Tournament: JW Patterson HS Invitational - Heritage Hall, Heart of Texas Invitational - St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
I value morality as ought implies a moral obligation
The standard is minimizing material and structural violence.
Prefer: Structural violence and oppression are based in moral exclusion, which is fundamentally flawed because exclusion is based on arbitrarily perceived differences.
Opotow 01
The structural violence of inequality outweighs other impacts—there is an ethical obligation to address it.
Ansell 17
Prioritize structural violence – Existential threats distort moral reasoning and ignore ongoing and urgent violence.
Olson ‘15
“1 doctrine” makes us bad policymakers creating a policy freeze
Meskill 9
util preementts
Prefer structural violence over util because
Util is immoral
Util justifies things such as genoice and slavery, as it is doing the greatest amoubnt of good for the greatest amount of people
Utiltarin calculus, is measured through averages and aggregates, thus excluding minorities from its calculus
,Just bc it is what goverments doesn’t mean itshwta they morally should use and, they don’t look to methods of extinction, they pass policies based on what happens people in the status quo
Just because \ something is insturmmentally valuable doesn’t mean we need it, i.e. juts bc I need computer to take my online school tests doesn’t mena my whole education system shld be based around max access to computers. J bc I need it to live doesn’t mean I shldnt consider other ongoing structural issues
All war and and extintion claims are warranted with low probability, whereas issues of sculptural violence are ouccing right now on a day to day basis, the
1 priotize any risk of extinction mentality creates a policy freeze in its self