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| TOC | 1 | lexington bf | kyle kopf |
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| TOC | 4 | ayala am | victor chen |
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| barkley forum | 3 | millburn ax | nigel taylor ward |
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| barkley forum | 1 | marlborough ms | alex barry |
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| barkley forum | 5 | american heritage broward em | chris castillo |
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| berkeley | 1 | harvard westlake ad | julian kuffour |
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| berkeley | 3 | immaculate heart jl | brett boelkens |
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| berkeley | 3 | immaculate heart jl | brett boelkens |
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| berkeley | 5 | plano east rp | scott brown |
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| blue key | 2 | check round reportcite | check round reportcite |
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| blue key | 4 | lexington ar | tajaih robinson |
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| blue key | 5 | basis independent silicon valley sk | lukas krause |
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| blue key | Doubles | strake jesuit EP | panel |
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| blue key | Octas | strake jesuit ks | panel |
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| blue key round robin | 1 | lexington ag | panel |
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| blue key round robin | Semis | lexington bf | panel |
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| greenhill | 1 | immaculate heart ss | andrew halverson |
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| greenhill | 3 | andrew pribe | yardley rosas |
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| greenhill | 6 | northland christian lb | chris castillo |
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| lexington | 2 | acton boxborough sp | jacob bosley |
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| lexington | 4 | memorial sc | anthony survance |
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| lexington | 6 | northern valley js | adam tomasi |
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| lexington | Octas | mission san jose sr | panel |
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| mid america cup | 2 | scarsdale jt | tajaih robinson |
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| mid america cup | 4 | strake jesuit da | keshav dandu |
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| mid america cup | 5 | saratoga ag | akshay manglik |
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| mid america cup | Octas | dths hv | panel |
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| mid america cup | Quarters | sage mp | panel |
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| mid america cup rr | 3 | saratoga ag | panel |
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| mid america cup rr | 4 | lexington ak | panel |
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| sunvite | 1 | lake highland hl | saied beckford |
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| sunvite | 4 | american heritage broward ss | eric he |
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| sunvite | 6 | lexington ak | jacob nails |
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| TOC | 1 | Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: kyle kopf AC- space exploration |
| TOC | 4 | Opponent: ayala am | Judge: victor chen AC- antitrust |
| barkley forum | 3 | Opponent: millburn ax | Judge: nigel taylor ward AC- Setcol |
| barkley forum | 1 | Opponent: marlborough ms | Judge: alex barry AC- global commons |
| barkley forum | 5 | Opponent: american heritage broward em | Judge: chris castillo AC- lacan |
| berkeley | 1 | Opponent: harvard westlake ad | Judge: julian kuffour AC- space industrial complex |
| berkeley | 3 | Opponent: immaculate heart jl | Judge: brett boelkens AC- china |
| berkeley | 3 | Opponent: immaculate heart jl | Judge: brett boelkens AC- china |
| berkeley | 5 | Opponent: plano east rp | Judge: scott brown AC- lunar heritage |
| blue key | 2 | Opponent: check round reportcite | Judge: check round reportcite opponent conceded there was no debate |
| blue key | 4 | Opponent: lexington ar | Judge: tajaih robinson AC- disability |
| blue key | 5 | Opponent: basis independent silicon valley sk | Judge: lukas krause AC- chinese pragmatism |
| blue key | Doubles | Opponent: strake jesuit EP | Judge: panel AC= courts |
| blue key | Octas | Opponent: strake jesuit ks | Judge: panel AC- courts |
| blue key round robin | 1 | Opponent: lexington ag | Judge: panel AC- US |
| blue key round robin | Semis | Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: panel AC- whole rez |
| greenhill | 1 | Opponent: immaculate heart ss | Judge: andrew halverson AC- crispr |
| greenhill | 3 | Opponent: andrew pribe | Judge: yardley rosas AC- vaccines |
| greenhill | 6 | Opponent: northland christian lb | Judge: chris castillo AC- covid |
| lexington | 2 | Opponent: acton boxborough sp | Judge: jacob bosley AC- whole rez |
| lexington | 4 | Opponent: memorial sc | Judge: anthony survance AC- racial cap |
| lexington | 6 | Opponent: northern valley js | Judge: adam tomasi AC- monism |
| lexington | Octas | Opponent: mission san jose sr | Judge: panel AC- prag |
| mid america cup | 2 | Opponent: scarsdale jt | Judge: tajaih robinson AC- kant |
| mid america cup | 4 | Opponent: strake jesuit da | Judge: keshav dandu AC- pandemics |
| mid america cup | 5 | Opponent: saratoga ag | Judge: akshay manglik AC- insulin |
| mid america cup | Octas | Opponent: dths hv | Judge: panel AC- TFADSBSB |
| mid america cup | Quarters | Opponent: sage mp | Judge: panel AC-Jordan |
| mid america cup rr | 3 | Opponent: saratoga ag | Judge: panel AC- covid |
| mid america cup rr | 4 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: panel AC- covid |
| sunvite | 1 | Opponent: lake highland hl | Judge: saied beckford 1AC- racial cap |
| sunvite | 4 | Opponent: american heritage broward ss | Judge: eric he AC- psychoanalysis |
| sunvite | 6 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: jacob nails AC- moon treaty |
| sunvite | Finals | Opponent: american heritage broward em | Judge: panel AC- psychoanalysis |
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0- TOC note URGENT PLS READTournament: TOC note | Round: 1 | Opponent: e | Judge: d | 4/23/22 |
0- contactTournament: tournament | Round: Finals | Opponent: bladee | Judge: playboi carti my phone # is 9543034320, my fb is roberto sosa, and my email is 223255@cghsfl.org either phone or fb works but add me before u message i probs wont see the email if you email for disclosure so ur better off w the other 2 and if u email me anyways and i dont answer its on u emoticon_smile | 7/7/21 |
0- formatting requestTournament: tournament | Round: Finals | Opponent: bataille | Judge: an egg how to format: argument b. subpoint 2. argument a. subpoint b. subpoint how not to format part 1 argument a. subpoint b. subpoint argument | 7/7/21 |
JF- CP- ICEOTournament: barkley forum | Round: 3 | Opponent: millburn ax | Judge: nigel taylor ward The appropriation of outer space by megaconstellations is just and ought to be managed by indigenous people, including at least the establishment of an international cultural ethics office including all indigenous nations at the forefront of decision-making regarding the appropriation of outer space by private entities.The appropriation of outerspace in all other forms is unjustAppropriation can be good but only if it is grounded in indigenous voices. That's key to ensure space is maintained as a cultural heritage, rather than a final frontier, and meets their role of the ballot.Vidaurri et al. '20 ~Monica, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Aparna Venkatesan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of San Francisco; James Lowenthal, Department of Astronomy, Smith College; Parvathy Prem, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory;. Nature Astronomy, "The impact of satellite constellations on space as an ancestral global commons," https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01238-3~~ brett Constellations are key to ensure indigenous access to broadband, ecological sustainability, and bridge the rural broadband gap.Vidaurri et al. '20 ~Monica, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Howard University, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Aparna Venkatesan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of San Francisco; James Lowenthal, Department of Astronomy, Smith College; Parvathy Prem, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory;. Nature Astronomy, "The impact of satellite constellations on space as an ancestral global commons," https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-01238-3~~ brett ====Only ensuring large scale access to rural broadband can enable adoption of precision agriculture.==== Precision ag is key to solve ag runoff, a unique form of colonial dispossession.Ling 17, Geoffrey Ling, a retired U.S. Army colonel, is an expert in technology development and commercial transition. He is a professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and a partner of Ling and Associates. Scientific American, June 26, 2017. "Precision Farming Increases Crop Yields" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/precision-farming/ brett Gulf hypoxia is growing because of ag runoff—-it'll collapse whole oceans—-extinctionDr. Ian Hendy 17, PhD in Trophic Marine Biology, Research and Communication Officer and Senior Scientific Researcher in Marine Ecology at the University of Portsmouth, Institute of Marine Sciences Laboratories, Gulf of Mexico 'Dead Zone' Is Already A Disaster – But It Could Get Worse, Phys Org, 8-14, https://phys.org/news/2017-08-gulf-mexico-dead-zone-disaster.html Normal means is your aff says mega-constellations of satellites are a form of appropriation.Johnson 20 ~Chris, Space Law Advisor for Secure World Foundation, 9 years of professional experience in international space law and policy. J.D. from New York Law School; 2020; "The Legal Status of MegaLEO Constellations and Concerns About Appropriation of Large Swaths of Earth Orbit," https://swfound.org/media/206951/johnson2020_referenceworkentry_thelegalstatusofmegaleoconstel.pdf~~ brett *Yes this author is against constellations but they only exist to prove the link. | 1/28/22 |
JF- CP- US v CiccoTournament: berkeley | Round: 5 | Opponent: plano east rp | Judge: scott brown CP: The Supreme Court of the United States should request and accept an appeal for the case LAURA MURRAY CICCO, v. NATIONAL AERONAUTICS and SPACE ADMINISTRATION, and rule in favor of Cicco, on the basis of the ban on national appropriation in the Outer Space Treaty and the common law property rights regime. Relevant Courts should uphold this precedent.Except for the appropriation of one vial of moon dust by Laura Murray Cicco, private entities should not appropriate lunar heritage sites.Ruling in favor of Cicco realigns the US with the OST.Chow 18 "Woman says Neil Armstrong gave her moon dust. She's suing NASA to keep it." June 14, 2018 Denise Chow https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/woman-says-neil-armstrong-gave-her-moon-dust-she-s-ncna883116 SM Lunar basing isn't prohibited under this interpretation of the OST and isn't seen as appropriation as long as it doesn't constitute sovereign control – means credible OST encourages peaceful collaboration for lunar research which turns the affOST, "Outer Space Treaty," United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/outerspacetreaty.html mvp mvp Exemptions from the OST endangers the credibility of the entire treaty.Hickman and Dolman 2 John Hickman and Everett Dolman Volume 21 Number 1 2002 "Resurrecting the Space Age: A State–Centered Commentary on the Outer Space Regime" (associate professor in the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College in Mt. Berry)Elmer Violations cause credibility spirals.Jha 17 "US lawmakers seek review of Outer Space Treaty amid competition from India, China" May 26, 2017 Lalit K. Jha https://www.livemint.com/Science/6uxgbhcNcRfBtbWyq63wTO/US-lawmakers-seek-review-of-Outer-Space-Treaty-amid-competit.html SM Credible OST solves Space War.Johnson 17 Christopher Johnson 1-23-2017 "The Outer Space Treaty at 50" , http://thespacereview.com/article/3155/1 (graduate of Leiden University's International Institute of Air and Space Law and the International Space University)Elmer Space war goes nuclear.Johnson-Freese 17 Joan Johnson-Freese, Professor and chair of space science and technology @ Naval War College, 17, Space Warfare in the 21st Century, Routledge, ISBN 978131552917, p 18-20. | 2/20/22 |
JF- CP- amend OSTTournament: lexington | Round: 6 | Opponent: northern valley js | Judge: adam tomasi States ought to amend the OST to allow for private space miningPrivate companies are key to a growing space mining sector – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia Space mining is key to sustain global resources — otherwise, resource wars.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Terrestrial resource scarcity goes nuclear—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.Klare 13 ~Michael T., The Nation's defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall. 2013. "How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion," https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/~~ brett | 1/16/22 |
JF- CP- chinese treatiesTournament: berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: immaculate heart jl | Judge: brett boelkens CP Text:The People's Republic of China should:—- ratify and enact into all relevant domestic legislation the Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space and of the Threat or Use of Force against Outer Space Objects.—- establish a treaty banning ASAT testing.—- end the policy of Civil-Military-Fusion.Plank 1 bans weaponization and ensures China can't develop dominance thru space leadership.Jaramillo 09 ~Cesar, In 2013 he earned a B.A. in Catholic Studies from Seton Hall University. Father Jaramillo earned the S.T.B. (Theology) and the J.C.L. (Canon Law) degrees from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He also earned a Diploma in Administrative Canonical Praxis from the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy in 2018. Fr. Jaramillo is a member of the Canon Law Society of America. The Ploughshares Monitor Winter 2009 Volume 30 Issue 4, "In Defence of the PPWT Treaty: Toward a Space Weapons Ban" https://ploughshares.ca/pl_publications/in-defence-of-the-ppwt-treaty-toward-a-space-weapons-ban/~~ brett ASAT ban specifically accesses their internal links.Forden 20 Geoffrey Forden, a research associate with the Science, Technology, and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He served as chief of the multidisciplinary analysis section of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC)., 8-9-2020, "After China's Test: Time For A Limited Ban On Anti-Satellite Weapons," Arms Control Association, https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2007-04/features/after-chinas-test-time-limited-ban-anti-satellite-weapons ella Ending Civil-Military-Fusion ensures space tech isn't developed for militaristic or revisionist aims but rather towards private development — solves militarization and heg.1AC Curcio 8/24 ~(Blaine, an Affiliate Senior Consultant for Euroconsult, based in Hong Kong. Since joining Euroconsult in 2018, he has contributed to a wide range of consulting missions and research reports, primarily covering the satcom sector globally, and broader space industry in China.) "Developments in China's Commercial Space Sector" The National Bureau of Asian Research, 8/24/2021. https://www.nbr.org/publication/developments-in-chinas-commercial-space-sector/~~ BC recut BC | 2/20/22 |
JF- CP- inequalityTournament: berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: harvard westlake ad | Judge: julian kuffour Mining is now – multiple companies are competing in mineral exploitation to obtain rare earth metals.Gilbert 4-26 ~Alex Gilbert is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines. Milken Institute, "Mining in Space Is Coming"; https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming~~ kelvin Private companies are key to space mining – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia Space mining is key to sustain global resources — otherwise, resource wars.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Terrestrial resource scarcity goes nuclear—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.Klare 13 ~Michael T., The Nation's defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall. 2013. "How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion," https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/~~ brett | 2/19/22 |
JF- CP- megaconstellations, liability, debris removalTournament: lexington | Round: 2 | Opponent: acton boxborough sp | Judge: jacob bosley Ban megaconstellations. All other appropriation of outerspace is allowed.adopt a system of market share liability in regard to the creation of debris in outer space by private entities in accordance with Munoz-Patchen 18implement Decommissioning Devices on all future objects launched into spaceimplement Ion Beams to deorbit Debrisimplement Electro-Dynamic Propulsion Systems for Space Debris RemovalSecond plank incentivizes sustainable use of spaceMunoz-Patchen 18 ~Chelsea Munoz-Patchen, Chelsea Muñoz-Patchen is an associate in the Houston office of Latham and Watkins. While attending University of Chicago Law School, Ms. Muñoz-Patchen was an articles editor for The Chicago Journal of International Law. Her research on regulating space debris was published in 2018. Ms. Muñoz-Patchen served as a research assistant for Professors Daniel Abebe and Jonathan Masur, focusing on intellectual property and constitutional law in the US and Ethiopia. Prior to law school, Ms. Muñoz-Patchen earned her BA and BS in Geography from Arizona State University. As a graduate student, she studied political ecology and people's relationship to urban nature, and taught Introduction to Physical Geography labs. 7-1-2018, Semanticscholar, "Regulating the Space Commons: Treating Space Debris as Abandoned Property in Violation of the Outer Space Treaty | Semantic Scholar", https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Regulating-the-Space-Commons3A-Treating-Space-Debris-Munoz-Patchen/607eff0141f48332a69ae8c5a3301d871057a4fa accessed 12/21/21~ Adam 3rd 4th and 5th planks Solves debrisPelton 15 Pelton, Joseph N. (2015). ~SpringerBriefs in Space Development~ New Solutions for the Space Debris Problem || . , 10.1007/978-3-319-17151-7(), –. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-17151-7 (Joseph N. Pelton received his Ph. D. from Georgetown University, his Masters from New York University and his BA from the University of Tulsa. Pelton is the award winning author or editor of over 40 books and over 300 articles in the field of space systems. These include the five book series: MegaCrunch, e-Sphere, Future Talk, Future View, and Global Talk, the latter of which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He served as Chairman of the Board (1992-95) and Vice President of Academic Programs and Dean (1995-96) of the International Space University of Strasbourg, France. He is currently a member of the ISU faculty and editor of the ISU book series.) Aadit | 1/15/22 |
JF- CP- mining royaltiesTournament: barkley forum | Round: 5 | Opponent: american heritage broward em | Judge: chris castillo We endorse the entirety of the 1AC with the exception of mining in spaceStates should establish an international body that licenses resources from outer space mining done by private entities with a 20 royalty on all profits that is put into a Space Resource Fund that is distributed between every global citizen.The CP competes and solves global inequality.Saletta 16 ~Morgan Saletta, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne, and Kevin Orrman-Rossiter, Graduate Student, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne. April 17, 2016. "All of humanity should share in the space mining boom," https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740~~ brett No permutations- private companies are key to a growing space mining sector – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia Space mining is key to sustain global resources — otherwise, resource wars.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Terrestrial resource scarcity goes nuclear—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.Klare 13 ~Michael T., The Nation's defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall. 2013. "How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion," https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/~~ brett Nuclear war causes extinction.Trevithick and Rogoway '19 ~Joseph and Tyler; February 27; Military Analyst, M.A. in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University, B.A. in the History and Policy of International Relations at Carnegie-Mellon University; Defense Journalist; The Drive, "Yes, India And Pakistan Could End The World As We Know It Through A Nuclear Exchange," https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26674/yes-india-and-pakistan-could-end-the-world-as-we-know-it-through-a-nuclear-exchange~~ brett | 1/29/22 |
JF- CP- royaltiesTournament: lexington | Round: Octas | Opponent: mission san jose sr | Judge: panel States should establish an international body that would license resources from outer space for private appropriation with a 20 royalty on all profits that is put into a Space Resource Fund that is distributed between every global citizen.The CP competes and solves global inequality.Saletta 16 ~Morgan Saletta, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne, and Kevin Orrman-Rossiter, Graduate Student, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne. April 17, 2016. "All of humanity should share in the space mining boom," https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740~~ brett | 1/28/22 |
JF- DA- B3Tournament: sunvite | Round: 6 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: jacob nails PC gets BBB across the finish line, but negotiations are key—-interruption must be avoided.Greve 1/8 ~Joan; 1/8/22; politics breaking news reporter for Guardian US, based in Washington; "Democrats could still salvage Build Back Better – and perhaps their midterm prospects," https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/08/build-back-better-democrats-midterms~~ brett Manchin supports climate provisions, but continued negotiations and PC is key.Collins 1/6 ~Lois; 1/6/22; covers policy and research that impact families for the Deseret News National team. A University of Utah graduate, she has won numerous national, local and regional journalism awards; "Is the 'Build Back Better' Act dead or just drifting?" https://www.deseret.com/2022/1/6/22868795/is-bidens-build-back-better-bill-dead-or-just-drifing-social-policy-climate-change-joe-manchin~~ brett The plan trades off — ratification requires PC and floor time.—-even if popular, even some opposition ensures immense floor time due to Senate procedures. Opposition is guaranteed. NewSpace companies will lobby for their survival against the plan.GC 17 ~GC Magazine; Autumn 2017; Business thinking, In-house management, Published by legal500; "The new space race," https://www.legal500.com/gc-magazine/feature/the-new-space-race/~~ brett Prevents existential climate disaster.Moncrief '11-11 ~Aliki; 2021; executive director of Florida Conservation Voters; Orlando Sentinel, "Build Back Better Act would help in climate crisis," https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-climate-change-congress-act-now-20211111-44u6bgyn5fdvnp3eqievkebqpe-story.html~~ | 1/9/22 |
JF- DA- competitivenessTournament: sunvite | Round: 6 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: jacob nails US wins the commercial space race now, securing competitiveness into the future.Tepper 8-30 ~Eytan Tepper, research coordinator and adjunct professor, space governance, at Laval University, Canada and Adjunct Research Professor of Law and Faculty Member, Institute for Earth and Space Exploration at Western University, 8-30-2021, "The Space Review: The billionaires compete and the US wins the 21st century space race," No Publication, https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4233/1 ~accessed 12-5-21~ lydia The plan upends a foundation for US competitiveness—-the private space-value chain touches all sectors of the economy.George 19 ~Kelly, Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. "The Economic Impacts of the Commercial Space Industry." Space Policy 47: 181-186.~ brett US competitiveness underwrites global stability and non-prolif—-great power war.Daniel Bessner 17 ~Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy, University of Washington. Jim McDermott, Representative for Washington's 7th District. Francis Wilson, BA, International Studies, University of Washington. "Redefining American Leadership for an Internationalized Era." The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Task Force Report. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/38693/TaskForceC-Bessner.pdf?sequence=1andisAllowed=y~~ brett | 1/9/22 |
JF- DA- innovationTournament: lexington | Round: 2 | Opponent: acton boxborough sp | Judge: jacob bosley The plan upends a foundation for US economic competitiveness—-the space-value chain touches all sectors of the economy.—-includes satellites. US competitiveness underwrites global stability and non-prolif—-great power war.Daniel Bessner 17 ~Assistant Professor in American Foreign Policy, University of Washington. Jim McDermott, Representative for Washington's 7th District. Francis Wilson, BA, International Studies, University of Washington. "Redefining American Leadership for an Internationalized Era." The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. Task Force Report. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/bitstream/handle/1773/38693/TaskForceC-Bessner.pdf?sequence=1andisAllowed=y~~ brett | 1/15/22 |
JF- DA- miningTournament: lexington | Round: 2 | Opponent: acton boxborough sp | Judge: jacob bosley Mining is now – multiple companies are competing in mineral exploitation to obtain rare earth metals.Gilbert 4-26 ~Alex Gilbert is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines. Milken Institute, "Mining in Space Is Coming"; https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming~~ kelvin Private companies are key to a growing space mining sector – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia Space mining is key to sustain global resources — otherwise, resource wars.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Terrestrial resource scarcity goes nuclear—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.Klare 13 ~Michael T., The Nation's defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall. 2013. "How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion," https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/~~ brett Commercial mining solves warming.Pelton 17—(Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown). Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. | 1/15/22 |
JF- DA- mining v2Tournament: lexington | Round: Octas | Opponent: mission san jose sr | Judge: panel Mining in space is set to boom now but private appropriation is key – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia Space mining is key to sustain global resources — otherwise, resource wars.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Terrestrial resource scarcity goes nuclear—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.Klare 13 ~Michael T., The Nation's defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall. 2013. "How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion," https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/~~ brett | 1/28/22 |
JF- DA- mining v3Tournament: berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: harvard westlake ad | Judge: julian kuffour Mining is now – multiple companies are competing in mineral exploitation to obtain rare earth metals.Gilbert 4-26 ~Alex Gilbert is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines. Milken Institute, "Mining in Space Is Coming"; https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming~~ kelvin Private companies are key to space mining – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia Space mining is key to sustain global resources — otherwise, resource wars.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Terrestrial resource scarcity goes nuclear—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.Klare 13 ~Michael T., The Nation's defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall. 2013. "How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion," https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/~~ brett | 2/19/22 |
JF- DA- mining v4Tournament: berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: immaculate heart jl | Judge: brett boelkens Mining is now in China – private companies key to launching new spacecraftCohen 21 Ariel Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Founding Principal of International Market Analysis, a Washington, D.C.-based global risk advisory boutique. I advise law firms and corporations, and once helped to get a famous Russian oligarch out of Putin's jail. I am also a Senior Fellow with the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) where I direct their Energy, Growth, and Security Program (EGS). For 22 years, I was the Heritage Foundation's leading Russia/Eurasia and international energy expert. My consultancy focuses on political risk, national security, and energy policy, especially in Russia/Europe/Eurasia, and the Middle East. The firm's interventions span international security, economics, law, politics, terrorism, and crime and corruption. In addition to consulting for both the public and private sectors, I testify regularly before the U.S. Congress, and appear on Bloomberg, CNN, FOX, BBC, Al Jazeera, and other TV channels, 10-26-2021, "China's Space Mining Industry Is Prepping For Launch – But What About The US?," Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/10/26/chinas-space-mining-industry-is-prepping-for-launch—but-what-about-the-us/?sh=78db81fe2ae0 ella Terrestrial mining causes environmental destruction and inevitable resource shortages, but space mining solves.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Chinese environmental destruction spills overLarson-Robin, 2016 Leah, Dissertation for acquiring a Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science), "Risking Poison to Quench a Thirst: Political Engagement Choices for Citizens and the State in China's Environmental Crisis" University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. That spirals globally and causes extinctionDr. Glen Barry 13, Ph.D. in "Land Resources" and Masters of Science in "Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development" from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "ECOLOGY SCIENCE: Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse," Forests.org, February 4, 2013, pg. http://forests.org/blog/2013/02/ecology-science-terrestrial-ec.asp Mineral scarcity turns every war scenario—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.—-ev literally cites China, talks about expansion in SCS and ECS | 2/20/22 |
JF- DA- mining v4Tournament: berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: immaculate heart jl | Judge: brett boelkens Mining is now in China – private companies key to launching new spacecraftCohen 21 Ariel Cohen, Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Founding Principal of International Market Analysis, a Washington, D.C.-based global risk advisory boutique. I advise law firms and corporations, and once helped to get a famous Russian oligarch out of Putin's jail. I am also a Senior Fellow with the International Tax and Investment Center (ITIC) where I direct their Energy, Growth, and Security Program (EGS). For 22 years, I was the Heritage Foundation's leading Russia/Eurasia and international energy expert. My consultancy focuses on political risk, national security, and energy policy, especially in Russia/Europe/Eurasia, and the Middle East. The firm's interventions span international security, economics, law, politics, terrorism, and crime and corruption. In addition to consulting for both the public and private sectors, I testify regularly before the U.S. Congress, and appear on Bloomberg, CNN, FOX, BBC, Al Jazeera, and other TV channels, 10-26-2021, "China's Space Mining Industry Is Prepping For Launch – But What About The US?," Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/10/26/chinas-space-mining-industry-is-prepping-for-launch—but-what-about-the-us/?sh=78db81fe2ae0 ella Terrestrial mining causes environmental destruction and inevitable resource shortages, but space mining solves.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Chinese environmental destruction spills overLarson-Robin, 2016 Leah, Dissertation for acquiring a Doctor of Philosophy (Political Science), "Risking Poison to Quench a Thirst: Political Engagement Choices for Citizens and the State in China's Environmental Crisis" University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2016. That spirals globally and causes extinctionDr. Glen Barry 13, Ph.D. in "Land Resources" and Masters of Science in "Conservation Biology and Sustainable Development" from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, "ECOLOGY SCIENCE: Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse," Forests.org, February 4, 2013, pg. http://forests.org/blog/2013/02/ecology-science-terrestrial-ec.asp Mineral scarcity turns every war scenario—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.—-ev literally cites China, talks about expansion in SCS and ECS | 2/20/22 |
JF- K- cosmic narcissism vs space explorationTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: kyle kopf The subject is born through experiencing loss- this process is generated by language, creating a gap between the symbolic and the real.McGowan 13 Todd McGowan, 2013, "Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis," University of Nebraska Press/Lincoln and London, SJBE This lack is now in the process of being projected by the universe- epistemology filters the way we understand our relation to outer spaceDickens, P.; Ormrod, J. S. (2007). Outer Space and Internal Nature: Towards a Sociology of the Universe. Sociology, 41(4), 609–626. doi:10.1177/0038038507078915 sosa The 1AC's cosmic narcissism is perpetuated by its orientation towards space exploration- the desire for colonization is intrinsically rooted in violence.Dickens, P.; Ormrod, J. S. (2007). Outer Space and Internal Nature: Towards a Sociology of the Universe. Sociology, 41(4), 609–626. doi:10.1177/0038038507078915 sosa The management of space debris is rooted in a militarized approach to the future that culminates in the full-spectrum dominance of the globe.Reno 20 – Joshua Ozias Reno, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University. PhD from the University of Michigan, "The Wrong Stuff", chapter 4 of Military Waste: The Unexpected Consequences of Permanent War Readiness Univ of California Press, Feb 4, 2020 Pg. 127-130, recut Agastya Our relationship towards nature determines how impacts play out.Morrissey, C.S. 2017 "'Blade Runner 2049' depicts technocratic globalization" BC Catholic https://bccatholic.ca/voices/c-s-morrissey/blade-runner-2049-depicts-technocratic-globalization sosa This cultivates into a politics of melodrama- threats to the current biopolitical ordering register as wounds on the individual level- that encourages violent redemption and the policing of non-virtuous citizenshipAnker '14 Vote negative to refuse of mastering the lost object in favor of embracing its death. Accepting the non-existence of sovereignty is the first step toward ending a cycle of repetitious destruction.Anker '12 The Role of the Judge is to be an analyst – psychoanalysis is a science of rhetoric at the level of rhetorical tropes – that allows us to theorize the empirical life of desire.Lundberg '12 | 4/23/22 |
JF- K- royal science v lunar heritageTournament: berkeley | Round: 5 | Opponent: plano east rp | Judge: scott brown The Role of the Judge is to decide the virtue of Empire- with Apocalypse on the horizon, the question we must ask was whether it was all worth it.Grove 19 ~Jarius, PoliSci at the University of Hawai'i. 2019. "Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics in the Anthropocene."~ brackets for bad words pat rc sosa– ask me for the PDF The 1AC's framing of surveillance being the bastion of deterrence reifies insecurity, reinforcing conformation bias and a global pursuit of violence.Masco, 12 (Joseph, Prof. of Anthropology @ U. of Chicago, "The End of Ends" Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Fall 2012), pp. 1107-1124) ask for PDF sosa Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is be buried alive together.Grove '19 | 2/20/22 |
JF- K- royale science vs global commonsTournament: barkley forum | Round: 1 | Opponent: marlborough ms | Judge: alex barry The Role of the Judge is to decide the virtue of Empire- with Apocalypse on the horizon, the question we must ask was whether it was all worth it.Grove 19 ~Jarius, PoliSci at the University of Hawai'i. 2019. "Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics in the Anthropocene."~ brackets for bad words pat rc sosa– ask me for the PDF The 1AC's focus on space sustainability is driven by the desire to prevent the collapse of the international- restrictions are self-imposed to preserve the capitalistShammas and Holen 19—Victor Shammas and Tomas B Holen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Work Research Institute (AFI), Oslo, Norway and Independent scholar, Oslo, Norway. ("One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space" Palgrave Communications volume 5, Article number: 10 (2019)) sosa The 1AC's framing of satellites being the bastion of deterrence reifies insecurity, reinforcing conformation bias and a global pursuit of violence.Masco, 12 (Joseph, Prof. of Anthropology @ U. of Chicago, "The End of Ends" Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Fall 2012), pp. 1107-1124) ask for PDF sosa Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is be buried alive together.Grove '19 | 1/28/22 |
JF- PIC- miningTournament: sunvite | Round: 1 | Opponent: lake highland hl | Judge: saied beckford We endorse the entirety of the 1AC with the exception of their condemnation of mining in spacePrivate companies are key to a growing space mining sector – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia Space mining is key to sustain global resources — otherwise, resource wars.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Terrestrial resource scarcity goes nuclear—-we outweigh on timeframe, just the prospect of shortages triggers escalation.Klare 13 ~Michael T., The Nation's defense correspondent, is professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, D.C. His newest book, All Hell Breaking Loose: The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change, will be published this fall. 2013. "How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion," https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/~~ brett | 1/8/22 |
JF- Procedural- stop itTournament: barkley forum | Round: 3 | Opponent: millburn ax | Judge: nigel taylor ward Stop it – this is a procedural – you lose- non indigenous setcol is violent and makes debate exclusive which is a prereq to engagementBrough '17 Lack of advocacy for material change strengthens the link- the 1AC uses images of Native suffering and their response is just to say that's bad without proposing how to fix it | 1/28/22 |
JF- T- appropriation v lunar heritageTournament: berkeley | Round: 5 | Opponent: plano east rp | Judge: scott brown Interpretation: Lunar Heritage sites are not appropriation1AC Harrington 19 Andrea J. Harrington, USAF Air Command and Staff College, 2019, "Preserving Humanity ving Humanity's Heritage in Space: Fifty Y s Heritage in Space: Fifty Years After Apollo ears After Apollo 11 and Beyond", Journal of Air Law and Commerce Vol 84 Issue 3 Article 2, https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4126andcontext=jalc ella Negate –1~ Limits and ground – they justify banning practices that straight up aren't appropriation but are just in space like throwing a rock, flying a plane, parachute, helicopter, mining, exploration, all the planets on the first shell, and infinite permutations of these make the case-list too big which2~ Precision - Pre-round prep is centered around DAs against formal sovereignty and case responses to it, their interp means the only basis for predictability becomes the wiki, which moots all pre-topic prep. Err towards common interpretation of international law spanning decades.Use competing interps – can't be reasonably topicalDTD – T indicts the whole affNo RVIs – 1~ illogical – shouldn't win for being fair | 2/20/22 |
JF- T- extraTournament: sunvite | Round: 6 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: jacob nails Interpetation: The affirmative must not defend anything more than the resolution alone.Violation: The moon treaty is extra T. It also applies to IP, which is distinct from real property like owning resources extracted.Listner 11 ~Michael, Monday, October 24, 2011 The Space Review, "The Moon Treaty: failed international law or waiting in the shadows?" https://www.thespacereview.com/article/1954/1~~ brett Vote neg for limits and ground — they can find a treaty that does 100 things and one of them is ban appropriation, which dooms neg prep and means there'd be a new aff each week on different extra topical combinations that makes negating impossible.Ci bc reasonability arbitraryDtd to set a normNo rvis - 1 logic,2 baiting Neg theory 1st bc aff abuse happened first so ours was to get back in the game | 1/9/22 |
JF- T- extraTournament: berkeley | Round: 1 | Opponent: harvard westlake ad | Judge: julian kuffour “Appropriation of outer space” is a term of art that refers to the OST, which regulates private, national, and international conduct. Violation: They said they get rid of capitalism broadly not just in space That’s necessary for limits and ground -- redefining portions of the resolution permits endless reclarification AND creates incentives to focus 1 part of the library for 4 years -- only aligning pre-round research with agent and mechanism solves. Two impacts: Second is Clash – a common point of engagement ensures effective clash, which is a linear impact – negation is the necessary condition for distinguishing debate from discussion, but negation exists on a sliding scale. The topic of discussion is up to the affirmative, but depth and nuanced engagement is determined by negative ground. Any impact intrinsic to debate, not just discussion, comes from negation because it starts the process of critical thinking, reflexivity, and argument refinement. TVA: Just defend appropriation of space by private entities as bad bc of captialism– any 1AR response to the substance of the strategy is offense for us because it proves our model allows for clear contestation and reading the rest of their theory on the negative solves their offense. | 2/19/22 |
JF- T- policyTournament: barkley forum | Round: 3 | Opponent: millburn ax | Judge: nigel taylor ward 1---Ground---absent meeting precise words in the res, we lose all the pre-round prep we did around the resolution, killing neg ground. 2---Vagueness---debates inevitably involve the AFF defending something, but only our interp lets them to clearly define that from the start. Their model leads to late-breaking debates that destroy ground, for example we won’t know if asteroid mining or space exploration are offense until the 1AR, which skews neg prep. 3---Topic ed---specific policies teaches lets us go deep into the topic, uniquely important given the evolving character of space law. outweighs bc we only have 2 month topics, and phil ed is solved by free textbooks. TVA- This aff with a global commons advocacy- allows legit the same aff, and you still center indigenous education CI bc reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention DTD to deter future abuse No RVIs: 1 illogical, you shouldn’t win for being topical, 2 good theory debaters will read abusive positions to bait theory and dump on an RVI | 1/28/22 |
JF- T- policy v2Tournament: berkeley | Round: 5 | Opponent: plano east rp | Judge: scott brown Interp: The AFF must defend policy action in a plan text in the 1AC."Resolved:" the appropriation of outer space by private entities is "unjust" entails policy action:1—-Resolved.Parcher 1 ~Jeff; former debate coach at Georgetown; Feb 26, 2001; https://web.archive.org/web/20020929065555/http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200102/0790.html~~ brett 2—-Unjust.Black's Law ~The Law Dictionary Featuring Black's Law Dictionary Free Online Legal Dictionary 2nd Ed. No Date. https://thelawdictionary.org/unjust/~~ brett Violation: There's no plan, they fiat private actors stop themselves1—-Ground—-absent meeting precise words in the res, we lose all the pre-round prep we did around the resolution like CPs PTX treaty disads and more, killing neg ground.2- Vagueness- lack of a solvency advocate and the unrealistic nature of the aff's implementation means lack of clash- there's no ev in the literature specific to private entities stopping themselvesTVA- this aff with a policy to ban appropriation of lunar heritage sitesCA Paradigms | 2/20/22 |
JF- T- theTournament: berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: immaculate heart jl | Judge: brett boelkens Interpretation: the affirmative may not specify a specific countryBy means:Oxford dictionary https://www.google.com/search?q=by+definitionandoq=by+definitionandaqs=edge..69i57l2j69i59l2j69i60j69i64j69i60l3.1219j0j1andsourceid=chromeandie=UTF-8 Countries are not private entities:Lawinsiderhttps://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/private-entity ella Violation: they specify ChinaPrefer –1~ Limits and ground – they justify speccing any country in the world like Luxembourg, China, Monaco, Peru, Russia, etc. exploding limits and making neg prep impossible2~ Precision - topic wording is the basis of all prep since it's the only thing we have to prep off of pre-round, so jettisoning it creates a lack of stable ground- its also a voter for jurisdiction because judges are constrained by the ballot to vote on the topicCompeting interps on T – you can't be reasonably topicalDTD – T indicts the entire affNo RVIs - 1~ encourages good theory debaters to bait theory and always go for it | 2/20/22 |
JF- T- theTournament: berkeley | Round: 3 | Opponent: immaculate heart jl | Judge: brett boelkens Interpretation: the affirmative may not specify a specific countryBy means:Oxford dictionary https://www.google.com/search?q=by+definitionandoq=by+definitionandaqs=edge..69i57l2j69i59l2j69i60j69i64j69i60l3.1219j0j1andsourceid=chromeandie=UTF-8 Countries are not private entities:Lawinsiderhttps://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/private-entity ella Violation: they specify ChinaPrefer –1~ Limits and ground – they justify speccing any country in the world like Luxembourg, China, Monaco, Peru, Russia, etc. exploding limits and making neg prep impossible2~ Precision - topic wording is the basis of all prep since it's the only thing we have to prep off of pre-round, so jettisoning it creates a lack of stable ground- its also a voter for jurisdiction because judges are constrained by the ballot to vote on the topicCompeting interps on T – you can't be reasonably topicalDTD – T indicts the entire affNo RVIs - 1~ encourages good theory debaters to bait theory and always go for it | 2/20/22 |
JF- fw- utilTournament: sunvite | Round: 1 | Opponent: lake highland hl | Judge: saied beckford Extinction must outweigh – moral uncertainty demands we preserve the conditions for life, even a tiny risk outweighs, and future gains in quality of life ensure it's a prior questionTodd 17 ~Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics, once kick-boxed for Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly. "The case for reducing extinction risk." https://80000hours.org/articles/extinction-risk/~~ brett Anticipating nuclear extinction breeds empathy and entangled care. Distancing ourselves from considering extinction reifies detached elitism.Offord, 17—Faculty of Humanities, School of Humanities Research and Graduate Studies, Bentley Campus (Baden, "BEYOND OUR NUCLEAR ENTANGLEMENT," Angelaki, 22:3, 17-25, dml) ~ableist language modifications denoted by brackets~ TJFs — Prioritize utilitarianism with a focus on existential risk in the context of debates about outer space.Baum 16 ~Seth, @ Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, In "The Ethics of Space Exploration", ed. James S.J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, Springer, 2016, pages 109-123. This version 29 July 2016. https://sethbaum.com/ac/2016_SpaceEthics.pdf~~ brett | 1/8/22 |
JF- fw- util v2Tournament: sunvite | Round: 4 | Opponent: american heritage broward ss | Judge: eric he The meta-ethic is phenomenalism – induction firstSayre-McCord 1 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Mill's "Proof" Of The Principle of Utility: A More Than Half-Hearted Defense", Social Philosophy and Policy, 2001, accessed: 1 April 2020, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/mills-proof-of-the-principle-of-utility-a-more-than-halfhearted-defense/FDBE07CBE08D4E17523930BF8C7BBC32, R.S. The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. Prefer:1~ Actor spec—states must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations.2~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive. That outweighs:A~ Parsimony – metaphysics relies on long chains of questionable claims that make conclusions less likely.B~ Hijacks – intuitions are inevitable since even every framework must take some unjustified assumption as a starting point.3~ TJFs — Prioritize utilitarianism with a focus on existential risk in the context of debates about outer space.Baum 16 ~Seth, @ Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, In "The Ethics of Space Exploration", ed. James S.J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, Springer, 2016, pages 109-123. This version 29 July 2016. https://sethbaum.com/ac/2016_SpaceEthics.pdf~~ brett That outweighs — util is key to research around space because analysis of consequences is critical to any research about the big picture of space exploration, mining, satellites, etc. Two impacts:1~ Fairness, as it's most predictable to topic-oriented prep, so any alternative framework throws away the hard work of novices and well-prepared debaters,2~ Education, absent an incentive to go deep into the topic literature we lose out on research skills that we take out of this space and benefit us for our entire lives.4~ Extinction must outweigh – moral uncertainty demands we preserve the conditions for life, even a tiny risk outweighs, and future gains in quality of life ensure it's a prior questionTodd 17 ~Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics, once kick-boxed for Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly. "The case for reducing extinction risk." https://80000hours.org/articles/extinction-risk/~~ brett Anticipating nuclear extinction breeds empathy and entangled care. Distancing ourselves from considering extinction reifies detached elitism.Offord, 17—Faculty of Humanities, School of Humanities Research and Graduate Studies, Bentley Campus (Baden, "BEYOND OUR NUCLEAR ENTANGLEMENT," Angelaki, 22:3, 17-25, dml) ~ableist language modifications denoted by brackets~ 5~ Reject calc indicts and util triggers permissibility arguments:A~ Theory—they're functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable educationB~ Morally abhorrent – it would say we have no obligation to prevent genocide and that slavery was permissible which is morally abhorrent and makes debate unsafe | 1/8/22 |
JF- fw- util v3Tournament: sunvite | Round: Finals | Opponent: american heritage broward em | Judge: panel The meta-ethic is phenomenalism – induction firstSayre-McCord 1 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Mill's "Proof" Of The Principle of Utility: A More Than Half-Hearted Defense", Social Philosophy and Policy, 2001, accessed: 1 April 2020, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/mills-proof-of-the-principle-of-utility-a-more-than-halfhearted-defense/FDBE07CBE08D4E17523930BF8C7BBC32, R.S. The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. Prefer:1~ Actor spec—states must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations.2~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive. That outweighs:A~ Parsimony – metaphysics relies on long chains of questionable claims that make conclusions less likely.B~ Hijacks – intuitions are inevitable since even every framework must take some unjustified assumption as a starting point.3~ A~ TJFs — Prioritize utilitarianism with a focus on existential risk in the context of debates about outer space.Baum 16 ~Seth, @ Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, In "The Ethics of Space Exploration", ed. James S.J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, Springer, 2016, pages 109-123. This version 29 July 2016. https://sethbaum.com/ac/2016_SpaceEthics.pdf~~ brett B~ Only constructive policy debates nurture information literacy necessary for every model of politics – the process of sifting through evidence and subjecting positions to researched scrutiny is essential to managing emerging crises and information overloadLeek 16 ~Danielle R. Leek, professor of communications at Grand Valley State University, "Policy debate pedagogy: a complementary strategy for civic and political engagement through service-learning," Communication Education, 65:4, 399-405~ 4~ Extinction must outweigh – moral uncertainty demands we preserve the conditions for life, even a tiny risk outweighs, and future gains in quality of life ensure it's a prior questionTodd 17 ~Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics, once kick-boxed for Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly. "The case for reducing extinction risk." https://80000hours.org/articles/extinction-risk/~~ brett Anticipating extinction breeds empathy and entangled care. Distancing ourselves from considering extinction reifies detached elitism.Offord, 17—Faculty of Humanities, School of Humanities Research and Graduate Studies, Bentley Campus (Baden, "BEYOND OUR NUCLEAR ENTANGLEMENT," Angelaki, 22:3, 17-25, dml) ~ableist language modifications denoted by brackets~ 5~ Reject calc indicts and util triggers permissibility arguments:A~ Theory—they're functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable educationB~ Morally abhorrent – it would say we have no obligation to prevent genocide and that slavery was permissible which is morally abhorrent and makes debate unsafe | 1/13/22 |
JF- fw- util v4Tournament: lexington | Round: 4 | Opponent: memorial sc | Judge: anthony survance Extinction must outweigh – moral uncertainty demands we preserve the conditions for life, even a tiny risk outweighs, and future gains in quality of life ensure it's a prior questionTodd 17 ~Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics, once kick-boxed for Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly. "The case for reducing extinction risk." https://80000hours.org/articles/extinction-risk/~~ brett Anticipating nuclear extinction breeds empathy and entangled care. Distancing ourselves from considering extinction reifies detached elitism.Offord, 17—Faculty of Humanities, School of Humanities Research and Graduate Studies, Bentley Campus (Baden, "BEYOND OUR NUCLEAR ENTANGLEMENT," Angelaki, 22:3, 17-25, dml) ~ableist language modifications denoted by brackets~ Prioritize utilitarianism with a focus on existential risk in the context of debates about outer space.Baum 16 ~Seth, @ Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, In "The Ethics of Space Exploration", ed. James S.J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, Springer, 2016, pages 109-123. This version 29 July 2016. https://sethbaum.com/ac/2016_SpaceEthics.pdf~~ brett Foreign policy experts are good – take in more information and clash to create self-correcting outcomesBrands et. al 20 ~HAL BRANDS, the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense in 2015-2016. PETER FEAVER, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University, served as special adviser for strategic planning and institutional reform at the National Security Council staff in 2005-2007 and as director for defense policy and arms control in 1993-1994. WILLIAM INBODEN, William Powers, Jr., Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security and an Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, served at the State Department in 2002-2005 and as senior director for strategic planning on the National Security Council staff in 2005-2007, "In Defense of the Blob", April 29th, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-04-29/defense-blob~~ Only constructive policy debates nurture information literacy necessary for every model of politicsLeek 16 ~Danielle R. Leek, professor of communications at Grand Valley State University, "Policy debate pedagogy: a complementary strategy for civic and political engagement through service-learning," Communication Education, 65:4, 399-405~ | 1/15/22 |
JF- fw- util v5Tournament: lexington | Round: 6 | Opponent: northern valley js | Judge: adam tomasi The meta-ethic is phenomenalism – induction firstSayre-McCord 1 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Mill's "Proof" Of The Principle of Utility: A More Than Half-Hearted Defense", Social Philosophy and Policy, 2001, accessed: 1 April 2020, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/mills-proof-of-the-principle-of-utility-a-more-than-halfhearted-defense/FDBE07CBE08D4E17523930BF8C7BBC32, R.S. The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. Prefer:1~ Actor spec—states must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations.2~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive. That outweighs:A~ Parsimony – metaphysics relies on long chains of questionable claims that make conclusions less likely.B~ Hijacks – intuitions are inevitable since even every framework must take some unjustified assumption as a starting point.3~ A~ TJFs — Prioritize utilitarianism with a focus on existential risk in the context of debates about outer space.Baum 16 ~Seth, @ Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, In "The Ethics of Space Exploration", ed. James S.J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, Springer, 2016, pages 109-123. This version 29 July 2016. https://sethbaum.com/ac/2016_SpaceEthics.pdf~~ brett 4~ Extinction must outweigh – moral uncertainty demands we preserve the conditions for life, even a tiny risk outweighs, and future gains in quality of life ensure it's a prior questionTodd 17 ~Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics, once kick-boxed for Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly. "The case for reducing extinction risk." https://80000hours.org/articles/extinction-risk/~~ brett 5~ Reject calc indicts and util triggers permissibility arguments:A~ Theory—they're functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable educationB~ Morally abhorrent – it would say we have no obligation to prevent genocide and that slavery was permissible which is morally abhorrent and makes debate unsafe | 1/16/22 |
JF- fw- util v6Tournament: barkley forum | Round: 5 | Opponent: american heritage broward em | Judge: chris castillo The meta-ethic is phenomenalism – induction firstSayre-McCord 1 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Mill's "Proof" Of The Principle of Utility: A More Than Half-Hearted Defense", Social Philosophy and Policy, 2001, accessed: 1 April 2020, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/mills-proof-of-the-principle-of-utility-a-more-than-halfhearted-defense/FDBE07CBE08D4E17523930BF8C7BBC32, R.S. The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing-aka hedonistic act util. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. Prefer:1~ Actor spec—states must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations.2~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive.3~ A~ TJFs — Prioritize utilitarianism with a focus on existential risk in the context of debates about outer space.Baum 16 ~Seth, @ Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, In "The Ethics of Space Exploration", ed. James S.J. Schwartz and Tony Milligan, Springer, 2016, pages 109-123. This version 29 July 2016. https://sethbaum.com/ac/2016_SpaceEthics.pdf~~ brett B~ Only constructive policy debates nurture information literacy necessary for every model of politics – the process of sifting through evidence and subjecting positions to researched scrutiny is essential to managing emerging crises and information overloadLeek 16 ~Danielle R. Leek, professor of communications at Grand Valley State University, "Policy debate pedagogy: a complementary strategy for civic and political engagement through service-learning," Communication Education, 65:4, 399-405~ 4~ Extinction must outweigh – moral uncertainty demands we preserve the conditions for life, even a tiny risk outweighs, and future gains in quality of life ensure it's a prior questionTodd 17 ~Ben has a 1st from Oxford in Physics and Philosophy, has published in Climate Physics, once kick-boxed for Oxford, and speaks Chinese, badly. "The case for reducing extinction risk." https://80000hours.org/articles/extinction-risk/~~ brett Anticipating extinction breeds empathy and entangled care. Distancing ourselves from considering extinction reifies detached elitism.Offord, 17—Faculty of Humanities, School of Humanities Research and Graduate Studies, Bentley Campus (Baden, "BEYOND OUR NUCLEAR ENTANGLEMENT," Angelaki, 22:3, 17-25, dml) ~ableist language modifications denoted by brackets~ | 1/29/22 |
ND- CP- food securityTournament: blue key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: strake jesuit EP | Judge: panel The United States ought to:Recognize a right of workers to strike, except for workers who are essential to a country's food supplyProvide those workers with a unconditional right to impartial conciliation followed by arbitration procedures====Workers right to strike can be conditional in the context of food supply—-exceptions are limited to avoid abuses, AND enable alternatives that channel worker demands==== ====Strikes cause food insecurity—-empirics==== Food insecurity goes nuclearHartley et al 12 (Major General John Hartley AO (Retd), CEO and Institute, Director Future Directions International, Roundtable Chairman. Alyson Clarke, FDI Executive Officer Gary Kleyn, Manager, FDI Global Food and Water Crises Research Programme, "International Conflict Triggers and Potential Conflict Points Resulting from Food and Water Insecurity" 25 May 2012 http://futuredirections.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Workshop_Report_-_Intl_Conflict_Triggers_-_May_25.pdf) brett | 10/31/21 |
ND- K- immortal scienceTournament: blue key round robin | Round: Semis | Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: panel Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat The affirmation of the right to strike as something to be recognized places the energy that drives class struggle into containment, rendering the right conditional.Marc Crépon and Micol Bez 19; Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. Micol Bez @ CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d'Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence". Critical Times 1 August 2019; 2 (2): 252–260. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/2/2/252/141479/The-Right-to-Strike-and-Legal-War-in-Walter brett Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Capitalist climate reforms can't solve warming – it doesn't challenge the imperial structure of production.Escalante '19 Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante '18 | 10/29/21 |
ND- K- immortal science v2Tournament: blue key | Round: 4 | Opponent: lexington ar | Judge: tajaih robinson Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat The affirmation of the right to strike as something to be recognized places the energy that drives class struggle into containment, rendering the right conditional.Marc Crépon and Micol Bez 19; Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. Micol Bez @ CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d'Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence". Critical Times 1 August 2019; 2 (2): 252–260. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/2/2/252/141479/The-Right-to-Strike-and-Legal-War-in-Walter brett Unions are just capitalism-lite. Their bagentos ev spots us the link- says they promote unionization.Internationalist Perspective IP '16, is a left-communist publication defending Marxism as a living theory and critiquing left-communist theory, "Trade unions: pillars of capitalism - Internationalist Perspective", LibCom, 1/5/16, https://libcom.org/library/trade-unions-pillars-capitalism-internationalist-perspective** Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante '18 Communism reorganizes social and economic life around a new concept of work that doesn't mandate ableist productivity and creates solidarity.Slorach '15 | 10/30/21 |
ND- K- immortal science v3Tournament: blue key | Round: 5 | Opponent: basis independent silicon valley sk | Judge: lukas krause Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat The affirmation of the right to strike as something to be recognized places the energy that drives class struggle into containment, rendering the right conditional.Marc Crépon and Micol Bez 19; Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. Micol Bez @ CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d'Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence". Critical Times 1 August 2019; 2 (2): 252–260. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/2/2/252/141479/The-Right-to-Strike-and-Legal-War-in-Walter brett Unions are just capitalism-lite. Their bagentos ev spots us the link- says they promote unionization.Internationalist Perspective IP '16, is a left-communist publication defending Marxism as a living theory and critiquing left-communist theory, "Trade unions: pillars of capitalism - Internationalist Perspective", LibCom, 1/5/16, https://libcom.org/library/trade-unions-pillars-capitalism-internationalist-perspective** Ethical abstraction erases the material basis of exploitation and experience as foundational to human social production – you should understand humanity as a historical agent instead.Eagleton '11 Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante '18 | 10/30/21 |
ND- K- immortal science v4Tournament: blue key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: strake jesuit EP | Judge: panel Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat The affirmation of the right to strike as something to be recognized places the energy that drives class struggle into containment, rendering the right conditional.Marc Crépon and Micol Bez 19; Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. Micol Bez @ CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d'Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence". Critical Times 1 August 2019; 2 (2): 252–260. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/2/2/252/141479/The-Right-to-Strike-and-Legal-War-in-Walter brett The strike naturalizes capital's control and is parasitic on political organizing.Eidlin 20 Barry Eidlin (assistant professor of sociology at McGill University and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada), 1-6-2020, "Why Unions Are Good – But Not Good Enough," Jacobin, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/marxism-trade-unions-socialism-revolutionary-organizing Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 ====Capitalism brews fascism==== This dysfunction drives imperialism and inter-capitalist competition—-risks nuclear warReese 20 - author of Socialism or Extinction and The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Ted, https://www.amazon.com/Socialism-Extinction-Automation-Capitalist-Breakdown-ebook/dp/B081FHF2ZQ, emuse) Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante '18 | 10/31/21 |
ND- K- immortal science v5Tournament: blue key | Round: Octas | Opponent: strake jesuit ks | Judge: panel Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat The affirmation of the right to strike as something to be recognized places the energy that drives class struggle into containment, rendering the right conditional.Marc Crépon and Micol Bez 19; Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. Micol Bez @ CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d'Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence". Critical Times 1 August 2019; 2 (2): 252–260. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/2/2/252/141479/The-Right-to-Strike-and-Legal-War-in-Walter brett SDG is a prime example of capitalism trying to clean up its own mess- and only making things worse in the process.Walton, A.(2021, February 18). Capitalism won't give us the development we need. Tribune. Retrieved October 31, 2021, from https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/02/development-through-capitalism-is-no-development-at-all. sosa Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 ====Capitalism brews fascism==== This dysfunction drives imperialism and inter-capitalist competition—-risks nuclear warReese 20 - author of Socialism or Extinction and The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Ted, https://www.amazon.com/Socialism-Extinction-Automation-Capitalist-Breakdown-ebook/dp/B081FHF2ZQ, emuse) Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante '18 | 10/31/21 |
ND- K- melodrama by lordeTournament: blue key round robin | Round: 1 | Opponent: lexington ag | Judge: panel The fractured nature of the subject leaves one oriented around the mastery of a lost object- recognizing the right to strike is an attempt to satisfy this loss with an investment into the notion of dignified workBarchiesi '9 Hegemony is a paranoid fantasy – the 1AC's attempt to overcome its obstacles to primacy only externalizes the lack to convince us that the problem lies in Otherness – that creates a feedback loop of insecurity and racialized logics.Solomon '15 Economic issues such as poverty and unemployment are structurally inevitable—policy responses will inevitably be managed by the desire for accumulation capitalists and promote violent interventions overseasTozzo '11 This cultivates into a politics of melodrama- threats to the current biopolitical ordering register as wounds on the individual level- that encourages violent redemption and the policing of non-virtuous citizenshipAnker '14 The Role of the Judge is to be an analyst – psychoanalysis is a science of rhetoric at the level of rhetorical tropes – that allows us to theorize the empirical life of desire.Lundberg '12 | 10/28/21 |
ND- blue key r2Tournament: blue key | Round: 2 | Opponent: check round reportcite | Judge: check round reportcite | 10/30/21 |
ND- theory- ideal governmentTournament: blue key | Round: 4 | Opponent: lexington ar | Judge: tajaih robinson Interpretation: Debaters must defend an existing government- not an ideal one.Violation: They defend an ideal governmentStandardsShiftiness- they can spike out of disads and counterplans by saying our ev is about the squo or squo actors which kills neg engagement.That outweighsPredictability because we can't know what prep does or doesn't link in a hypothetical worldReversibility because we cant recover lost argumentsSpecificity- creates more nuanced depth because we can read ev specific to your scenario.Outweighs- nuanced clash is better clash which is the telos to debate.Real world- its always possible for a real government to recognize the right to strike but not a made up oneThat outweighs- If education isn't portable its uselessCompeting interpretations to set the best norms.Reasonability is arbitrary because it begs the question of competing brightlinesNo rvis | 10/30/21 |
SO- CP- Jordan consult USTournament: mid america cup | Round: Quarters | Opponent: sage mp | Judge: panel Text: The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan should enter into prior, binding, and genuine consultation with the United States over whether they should reduce data exclusivity for medicines. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan should implement the results of the consultation.Their solvency advocate recommends the CP and the US says yes.1AC Barqawi 19 "The access to medicine puzzle: scaling back the negative effects of the Jordan–US Free Trade Agreement" Laila Barqawi ~Lecturer of University of Central Lancashire, Preston (UCLAN)~. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2019, Pages 678–686, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpz080 SM Consultation is key the Jordan's alliance with the US.1AC Barqawi 19 "The access to medicine puzzle: scaling back the negative effects of the Jordan–US Free Trade Agreement" Laila Barqawi ~Lecturer of University of Central Lancashire, Preston (UCLAN)~. Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice, Volume 14, Issue 9, September 2019, Pages 678–686, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpz080 SM US-Jordan alliance key to stability and solving warMagid 9-17, Aaron Magid is a Washington-based Middle East analyst. His articles on Jordanian politics have appeared in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and Al-Monitor. Follow him on Twitter: @AaronMagid. "New Political and Security Challenges for Jordan and Gulf States After U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan" https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/85367 brett US-Jordan partnership turns econ and healthcare.JFDA ND, Jordanian Food and Drug Administration. Jordan Food and Drug Administration Partners with USAID to Boost Competitiveness of Pharmaceutical Industry. Likely 2018 — cited by the Barqawi article. http://www.jfda.jo/DetailsPage/Ar/NewsDetails.aspx?PID=388 brett | 9/27/21 |
SO- CP- biopiracy and biowarTournament: mid america cup | Round: Octas | Opponent: dths hv | Judge: panel Text:States ought to create an international agency monitoring the bioweapons treaty and limit declarations under the biological weapons convention to facilities "especially suitable" for bioweapons uses.States ought to reduce intellectual property protections on medicines to the point that discoverable biological elements are not patentable outside of their country of origin.Solves biowar.Samore 21. Gary Samore is a Professor of the Practice of Politics and Crown Family Director of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. This article is republished from The Conversation. BrandeisNOW, "Bioweapons research is banned by an international treaty – but nobody is checking for violations" https://www.brandeis.edu/now/2021/july/bioweapons-samore.html sosa Solves bioprospectingMartin Khor October 2000 Why Life Forms Should Not Be Patented Third World Network Features, https://www.twn.my/title/2103.htm | 9/27/21 |
SO- DA- antitrustTournament: mid america cup rr | Round: 4 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: panel Bipartisan antitrust bills passing now but continued PC needed to pacify republicans.Perlman 9/3 ~Matthew; 9/3/21; "Interest Groups Back Big Tech Antitrust Bills In House," LAW360, https://www.law360.com/competition/articles/1418789/interest-groups-back-big-tech-antitrust-bills-in-house~~ Justin Getting republicans and big pharma on board requires immense PCM.K. Bhadrakumar 5-8, Retired Ambassador; Columnist for Hindu and Deccan Herald Indian newspapers, Rediff.com, Asia Times and Strategic Culture Foundation, Moscow. NewsClick, 5-8-21. "Biden's Decision on TRIPS Waiver is Political Theatre" https://www.newsclick.in/biden-decision-TRIPS-waiver-political-theatre brett Tech sector monopoly threatens the DIB—-antitrust is key.Ganesh Sitaraman 20, Vanderbilt University Law School, 3/12/20, "The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech," https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3537870 brett DIB is key to deter great power war—-uniquely requires innovationWilliam Greenwalt 19, Senior Fellow at the Atlanta Council, April 2019, "Leveraging the National Technology Industrial Base To Address Great-Power Competition", Atlanta Council, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Leveraging_the_National_Technology_Industrial_Base_to_Address_Great-Power_Competition.pdf brett | 9/25/21 |
SO- DA- biohackingTournament: greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: immaculate heart ss | Judge: andrew halverson | 9/18/21 |
SO- DA- diplomatic capitalTournament: mid america cup rr | Round: 3 | Opponent: saratoga ag | Judge: panel Current US diplomatic efforts solve climate change BUT diplomatic capital is keyYu 20 Alan Yu, a senior fellow and the director of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress. Previously, he was a career foreign service officer at the State Department., 12-8-2020, "How U.S. Diplomacy and Diplomats Can Help Get International Climate Action Back on Track," Center for American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2020/12/08/493528/u-s-diplomacy-diplomats-can-help-get-international-climate-action-back-track/, accessed 7/27/2021 EH Biden is currently avoiding disagreements with other WTO members over TRIPS. The plan flips that to create consensus, expending critical dip-capDay 7-19, Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin. Jacobin, 7-19-21. "Biden Just Turned Down a Golden Opportunity to End Vaccine Apartheid" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/biden-administration-covid-19-vaccine-apartheid-global-south-distribution-merkel brett Dip-cap is finite—-the plan distracts US focusAnderson and Grewell 01 Terry L. Anderson is executive director of Political Economy Research Center / J. Bishop Grewell is a research associate with PERC, The Greening of Foreign Policy, Chicago Journal of International Law Fall, 2001 2 Chi. J. Int'l L. 427 (Lexis-Nexis) Warming causes extinctionTorres 16 (Phil, affiliate scholar @ Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies PhD candidate @ Rice University in tropical conservation biology, Op-ed: Climate Change Is the Most Urgent Existential Risk, http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Torres20160807) | 9/24/21 |
SO- DA- tech transferTournament: mid america cup rr | Round: 4 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: panel India is building it's relations with the West on the bedrock of new economic ties¬¬¬¬¬—-that's key to counterbalancing China in the regionMohan 21 C. Raja Mohan ~director of the National University of Singapore's Institute of South Asian Studies.~,3-19-2021, "India Romances the West," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/19/india-modi-west-quad-china-biden-non-aligned/ , accessed 8/8/2021 EH and Brett The TRIPS waiver sets the stage for India to use forced tech transfer to secure vaccines—-that decks relationsYogesh Pai and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu 21, Dr. Yogesh Pai has a PhD from the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, CUSAT, Kochi, in the area of Regulation of Standard-Essential Patents in India. Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu Assistant Professor, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law,. Hyderabad. Scrolli.in, Jun 01, 2021. "Even if WTO waives IP on vaccines, India will face challenge translating this into mass production" https://scroll.in/article/996079/even-if-wto-waives-ip-on-vaccines-india-will-face-challenge-translating-this-into-mass-production brett US-India economic ties are key to strategic co-operationGupta 20, Anubhav Gupta is the associate director of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. WPR, March 5, 2020. "Despite the Trump-Modi 'Love,' Trade Is Still the Weak Link in U.S.-India Relations" https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28579/despite-the-trump-modi-love-trade-is-still-the-weak-link-in-us-india-relations brett | 9/25/21 |
SO- K- dreadTournament: greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: northland christian lb | Judge: chris castillo Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja '16 We will impact turn their claim to WTO legitimacy – it's the newest form of capitalist imperialism that forcibly opens national bodies to the violence of globalization.Fukuda '10 The AFF is vaccine imperialism.Andrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett Modern empire is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix '18 Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is hope to be buried alive together.Grove '19 The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – voting neg refuses to play into the affirmation of life for the sake of itEhlers and Krupar '14 | 9/19/21 |
SO- K- dread v2Tournament: mid america cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: scarsdale jt | Judge: tajaih robinson The aff's positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.Christophers 16 ~Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, "The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law," 2016, Harvard University Press, pp. 8-15, EA~ Modern empire is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix '18 Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is hope to be buried alive together.Grove '19 The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – voting neg refuses to play into the affirmation of life for the sake of itEhlers and Krupar '14 | 9/25/21 |
SO- K- dread v3Tournament: mid america cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: strake jesuit da | Judge: keshav dandu Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja '16 The aff's positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.Christophers 16 ~Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, "The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law," 2016, Harvard University Press, pp. 8-15, EA~ The AFF is vaccine imperialism.Andrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett Modern empire is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix '18 Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is hope to be buried alive together.Grove '19 The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – frame the debate through competing models of thoughtEhlers and Krupar '14 | 9/26/21 |
SO- K- dread v4Tournament: mid america cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: saratoga ag | Judge: akshay manglik Empire has shifted from the administration of death to the production of life – the affs restructuring of global medical intervention is the new logic of biopolitical governance – no longer is imperialism a question of borders and military power, but rather the protection of bodies.Ahuja '16 The aff's positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.Christophers 16 ~Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, "The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law," 2016, Harvard University Press, pp. 8-15, EA~ The aff's investment in public health as a response to the threat of disease sanctions a more sinister form of biopolitical racism whereby "unhealthy" populations are subject to ethnic cleansing and state-sanctioned violence.Elbe '5 Modern empire is unsustainable — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) This culminates in a form of dread life which organizes and deploys disaster biopolitics to justify constant interventionism, health apartheid, and antagonistic subject formation that turns and outweighs the aff.Debrix '18 Voting negative adopts failed IR for a healthy dose of pessimism – at the end of the world, all we can do is hope to be buried alive together.Grove '19 The Role of the Judge is to give up hope.Hopeful affirmation warps within the biomedical sphere to structure policy toward the governance of difference – frame the debate through competing models of thoughtEhlers and Krupar '14 | 9/26/21 |
SO- K- immortal scienceTournament: greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: immaculate heart ss | Judge: andrew halverson Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat The aff's positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.Christophers 16 ~Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, "The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law," 2016, Harvard University Press, pp. 8-15, EA~ Capitalist trade is central to global warming.Bello 08 Walden, senior analyst at the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South and professor at the University of the Philippines, July 28, "Derail Doha, Save the Climate", http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/07/29/derail-doha-save-climate/ brett Capitalist peace is wrong — interdependence multiplies the risk of war.Lucas Hahn 16. Bryant University. April, 2016. Global Economic Expansion and the Prevalence of Militarized Interstate Disputes. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/honors_economics/24/ brett *MIDs = Militarized Interstate Disputes Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) Vote negative for proletarian internationalism — only an organized global revolutionary struggle can overcome the destruction of capitalism.Anastasi et al, 18 (editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine, a militant research collective working to dialectically bring theory and practice into dialogue by studying cycles of struggle. Alphabetically, members of the editorial collective are as follows: Andrew Anastasi, graduate student in Sociology at CUNY; Cinzia Arruzza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; Robert Cavooris, UC Santa Cruz graduate student and union representative, History of Consciousness Department; Maya Andrea Gonzalez, communist and revolutionary feminist in the Bay Area, graduate student in the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz; Asad Haider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy @ The New School, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, PhD in History of Consciousness Department @ UC Santa Cruz; Shuja Haider, widely-published writer and musician based in Brooklyn; Bue Rübner Hansen, writer and activist researcher in the Britain, Barcelona, and in migrant and refugee solidarity movements, PhD from Queen Mary University; Patrick King, graduate student at UC Santa Cruz; Rosa Lee, communist organizer and member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Ben Mabie, managing editor at Viewpoint and editorial assistant at Verso Books, UCSC graduate; Sarah Mason, member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Liz Mason-Deese, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University; Dave Mesing, PhD student in Philosophy @ Villanova University; Magally Miranda-Alcazar, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, PhD student in Chicana/o Studies @ UCLA; B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (magna cum laude) with a double major in Community Studies and Feminist Studies, and has been published in The Nation, Verso and the New Left Review; Salar Mohandesi, Assistant Professor of History @ Bowdoin; Gavin Mueller, Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, former contributing editor @ Jacobin; Evan Calder Williams, writer, translater, and artist, teaches theory at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and film production at Cooper Union, PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his research on cinema, industry, and revolt. "Internationalism against Imperialism," Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 6, February 1, 2018, https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/internationalism-against-imperialism/) | 9/18/21 |
SO- K- immortal science v2Tournament: greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: andrew pribe | Judge: yardley rosas Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat The aff's positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.Christophers 16 ~Brett Christophers, Professor in the Department of Social and Economic Geography at Uppsala University, "The Great Leveler: Capitalism and Competition in the Court of Law," 2016, Harvard University Press, pp. 8-15, EA~ Revolution is closer than ever – but that's because of instabilityBasanta '20 The TRIPS waiver saves the WTO — the crown jewel of modern capitalism.Meyer 21, David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO's survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett Capitalist trade is central to global warming.Bello 08 Walden, senior analyst at the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South and professor at the University of the Philippines, July 28, "Derail Doha, Save the Climate", http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/07/29/derail-doha-save-climate/ brett Capitalist peace is wrong — interdependence multiplies the risk of war.Lucas Hahn 16. Bryant University. April, 2016. Global Economic Expansion and the Prevalence of Militarized Interstate Disputes. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/honors_economics/24/ brett *MIDs = Militarized Interstate Disputes Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman '17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) Vote negative for proletarian internationalism — only an organized global revolutionary struggle can overcome the destruction of capitalism.Anastasi et al, 18 (editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine, a militant research collective working to dialectically bring theory and practice into dialogue by studying cycles of struggle. Alphabetically, members of the editorial collective are as follows: Andrew Anastasi, graduate student in Sociology at CUNY; Cinzia Arruzza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; Robert Cavooris, UC Santa Cruz graduate student and union representative, History of Consciousness Department; Maya Andrea Gonzalez, communist and revolutionary feminist in the Bay Area, graduate student in the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz; Asad Haider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy @ The New School, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, PhD in History of Consciousness Department @ UC Santa Cruz; Shuja Haider, widely-published writer and musician based in Brooklyn; Bue Rübner Hansen, writer and activist researcher in the Britain, Barcelona, and in migrant and refugee solidarity movements, PhD from Queen Mary University; Patrick King, graduate student at UC Santa Cruz; Rosa Lee, communist organizer and member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Ben Mabie, managing editor at Viewpoint and editorial assistant at Verso Books, UCSC graduate; Sarah Mason, member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Liz Mason-Deese, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University; Dave Mesing, PhD student in Philosophy @ Villanova University; Magally Miranda-Alcazar, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, PhD student in Chicana/o Studies @ UCLA; B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (magna cum laude) with a double major in Community Studies and Feminist Studies, and has been published in The Nation, Verso and the New Left Review; Salar Mohandesi, Assistant Professor of History @ Bowdoin; Gavin Mueller, Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, former contributing editor @ Jacobin; Evan Calder Williams, writer, translater, and artist, teaches theory at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and film production at Cooper Union, PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his research on cinema, industry, and revolt. "Internationalism against Imperialism," Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 6, February 1, 2018, https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/internationalism-against-imperialism/) | 9/19/21 |
SO- K- immortal science v3Tournament: mid america cup | Round: Quarters | Opponent: sage mp | Judge: panel Capitalism locks in existential climate change — only transition can achieve the absolute decoupling necessary to solve.Reese 20 - author of Socialism or Extinction and The End of Capitalism: The Thought of Henryk Grossman (Ted, https://grossmanite.medium.com/socialism-or-extinction-is-a-fact-not-a-slogan-3cb97b198c50, emuse) Their positioning of capitalist competition as intrinsic good driven by IP reform acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly Vote negative for proletarian internationalism — only an organized global revolutionary struggle can overcome the destruction of capitalism.That uses dual power organizing which is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante '18 | 9/27/21 |
SO- T- IPPTournament: mid america cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: saratoga ag | Judge: akshay manglik Interpretation: The affirmative must only defend a reduction in intellectual property protections for medicine.IPRs deal with patents, trademarks, trade secrets and copy rightsUpcounsel 20, https://www.upcounsel.com/intellectual-property-protection Violation: Their own solvency advocate says the bill the aff happens under uses price setting- that doesn't change anything about patents, trademarks, trade secrets or copyrightsScott 18 Dylan Scott ~grew up in Ohio, lived in Las Vegas for a year and moved to Washington in 2011. I cover health care and other domestic policy.~, 12-20-2018, "Elizabeth Warren's ambitious new bill to lower generic drug prices, explained," Vox, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/20/18146993/elizabeth-warren-2020-election-drug-prices-bill DD AG At best they're extra T which still links to all of our offensVote neg:1~ Precision—-all neg prep is centered on words in the resolution, the precise definition of our word from a legal source means it'd be the most predictable in the lit.2~ Limits- their model implodes the topic by allowing basically any policy tangentially related to making medicine more accessible which implodes neg prep burden and allows the aff to skip nuanced testingTVA; 1. waive patents for insulin2. Eliminate patents for insulinCompeting interpretations-Reasonability is arbitrary because its up to judges with different brightlines- competing interps sets the best normsDTD- no arg to drop, indicts entire affNo rvisIllogical you don't win for being fair | 9/26/21 |
SO- T- cant double specTournament: mid america cup | Round: Quarters | Opponent: sage mp | Judge: panel Interpretation: The affirmative must defend EITHER all member nations of the World Trade Organization or reduce all intellectual property protections for medicines. The negative may not read plan inclusive counterplans.Violation: The affirmative defends ONLY Jordan and ONLY data exclusivity. They can read either Jordan OR data exclusivity but not both.Vote neg for limits — there are 164 members , which means their interp justifies reducing any IP protection in any WTO member, creating hundreds of potential AFFs to prep out. This kills negative ground because different countries can have different economic situations that affect the Innovation debate and we lose all disads to global action. Two impacts:1 — Fairness — an unlimited topic makes neg engagement impossible because there'd be tons of new AFFs to prep out every tournament. Uniquely kills small schools because they'd be unable to keep up with the prep burden.2 — Research — the neg loses any incentive to do targeted research when the prep burden is so high so debaters would resort to stale generics and lose topic specific education. That outweighs because we only have 2 months to debate the topic and COVID is uniquely important to many debaters' lives.Paradigms:Drop the debater to deter future abuse.Competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention.No RVIs:1~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for being fair,2~ baiting – the best theory debaters would read abusive advocacies to go for the RVI,3~ substance – any initiation of theory ensures the 2NR and 2AR are theory, crowding out substance.Neg theory 1st – 1AC abuse shaped NC construction so if anything we did was bad it was just to get back in the game. | 9/27/21 |
SO- T- frameworkTournament: mid america cup | Round: Octas | Opponent: dths hv | Judge: panel Interpretation: The affirmative must be topical."Resolved" denotes a formal resolution.AWS '13 ~Army Writing Style; August 24th; Online resource dedicated to all major writing requirements in the Army; Army Writing Style, "Punctuation — The Colon and Semicolon," https://armywritingstyle.com/punctuation-the-colon-and-semicolon/~~ "The member nations of the World Trade Organization" are 164 governments loosely tied by commitment to global tradeCalChamber ND, The CalChamber, in keeping with long-standing policy, enthusiastically supports free trade worldwide, expansion of international trade and investment, fair and equitable market access for California products abroad and elimination of disincentives that impede the international competitiveness of California business. Likely post-2020. "World Trade Organization" https://advocacy.calchamber.com/international/trade/world-trade-organization/ brett "Reduce" means diminish.Friedman '99 ~Daniel; February 9th; Senior Circuit Judge; Cuna Mutual Life Insurance Company, "Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES," https://cite.case.law/f3d/169/737/615055/~~ "Intellectual property protections" are legally established rightsTrevor Brewer 19, legal advisor @ BrewerLong Business Law, "WHAT ARE THE FOUR BASIC TYPES OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS?" https://brewerlong.com/information/business-law/four-types-of-intellectual-property/ brett Violation: The "inhuman" is not a member nation in the world trade organization, and changing our orientation towards technology is not modifying the law to reduce IP protections — that was CX.That's necessary for limits and ground — redefining portions of the resolution permits endless reclarification AND creates incentives to focus 1 part of the library for 4 years — only aligning pre-round research with agent and mechanism solves.Two impacts:First is Fairness – prioritize preserving the competitive aspects of debate – games cannot operate unless both sides can be confident in advance they have an equal chance of winning – the fact they've asked you to vote for them proves we all agree that debate is a competition.Second is Clash – a common point of engagement ensures effective clash, which is a linear impact – negation is the necessary condition for distinguishing debate from discussion, but negation exists on a sliding scale. The topic of discussion is up to the affirmative, but depth and nuanced engagement is determined by negative ground. Any impact intrinsic to debate, not just discussion, comes from negation because it starts the process of critical thinking, reflexivity, and argument refinement.Clash is key to surviving technological accelerationBartanen, Michael D. and R. Littlefield 15, ~Michael D. Bartanen, professor of communication at Pacific Lutheran University, and Robert S. Littlefield, NDSU professor of communication.~ "Competitive Speech and Debate: How Play Influenced American Educational Practice." American Journal of Play 7 (2015): 155-173. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1053419.pdf brett TVA: Reduce all medical IPs through policy action AND defend changing our orientation towards technology via their method. This is goldilocks because it preserves both their ability to interrogate technology and guarantees negative ground – any 1AR response to the substance of the strategy is offense for us because it proves our model allows for clear contestation and reading the rest of their theory on the negative solves their offense. | 9/27/21 |
SO- T- medicineTournament: greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: immaculate heart ss | Judge: andrew halverson Interpretation: The affirmative must defend that the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicine.Medicines solely refer to physical substances.American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=medicine~~#:~~:text=1.,exercise2C20and20other20nonsurgical20means. Violation- CRISPR are stretches of DNA- not a substance and not for treatmenthttps://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html Further proven by their ev- cards like thorne refer to it as a practice not a tangible thingUR ev only says it functions as a drug, not is oneCTX001 isnt the same as crispr which is what ur ev is aboutVote neg for limits — there are tons of different medicines, which means their interp justifies reducing any IP protection in any medicine, creating hundreds of potential AFFs to prep out. This kills negative ground because different countries can have different economic situations that affect the Innovation debate and we lose all disads to global action. Two impacts:1 — Fairness — an unlimited topic makes neg engagement impossible because there'd be tons of new AFFs to prep out every tournament. Uniquely kills small schools because they'd be unable to keep up with the prep burden.2 — Research — the neg loses any incentive to do targeted research when the prep burden is so high so debaters would resort to stale generics and lose topic specific education. That outweighs because we only have 2 months to debate the topic and COVID is uniquely important to many debaters' lives.Paradigms:Drop the debater to deter future abuse and DTA is illogical on TCompeting interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention.No RVIs: 1~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for being fair | 9/18/21 |
SO- T- reduceTournament: mid america cup rr | Round: 3 | Opponent: saratoga ag | Judge: panel Interpretation: The affirmative must defend a permanent reduction in intellectual property protections for medicines.Allowing the possibility of a future increase violates the core meaning of the term "reduce".US Federal Court of Appeals 1999 "CUNA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee," Lexis Reductions are different from suspensions. Suspensions are temporary, reductions are not.Montesani v Levitt 59 ~MATTER OF MONTESANI v. Levitt, 9 A.D.2d 51, 189 N.Y.S.2d 695 (App. Div. 1959), 8-13-1959, Accessible Online at https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1402552157078234696andq=Montesani+v.+Levittandhl=enandas_sdt=2006~~ brett Violation: it's a waiverVote neg:1~ Precision—-all neg prep is centered on words in the resolution, the precise definition of our word from a legal source means it'd be the most predictable in the lit.2~ Aff conditionality—-they can de-link core neg ground like innovation by saying they'll protect IP again after the pandemic, as well as enabling cheaty perms that kill plan vs CP clash.TVA; eliminate IPP for covid vaccineCompeting interpretations-Reasonability is arbitrary because its up to judges with different brightlines- competing interps sets the best normsDTD- no arg to dropNo rvisIncentivizes being abusive to bait theoryPrevents substance education by focusing on theory | 9/24/21 |
SO- T- spec IPPTournament: mid america cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: saratoga ag | Judge: akshay manglik | 9/26/21 |
theory- cant justify new ethical theoriesTournament: barkley forum | Round: 5 | Opponent: american heritage broward em | Judge: chris castillo rest was extemped | 1/29/22 |
theory- disclosureTournament: mid america cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: scarsdale jt | Judge: tajaih robinson Interpretation: Debaters must disclose changes to their affirmative. To clarify, tell us what's being taken out and what you are adding | 9/25/21 |
theory- formattingTournament: mid america cup rr | Round: 4 | Opponent: lexington ak | Judge: panel | 9/25/21 |
theory- must have solvency advocateTournament: blue key round robin | Round: Semis | Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: panel Interp: The aff must specify a policy action in a delineated text in the 1AC AND have a solvency advocate for just governments to recognize an unconditional right to strike.Violation:Negate:1—-Shiftiness—-absent a clear policy to hold them to, the aff could morph into anything by the 2ar—-that chills us from reading stuff like politics and counterplans which dooms the last shred of ground we'd be able to access as the neg on an aff biased topic. That kills strategy because we won't know until CX what could link so we'll be incentivized to read stale generics which the aff has already prepped out for years—-proves CX doesn't check because it occurs after the skew.2—-Idea testing—-Young people debating about specific labor reform proposals are key to reverse collective ignorance of worker's rights instilled in public education. Topic knowledge outweighs due to the short time we have on the topicUse competing interps – reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there's no clear normDrop the debater to deter future abuse and set better normsNo RVI's – illogical – you don't reward them for meeting the burden for being fair. | 10/29/21 |
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