016, "Conclusion: The Future of Outer Space" in The Palgrave Handbook of Society, Culture and Outer Space, pp 446-449 AND the possibilities (and limits) of military technology’ (p. 81). We refuse to be for or against New Space. Vote negative to understand the space race as pure spectacle – anything else plays into the military industrial complex.Shapiro 14 – Alan, senior lecturer at the Offenbach Art and Design University in Germany, "Jean Baudrillard and Albert Camus on the Simulacrum of Taking a Stance on War", IJBS Volume 11, Number 2 (May 2014), Special Issue: Baudrillard and War AND committed by Gaddafi’s regime during a public trial which would never take place. | 1/29/22 |
ND - BenatarTournament: Bluekey | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: James Stuckert Extinction is good under util—there is an asymmetry of pleasure and pain. The absence of pain is good, while the absence of pleasure is not bad. Even if life is pleasurable, err neg because non-existence is always good while pleasure in life is variable.Benatar 97 (David, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Cape Town, "Why it is better never to come into existence." American Philosophical Quarterly 34.3 (1997): 345+. General OneFile.) SJCPJG AND (given that there would be nobody who would be deprived of it). Life has net-negative utility – death is key to stop future accumulation of negative value because it precludes procreation.Benatar 15 Benatar, David. "‘We Are Creatures That Should Not Exist’: The Theory of Anti-Natalism." The Critique. N.p., 15 July 2015. Web. http://www.thecritique.com/articles/we-are-creatures-that-should-not-exist-the-theory-of-anti-natalism/. Recut ACCS JM AND at least in principle, to reflect on whether they should create offspring. Death bad warrant assumes VTL which we impact turn. | 10/30/21 |
ND - Conditional NCTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Diego DA | Judge: Andrew Qin I negate: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.The resolution specifies that the right to strike must be unconditional—this means it cannot be contingent on any authority or have any exceptions.Thomas Magnell, Philosopher, The Correlativity of Rights and Duties, J Value Inquiry (2011) 45:1–12BA PB AND right conditional is a condition for acquiring the right in the first place. The right to strike is an conditional right, so viewing it as unconditional is impossible. Fiat doesn’t solve because its intrinsic to the nature of the principle and the aff is a binding policy, not just view X as Y.~1~ The right to strike is conditional on the government existing and enforcing it: A~ The Sqou proves that without the state, the right doesn’t exist, which means turning the NC non-uniques the aff B~ State of nature would just mean people could take the action, not that they have a guaranteed right to do so.~2~ The right is conditional on the existence of certain social institutions: IE a workplace and employer to strike against, and a job to stop doing. This doesn’t apply to unconditional rights like freedom or life, since they are intrinsic to human nature not social constructs.~3~ Unconditional rights cannot conflict with each other, as otherwise neither would be absolute, but the right to strike conflicts with the right to life of those deprived of stuff like medicine, which is fundamental to every human action. | 11/20/21 |
ND - Just Gov TTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 3 | Opponent: Diego DA | Judge: Andrew Qin Interpretation: the affirmative must defend that only just governments ought to recognize the right to strikeJust governments respect libertiesDorn 12 James A. Dorn, Cato Journal, "The Scope of Government in a Free Society", Fall 2012, https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/12/v32n3-10.pdf AND people’s money, but to prevent injustice by protecting property and securing liberty. US HR violations don’t secure libertiesAmnesty International, 4-14-2021, "Everything you need to know about human rights in United States of America," No Publication, https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/americas/united-states-of-america/report-united-states-of-america/ AND carrying of firearms is permitted engaged protesters, causing at least four deaths. Prefer –1~ Precision –2~ Limits –3~ Phil ed –Fairness –Drop the debater –Competing interps –No RVIs –Evaluate T before 1AR theory – | 11/20/21 |
ND - Kant TTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westside SY | Judge: Holden Bukowsky FramingPresumption and permissibility negates –Use a truth testing paradigm –The starting point of morality is practical reason:1~ Regress –2~ Action theory –And, reason must be universal –Thus, counter-methodology: Vote negative to engage in a liberation strategy of universal reason. This entails a starting point where we abstract from individual perspectives to understand the universal, and use this starting point to apply it to empirical institutions and agents. No perms – its uniquely non-sensical in the context of a methods debate –Prefer on Performativity –Contention~1~ Independently, Kant is incompatible with your method – it requires unconditional respect for humanity as an end in itself.Korsgaard 83 bracketed for gendered language (Christine M., "Two Distinctions in Goodness," The Philosophical Review Vol. 92, No. 2 (Apr., 1983), pp. 169-195, JSTOR) AND -and, in general, to make the highest good our end. ~2~ Only univeralizable reason can effectively explain the perspectives of agents – that’s the best method for combatting oppression.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. ~3~ Independently not defending the topic is non-universalizable –~4~ You have a contractual requirement to work –~5~ A strike uses the employer and society as a means to an end.Fourie 17 Johan Fourie, professor of Economics and History at Stellenbosch University, "Ethicality of Labor-Strike Demonstrates by Social Workers," 30 November 2017, accessed 19 October 2021, Other Papers, https://www.otherpapers.com/essay/Ethicality-of-Labor-Strike-Demonstrates-by-Social-Workers/62694.html JG recut AND the social work training process and is enshrined in the professional ethical codes. | 11/20/21 |
ND - Lay NCTournament: Princeton | Round: 4 | Opponent: Scarsdale RM | Judge: Katherine Burke FramingThe value is Justice, defined as giving each their due, because the only reason to value anything else is because humans value it, which concedes that humans are valuable and deserving. And, justice is uniquely important in this debate, because the resolution is a question of what a JUST government ought to do.Because conflicting interests are inevitable, just actions are dictated by overall wellbeing – thus, the criterion is Maximizing Expected Wellbeing. Prefer for two reasons –~1~ Degrees of wrongness – there’s obviously a distinction between the ethicality of breaking a promise to take a friend to lunch and breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. The only distinguishing factor between both cases is the degree to which you hinder wellbeing, which means only my framework can reconcile for varying degrees of wrongness.~2~ Motivation – if an agent decides to take any action, they ipso facto determine that the action will serve for their wellbeing either immediately or in the future. The only reason why people want to take actions is because they are required for some future good, either intrinsic to themself or another person. Absent motivation, agents would have no binding reason to follow any ethical system.~3~ There is no act omission distinction – a) choosing not to act is an action in of itself since you had to make an active decision to omit. For example, walking past a drowning baby and choosing not to save it is a cognitive decision you were faced with and you actively decided to keep walking b) warranting a distinction gives agents the permissible choice of omitting from any ethical action since omissions lack culpability.Contention 1: Conditionality is PreferableFirst, strikes can be violent – that turns their framework because killing is non-universalizable.Tenzam ’20 - Mlungisi Tenzam LLB LLM LLD Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2020, The effects of violent strikes on the economy of a developing country: a case of South Africa, http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci'arttextandpid=S1682-58532020000300004 AND negative effect on the business of the employer, the economy and employment. Second, lack of truck drivers leads to societal collapse and the shut-down of hospitals and water-purification plants – the impact is mass death.Mackenzie 08 New Scientist, major journal and winner of the Royal Statistical Society, Award for Statistical Excellence in Journalism, April 5, 2008, "Will a pandemic bring down civilisation?" http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19826501.400-will-a-pandemic-bring-down-civilisation.html AND Sly. And flu is far from the only viral threat we face. | 12/4/21 |
SO - AuthenticityTournament: Yale | Round: Triples | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Dumas, Cyprian Scopa, Stephen Lee, Andrew The standard is consistency with epistemic and experiential authenticity.Experience Machine: Pleasures are intrinsically worthless without authentic experience.Nozick 74 ~Nozick, Robert. Anarchy, State and Utopia. 1974, rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil3160/Nozick1.pdf.~ Massa recut Lex VM Brackets for gendered language AND machine, others view as following one of the reasons not to surrender! Offense –Value theories must make sense of the experiences we have and give us reasons why certain experiences are better than others.Summarizing Nozick ~"Robert Nozick The Experience Machine." ND. PDF file. ~http://www.uky.edu/~~mwa229/RobertNozickTheExperienceMachine.pdf~~ Massa AND . Thus, Hedonism is incoherent with respect to our considered moral judgments. Negate – objective knowledge of the external world is epistemically nonsensical.Neta 14 ~Neta, Ram. "External World Skepticism." The Problem of The External World, 2014, philosophy.unc.edu/files/2014/06/The-Problem-of-the-External-World.pdf.~ Massa AND not such a brain, then you cannot know that you have hands. | 9/19/21 |
SO - BenatarTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Neville Tom Extinction is good under util—there is an asymmetry of pleasure and pain. The absence of pain is good, while the absence of pleasure is not bad. Even if life is pleasurable, err neg because non-existence is always good while pleasure in life is variable.Benatar 97 (David, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Cape Town, "Why it is better never to come into existence." American Philosophical Quarterly 34.3 (1997): 345+. General OneFile.) SJCPJG AND (given that there would be nobody who would be deprived of it). Life has net-negative utility – death is key to stop future accumulation of negative value because it precludes procreation.Benatar 15 Benatar, David. "‘We Are Creatures That Should Not Exist’: The Theory of Anti-Natalism." The Critique. N.p., 15 July 2015. Web. http://www.thecritique.com/articles/we-are-creatures-that-should-not-exist-the-theory-of-anti-natalism/. Recut ACCS JM AND at least in principle, to reflect on whether they should create offspring. | 9/5/21 |
SO - Cant Spec MedicinesTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Wenatchee JK | Judge: James Stuckert A. Interpretation: The aff may not defend that we ought to reduce a subset of medicines or a single medicine."States" is a generic bare plural.Nebel 19 ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO'avWCNzi14 TG AND "colleges and universities" is generic rather than existential in the resolution. It applies to "medicines" –B. Violation: They only defend synethic biology medicines.C. Standards –1. Precision –2. Limits and Ground –3. TVA – Read your aff as an advantage under a whole advantage – solves all your offense and also incentivizes more cheaty word PICs like agent and consult against plan affs since they lose access to DAs.D. Voters:Fairness is a voter –Drop the debater –Competing interps –No RVIs – | 9/5/21 |
SO - Innovation DATournament: JW Patterson | Round: 4 | Opponent: James Bowie NW | Judge: Amanda Nobra Innovation DAClimate Patents and Innovation high now and solving Warming but patent waivers set a dangerous precedent for appropriations – the mere threat is sufficient is enough to kill investment.Brand 5-26, Melissa. "Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors." IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/. sid AND is unlikely they will continue to invest at the current and required levels. Climate change destroys the world.Specktor 19 ~Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years~ 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html Justin AND and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it." Turns the aff – the delta Variant proves current vaccines aren’t enough – we need new innovations.Guarino 8-18 Ben Guarino 8-18-2021 "Vaccines show declining effectiveness against infection overall but strong protection against hospitalization amid delta variant" https://archive.is/pvuzL~~#selection-747.0-750.0 (Education: University of Pennsylvania, BSE in bioengineering; New York University, MA in journalism)Elmer AND do not have compromised immune systems, that effectiveness stood at 90 percent. | 10/9/21 |
SO - LayTournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Syosset BL | Judge: Ashish Tripathi Value was justice Criterion was consistency with universal freedom or smth like that Contention was just property is good and IP doesnt undermine ur freedom | 9/18/21 |
SO - SkepticismTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Tays KM | Judge: Abhinav Sinha Every reason is equally as violent in its creation.Derrida, Jacques Derrida, "Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority" Massa External world skep is true.Neta 14, Ram. "External World Skepticism." The Problem of The External World, 2014, philosophy.unc.edu/files/2014/06/The-Problem-of-the-External-World.pdf. Massa AND not such a brain, then you cannot know that you have hands. Even if it was possible to form sufficient reasons, those reasons are epistemically bankrupt in terms of their truth value because of the Gettier problem.Chapman 18, Andrew. "The Gettier Problem." 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology, 25 July 2018, 1000wordphilosophy.com/2014/04/10/the-gettier-problem Massa | 9/4/21 |
SO - WTO BadTournament: JW Patterson | Round: 4 | Opponent: James Bowie NW | Judge: Amanda Nobra WTO DAAs my opponent has argued themselves, the aff results in the collapse of the world trade organization via loss of credibility. That’s key for food security – the WTO destroys small farms – that hurts food security.Keyman 14 Ariana Keyman 7-17-2014 "Drawing links between food security and land rights in an era of globalization" www.e-ir.info/2014/07/17/drawing-links-between-food-security-and-land-rights-in-an-era-of-globalization/ Elmer AND 2011, was perhaps the first major initiative indicative of this growing concern. Food insecurity goes NuclearFDI 12 (Future Directions International, a Research institute providing strategic analysis of Australia’s global interests; citing Lindsay Falvery, PhD in Agricultural Science and former Professor at the University of Melbourne’s Institute of Land and Environment, "Food and Water Insecurity: International Conflict Triggers and Potential Conflict Points," http://www.futuredirections.org.au/workshop-papers/537-international-conflict-triggers-and-potential-conflict-points-resulting-from-food-and-water-insecurity.html)//Elmer AND identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war. | 10/9/21 |
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