College Park Sharma Aff
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| Cougar Classic | 1 | Sidwell SW | Javier Navarrete |
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| Cougar Classic | 3 | Midlothian | Aniketh Bharadwaj |
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| Longhorn Classic | 2 | Bridgeland AR | Morgan Tucker |
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| Longhorn Classic | 3 | Trinity Prep JC | Sukhjit Singh |
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| Longhorn Classic | 6 | Strake OZ | Nikhil Ajjarapu |
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| Strake | 5 | West SLC HS | Michael Fain |
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| Cougar Classic | 1 | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1ac- oppressiontranshumanism |
| Cougar Classic | 3 | Opponent: Midlothian | Judge: Aniketh Bharadwaj 1AC- Mine Prob @home |
| Longhorn Classic | 2 | Opponent: Bridgeland AR | Judge: Morgan Tucker 1AC- ILO democracy oppression |
| Longhorn Classic | 3 | Opponent: Trinity Prep JC | Judge: Sukhjit Singh 1AC- Diversionary war |
| Longhorn Classic | 6 | Opponent: Strake OZ | Judge: Nikhil Ajjarapu 1AC- ILO democracy oppression |
| Strake | 5 | Opponent: West SLC HS | Judge: Michael Fain 1AC-Transhumanism |
| contact info | Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x stalker |
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Cites
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FW- Gov Decision MakingTournament: Cougar Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Midlothian | Judge: Aniketh Bharadwaj FWThe resolution is a question of policy by a government. Making decisions as policymakers in the real world mandates consequentialism for three reasons. First, a state has to be able to take actions in the real world. Since deontology gives us no way to mediate between conflicting duties, then holding governments to that standard is non-sense. Second, a state has finite resources, which means that it must weigh possible gains against harms and use cost benefit analysis to arrive at the best option. Deontology prevents us from doing this by forcing governments to follow universal constraints. Third, the realities of the international realm mandate states have no absolute obligations on them. KocsTo neorealists, the most fundamental characteristic of the international system is that it is an anarchy-a realm in which multiple independent actors, rather than a single central authority, control the principal instruments of military coercion. Neorealists view anarchy ~produces~ as producing far-reaching consequences for the behavior of states. Because states under anarchy decide for themselves whether and when to use force, they argue, the fact of anarchy means that states are continuously insecure. Each state must allow for the possibility that other states may use their military capabilities to damage or destroy it (Waltz, 1979:102; Grieco, 1990:28-29; Art and Jervis, 1992:2). The international realm thus resembles a Hobbesian state of nature, where each state's survival depends on its own efforts. Given anarchy, states ~and~ must base their strategic behavior on the capabilities, not the intentions, of other states. They must begin from the assumption that other states' capabilities may someday be used against them. Neorealists deny that an anarchic international system can produce security for all states simultaneously. Since states may decide to use force at any time, the measures each state takes to reinforce its own security are precisely those that endanger others (Waltz, 1979:64). This being the case, states are driven to expand their own capabilities in the system while trying to limit the relative gains of other states (Mearsheimer, 1990: 12; Zakaria, 1992: 194). Real world decision making is the best standard of evaluation. This comes before any other standard or voter. Strait and Wallace furtherThe ability to make decisions deriving from discussions, argumentation or debate, is the key skill. It is the one thing every single one of us will do every day of our lives besides breathing. Decision-making transcends all boundaries between categories of learning like "policy education" and "kritik education," it makes irrelevant considerations of whether we will eventually be policymakers, and it transcends questions of what substantive content a debate round should contain. The implication for this analysis is that the critical thinking and argumentative skills offered by real-world decision-making are comparatively greater than any educational disadvantage weighed against them. It is the skills we learn, not the content of our arguments, that can best improve all of our lives. While policy comparison skills are going to be learned through debate in one way or another, those skills are useless if they are not grounded in the kind of logic actually used to make decisions. People aren't objective and rational moral agents because their morals can be controlled by magnets. David outlines an MIT scientists study.Scientists have discovered a real-life 'moral compass' in the brain that controls how we judge other people's behaviour. The region, which lies just behind the right ear, becomes more active when we think about other people's misdemeanours or good works. In an extraordinary experiment, researchers were able to use powerful magnets to disrupt this area of the brain and make people temporarily less moral. The study highlights how our sense of right and wrong ~are~ isn't just based on upbringing, religion or philosophy - but by the biology of our brains. Dr Liane Young, who led the study, said: 'You think of morality as being a really high-level behaviour. To be able to apply a magnetic field to a specific brain region and change people's moral judgements is really astonishing.' The moral compass lies in a part of the brain called the right temporo-parietal junction. It ~that~ lies near the surface of the brain, just behind the right ear. The researchers at ~MIT's~ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used a non-invasive technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation to disrupt the area of the brain. The technique generates a magnetic field on a small part of the skull which creates weak electric currents in the brain. These currents interfere with nearby brain cells and prevent them from firing normally. In the first experiment, 12 volunteers were exposed to the magnetic field for 25 minutes before they were given a series of 'moral maze' style scenarios. For each of the 192 scenarios, they were asked to make a judgement about the character's actions on a scale of 1 for 'absolutely forbidden' to 7 for 'absolutely permissible'. In the second experiment, the magnetic field was applied to their heads at the time they were asked to weigh up the behaviour of the characters in the scenario. In both experiments, the magnetic field made the volunteers less moral. | 1/15/22 |
JF-1AC-TranshumanismTournament: Strake | Round: 5 | Opponent: West SLC HS | Judge: Michael Fain | 12/18/21 |
ND- 1AC- ILOTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bridgeland AR | Judge: Morgan Tucker 2- democracy The plan allows for greater voter turnout-especially for minorities thereby reinforcing key ideas of democracy | 12/4/21 |
ND-1AC-nationalismTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Trinity Prep JC | Judge: Sukhjit Singh 1- Diversionary War 2- Class Domination | 12/4/21 |
contact infoTournament: contact info | Round: Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x | 12/2/21 |
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