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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Lake Highland Prep AV | Arun Mehra |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | East Chapel Hill NC | Matthew Berhe |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Monta Vista RD | Breigh Plat |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Octas | Lexington AT | Sreyaash Das - David Herrera - Amadea Datel |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | James Logan RS | Mark Kivimaki |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | BASIS Peoria PY | Joseph Georges |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Ardrey Kell SG | Grant Brown |
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| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 7 | Harrison EM | Derek Ying |
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| Mid America Cup | 6 | Harker MZ | Sam Larson |
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| Mid America Cup | Doubles | Carnegie Vanguard SR | Tajaih Robinson - Rohit Lakshman - Chris Castillo |
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| Mid America Cup | 3 | Scarsdale OL | Ian Matsuzeski |
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| Mid America Cup | 1 | Los Altos BF | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | 3 | Lexington AS | Chris Castillo - Carlos Carrasco |
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| Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | 5 | Iowa City West ST | Wyatt Hatfield - TJ Maher |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 1 | Montville SH | Saianurag Karavadi |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Summit JC | Wyatt Hatfield |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Doubles | West Des Moines Valley AM | Ben Cortez - Jeffrey Swift - Joey Tarnowski |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 6 | Brookfield East DJ | Jalyn Wu |
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| The Longhorn Classic | 2 | St Marys Hall JM | Javier Navarrete |
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| The Longhorn Classic | 4 | Trinity Prep MZ | Sarah Zheng |
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| The Longhorn Classic | 5 | Westwood BJ | Breigh Plat |
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| The Longhorn Classic | 5 | Westwood BJ | Breigh Plat |
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| Waifu Invitational | 1 | Mai-San Senpai | jorjorsan uchiha |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Walt Whitman EY | Luke Gastelu |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 6 | Syosset ML | Mark Kivimaki |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 3 | Holy Ghost Prep MM | Favian Sun |
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| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AV | Judge: Arun Mehra 1ac- util |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: East Chapel Hill NC | Judge: Matthew Berhe 1ac- stock |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Breigh Plat 1ac- agriculture workers |
| Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Octas | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: Sreyaash Das - David Herrera - Amadea Datel 1ac- uk |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 1 | Opponent: James Logan RS | Judge: Mark Kivimaki 1ac- palestine |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Joseph Georges 1ac- antiblackness |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Ardrey Kell SG | Judge: Grant Brown 1ac- prison and warming strikes |
| Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | 7 | Opponent: Harrison EM | Judge: Derek Ying 1ac- prisons |
| Mid America Cup | 6 | Opponent: Harker MZ | Judge: Sam Larson 1ac- whistleblowing |
| Mid America Cup | Doubles | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Tajaih Robinson - Rohit Lakshman - Chris Castillo 1ac- evergreening - afc - must disclose ac before flip - cant read set col |
| Mid America Cup | 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Ian Matsuzeski 1ac- deleuze |
| Mid America Cup | 1 | Opponent: Los Altos BF | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1ac- cap |
| Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | 3 | Opponent: Lexington AS | Judge: Chris Castillo - Carlos Carrasco 1ac- Covid |
| Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | 5 | Opponent: Iowa City West ST | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield - TJ Maher 1ac- rawls with tricks |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Montville SH | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi 1ac- trips waiver - afc |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Summit JC | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield 1ac- evergreening |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Doubles | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Ben Cortez - Jeffrey Swift - Joey Tarnowski 1ac- biopiracy idk |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 6 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Jalyn Wu 1ac- korsgaard |
| The Longhorn Classic | 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall JM | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1ac- structural violence |
| The Longhorn Classic | 4 | Opponent: Trinity Prep MZ | Judge: Sarah Zheng 1ac- structural violence |
| The Longhorn Classic | 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat 1ac- egypt |
| The Longhorn Classic | 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat 1ac- egypt |
| Waifu Invitational | 1 | Opponent: Mai-San Senpai | Judge: jorjorsan uchiha contact info |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Luke Gastelu 1ac- kant |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 6 | Opponent: Syosset ML | Judge: Mark Kivimaki 1ac- cap |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 3 | Opponent: Holy Ghost Prep MM | Judge: Favian Sun 1ac- stock |
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0--contact infoTournament: Waifu Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mai-San Senpai | Judge: jorjorsan uchiha Phone: 786-580-2431 | 10/17/21 |
1--cp--radical lossTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Joseph Georges CP Text: Vote negative to inject the affirmative advocacy with a radical loss.Genosko 16 - Gary Genosko, University of Ontario, Lo Sguardo, 8/29/16 “How to Lose to a Chess Playing Computer According to Jean Baudrillard” http://www.losguardo.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-23-Genosko.pdf Accessed 9/14/20 SAO The Affirmative critique is assimilated to justify the moral superstructure they criticize. It’s try or die for the CP under their role of the ballot.Robinson 12 - Andrew Robinson, Ceasefire, August 24th, 2012 “An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: From Revolution to Implosion” https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-10/ Accessed 3/9/20 SAO | 11/20/21 |
1--fwk--utilTournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall JM | Judge: Javier Navarrete The standard is Utilitarianism. Prefer:1 Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework: Threats to bodily security and life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibit the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose – so, util comes first and my offense outweighs theirs under their own framework.2 Only natural observable moral facts exist:Papineau 07, David Papineau, “Naturalism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007SS Two implications: A) Substantively affirms since we need the natural world to derive moral facts from it, so environmental destruction eliminates our ability to perceive and interact with those facts to create morality. B) Proves Util since we physically know the pleasure is good and pain is bad.3 Actor-specificity: side constraints freeze action b/c government policies always require trade-offs—the only justifiable way to resolve those conflicts is by benefiting everyone.4 THEORY: ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. Any standard is an interpretation of the word ought-thus framework is functionally a topicality argument about how to define the terms of the resolution. Prefer my interpretation:A Ground: Both debaters are guaranteed access to ground to engage under util – ie Aff gets plans and advantages, while Neg gets disads and counterplans. Additionally, anything can function as a util impact as long as an external benefit is articulated, so all your offense applies. Other frameworks deny 1 side the ability to engage the other on both the impact level and the link level.B Predictability: Debaters are most prepared to engage in a util debate since it is the most common framework read on the entirety of the west coast. Hyper-specific theories will always mean people have little to no prep on the issue.Extinction first –1 – Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible2 – Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessities3 – Moral obligation – allowing people to die is unethical and should be prevented because it creates ethics towards other people4 – Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical5 – Moral uncertainty – if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true – we ought to preserve the world to keep debating about it | 12/4/21 |
1--hijack--determinsmTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Ian Matsuzeski Deleuze triggers determinism. If I win this it proves the subject has no capcity for fluidity, and even if they do, it is a form of static fluidity that prevents true becoming, which denies their framework.1. If the subject is PURELY affect then the subject has no control over their reactions or actions since the way they relate to the world is entirely influenced by the physical substance of affect that makes up the world which means they have no capacity to be fluid.2. The best neuroscientific, psychological, and medical evidence evidence free will doesn’t exist. This article is a giant literature review of different fields.Andrea Lavazza, Neuroethics, Centro Universitario Internazionale, Arezzo, Italy, Free Will and Neuroscience: From Explaining Freedom Away to New Ways of Operationalizing and Measuring It, 2016, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4887467/ /AHS PB BRACKETED FOR CLARITY That Negates – Determinism denies the moral value of prohibitions and obligations, if all actions are already locked in then trying to make subjects morally culpable for them is meaningless as it is already predetermined the subject would do that. This negates the prescriptive value of ought statements making the aff incoherent. | 9/27/21 |
1--hijack--monismTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Ian Matsuzeski The aff collapses to monism – affect theory is just substance monism, that the world and every instance of it are just different folds of affect – deleuze is just straight up a monist.That negates – a) ought statements require conduct between agents – even if one has a duty for them self, it assumes a difference between the self and the mind; otherwise it’s not a duty since its just self-imposed and b) plurality impossible means change is impossible as it goes from one state from existing to not existing, but monism proves that one thing exists which can’t not exist since it’s everything so elimination is impossible. | 9/27/21 |
1--hijack--pansychismTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Ian Matsuzeski Deleuze triggers panpsychism – If everything in the world is made of affect, and affect is what generates ethical obligations to allow for fluidity, then we have obligations to allow every instance of the world to be fluid, since there is nothing that makes a chair distinct from a human insofar as they are made of the same substantive affect that generates their relationality. If the is false, so is your framework since the world isn’t made of affect and there are stable properties to every instance of the world.That negates –1. If everything is affect, we must treat everything as equally fluid since that is the basis of what constitutes obligations – therefor exchanging/eliminating a good is a violation of the good’s fluidity.2. Panpsychism creates a paradox of obligations – we either accept every obligation that exists to every object and therefor never take an action since we would inevitably violate a fluid property which turns the ac or we reject every obligation premised on the concept of a affect which means we reject the obligation of the 1ac. | 9/27/21 |
1--hijack--skepTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Ian Matsuzeski 2 universal obligations fail—Deleuze would say that any attempt to impose an obligation unto another person, even if it is an obligation to become, would be an obstacle to their becoming.3 Deleuze is not normative—engaging in becoming is a method of self-care, not a way that one ought to treat other people. The arguments in the framework are reasons why staying in a state of being prevents happiness or doesn’t allow us to relate to the world, but that’s just a reason why people should engage in becoming if they want to be happy. For example, brushing my teeth would be a good thing to do but I don’t have a moral obligation to do it, so Deleuze can’t generate normative obligations.4 Deleuze says that socially constructed schemes like language are bad because they say there is just one fixed meaning or way to interpret words, which imposes a particular way that agents have to be affected. That means that nothing can be interpreted. | 9/27/21 |
1--k--abolitionTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Harrison EM | Judge: Derek Ying | 11/22/21 |
1--k--academyTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 1 | Opponent: Los Altos BF | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Link 1: The Affirmative critique is assimilated to justify the moral superstructure they criticize.Robinson 12 - Andrew Robinson, Ceasefire, August 24th, 2012 “An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: From Revolution to Implosion” https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-10/ Accessed 3/9/20 SAO Link 2: Images of suffering fuel violence Alternative: Vote negative to inject the affirmative advocacy with a radical loss. It’s try or die for the K under their role of the ballot.Genosko 16 - Gary Genosko, University of Ontario, Lo Sguardo, 8/29/16 “How to Lose to a Chess Playing Computer According to Jean Baudrillard” http://www.losguardo.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-23-Genosko.pdf Accessed 9/14/20 SAO | 10/17/21 |
1--k--colonialismTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker MZ | Judge: Sam Larson Link 1: The 1ACs use of extinction rhetoric as a justification for combating diseases legitimizes repression and genocide.Savage 7 - Rowan Savage, Journal of Historical Sociology, September 25th 2007 ““Disease Incarnate”: Biopolitical Discourse and Genocidal Dehumanisation in the Age of Modernity” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2007.00315.x Accessed 9/14/21 SAO Link 2: Using extinction as a motivation for action obfuscates colonialism and papers over structural violence (All Countries)Mitchell 17 - Audra Mitchell, Worldly, September 27, 2017“Decolonizing against extinction part II: Extinction is not a metaphor – it is literally genocide” https://worldlyir.wordpress.com/category/colonisation-and-settler-colonialism/ Accessed 10/19/18 SAO Refuse the Aff - Frameworks of refusal expose the complicity of debate in colonial knowledge production.Tuck and Yang 13 – Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang, Dec 19, 2013 “R-WORDS: REFUSING RESEARCH” http://townsendgroups.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/tuckandyangrwords_refusingresearch.pdf Accessed 10/19/18 SAO | 9/26/21 |
1--k--deleuzeTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Ian Matsuzeski Their scholarship is hateful and a reason to lose the round—their author endorsed pedophilia and actively advocated against the age of consent law.Doezema 18, Marie Doezema (Parisian Journalist). “France, Where Age of Consent Is Up for Debate.” The Atlantic, 10 March 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/frances-existential-crisis-over-sexual-harassment-laws/550700/ WWDH Drop the debater—academic spaces have way too many sympathizers who ignore violence against children, and every act must be challenged in the most unflinching terms because anything else reinforces the epistemic bias in favor of rationalizing disgusting behavior.Grant 18, Alec Grant (Independent Scholar, retired from the Uiversity of Brighton where he was a Reader in Narrative Mental Health). “Sanitizing Academics and Damaged Lives” Mad In The UK, 12 April 2018. https://www.madintheuk.com/2018/12/sanitizing-academics-and-damaged-lives/ WWDH | 9/27/21 |
1--k--kant homophobicTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Luke Gastelu Kant is Homophobic: This isn’t an ad hominem but the logical conclusion of his philosophy. Being gay is a contradiction in conception, since if everyone had homosexual intercourse, their would be no reproduction. Kant believes this is sex without function, requires sacrificing rational agency for the subordinate end of pleasure.Alan Soble, American philosopher and author of several books on the philosophy of sex. He taught at the University of New Orleans from 1986 to 2006. He is currently Adjunct Professor of philosophy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Kant and Sexual Perversion, The Monist 86:1 (Jan. 2003), pp. 55-89, https://philpapers.org/archive/SOBKAS /AHS PB And Kant’s conclusion is not just that homosexual intercourse is bad, but also that queer people literally are not human and can be killed with impunity.Soble 2 | 9/18/21 |
1--k--pain narrativesTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Ben Cortez - Jeffrey Swift - Joey Tarnowski Pain narratives in the academy only ever serve colonial ends. Form over content, they have the most real world impact.Tuck and Yang 13 – Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang, Dec 19, 2013 "R-WORDS: REFUSING RESEARCH"~http://townsendgroups.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/tuckandyangrwords_refusingresearch.pdf~~ Accessed 10/19/18 SAO Representations must come first in scholarship production in the Global North.Curbishley 15 - Liddy Scarlet Curbishley student Masters of Humanities in Gender Studies August 2015 "Destabilizing the Colonization of Indigenous Knowledge In the Case of Biopiracy" ~https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/319612/Liddy20Thesis.pdf~~ Accessed 8/13/21 SAO | 10/17/21 |
1--k--scandalsTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harker MZ | Judge: Sam Larson Link 1: Whistleblowing serves a regulatory function by drawing lines of appropriate conduct that end up strengthening the institutions we blow whistles against. Turns the whole case.Johnson 17 - Jamie M. Johnson University of Sheffield, European Journal of International Relations 2017 “Beyond a politics of recrimination: Scandal, ethics and the rehabilitation of violence” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732620/pdf/10.1177_1354066116669569.pdf Accessed 8/10/18 SAO Link 2: Scandals and leaks are used by power holders to cover up larger atrocitiesHearns 11 - Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman, The University of Leeds Institute of Communications Studies, August 2011 “The Fourth Estate in the USA and UK” http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2283/1/J_O_Hearns-Branaman_-_The_Fourth_Estate_in_the_USA_and_UK_-_.pdf Accessed 8/15/18 SAO Link 3: Images of suffering fuel violenceAlford 20 - Aaron J. Alford, Medium, January 13th, 2020 “Disaster Pornography and the American Media” https://medium.com/@aaronjalford1/disaster-pornography-and-the-american-media-f01ee1cb4512 Accessed 1/30/20 SAO The alternative is to become the catalyst for symbolic disaster. Let companies hide everything from people and collapse the European Union. Voting for the worst idea creates a pure, non-referential connection.Hoofd 17 - Ingrid Hoofd, Utrecht University, 2017 “Higher Education and Technological Acceleration” https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/978-1-137-51409-7 Accessed 8/24/19 SAO The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater with the best strategy to stop oppression. No Perms or Skep Triggers, my alternative breaks free from the trap of leftist cynicism while avoiding the socio-political cooption intrinsic to any permutation. Prefer my ROB because they could have read one in the 1AC but chose not to.Johnson 2 - Jamie M. Johnson University of Sheffield, European Journal of International Relations 2017 “Beyond a politics of recrimination: Scandal, ethics and the rehabilitation of violence” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5732620/pdf/10.1177_1354066116669569.pdf Accessed 8/10/18 SAO Prefer1 Revolutionary Skills: The debate should be evaluated through the flow but every argument must reject the fiction that debate should be a site for continuously bolstering the reserve labor force of corporate society by enforcing a presumption of neutrality and academic militarismHoofd 07 - Ingrid M. Hoofd, National University of Singapore, December 2007 “The Neoliberal Consolidation of Play and Speed: Ethical Issues in Serious Gaming” in “CRITICAL LITERACY: Theories and Practices Volume 1: 2, ,” p. 6-14, 2007- http://www.criticalliteracyjournal.org/cljournalissue2volume1.pdf KZaidi recut ahs emi 2 Liberation – Political reversal is a successful strategy for emancipationHolliday-Karre 11 - Erin Amann Holliday-Karre, Dissertation to receive a PhD in Philosophy from Loyola University Chicago, 2011“The Seduction of Feminist Theory” https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/168/ Accessed 1/29/20 SAO | 9/26/21 |
1--k--utilTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Tajaih Robinson - Rohit Lakshman - Chris Castillo Utilitarianism is morally repugnant:1 Util creates a moral obligation to oppress people, when their suffering would cause a greater amount of happiness for the majority.Jeffrey Gold, Utilitarian and Deontological Approaches to Criminal Justice Ethics 2 Because only consequences determine if specific actions are good or bad, utilitarianism justifies horrific conclusions since no state of affairs could ever be intrinsically bad in and of itself.Vallentyne, Peter. Against Maximizing Act-Consequentialism. 2006, mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/10174/AgainstMaximizingActConsequentialism.pdf?sequence=1. This puts the affirmative in a double bind: Either A) we intuitively know killing people is wrong in which case you reject util out of principle or B) they condone death as good in which case their advantage would flow neg.2 They read morally repugnant arguments. Thus the alternative is to drop the debater, to ensure that debate remains a space safe for all – the judge has a proximal obligation to ensure inaccessible practices don’t proliferate. Accessibility is a voting issue since all aff arguments presuppose that people feel safe in this space to respond to them. | 9/27/21 |
1--nc--skepticTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Jalyn Wu The standard is consistency with the standpoint of the skeptic.Prefer –1 Holding ourselves to a standard of absolute truth is necessary:A) Culpability –B) Outcomes –The skeptic would argue –Morality is impossible1 Human moral evaluations are contaminated by personal affective states, making them arbitrary and unfair.Scott Jenkins, Professor of Philosophy at University of Kansas, Nietzsche's Transformation of the Problem of Pessimism in Human, All Too Human, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, Autumn 2019, pp. 272-291 (Article), /AHS PB 2 There is no moral truth for everyone.J.L Mackie, Australian Philosopher, The subjectivity of values, 1977, /AHS PB Thus I contend the skeptic would negate the resolution.
1. The skeptical conclusion being true triggers permissibility: It denies that moral obligations exist. That negates – A) Semantics – Ought is defined as expressing obligation which means absent a proactive obligation you vote neg since there’s a trichotomy between prohibition, obligation, and permissibility and proving one disproves the other two. Semantics o/w – 1) it’s key to predictability since we prep based on the wording of the res and 2) it’s constitutive to the rules of debate since the judge is obligated to vote on the resolutional text B) Safety – It’s ethically safer to presume the squo since we know what the squo is but we can’t know whether the aff will be good or not if ethics are incoherent2. Skep linguistically negates because sentences derive meaning from their linguistic properties corresponding to facts about reality. For example, a claim like “my dog has four legs” requires you to have a dog and for that dog to actually have four legs. If ought means morality and that doesn’t exist, the statement is false. | 10/17/21 |
1--nc--skeptic v2Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: East Chapel Hill NC | Judge: Matthew Berhe The standard is consistency with the standpoint of the skeptic.Prefer –1. Performativity –2. Holding ourselves to a standard of absolute truth is necessary:A) Culpability –B) Outcomes –C) Resolvability –Morality is impossible1 Human moral evaluations are contaminated by personal affective states, making them arbitrary and unfair.Scott Jenkins, Professor of Philosophy at University of Kansas, Nietzsche's Transformation of the Problem of Pessimism in Human, All Too Human, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, Autumn 2019, pp. 272-291 (Article), /AHS PB 2 There is no moral truth for everyone.J.L Mackie, Australian Philosopher, The subjectivity of values, 1977, /AHS PB 3 a just government is impossible.Derrida, Jacques Derrida, “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority” Thus I contend the skeptic would negate the resolution.1. The skeptical conclusion being true triggers permissibility: It denies that moral obligations exist. That negates – A) Semantics – Ought is defined as expressing obligation which means absent a proactive obligation you vote neg since there’s a trichotomy between prohibition, obligation, and permissibility and proving one disproves the other two. Semantics o/w – 1) it’s key to predictability since we prep based on the wording of the res and 2) it’s constitutive to the rules of debate since the judge is obligated to vote on the resolutional text B) Safety – It’s ethically safer to presume the squo since we know what the squo is but we can’t know whether the aff will be good or not if ethics are incoherent2. Skep linguistically negates because sentences derive meaning from their linguistic properties corresponding to facts about reality. For example, a claim like “my dog has four legs” requires you to have a dog and for that dog to actually have four legs. If ought means morality and that doesn’t exist, the statement is false. | 10/30/21 |
1--nc--skeptic v3Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Breigh Plat The standard is consistency with the standpoint of the skeptic.Prefer –1. Performativity –2. Holding ourselves to a standard of absolute truth is necessary:A) Culpability –B) Outcomes –C) Resolvability –Morality is impossible1 Human moral evaluations are contaminated by personal affective states, making them arbitrary and unfair.Scott Jenkins, Professor of Philosophy at University of Kansas, Nietzsche's Transformation of the Problem of Pessimism in Human, All Too Human, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Volume 50, Issue 2, Autumn 2019, pp. 272-291 (Article), /AHS PB 2 There is no moral truth for everyone.J.L Mackie, Australian Philosopher, The subjectivity of values, 1977, /AHS PB 3 a just government is impossible.Derrida, Jacques Derrida, “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundation of Authority” 4 Util triggers skepa Pleasure and pain aren’t additive or aggregatable just like two headaches don’t equal a migraine.b Self Defeating: Always trying to maximize as much X as possible prevents us from actually using X, which means we never experience pleasures goodness.c Masochism Objection: There are different standards for what a good sensation is (IE some people like pain), so knowing what end state is desirable under util is impossibled Util can never deem certain actions as uniformly prohibited as the only morally relevant feature is whether an action maximizes utility in that situation.e Assigning blame is impossible as consequences always trigger more consequences, and there is no brightline for when culpability ends.f Induction is circular because it relies on the assumption that nature will hold uniform and we could only reach that conclusion through inductive reasoning based on observation of past eventsThus I contend the skeptic would negate the resolution.1. The skeptical conclusion being true triggers permissibility: It denies that moral obligations exist. That negates – A) Semantics – Ought is defined as expressing obligation which means absent a proactive obligation you vote neg since there’s a trichotomy between prohibition, obligation, and permissibility and proving one disproves the other two. Semantics o/w – 1) it’s key to predictability since we prep based on the wording of the res and 2) it’s constitutive to the rules of debate since the judge is obligated to vote on the resolutional text B) Safety – It’s ethically safer to presume the squo since we know what the squo is but we can’t know whether the aff will be good or not if ethics are incoherent C Logic – Propositions require positive justification before being accepted, otherwise one would be forced to accept the validity of logically contradictory propositions regarding subjects one knows nothing about, i.e if one knew nothing about P one would have to presume that both the “P” and “P” are true. D Shiftiness – Permissibility ground encourages the aff to load up with triggers and the 1ar controls the direction of the round which means they can moot all my offense, I need permissibility in the 2n to compensate.2. Skep linguistically negates because sentences derive meaning from their linguistic properties corresponding to facts about reality. For example, a claim like “my dog has four legs” requires you to have a dog and for that dog to actually have four legs. If ought means morality and that doesn’t exist, the statement is false. | 10/30/21 |
1--nc--skeptic v4Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
1--nc--skeptic v4Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
1--pic--climate changeTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: Sreyaash Das - David Herrera - Amadea Datel CP Text: Do the affirmative but use the words “global warming emergency” instead of “Climate Change”JOFH 19 - Job One for Humanity, a Climate NGO, First published online June 3rd, 2019 “Pledge to Stop Saying "Climate Change" for very Good Reasons” https://www.joboneforhumanity.org/stop_saying_climate_change_pledge Accessed 10/22/19 SAO This is a real-world concern. The Guardian just updated their word choice company wideGuardian 10/16 - Sophie Zeldin-O'Neill, Guardian, October 16th, 2019 “‘It’s a crisis, not a change’: the six Guardian language changes on climate matters” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/16/guardian-language-changes-climate-environment Accessed 10/22/19 SAO | 10/31/21 |
1--pic--mass incarcerationTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Harrison EM | Judge: Derek Ying | 11/22/21 |
1--reject theoryTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Luke Gastelu Theory is incoherent: a The ballot is always determined off abuse and inequalities, otherwise it would be impossible to evaluate the round. b You can’t evaluate theory because it’s evaluating off the flow rather than making the decision of which is actually a better norm, so you can’t actually be consistent with the voters. c Theory doesn’t produce the best rule since it allows the better theory debater to produce rules that will benefit them. d Things get proven true in debate rounds all the time that aren’t true in the real world, so theory doesn't actually achieve its purpose because it doesn’t prove better norms. e It’s a contradiction because you say your voter is either constitutive of or beneficial for a competitive activity, but no competitive activity would establish rules in the middle of a competition. f Theory sets bad norms because we vote for interps that are marginally better than other interps, rather the best version of the interp, so it doesn’t achieve the voter. g Theory is paradoxical because it attempts to limit arguments but uses arguments to do that, which concedes the validity of arguments in the first place. h Not jurisdictional because the judge can only vote for someone proving their side of the resolution. The resolution doesn’t care about whether we can debate, it just says prove your side, so theory isn’t a voter. | 9/18/21 |
1--rob--ttTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Syosset ML | Judge: Mark Kivimaki The Role of the ballot is to the test if the resolution is true.1 Inclusion2. Constitutivism: | 9/19/21 |
1--rob--tt v2Tournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 1 | Opponent: Los Altos BF | Judge: Tajaih Robinson The Role of the ballot is to the test the truth or falsity of the resolution.1 Inclusion:2. Constitutivism:3 Isomorphism: | 10/17/21 |
1--rob--tt v3Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Breigh Plat The Role of the ballot is to the test if the resolution is true.1 Constitutivism:2 Isomorphism: | 10/30/21 |
1--th--cant read utilTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Summit JC | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield A: Interp – Debaters must only read a framework that is not maximizing expected well-being.B: Violation – You read utilC: Standards –1. Inclusion – .2. Resolvability –E) Consequences empirically impossible to predict. Menand 05, | 10/16/21 |
1--th--cant say all neg aprioris affirm and indexicals and tt highest layerTournament: Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | Round: 5 | Opponent: Iowa City West ST | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield - TJ Maher Interp – The affirmative debater must allow the negative a path to winning the debate.Violation – You say all neg aprioris affirm and then say that proving that the aff is sufficient under one index is sufficient to affirm and u say tt is the highest layer, which affirms.The standard is infinite abuse –Impacts –A) Destroys clashB) Prevents norm creation –C) Constitutivism – | 9/24/21 |
1--th--colt peacemakerTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Syosset ML | Judge: Mark Kivimaki . Interpretation: The aff 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.B. Violation:Multiple ways the AC violates:C. Standards:1. Engagement –2. Strategy Skew – | 9/19/21 |
1--th--colt peacemaker v2Tournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 1 | Opponent: Los Altos BF | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Interpretation: The aff 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. To clarify, the aff must:B. Violation:Multiple ways the AC violates:C. Standards:Strategy Skew – | 10/17/21 |
1--th--disclosureTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: East Chapel Hill NC | Judge: Matthew Berhe A. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all previously read positions before the debate on their NDCA LD 21-22 wiki page under their own name.B. Violation: You don’t have a wiki
C. Standards:1. Evidence Quality – Disclosure generates an information database that encourages debaters to find the best evidence on the topic. Key to education since we have better debates with better arguments.Nails 13 (Jacob, NDT Policy Debater at Georgia State University), “A Defense of Disclosure (Including Third Party Disclosure)”,NSDUpdate,10/10/2013EM 2. Quality engagement ---3. Academic Ethics ---Framing: You can’t coopt any of the reasons why procedurals are bad in the context of the affirmative since I don’t constrain your ability to read it– the contention is that this aff should’ve been read, just disclosed. Also, your prep outs argument is nonsense a) prep outs are a 2 way street b) they’re good as per the shell c) being a good debater solves back. | 10/30/21 |
1--th--disclosure v2Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Joseph Georges A. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all previously read positions on their LD NDCA wiki page under their own name with full citations, tags, and first three/last three words at least 30 minutes before the round.B. Violation:C. Standards:
1. Small Schools – non-disclosure helps big schools—-they have more coaches, debaters, and larger networks to scout and generate prep—disclosure checks back so everyone’s on the same playing field, and lets smaller schools get access to more prep—that’s an independent voter since it’s a structural inequality in debate that precedes our ability to even argue on a similar playing field within the round.2. Quality engagement – a) disclosure allows in-depth preparation before the round which checks back against unpredictable positions and allows debaters to effectively write case negs and blocks, b) it allows for reciprocal engagement where each side has an equal opportunity to prepare as opposed to scouting capacity to determine success, and incentivizes in-depth debates which is key to clash and good topic education, and c) disclosure incentivizes specific, in-depth research. Nails ’13,(Jacob, “A Defense of Disclosure (Including Third-Party Disclosure)”, 10/10/2013) Reject case cross apps and impact turns – 1. Language isn’t violent – it’s a question of models of debate that are best for the activity, not an enforcement of a norm 2. Form over content – your impact turns stem from a content level argument that you claim to be true but if the form in which you present them is wrong because you aren’t topical the judge shouldn’t evaluate them 3. Lack of engagement means all your arguments are presumptively false since we didn’t get a fair opportunity to test themDebate is good – 1. The nature of the activity is one that questions governmental structures and modes of thought since we are allowed to read whatever arguments we desire without imposition by some higher authority 2. Denying debate is good is a double turn since A) It is the activity through which you learned your position B) It is where you attempt to spread your message C) You are at a debate tournament which proves that you found some inherent value in the activity 3. Inesecapability – When we participate in certain institutions we bind ourselves to our rules. Even if the police are bad, a cop is still A) instrumentally bound by their rules and B) defined by adhering to those rules. Thus it’s a contradictory for you as a debater to argue such. | 11/20/21 |
1--th--misdisclosureTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Breigh Plat Interp- debaters may not misdisclose.Violation- you disclose a compulsory voting aff but say its an agriculture workers aff in ur round report. Standards1. Academic honesty –2. Pre-round prep – | 10/30/21 |
1--th--must defend oughtTournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
1--th--must defend oughtTournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
1--th--new affs badTournament: Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AS | Judge: Chris Castillo - Carlos Carrasco Interpretation – the aff must disclose the advocacy text and framework text 30 minutes before the round.Violation in the doc
First is prep and clash—Second is academic integrity –And you put “If I don't meet your disclosure practices, let me know so I can adjust.” On ur wiki. this means u reject any counter standard since u know disclosing is good yet u still didnt it, | 9/24/21 |
1--th--performativity badTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Jalyn Wu Interpretation – Debaters must only read framework warrants that prove the truth of their framework outside the context of debate.Violation – You read a performativity standard which appeals to the truth of your framework given the nature of debate.Standards –1 Strat Skew:2 Phil Ed: | 10/17/21 |
1--th--spec universeTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Summit JC | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield Interpretation: Affirmative debaters must specify which universe the aff takes place in. The negative takes place in the milky way.There are multiple universes and the aff does not specify.Victor Tangermann, Writer for cybernetics, Futurism This Physicist Believes There Are Countless Parallel Universes, OCTOBER 25TH 2019, https://futurism.com/physicist-convinced-countless-parallel-universes /AHS PB Violation- you don'tStandards-Stable ground-Resolvability- | 10/16/21 |
1--th--spec utilTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AV | Judge: Arun Mehra A. 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.Each nuance of the ethic entails different obligations and would exclude different offense – there are 7 different versions.Mastin ~Luke Mastin, Consequentialism, The basics of philosophy http://www.philosophybasics.com/branch_consequentialism.html~~ Massa B. Violation: They don't and maximizing expected well-being doesn't cut it.Crisp, Roger, "Well-Being", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/well-being/. Massa C. Standards:1. Shiftiness – They can shift out of my turns based on whatever theory of the good they operate under due to the nature of a vague standard. Especially true because the warrants for their standard could justify different versions of consequentialism as coming first and I wouldn't know until the 1ar which gives them access to multiple contingent standards.2. Strat – I lose 6 minutes of time during the AC to generate a strategy because I don't know what turns or strategy I can go for during the 1N absent which proves CX doesn't check since it would occur after the skew.3. Resolvability – Makes the round irresolvable since we can't weigh different mechanisms for the good – Benatar would probably link harder under a hedonistic conception of util – weighing ground is key since it ensures we can compare arguments that clash to access the ballot. | 10/30/21 |
nd--da--hong kongTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Ardrey Kell SG | Judge: Grant Brown | 11/21/21 |
nd--da--industrial collapseTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AV | Judge: Arun Mehra Uniqueness: Industrial society and a growing population of humans make extinction inevitable- famine, biodiversity loss, and much more.Corey J. A Bradshaw et al (16 other people), January 13, 2021, frontiers in conservation science, "Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future", ~https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full~~ mc Link: Nuclear war would collapse civilization through nuclear famine but ensure that a number of humans survive.Shaun Tandon, December 10, 2013, PHYS ORG, "Nuclear war would 'end civilization' with famine, study says", ~https://phys.org/news/2013-12-nuclear-war-civilization-famine.html~~ mc Internal Link: Isolated island populations repopulate Earth solves nuclear winter led extinction.Turchin and Green 18 (Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1) Impact: Industrial civilization wouldn't recover.Lewis Dartnell 15. UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, working in astrobiology and the search for microbial life on Mars. His latest book is The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. 04-13-15. "Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil fuels? – Lewis Dartnell." Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels | 10/30/21 |
nd--da--industrial collapse v2Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
nd--da--industrial collapse v2Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
nd--da--innovationTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: East Chapel Hill NC | Judge: Matthew Berhe Global tech innovation high now.Mercury News et al 6/4 Mercury News and East Bay Times Editorial Boards, June 4, 2021, “Editorial: How America can Win the Global Tech War” https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/04/editorial-why-silicon-valley-needs-endless-frontier-bill/ gord0 Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector.Hanasoge 16 Chaithra; Senior Research Analyst, Market Researcher, Consumer Insights, Strategy Consulting; “The Union Strikes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” Supply Wisdom; April/June 2016 (Doesn’t specifically say but this is the most recent event is cites); https://www.supplywisdom.com/resources/the-union-strikes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly///SJWen Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector.Vynck et al 21 Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; “Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech,” The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer///SJWen Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs.Matthews 18 Dylan. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good Extinction outweighsPummer 15 Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. “Moral Agreement on Saving the World” Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015 AT | 10/30/21 |
nd--hijack--contractsTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AV | Judge: Arun Mehra Fwk1~ Utilitarianism collapses into contractarianism.John J. Thrasher, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University, Reconciling Justice and Pleasure in Epicurean Contractarianism, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 423-436 /AHS PB 2~ Utilitarianism requires a system of individual preference in order to be normative, which means my framework is a prior question.Gauthier, David P. Morals by Agreement. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Print /AHS PB BRACKETED FOR CLARITY OffenseI negate the resolution- A just government ought to not recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.1~ Contracts recognize the right to strike as conditional.Lisa Guerin, NOLO, "Strikes", ~https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/strikes.html~~ mc 2~ Striking violates the contract to work for a company a~ you are not working if you are striking b~ you agree to certain work conditions and wages in your contract and striking against those conditions violates the contract c~ since companies must compete for the labor force, people have the capacity to weigh between companies that are incentivized to increase benefits for workers—means striking goes against the inherent nature of attaining a job in the first place | 10/30/21 |
nd--nc--conditionalityTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Breigh Plat 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 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 1 The right to life of those deprived of stuff like medicine, which is fundamental to every human action,4 Weighing: A Even if the aff proves that an unconditional right such the right to life or right to freedom entails the right to strike, this doesn’t prove that it is unconditional since it is contingent on another right, and is therefore not sufficient to affirm B Unconditional rights are unconditionally good and lack exceptions, so one instance where the right is wrong is sufficient to prove it is conditional too that particular circumstance.5 Plan affs prove that its conditional. The right to strike as a whole isn’t good but is only good in certain instances. | 10/30/21 |
nd--nc--conditionality v2Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: Sreyaash Das - David Herrera - Amadea Datel 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 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 1 The right to life of those deprived of stuff like medicine, which is fundamental to every human action4 Weighing: A Even if the aff proves that an unconditional right such the right to life or right to freedom entails the right to strike, this doesn’t prove that it is unconditional since it is contingent on another right, and is therefore not sufficient to affirm B Unconditional rights are unconditionally good and lack exceptions, so one instance where the right is wrong is sufficient to prove it is conditional too that particular circumstance. | 10/31/21 |
nd--nc--conditionality v3Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall JM | Judge: Javier Navarrete The role of the ballot is to the test the truth or falsity of the resolution.1 Inclusion: a) other ROBs open the door for personal lives of debaters to factor into decisions and compare who is more oppressed which causes violence in a space where some people go to escape. b) Anything can function under truth testing insofar as it proves the resolution either true or false. Specific role of the ballots exclude all offense besides those that follow from their framework which shuts out people without the technical skill or resources to prep for it.2 Constitutivism: The ballot asks you to either vote aff or neg based on the given resolution a) Five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true which means its intrinsic to the nature of the activity b) the purpose of debate is the acquisition of knowledge in pursuit of truth – a resolutional focus is key to depth of exploration which o/w on specificity. It’s a jurisdictional issue since it questions whether the judge should go outside the scope of the game and can only endorse what is within their burden c) Even if another role of the ballot is better for debate, that is not a reason it ought to be the role of the ballot, just a reason we ought toI 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 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 1 The right to life of those deprived of stuff like medicine, which is fundamental to every human action4 Weighing: A Even if the aff proves that an unconditional right such the right to life or right to freedom entails the right to strike, this doesn’t prove that it is unconditional since it is contingent on another right, and is therefore not sufficient to affirm B Unconditional rights are unconditionally good and lack exceptions, so one instance where the right is wrong is sufficient to prove it is conditional too that particular circumstance. | 12/4/21 |
nd--nc--conditionality v4Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
nd--nc--conditionality v4Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood BJ | Judge: Breigh Plat | 12/4/21 |
nd--nc--contractsTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: James Logan RS | Judge: Mark Kivimaki I value morality. Ethical Internalism is true:1 Epistemology – A) Equality – Externalism incorrectly assumes certain individuals have stronger epistemic access to moral truths which justifies the exclusion of those individuals from the creation of ethics and B) Inaccessibility – There is no universal character of moral judgements that is epistemically accessible since every argument for its existence presumes the correct normative starting point. Externalism claims that some individuals have better ability to access the truth but that doesn’t explain how we deliberate between who is motivated correctly.2. Motivation – A) Externalist notions of ethics collapse to internal since the only reason agents follow external demands is those demands are consistent with their internal account of the good. Motivation is a necessary feature for ethics since normativity only matters insofar as agents follow through on the ethic that’s generated from it B) Empirics – there is no factual account of the good since each agents’ motivations are unique and there has been no conversion of differing beliefs into a unified ethic.Thus, agents justify their actions based on individual moral preferences and deal with ethical dilemmas by prioritizing certain beliefs. It’s a constitutive feature of humanity to rationally maximize value under a particular index of the good. Gauthier 98,Essay by David Gauthier, Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract theory of morality, “Why Contractarianism”, within the book Contractarianism and Rational Choice: Essays on David Gauthier’s Morals By Agreement. Book written by Peter Vallentyne https://b-ok.cc/book/975363/60f3f7 1998, /AHS PB Recut by Scopa Since agents take their own ability to act as intrinsically valuable, permissibility is avoided through a system of mutual self restraint where agents refrain from impeding upon the actions of other agents, under the expectation that others will do the same out of rational self interest. This is achieved through a system of contracts which both parties’ consent to in order to regulate behavior.Thus, the standard is consistency with Contractarianism. And, the framework outweighs on actor specificity: States are not physical actors, but derive authority from contracts that allow them to constrain action.Prefer additionally –1. Flexibility – Contracts are key to a) Encompassing all other ethical calculus into our decision since we process the consistency of those frameworks with our self interest and b) Value pluralism – recognizing a singular ethic fails to account for the complexity of moral problems and genuine moral disagreement. My framework solves since we can recognize multiple legitimate values while allowing individuals to exclude ones that are bad.2. Bindingness – A) Arising of Ethics – Every interaction with another agent is mediated by consent to participate in that interaction since otherwise agents could simply leave, which means there is an implicit social contract formed in every ethical interaction and B) Culpability – Only contracts can ensure agents are held to their agreements since there is a verifiable basis for judging their action as wrong as well as a pre-established punishment for breaking it.Offense I negate the resolution- A just government ought to not recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.1 Contracts recognize the right to strike as conditional.Lisa Guerin, NOLO, “Strikes”, https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/strikes.html mc 2 Striking violates the contract to work for a company a you are not working if you are striking b you agree to certain work conditions and wages in your contract and striking against those conditions violates the contract c since companies must compete for the labor force, people have the capacity to weigh between companies that are incentivized to increase benefits for workers—means striking goes against the inherent nature of attaining a job in the first place3 Strikes inhibit the ability to create contracts, create power imbalances, and violate individual contracts.Levine 1 Peter. "The Libertarian Critique of Labor Unions." Philosophy and Public Policy Quarterly 21.4 (2001): 17-24. (Peter Levine is the Associate Dean for Research and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs in Tufts University’s Jonathan Tisch College of Civic Life. He has secondary appointments in the Tufts Philosophy Department and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He was the founding deputy director (2001-6) and then the second director (2006-15) of Tisch College’s CIRCLE, The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, which he continues to oversee as an associate dean | 11/20/21 |
nd--nc--contracts v2Tournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Ardrey Kell SG | Judge: Grant Brown | 11/21/21 |
nd--nc--truth testingTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Joseph Georges The Role of the ballot is to the test if the resolution is true.1 Inclusion: a) other ROBs open the door for personal lives of debaters to factor into decisions and compare who is more oppressed which causes violence in a space where some people go to escape. b) Anything can function under truth testing insofar as it proves the resolution either true or false. Specific role of the ballots exclude all offense besides those that follow from their framework which shuts out people without the technical skill or resources to prep for it.2 Constitutivism: The ballot asks you to either vote aff or neg based on the given resolution a) Five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true which means its intrinsic to the nature of the activity b) the purpose of debate is the acquisition of knowledge in pursuit of truth – a resolutional focus is key to depth of exploration which o/w on specificity. It’s a jurisdictional issue since it questions whether the judge should go outside the scope of the game and can only endorse what is within their burden c) Even if another role of the ballot is better for debate, that is not a reason it ought to be the role of the ballot, just a reason we ought toThat negates- an unconditional right to strike is impossible.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. | 11/20/21 |
nd--pic--healthcare workersTournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Trinity Prep MZ | Judge: Sarah Zheng | 12/4/21 |
nd--t--democracyTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: Sreyaash Das - David Herrera - Amadea Datel Democracy is a cognitive construction that requires disciplinary force – that’s not justice. Its constitutive features breed conquest against the barbarian other. Vote negative to reject the indoctrinating democratic discourse. Every ballot has a linear impact.Güven 15 - Ferit Güven, professor of philosophy at Earlham College, May 6, 2015 “Decolonizing Democracy Intersections of Philosophy and Postcolonial Theory” https://www.amazon.com/Decolonizing-Democracy-Intersections-Philosophy-Postcolonial/dp/0739199579 Accessed 9/15/20 SAO Underview – They haven’t done any work to prove democracies are just. Also proves that your not topical which is a voter a the ballot asks you to vote for the better debater in the context of the res however youre not defending the res b not being topical opens up an impossible prep burden that forces me to read generics and makes it impossible for me to debate. | 10/31/21 |
nd--t--justTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: James Logan RS | Judge: Mark Kivimaki 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 Violation— the aff advantages of Israel’s behavior proves that Israel is not a just government. U also concede in cross ex that Israel is not a good government.Prefer –1 Precision —2 Limits – | 11/20/21 |
nd--t--prison workersTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 7 | Opponent: Harrison EM | Judge: Derek Ying | 11/22/21 |
nd--t--redefineTournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Breigh Plat Interpretation: The affirmative may not fiat changes to words in the resolution.Violation- Ur changing what the definition of worker is by including new workers as topical. Before the aff plan text is enacted, agricultural people are not considered workers. Only through fiat does it become topical.1 mixes burdens-2 Limits- | 10/30/21 |
nd--t--workersTournament: Glenbrooks Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: James Logan RS | Judge: Mark Kivimaki Interpretation: “workers” is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a just government recognizes a specific group of workers unconditional right to strikeNebel 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 It applies to “workers” – 1 upward entailment test – “a just government ought to recognize workers unconditional right to strike” doesn’t entail that a just government ought to recognize peoples unconditional right to strike because it doesn’t prove that all people should strike, 2 adverb test – adding “always” to the res doesn’t substantially change its meaning because recognition is unconditional.Violation: They specStandards:1 precision –2 Limits and ground –3 TVA solves – you could’ve read your plan as an advantage under a whole res advocacy. | 11/20/21 |
so--cp--compensationTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Ben Cortez - Jeffrey Swift - Joey Tarnowski CP Text: Countries in the WTO should create a consent and compensation mechanism to prevent biopiracy in drug developmentNard 03 - Craig Allen Nard, Director, Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, Minnesota Law Review, October 2003 "IN DEFENSE OF GEOGRAPHIC DISPARITY" ~http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1277andcontext=faculty_publications~~ Accessed 8/26/21 SAO Mutually Exclusivity: Countries can't ignore patents and use them as mechanism for wealth transfer.Net Benefit: Capacity Building~1~ Empirically bioprospecting with compensation leads to conservation and capacity building which is key to moving past an extractive imperial economyCastree 2 - Noel Castree, in the journal Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, October 2002 "Bioprospecting: from theory to practice (and back again)" ~https://www.jstor.org/stable/3804566~~ Accessed 8/26/21 SAO | 10/17/21 |
so--cp--henrietta lacksTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Ben Cortez - Jeffrey Swift - Joey Tarnowski In 1951, white doctors cultured infinitely self-replicating cells from a black woman dying of cancer named Henrietta Lacks. Since then, medical companies have used her cells to generate billions of dollars of revenue without any compensation to her family. The current state of intellectual property protection gives them no recourse.Christina Bostick, founder and managing director of Bostick Law Firm, and Kai Ryssdal, American radio journalist and the host of Marketplace, Who owns Henrietta Lacks' cells?, Jul 9, 2018, https://www.marketplace.org/2018/07/09/who-owns-henrietta-lacks-disembodied-cells/ BA PB Brackets in original card Thus the Counterplan: The United States ought to give Henrietta Lacks' family intellectual property rights over the use of her cells. It competes, cells can't be owned in the status qou so we strengthen protections, and cells count as medicine for the purpose of the debate.U.S. National Library of Medicine, Doctor of medicine profession (MD), No Date, https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001936.htm BA PB The counterplan prevents pharmaceutical companies from unjustly profiting off of black life, and provides retributive justice for Henrietta's family.Donna M. Owens, Award-winning digital, print and broadcast journalist, Family of Henrietta Lacks Plans to Sue Pharmaceutical Companies They Say Profited from Her Cancer Cells, AUGUST 5, 2021, https://www.essence.com/news/henrietta-lacks-family-retains-ben-crump/ BA PB | 10/17/21 |
so--da--industrial collapseTournament: Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AS | Judge: Chris Castillo - Carlos Carrasco Uniqueness: Industrial society and a growing population of humans make extinction inevitable- famine, biodiversity loss, and much more.Corey J. A Bradshaw et al (16 other people), January 13, 2021, frontiers in conservation science, “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcosc.2020.615419/full mc Link: Nuclear war would collapse civilization through nuclear famine but ensure that a number of humans survive.Shaun Tandon, December 10, 2013, PHYS ORG, “Nuclear war would 'end civilization' with famine, study says”, https://phys.org/news/2013-12-nuclear-war-civilization-famine.html mc Internal Link: Isolated island populations repopulate Earth solves nuclear winter led extinction.Turchin and Green 18 (Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM “Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes”. September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1) Impact: Industrial civilization wouldn’t recover.Lewis Dartnell 15. UK Space Agency research fellow at the University of Leicester, working in astrobiology and the search for microbial life on Mars. His latest book is The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch. 04-13-15. "Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil fuels? – Lewis Dartnell." Aeon. https://aeon.co/essays/could-we-reboot-a-modern-civilisation-without-fossil-fuels | 9/24/21 |
so--da--innovationTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 3 | Opponent: Holy Ghost Prep MM | Judge: Favian Sun Reducing IP protection takes away incentives for innovation and prevents RandD for future and current diseases.Michael Rosen, 5-12-2021, "Biden’s surprising patent waiver decision raises more problems than it solves," American Enterprise Institute - AEI, https://www.aei.org/technology-and-innovation/bidens-surprising-patent-waiver-decision-raises-more-problems-than-it-solves/ LDC 21 – CWK/ recut mc Future pandemics will cause extinction – it only takes one ‘super-spreader’.Bar-Yam 16 Yaneer Bar-Yam 7-3-2016 “Transition to extinction: Pandemics in a connected world” http://necsi.edu/research/social/pandemics/transition (Professor and President, New England Complex System Institute; PhD in Physics, MIT)Elmer | 9/24/21 |
so--hijack--contractsTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Tajaih Robinson - Rohit Lakshman - Chris Castillo 1 Utilitarianism collapses into contractarianism.John J. Thrasher, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department and the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University, Reconciling Justice and Pleasure in Epicurean Contractarianism, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 16, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 423-436 /AHS PB 2 Utilitarianism requires a system of individual preference in order to be normative, which means my framework is a prior question.Gauthier, David P. Morals by Agreement. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Print /AHS PB BRACKETED FOR CLARITY 3 Bindingness –That Negates-1 Stronger IPRs help equalize the bargaining field for developing countries to check western coercion which would diminish their place as world enforcer. Therefore, it’s not in mutual self-interest for them to remove IPs because they want to keep their own economies ahead of others.Hassan et al 10 “Intellectual Property and Developing Countries: A review of the literature: by Emmanuel Hassan, Ohid Yaqub, Stephanie Diepeveen. RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR804.pdf ahs emi 2 IP rights are included in multiple international contracts – the aff violates that.Franklin 13 - “International Intellectual Property Law” by Jonathan Franklin* He earned his A.B., A.M. Anthropology and J.D. degrees from Stanford University and M.Libr. with a Certificate in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington. Prior to the University of Washington, he spent five years as an reference librarian and foreign law selector at the University of Michigan Law Library. In law school, he was a Senior Editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal and a Note Editor for the Stanford Law Review. He is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries. https://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/ERG_IP.pdf ahs emi | 9/27/21 |
so--hijack--panpsychismTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Jalyn Wu Panpsychism is true: Something cannot come from nothing - A object cannot be created from a substance that doesn’t have the properties to create it. (ie we cannot create a wooden door without wood) therefor in order for a mind to be created it must be formed of mind like structures, if this is the case, everything that has a mind must be created from substances that also have minds, therefor it is either the case that nothing has a mind and it was never created, or it is the case that everything has a mind- since we agree that humans have a mind, every object made of the same particles a mind is, must have minds in and of themselves. This means that all matter is capable of practical reason: That negates 1 reducing ip violates their freedom 2 the practical steps to pass the aff require you to violate the freedom of matter like paper and the floor. | 10/17/21 |
so--k--plagarismTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Summit JC | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield I am plagiarizing the 1AC. It's mine. The aff has nothing left to bargain with. This is the best challenge to systems of property. We shatter the illusion of neoliberal control of knowledge production.Froomkin 13 - David Froomkin, The Morningside Review, Published in Partnership with Columbia University Libraries, Columbia Undergrad Student, May 1st, 2013 "Plagiarism as Revolution, Concept as Content: Apotheosizing the Author under the Aegis of Appropriation" ~https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/TMR/article/view/5441~~ Accessed 9/29/21 SAO There is a doublebind – Either you think the K is wrong and intellectual ownership is good so you vote neg because they have failed to prove the resolution true, or you think the aff is true and its good to allow me to steal their intellectual labor and you vote neg because they have no arguments left in the round. | 10/16/21 |
so--nc--contractsTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 3 | Opponent: Holy Ghost Prep MM | Judge: Favian Sun I value morality. Ethical Internalism is true:1. Epistemology – A) Equality – Externalism incorrectly assumes certain individuals have stronger epistemic access to moral truths which justifies the exclusion of those individuals from the creation of ethics and B) Inaccessibility – There is no universal character of moral judgements that is epistemically accessible since every argument for its existence presumes the correct normative starting point. Markovits 14, Markovits, Julia. Moral reason. Oxford University Press, 2014.ScopaRelatedly, internalism about 2. Motivation –Thus, agents justify their actions based on individual moral preferences and deal with ethical dilemmas by prioritizing certain beliefs. It's a constitutive feature of humanity to rationally maximize value under a particular index of the good. Gauthier 98, David Gauthier, Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract theory of morality, Why Contractarianism?, 1998, /AHS PB Recut by ScopaFortunately, I do not Since agents take their own ability to act as intrinsically valuable, permissibility is avoided through a system of mutual self restraint where agents refrain from impeding upon the actions of other agents, under the expectation that others will do the same out of rational self interest. This is achieved through a system of contracts which both parties' consent to in order to regulate behavior.Thus, the standard is consistency with Contractarianism. And, the framework outweighs on actor specificity: States are not physical actors, but derive authority from contracts that allow them to constrain action.Prefer additionally –1. Flexibility –2. Bindingness –ContentionI contend that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought not reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.~1~ Stronger IPRs help equalize the bargaining field for developing countries to check western coercion which would diminish their place as world enforcer. Therefore, it's not in mutual self-interest for them to remove IPs because they want to keep their own economies ahead of others.Hassan et al 10 "Intellectual Property and Developing Countries: A review of the literature: by Emmanuel Hassan, Ohid Yaqub, Stephanie Diepeveen. RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. ~https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR804.pdf~~ ahs emi ~2~ IP rights are included in multiple international contracts – the aff violates that.Franklin 13 - "International Intellectual Property Law" by Jonathan Franklin* He earned his A.B., A.M. Anthropology and J.D. degrees from Stanford University and M.Libr. with a Certificate in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington. Prior to the University of Washington, he spent five years as an reference librarian and foreign law selector at the University of Michigan Law Library. In law school, he was a Senior Editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal and a Note Editor for the Stanford Law Review. He is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries. ~https://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/ERG_IP.pdf~~ ahs emi ~3~ Forecloses the ability for future contracts.Hilty et al 21 ~Reto Hilty Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and a professor at the University of Zurich Pedro Henrique D. Batista Doctoral student and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Suelen Carls Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Daria Kim Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Matthias Lamping Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Peter R. Slowinski Doctoral student and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; "10 Arguments against a Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights," Oxford Law; 6/29/21; https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2021/06/10-arguments-against-waiver-intellectual-property-rights~~ Justin | 9/24/21 |
so--nc--contracts v2Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Syosset ML | Judge: Mark Kivimaki I value morality. Ethical Internalism is true:1. Epistemology – A) Equality – Externalism incorrectly assumes certain individuals have stronger epistemic access to moral truths which justifies the exclusion of those individuals from the creation of ethics and B) Inaccessibility – There is no universal character of moral judgements that is epistemically accessible since every argument for its existence presumes the correct normative starting point.Markovits 14, Markovits, Julia. Moral reason. Oxford University Press, 2014.Scopa 2. Motivation –Thus, agents justify their actions based on individual moral preferences and deal with ethical dilemmas by prioritizing certain beliefs. It’s a constitutive feature of humanity to rationally maximize value under a particular index of the good.Gauthier 98, David Gauthier, Canadian-American philosopher best known for his neo-Hobbesian social contract theory of morality, Why Contractarianism?, 1998, /AHS PB Recut by Scopa Since agents take their own ability to act as intrinsically valuable, permissibility is avoided through a system of mutual self restraint where agents refrain from impeding upon the actions of other agents, under the expectation that others will do the same out of rational self interest. This is achieved through a system of contracts which both parties’ consent to in order to regulate behavior.Thus, the standard is consistency with Contractarianism. And, the framework outweighs on actor specificity: States are not physical actors, but derive authority from contracts that allow them to constrain action.Prefer additionally –1. Flexibility –2. Bindingness –Contention I contend that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought not reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.1 Stronger IPRs help equalize the bargaining field for developing countries to check western coercion which would diminish their place as world enforcer. Therefore, it’s not in mutual self-interest for them to remove IPs because they want to keep their own economies ahead of others.Hassan et al 10 “Intellectual Property and Developing Countries: A review of the literature: by Emmanuel Hassan, Ohid Yaqub, Stephanie Diepeveen. RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/technical_reports/2010/RAND_TR804.pdf ahs emi 2 IP rights are included in multiple international contracts – the aff violates that.Franklin 13 - “International Intellectual Property Law” by Jonathan Franklin* He earned his A.B., A.M. Anthropology and J.D. degrees from Stanford University and M.Libr. with a Certificate in Law Librarianship from the University of Washington. Prior to the University of Washington, he spent five years as an reference librarian and foreign law selector at the University of Michigan Law Library. In law school, he was a Senior Editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal and a Note Editor for the Stanford Law Review. He is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries. https://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/ERG_IP.pdf ahs emi | 9/19/21 |
so--nc--nibsTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Luke Gastelu Permissibility Negates –1 Semantics –2 Safety –3 Logic –Now Negate –1 member is “a part or organ of the body, especially a limb” but an organ can’t have obligations2 of is to “expressing an age” but the rez doesn’t delineate a length of time3 the is “denoting a disease or affliction” but the WTO isn’t a disease4 to is to “expressing motion in the direction of (a particular location)” but the rez doesn’t have a location5 reduce is to “(of a person) lose weight, typically by dieting” but IP doesn’t have a body to lose weight.6 for is “in place of” but medicines aren’t replacing IP.7 medicine is “(especially among some North American Indian peoples) a spell, charm, or fetish believed to have healing, protective, or other power” but you can’t have IP for a spell.8 Trade means “a publication intended for persons in the entertainment business”(Merriam Webster) but a world entertainment business cannot reduce intellectual property making the resolution incoherent.9 Intellectual is defined as “possessing or showing intellect or mental compacity” (Dictionary.com) but property cant possess intellect so the resolutions incoherent10 Property means “a building” (Oxford Languages) so reducing intellectual buildings is incoherent | 9/18/21 |
so--t--nebelTournament: Mid America Cup Sophomore Throw Down | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AS | Judge: Chris Castillo - Carlos Carrasco Interpretation: “medicines” is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for a medicine or subset of medicines. Violation: They specStandards:1 Semantics are a constraint on voting aff:A Jurisdiction:B stasis point:2 precision –3 Limits and ground –4 TVA solves – | 9/24/21 |
so--t--reduceTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Syosset ML | Judge: Mark Kivimaki Interpretation- Debaters must defend a reduction in intellectual property protection on medicines.Violation-Reduce is not eliminateWords and Phrases 1914, http://books.google.com/books?printsec=frontcoverandid=IJMNAAAAYAAJ#v=onepageandqandf=false Swickle Reduce is not eliminateMichigan District court, (“SAGINAW OFFICE SERVICE, INC., Plaintiff, v. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Defendant. Civil Action No. 09-CV-13889 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, SOUTHERN DIVISION,” Lexis) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-mied-4_09-cv-13889/pdf/USCOURTS-mied-4_09-cv-13889-2.pdf Swickle Standards1 Semantics are a constraint on voting aff: .2 Limits:3 Topic lit:4 Ground: | 9/19/21 |
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