Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Henry Zheng | Judge: Nicky Smith
Presumption and Permissibility negate –
~1~ Rule-following paradox—the only way to interpret rules is to have more rules to explain them—that means other frameworks are infinitely regressive and collapse into the NC.
A relative conception of moral truth with no higher power devolves into infinite violence and only the state solves
Holcombe 04 RANDALL G. HOLCOMBE, published Winter 2004, THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW, "Government: Unnecessary but Inevitable", accessed 7/24/2021, https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_08_3_1_holcombe.pdf, Holcombe is an American economist and the DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, pg 329-330 DrPhillipsAD
Without government, people would be vulnerable to predators and therefore would have to find
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from the capacity of those in government to force their rule on others.
Couttenier et al 13 Mathieu Couttenier (University of Lausanne), Pauline Grosjean (University of New South Wales), Marc Sangnier (Aix-Marseille University), published December 2013, Journal of the European Economic Association, "The Wild West is Wild: The Homicide Resource Curse", accessed 7/24/2021, https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2014/retrieve.php?pdfid=298, pg 2-5 DrPhillipsAD
Why is the homicide rate in the United States more than four times higher than
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Section 6 discusses channels of persistence and institutional quality. Section 7 concludes.
Parrish 05 Rick Parrish, published 2005, Johns Hopkins University Press, "Derrida's Economy of Violence in Hobbes' Social Contract", accessed 7/24/2021, http://muse.jhu.edu/article/244119~~#back, DOA:6-30-2018, Parrish teaches at Loyola University New Orleans DrPhillipsAD
All of the foregoing points to the conclusion that in the commonwealth the sovereign's first
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impose meaning on situations of public import, they descend into violence again.
Thus the standard is consistency with the Hobbesian sovereign
Ho 21 Matt Ho, published May 5 2021, South China Morning Post, "Why China's Intellectual property protection matters to Beijing and Washington", accessed 8/17/2021, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3132363/why-chinas-intellectual-property-protection-matters-beijing-and, Ho has covered the China's changes since 2010 and is a former deputy Beijing bureau chief for Hong Kong Commercial Radio and a Hong Kong government international trade specialist DrPhillipsAD
Why is China ramping up IP protections? Last November, Xi told the Communist
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and export its IP methodology and strategies at an ever-increasing rate."
CRS 21 Congressional Research Service, published January 25 2021, "Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and International Trade", accessed 8/17/2021, https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10033, The CRS is the public policy research institute of the United States Congress. DrPhillipsAD
Background What is intellectual property (IP), and how is it protected? IP
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balance between protecting IPR to stimulate innovation and advancing other public policy goals.