Tournament: Hockaday | Round: 4 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: P Jones, Murphy
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(Structural Violence)
I value morality as ought implies a moral obligation
The standard is minimizing material and structural violence.
Prefer:
1 Rejecting positive material change in favor of academic theorization is unethical and paternalistic— case outweighs.
Delgado 9 – Chair of Law at the University of Alabama Law School, J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, his books have won eight national book prizes, including six Gustavus Myers awards for outstanding book on human rights in North America, the American Library Association’s Outstanding Academic Book, and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Professor Delgado’s teaching and writing focus on race, the legal profession, and social change, 2009, “Does Critical Legal Studies Have What Minorities Want, Arguing about Law”, p. 588-590
2 Prioritize structural violence – Existential threats distort moral reasoning and ignore ongoing and urgent violence.
Olson ‘15
prof of geography @ UNC Chapel Hill (Elizabeth, ‘Geography and Ethics I: Waiting and Urgency,’ Progress in Human Geography, vol. 39 no. 4, pp. 517-526)
3“1 doctrine” makes us bad policymakers creating a policy freeze
Meskill 9
(David, professor at Colorado School of Minds and PhD from Harvard, “The "One Percent Doctrine" and Environmental Faith,” Dec 9, http://davidmeskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-percent-doctrine-and-environmental.html)
The structural violence of inequality outweighs other impacts—there is an ethical obligation to address it