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| 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | Quarters | JosPla NJ | Abby Morris, Jayanne Forrest, Rohit Lakshman |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 1 | Millburn MM | Breigh Plat |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Bridgeland PT | Jeffery Swift |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 5 | Lake Highland Prep PS | Jalyn Wu |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Doubles | Westlake MR | Ben Waldman, Austin Broussard, Jeong Wan Choi |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Octas | Lexington BF | Joey Georges, Isabella Crockett, Fabrice Etienne |
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| Loyola Invitational | Doubles | Byram Hills AK | Joseph Georges, Neville Tom, JP Stuckert |
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| 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | 1 | Opponent: KruSel AL | Judge: Ben Waldman 1AC - Teacher Unions |
| 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | 6 | Opponent: EvaSin AT | Judge: Conal Thomas-McGinnis 1AC - Stock |
| 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | Quarters | Opponent: JosPla NJ | Judge: Abby Morris, Jayanne Forrest, Rohit Lakshman 1AC - Semiocapitalism |
| 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | 4 | Opponent: WesErd AM | Judge: Sesh Joe 1AC - Teacher Unions |
| 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | Semis | Opponent: WesErd PS | Judge: Alexander Yoakum, David Herrera, Ben Erdmann 1AC - Stock |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Millburn MM | Judge: Breigh Plat 1AC - Stock |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Jeffery Swift 1AC - China v1 |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Jalyn Wu 1AC - Stock v2 |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Doubles | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Ben Waldman, Austin Broussard, Jeong Wan Choi 1AC - Stock v1 |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Octas | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Joey Georges, Isabella Crockett, Fabrice Etienne 1AC - China v2 |
| Colleyville | 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carrol CP | Judge: David Dosch 1AC - Lunar Heritage |
| Colleyville | 3 | Opponent: Plano East HN | Judge: Dylan Jones 1AC - Transhumanism |
| Grapevine Classic | 1 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley SJ | Judge: TJ Maher 1AC - Stock v1 |
| Grapevine Classic | 4 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Jack Quisenberry 1AC - Evergreening v1 |
| Grapevine Classic | 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JS | Judge: Sreyaash Das 1AC - Stock v3 |
| Loyola Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JX | Judge: Arjan Kang 1AC - Evergreening |
| Loyola Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Joshua St Peter 1AC - Evergreening |
| Loyola Invitational | 2 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Joseph Georges 1AC - Stock |
| Loyola Invitational | Doubles | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Joseph Georges, Neville Tom, JP Stuckert 1AC - Stock v2 |
| Loyola Invitational | Octas | Opponent: Plano East AW | Judge: Javier Navarrete, JP Stuckert, Wyatt Hatfield 1AC - Stock v3 |
| Loyola Invitational | Quarters | Opponent: Sidwell SW | Judge: Ronak Ahuja, Gordon Krauss, Chris Castillo 1AC - Semiocapitalism |
| The Longhorn Classic | 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SP | Judge: Ibbi Sheikh 1AC - Stock v1 |
| The Longhorn Classic | 3 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1AC - Stock v3 |
| The Longhorn Classic | 5 | Opponent: John Paul Stevens JS | Judge: Arthur Weissman 1AC - Stock v4 |
| The Longhorn Classic | Triples | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Truman Le, Austin Broussard, Javier Navarrete 1AC - Stock v1 |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista RD | Judge: Annie Wang 1AC - Semiocapitalism |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Triples | Opponent: Stuyvesant LC | Judge: Ben Waldman, Annie Wang, Lila Lavender 1AC - Stock v3 |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Quarters | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Rohit Lakshman, Eric Tang, Keshav Dandu 1AC - Stock v3 |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Semis | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield, Mariana Colicchio, Neville Tom 1AC - Stock v5 |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 6 | Opponent: Montville RP | Judge: Jake Vigeant 1AC - Stock v4 |
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0 - DisclosureTournament: Any | Round: Finals | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any Interpretation: For each position on their corresponding 2020-21 NDCA LD wiki page, debaters must disclose a summary of each analytic argument in their cases. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all possible disclosure theory interps on the 2020-21 NDCA LD wiki at least 30 minutes before the round. Interpretation: Interpretation: When asked, debaters must disclose whether or not they or their teammates have read any of the evidence in previous rounds in their “new affirmative” during disclosure 30 minutes before the round Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions in cite boxes on the 2020-21 NDCA LD wiki. To clarify, they can’t put “see open source.” Interp: Debaters must disclose round reports that say which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech. Interpretation: All disclosed analytics must be at minimum a complete sentence containing an explanation of the warrant of the argument. To clarify, you can’t disclose single-word previews of analytics. Interpretation: If debaters disclose positions in cite boxes, they must not post the full text of the cards in the cite box but instead use the wikify function in verbatim. Interpretation: Debaters must, on the page with their name and the school they attend, disclose their contact information. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose tournaments on the 2020-2021 NDCA LD wiki with a similar name to the tournament name on Tabroom for every round at said tournament. To clarify, when you look up the tournament name from the wiki on tab, the entry must pop up. Interpretation: Debaters must delineate on their wiki, if they do, who they prep with if the individual(s) are from a different school. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose their favorite thing about Jarvis Xie. My favorite is his admiration of me. Interpretation: Debaters must disclose whether they have a Smash Ultimate main, and if they do, who their main is. Mine is Palutena. | 7/6/21 |
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JF - AC - Lunar HeritageTournament: Colleyville | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carrol CP | Judge: David Dosch Util ShortThe standard is act hedonistic util. Prefer –1 – 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. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2 – No intent-foresight distinction – if I foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of my deliberation since its intrinsic to my actionNo intent foresight distinction for states.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 AND against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. 3 - Extinction first –A – Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible which proves moral uncertaintyB – Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessitiesC – Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical4 – TJFs – Util is the only framework that makes sense for collective bargaining topicsSaylor n.d. "Unions." The Business Ethics Worksho, saylordotorg.github.io/text'the-business-ethics-workshop/s19-04-unions.html. AND provide a way for union leaders to justify decisions making some members unhappy. Outweighs –A. Most articles about strikes are written through util – means other frameworks can never engage with the core questions of the literature which decks predictability.5 - No Calc Indicts –A~ No philosophy actually says that consequences don’t matter at all since otherwise it would indict every theory since they use causal events to understand how their ethics have worked in the past and through the justification of premisesB~ We don’t need consequences – winning hedonism proves we’re the only one with impacts to it which means risk of offense framing is sufficientC~ They’re blippy NIBs that set the neg at an unfair advantage since they only have to win one while we have to beat them all1AC: PlanPlan - Private entities ought not appropriate lunar heritage sitesHarrington 19, Andrea J. "Preserving Humanity's Heritage in Space: Fifty Years after Apollo 11 and beyond." J. Air L. and Com. 84 (2019): 299. (Associate Professor and Director of the Schriever Space Scholars at USAF Air Command and Staff College)Elmer AND destruction, loss, or private appropriation of our cultural heritage in space. 1AC: Lunar Heritage v3The Advantage is Lunar Heritage:Global Moon Rush by private actors is coming now.Sample 19 Ian Sample 7-19-2019 "Apollo 11 site should be granted heritage status, says space agency boss" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/19/apollo-11-site-heritage-status-space-agency-moon (PhD at Queens Mary College)Elmer AND artefacts that will undoubtedly sell for tremendous amounts of money here on Earth." Corporate development, tourism, and looting will destroy scientifically rich Tranquility base artifacts.Fessl 19 Sophie Fessl 7-10-2019 "Should the Moon Landing Site Be a National Historic Landmark?" https://daily.jstor.org/should-the-moon-landing-site-be-a-national-historic-landmark/ (PhD King’s College London, BA Oxford)Elmer AND that’s on the moon was affected by a decades-long stay there. Private entities are a unique threat—-universal rules key.Private Key Card – AT: Alt Causes AND , commerce, and the use of the Moon and other celestial bodies. Heritage Sites are critical for science research around Dust.OSTP 18 Office of Science and Technology Policy March 2018 "PROTECTING and PRESERVING APOLLO PROGRAM LUNAR LANDING SITES and ARTIFACTS" (The Office of Science and Technology Policy is a department of the United States government, part of the Executive Office of the President, established by United States Congress on May 11, 1976, with a broad mandate to advise the President on the effects of science and technology on domestic and international affairs.)Elmer AND to establish their appearance and condition at the time they were left behind. Moon Dust Research key to Moon Basing.Smith 19 Belinda Smith 7-18-2019 "Who protects Apollo sites when no-one owns the Moon?" https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-07-19/apollo-11-moon-landing-heritage-preservation-outer-space-treaty/11055458 (Strategic Communications Advisor at Department of Education and Training at University of Victoria)Elmer AND Moon is a testament to what we did and when we did it." ~Optional~ - Research about Dust’s relation to Human-Equipment is key to any long-term mission.David 19 Leonard David 10-21-2019 "Moon Dust Could Be a Problem for Future Lunar Explorers" https://www.space.com/moon-dust-problem-lunar-exploration.html (Leonard David is an award-winning space journalist who has been reporting on space activities for more than 50 years. Currently writing as Space.com's Space Insider Columnist among his other projects, Leonard has authored numerous books on space exploration, Mars missions and more)Elmer AND impact of lunar dust on the astronauts and their equipment," he said. Scenario 1 – Warming:Lunar observatory solves warming adaptation.Ding et al. 17 (, Y., Liu, G. and Guo, H., 2017. Moon-based Earth observation: scientific concept and potential applications. ~online~ Volume 11, 2018. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2017.1356879 ~Accessed 22 January 2022~ Yixing Ding - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Guang Liu - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Huadong Guo - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.)-rahulpenu AND numerical simulations are indispensable to validate the proposals and to address specific problems. Moon Base is the only option and outweighs Satellites.Ding et al. 17 (, Y., Liu, G. and Guo, H., 2017. Moon-based Earth observation: scientific concept and potential applications. ~online~ Volume 11, 2018. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2017.1356879 ~Accessed 22 January 2022~ Yixing Ding - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Guang Liu - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China Huadong Guo - Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China.) AND target in measuring the altitude of sea surface and the thickness of vegetation. Adaptation solves Climate Change’s worst effects – it’s the Silver Bullet.Rood and Gibbons 21 Richard B. Rood and Elizabeth Gibbons 9-11-2021 "After a summer of weather horrors, adapting to climate change is an imperative" https://archive.is/VKac8~~#selection-391.0-413.1 (Richard B. (Ricky) Rood is a professor of climate and space sciences and engineering at the University of Michigan. Elizabeth (Beth) Gibbons is executive director of the American Society of Adaptation Professionals.)Elmer AND we assert, will make the need for mitigation more real and urgent. Missing Data holds back Adaptation efforts.Barrios et Al 18, Alonso, Guillermo Trincado, and René Garreaud. "Alternative approaches for estimating missing climate data: application to monthly precipitation records in South-Central Chile." Forest Ecosystems 5.1 (2018): 1-10. (Graduate School, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Natural Resources) AND a coefficient of correlation weighting (CCW), reported by Teegavarapu (2009). Prevents extinction.Sears 21 (, N., 2021. Great Powers, Polarity, and Existential Threats to Humanity: An Analysis of the Distribution of the Forces of Total Destruction in International Security. ~online~ ResearchGate. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350500094 ~Accessed 22 November 2021~ Nathan Alexander Sears is a PhD Candidate in Political Science at The University of Toronto. Before beginning his PhD, he was a Professor of International Relations at the Universidad de Las Américas, Quito. His research focuses on international security and the existential threats to humanity posed by nuclear weapons, climate change, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence. His PhD dissertation is entitled, "International Politics in the Age of Existential Threats")-re-cut rahulpenu AND the threshold that would constitute an existential threat to humanity (CAT 2020). Scenario 2 – Neutrinos:Earth’s Atmosphere limits Neutrino Research – only a Moon base solves.Crawford 12, I. A., et al. "Back to the Moon: The scientific rationale for resuming lunar surface exploration." Planetary and Space Science 74.1 (2012): 3-14. (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Birkbeck College)Elmer AND and Zaldariaga 2004) would indeed be on the lunar far-side. The Moon is key for Neutrino Research – would be involved in any return to the Moon.Wilson 92, T. L. "Neutrino Astronomy of the Moon." Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Vol. 23. 1992. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc1992/pdf/1757.pdf (Thomas L. Wilson, NASA Johnson Space CenterISN1)Elmer AND neutrinos ~17, 181 as another interesting astrophysical source are not presented. Neutrino Research key to Nuclear Detection that deters Proliferation – key to determine military usages.Lee 20 Thomas Lee "Can tiny, invisible particles help stop the spread of nuclear weapons?" https://engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2020/03/can-tiny-invisible-particles-help-stop-the-spread-of-nuclear-weapons/ (Associate Adjunct Professor, Research Scientist Operations and IT Management.)Elmer AND reality could prove to be a powerful deterrent to nuclear proliferation in itself. Nuclear Proliferation causes Nuclear War.Kroenig 15 (Matthew Kroenig; Associate Professor and International Relations Field Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University; 2015, "The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does It Have a Future?"; Journal of Strategic Studies, Volume 38, Issue 1-2)Re-cut by Elmer AND , any one of those crises could result in a catastrophic nuclear exchange. Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risksPND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock’s 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans’ International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer AND an attack by either side could be suicidal, resulting in self assured destruction | 2/5/22 |
ND - AC - China v1Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Jeffery Swift 1AC1AC – FrameworkUtil ShortThe standard is act hedonistic util. Prefer –1 – 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. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2 – No intent-foresight distinction – if I foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of my deliberation since its intrinsic to my actionNo intent foresight distinction for states.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 AND against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. 3 - Extinction first –A – Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible which proves moral uncertaintyB – Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessitiesC – Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical4 – TJFs – Util is the only framework that makes sense for collective bargaining topicsSaylor n.d. "Unions." The Business Ethics Worksho, saylordotorg.github.io/text'the-business-ethics-workshop/s19-04-unions.html. AND provide a way for union leaders to justify decisions making some members unhappy. Outweighs –A. Most articles about strikes are written through util – means other frameworks can never engage with the core questions of the literature which decks predictability.5 - No Calc Indicts –A~ No philosophy actually says that consequences don’t matter at all since otherwise it would indict every theory since they use causal events to understand how their ethics have worked in the past and through the justification of premisesB~ We don’t need consequences – winning hedonism proves we’re the only one with impacts to it which means risk of offense framing is sufficientC~ They’re blippy NIBs that set the neg at an unfair advantage since they only have to win one while we have to beat them all1AC: PlanPlan – A just government of the People’s Republic of China ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.That solves worker liberation, labor reforms, and re-establishes credible Collective Bargaining in China – establishing legal protection for Labor Unions reduces overall labor-related discontent.Dongfang 11 Han Dongfang 4-6-2011 "Liberate China's Workers" https://archive.md/7RvDG~~#selection-307.0-316.0 (director of China Labour Bulletin, a nongovernmental organization that defends the rights of workers in China.)Elmer AND Communist Party’s goal of creating a more prosperous, stable and harmonious society. 1AC: Soft Power AdvantageLack of Chinese Right to Strike devastates Collective Bargaining – undermines any legal leverage for Strikes.Friedman 17 Eli Friedman 4-20-2017 "Collective Bargaining in China is Dead: The Situation is Excellent" https://www.chinoiresie.info/collective-bargaining-in-china-is-dead-the-situation-is-excellent/ (Assistant Professor of International and Comparative Labour at Cornell University)Elmer AND will be the necessary prelude to any institutional reform worthy of the name. Any credible union power is under-cut by detentions of labor activists.Merkley and McGovern 13 Jeff Merkley and James McGovern 12-20-2013 "Detention of Labor Representative Highlights Challenges for Collective Bargaining in China" https://www.cecc.gov/publications/commission-analysis/detention-of-labor-representative-highlights-challenges-for (Representative and Co-Chair of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China)Elmer AND the "effective recognition" of the right to collective bargaining.~16~ The Right to Strike re-balances China’s Economy.Roberts 10 Dexter Roberts 8-5-2010 "Is the Right to Strike Coming to China" https://archive.md/hjNI7 (Editor at Bloomberg)Elmer AND being debated in Guangdong could greatly strengthen the bargaining power of Chinese workers. Enhanced Unions and Labor Reforms key to sustained Chinese Economic Growth.Haack 21 Michael Haack 2-13-2021 "Could Biden Make US-China Trade Better for Workers?" https://thediplomat.com/2021/02/could-biden-make-us-china-trade-better-for-workers/ (Michael Haack currently a contractor with the China Labor Translation Project, a project of the Chinese Progressive Association. He previously worked with industrial workers in southern China. Michael holds master’s degrees from SOAS, University of London and American University)Elmer AND unions were allowed to flourish — thus advancing their own stated policy aims." China’s Economy is hosed and threatened by rampant Inequality gaps that devastate consumption.Bloomberg 21 1-19-2021 "China’s Wide Income Gap Undercut Spending as Growth Recovers" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-18/china-s-strong-growth-masks-unbalanced-recovery-as-incomes-lag Elmer AND , with an almost 17 drop in spending at restaurants last year. That’s critical for Soft Power Projection BUT authoritarianism regarding activists puts efforts on the brink – re-establishing credibility of governance is important.Albert 18 Eleanor Albert 2-9-2018 "China’s Big Bet on Soft Power" https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/chinas-big-bet-soft-power (a third-year PhD student concentrating in international relations and comparative politics)Elmer AND nations so long as it muzzles its best advocates," writes the Economist. Chinese leadership solves existential threats.Yamei 18 Shen Yamei 18, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow of Department for American Studies, China Institute of International Studies, 1-9-2018, "Probing into the "Chinese Solution" for the Transformation of Global Governance," CAIFC, http://www.caifc.org.cn/en/content.aspx?id=4491 AND , refugees, climate change and public hygiene by debt forgiveness and assistance. Chinese Economic Decline leads to all-out War – specifically over Taiwan.Joske 18 Stephen Joske 10-23-2018 "China’s Coming Financial Crisis And The National Security Connection" https://warontherocks.com/2018/10/chinas-coming-financial-crisis-and-the-national-security-connection/ (senior adviser to the Australian Treasurer during the 1997–98 Asian crisis)re-cut by Elmer AND stall or even end China’s rise as a global military and political power. Taiwan goes Nuclear.Talmadge 18 ~Caitlin, Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, "Beijing’s Nuclear Option: Why a U.S.-China War Could Spiral Out of Control," accessible online at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-15/beijings-nuclear-option, published Nov/Dec 2018~re-cut by Elmer AND have considered unthinkable only months earlier. This pattern could unfold again today. Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risksChecked AND course the immediate post-nuclear results for Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well. 1AC - Underview1AR theory is legit – anything else means infinite abuse – drop the debater, competing interps, no rvis– 1AR is too short to make up for the time trade-off – no RVIs and no 2NR theory and paradigm issues– 6 min 2NR means they can brute force me every time. | 11/6/21 |
ND - AC - China v2Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Joey Georges, Isabella Crockett, Fabrice Etienne 1AC1AC – FrameworkThe Meta-Ethic is Moral Pluralism; Clashing viewpoints does not require the exclusion of one over another but instead the acceptance that both can be valuable ethical tools. Prefer1~ Dogmatism Paradox – disregard the 1NCSorensen Sorensen, Roy, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. "Epistemic Paradoxes." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 21 June 2006. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemic-paradoxes/. PeteZ AND future evidence that seems to tell against h. (1973, 148) 2~ Principle of explosion is true which also proves the resolution true.Wikiwand. "Principle of Explosion." Wikiwand, 0AD, www.wikiwand.com/en/Principle'of'explosion. Massa AND the second part must be true, i.e., unicorns exist. 3~ Decision Making Paradox- in order to judge we need a decision-making procedure to determine it is a good decision. But to chose a decision-making procedure requires another meta level decision making procedure leading to infinite regress so just vote aff to break the paradox.4~ Empirics- Quantum superposition proves different ethics can exist simultaneously.MIT ’19 (Emerging Technology from the arXiv archive page; Covers latest ideas from blog post about arXiv; 03/12/2019; "Emerging Technology from the arXiv archive page"; https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/12/136684/a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality/; MIT Technology Review; accessed: 11/19/2020; MohulA) AND . But Wigner, and his friend, would surely not be surprised. 5~ There are infinite worlds, the aff is logical in one which is sufficient.Vaidman 2 Vaidman, Lev, 3-24-2002, "Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," No Publication, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/ AND There is no experimental evidence in favor of collapse and against the MWI. 6~ The rules of logic claim that the only time a statement is invalid is if the antecedent is true, but the consequent is false.SEP ~Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.~ "An Introduction to Philosophy." Stanford University. https://web.stanford.edu/~~bobonich/dictionary/dictionary.html TG Massa AND of true and false antecedents and consequents, the conditional statement is true. If the aff is winning, they get the ballot is a tacit ballot conditional which means denying the premise proves the conclusion that I should get the ballot.Resolving such differences requires a fair, non-arbitrary method that isn’t biased in its ability to make normative judgements. Thus, the standard is creating ethical spaces of shared normativity. Only formulating spaces that allow us to deliberate and share different perspectives can guide action.Additionally prefer1~ TJFS- A~ Inclusion – Pragmatism is a procedural for allowing any argumentation in the debate space which controls the internal link to inclusion which is an impact multiplier B~ Resource Disparities- Discursive frameworks ensure big squads don’t have a comparative advantage since debates become about quality of arguments rather than quantity and require a higher level of analytic thinking that small schools have.2~ Value – procedural decisions have infinite value because they allow agents to take steps to reduce harms under any index. To shut down an avenue for pragmatic discourse necessitates foreclosing all possible decisions in that situation except a static theory we can’t change. Kills the net most value – alternative theories with massive impacts can’t be considered.3~ Value Pluralism- Other ethical theories rely on minimalistic criteria as their foundation, our framework resolves this by using these criteria to better inform our judgments | 11/29/21 |
ND - AC - Stock v1Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn MM | Judge: Breigh Plat 1AC1AC – FrameworkThe Meta-Ethic is Moral Pluralism; Clashing viewpoints does not require the exclusion of one over another but instead the acceptance that both can be valuable ethical tools. Prefer1~ Paradox of Material Implication means vote affWikiwand, "Paradoxes of material implication," https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paradoxes'of'material'implication~~#/Paradox'of'entailment AND argument is valid whatever the conclusion is; inconsistent premises imply all conclusions. 2~ Overthinking paradox- the 1NC is a form of unnecessary overthinking that prevents decisions to be made so don’t evaluate itWikipedia ~Brackets Original. "Analysis Paralysis". Wikipedia. No Date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini27s'paradox~~ AND is making a fatal decision based on hasty judgment or a gut reaction. 3~ Vote aff because it’s simple – evaluating responses to this is complicated so don’tBaker 04’ ~Baker, Alan, 10-29-2004, "Simplicity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/~~ AND simplicity principle can be found in the quotations given earlier in this section. 4~ Dogmatism Paradox – disregard the 1NCSorensen Sorensen, Roy, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. "Epistemic Paradoxes." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 21 June 2006. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemic-paradoxes/. PeteZ AND future evidence that seems to tell against h. (1973, 148) 5~ Principle of explosion is true which proves the resolution true.Wikiwand. "Principle of Explosion." Wikiwand, 0AD, www.wikiwand.com/en/Principle'of'explosion. Massa AND the second part must be true, i.e., unicorns exist. 7~ Affirm because either the neg is true meaning its bad for us to clash w/ it because it turns us into Fake News people OR it’s not meaning it’s a lie that you can’t vote on for ethics8~ A trivial entity existsKabay 08 ~Paul Douglas Kabay, (PhD thesis, School of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Social Inquiry) "A Defense Of Trivialism" The University Of Melbourne, 2008, https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/35203, DOA:10-25-2017~ AND that every being is nontrivial 3) Hence, there exists a trivial being 9~ Decision Making Paradox- in order to judge we need a decision-making procedure to determine it is a good decision. But to chose a decision-making procedure requires another meta level decision making procedure leading to infinite regress so just vote aff to break the paradox.10~ Empirics- Quantum superposition proves different ethics can exist simultaneously.MIT ’19 (Emerging Technology from the arXiv archive page; Covers latest ideas from blog post about arXiv; 03/12/2019; "Emerging Technology from the arXiv archive page"; https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/12/136684/a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality/; MIT Technology Review; accessed: 11/19/2020; MohulA) AND . But Wigner, and his friend, would surely not be surprised. 11~ GCD- I am the greatest conceivable debater so vote for me because I am infinitely good. To prove this, I will make them contest the aff and say they are not under my control.12~ There are infinite worlds, the aff is logical in one which is sufficient.Vaidman 2 Vaidman, Lev, 3-24-2002, "Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," No Publication, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/ AND There is no experimental evidence in favor of collapse and against the MWI. 13~ The rules of logic claim that the only time a statement is invalid is if the antecedent is true, but the consequent is false.SEP ~Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.~ "An Introduction to Philosophy." Stanford University. https://web.stanford.edu/~~bobonich/dictionary/dictionary.html TG Massa AND of true and false antecedents and consequents, the conditional statement is true. If the aff is winning, they get the ballot is a tacit ballot conditional which means denying the premise proves the conclusion that I should get the ballot.14~ Liar’s Paradox – the resolution is always trueCamus ~Albert Camus (existentialist). "The Myth of Sisyphus." Penguin Books. 1975(originally published 1942). Accessed 12/11/19. Pg 22. Copy on hand. Houston Memorial DX~ AND assertion proclaims simultaneously that it is true, and so on ad infinitum." 15~ Negating affirms because it assumes that the 1ac is a statement that is worthy of contestation which means are arguments are legitimate.16~ Bonini’s Paradox – expanding debate’s parameters to the 1NC and onward makes the round irresolvable due to a lack of understanding so just vote affWikipedia ~Brackets Original. "Bonini's paradox". Wikipedia. No Date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini27s'paradox ~ AND 6~ (See Orzack and Sober, 1993; Odenbaugh, 2006) ====Only a pragmatic deliberative model accepts ongoing confrontation as legitimate rather than oppositional. Thus, the standard is promoting pragmatic deliberation.==== Additionally prefer1~ Performativity- Responding to our framework concedes the validity of pragmatism since that in and of itself is a process of contestation that pragmatism would say is valuable and necessary for spaces like debate to function.2~ TJFS- A~ Inclusion – Pragmatism is a procedural for allowing any argumentation in the debate space which controls the internal link to inclusion which is an impact multiplier B~ Resource Disparities- Discursive frameworks ensure big squads don’t have a comparative advantage since debates become about quality of arguments rather than quantity and require a higher level of analytic thinking that small schools have.3~ Value – procedural decisions have infinite value because they allow agents to take steps to reduce harms under any index. To shut down an avenue for pragmatic discourse necessitates foreclosing all possible decisions in that situation except a static theory we can’t change. Kills the net most value – alternative theories with massive impacts can’t be considered.4~ Value Pluralism- Other ethical theories rely on minimalistic criteria as their foundation, our framework resolves this by using these criteria to better inform our judgments | 11/6/21 |
ND - AC - Stock v2Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Jalyn Wu 1AC1AC - ProperAsian Americans subject formation is never complete – there is an ontological gap between the real and symbolic which is characterized by incomplete assimilation. Asian bodies are not our own but rather tools of society.Kim 1 ~Asian~ (Chang-Hee Kim, The Fantasy of Asian America: Identity, Ideology, and Desire) 2009 klmd recut/tagged Nato AND a community in which the ideological transparency of a hegemonic discourse comes true. 1AC – FrameworkThe Meta-Ethic is Moral Pluralism; Clashing viewpoints does not require the exclusion of one over another but instead the acceptance that both can be valuable ethical tools. Prefer1~ Paradox of Material Implication means vote affWikiwand, "Paradoxes of material implication," https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paradoxes'of'material'implication~~#/Paradox'of'entailment AND argument is valid whatever the conclusion is; inconsistent premises imply all conclusions. 2~ Overthinking paradox- the 1NC is a form of unnecessary overthinking that prevents decisions to be made so don’t evaluate itWikipedia ~Brackets Original. "Analysis Paralysis". Wikipedia. No Date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini27s'paradox~~ AND is making a fatal decision based on hasty judgment or a gut reaction. 3~ Vote aff because it’s simple – evaluating responses to this is complicated so don’tBaker 04’ ~Baker, Alan, 10-29-2004, "Simplicity (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/~~ AND simplicity principle can be found in the quotations given earlier in this section. 4~ Dogmatism Paradox – disregard the 1NCSorensen Sorensen, Roy, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. "Epistemic Paradoxes." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 21 June 2006. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/epistemic-paradoxes/. PeteZ AND future evidence that seems to tell against h. (1973, 148) 5~ Principle of explosion is true which proves the resolution true.Wikiwand. "Principle of Explosion." Wikiwand, 0AD, www.wikiwand.com/en/Principle'of'explosion. Massa AND the second part must be true, i.e., unicorns exist. 7~ Affirm because either the neg is true meaning its bad for us to clash w/ it because it turns us into Fake News people OR it’s not meaning it’s a lie that you can’t vote on for ethics8~ A trivial entity existsKabay 08 ~Paul Douglas Kabay, (PhD thesis, School of Philosophy, Anthropology, and Social Inquiry) "A Defense Of Trivialism" The University Of Melbourne, 2008, https://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/35203, DOA:10-25-2017~ AND that every being is nontrivial 3) Hence, there exists a trivial being 9~ Decision Making Paradox- in order to judge we need a decision-making procedure to determine it is a good decision. But to chose a decision-making procedure requires another meta level decision making procedure leading to infinite regress so just vote aff to break the paradox.10~ Empirics- Quantum superposition proves different ethics can exist simultaneously.MIT ’19 (Emerging Technology from the arXiv archive page; Covers latest ideas from blog post about arXiv; 03/12/2019; "Emerging Technology from the arXiv archive page"; https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/12/136684/a-quantum-experiment-suggests-theres-no-such-thing-as-objective-reality/; MIT Technology Review; accessed: 11/19/2020; MohulA) AND . But Wigner, and his friend, would surely not be surprised. 11~ GCD- I am the greatest conceivable debater so vote for me because I am infinitely good. To prove this, I will make them contest the aff and say they are not under my control.12~ There are infinite worlds, the aff is logical in one which is sufficient.Vaidman 2 Vaidman, Lev, 3-24-2002, "Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," No Publication, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/ AND There is no experimental evidence in favor of collapse and against the MWI. 13~ The rules of logic claim that the only time a statement is invalid is if the antecedent is true, but the consequent is false.SEP ~Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.~ "An Introduction to Philosophy." Stanford University. https://web.stanford.edu/~~bobonich/dictionary/dictionary.html TG Massa AND of true and false antecedents and consequents, the conditional statement is true. If the aff is winning, they get the ballot is a tacit ballot conditional which means denying the premise proves the conclusion that I should get the ballot.14~ Liar’s Paradox – the resolution is always trueCamus ~Albert Camus (existentialist). "The Myth of Sisyphus." Penguin Books. 1975(originally published 1942). Accessed 12/11/19. Pg 22. Copy on hand. Houston Memorial DX~ AND assertion proclaims simultaneously that it is true, and so on ad infinitum." 15~ Negating affirms because it assumes that the 1ac is a statement that is worthy of contestation which means are arguments are legitimate.16~ Bonini’s Paradox – expanding debate’s parameters to the 1NC and onward makes the round irresolvable due to a lack of understanding so just vote affWikipedia ~Brackets Original. "Bonini's paradox". Wikipedia. No Date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonini27s'paradox ~ AND 6~ (See Orzack and Sober, 1993; Odenbaugh, 2006) ====Only an agonistic deliberative model accepts ongoing confrontation as legitimate rather than oppositional. Thus, the standard is promoting agonistic deliberation.==== Additionally prefer2~ TJFS- A~ Inclusion – Pragmatism is a procedural for allowing any argumentation in the debate space which controls the internal link to inclusion which is an impact multiplier B~ Resource Disparities- Discursive frameworks ensure big squads don’t have a comparative advantage since debates become about quality of arguments rather than quantity and require a higher level of analytic thinking that small schools have.1AC – OffenseThe negative and I affirm the resolution Resolved: A just government ought to recognize the unconditional right to strike.Resolved is defined as firm in purpose or intent; determined and I’m determined.1~ Strikes are intrinsically tied to public forums that provide opportunities for deliberation. Simms 18Melanie Simms, 3-23-2018, "Why workers go on strike," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/why-workers-go-on-strike-93815 AND way back to work – even if that means negotiating a new normal. | 11/6/21 |
ND - AC - Stock v3Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Denton Guyer SB | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1AC1AC – Me!I’ve returned from the year 2050 and I’ve got one goal – this ballot. I’ve seen what happens in the world, I’ve read it in history books, I’ve witnessed it happen in front of me. You do not want to vote negative. Voting negativeleads to a mass extinction event with the final Armageddon of the human race. Super species aliens are monitoring Tabroom, and if this round shows an negative ballot they end all life in the universe through collapse of the universe through supertechnology. I know this now, and I was sent back as the universe’s last hope. This comes first – direct correlation to the ballot proximity and exportability.The plan is also a good dea – before the universe began it’s collapse, the affirmative was passed and prevented extinction. Also even if it’s a bad idea, you can endorse it with an affirmative ballot with the net benefit of giving me the ballot.1AC - FWThere is a distinction between factual and moral claims – the statement "This door is red," contains no moral judgments, and the command "Close the door," does not describe factual features of the door itself. It follows that moral judgments are not truth-apt, but instead express an agent’s attitudes towards features of an action predicated on the individual.Miller, Alexander. "Rejection of Non-Naturalism." Introduction to Contemporary Metaethics. Oxford: Polity, 2003. Massa Ayer denies that moral judgments express beliefs: rather, moral judgments express emotions, AND ‘Stealing money is wrong,’ I produce a sentence which has no factual meaning – that is, expresses no proposition that can be either true or false." (~1936~ 1946: 107) Thus, the standard is consistency with Tommy’s beliefs. As someone who knows everything, the only way to relieve indexed truths is through Tommy (me).Prefer-1~ GCB- I am the greatest conceivable being so vote for me because I am infinitely good. To prove this, I will make them contest the aff and say they are not under my control.2~ Performativity- Debating concedes the validity of my morals since you could only read a negative because I think doing so is morally okay.3~ TJFS- A~ Inclusion – My beliefs are a procedural for allowing any argumentation in the debate space because I think any exclusive practices are bad which controls the internal link to inclusion which is an impact multiplier B~ Resource Disparities- Discursive frameworks ensure big squads don’t have a comparative advantage since debates become about quality of arguments rather than quantity and require a higher level of analytic thinking that small schools have.4~ Value Pluralism- Other ethical theories rely on minimalistic criteria as their foundation, my beliefs resolve this by using these criteria to better inform our judgments5~ Rule Following Paradox- There is nothing inherent to a rule that tells us how we ought to follow it, regardless of how correct the rule is. Only my decision accounts for the diversity of interpretations of our norms. | 12/4/21 |
ND - AC - Stock v4Tournament: The Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: John Paul Stevens JS | Judge: Arthur Weissman
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NSD - AC - SemiocapitalismTournament: 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | Round: Quarters | Opponent: JosPla NJ | Judge: Abby Morris, Jayanne Forrest, Rohit Lakshman 1ACContent Warning – Mentions of panic, depression, suicide Welcome to the dawn of semiocapitalism, marked by the commodification of affective labor. This demand forces all subjectivity under the will to productivity, flattening all creativity and value, necessitating neurosis as the very structure of the brain is altered by the symbolic order. Thus, the role of the ballot is to resist semiocapitalism.Jagodzinski 17 Jan, Professor of Art and Media Education in the Department of Secondary Education, University of Alberta, Canada, hates Moodle with a burning passion, "The Precarious Future of Education, Education, Psychoanalysis, and Social Transformation" Ch. 1: The Precarious Future of Education: The Speculative Fictions of Education saenl AND the precarious future of education, whose state is now in the balance. Modern academia is grounded in the drive toward rationality contingent on the total transparency of the self and outside world, feeding the global fantasy of efficient communication and subject formation contingent on the complete eradication of radical alterity. This nature demands instead a fatal strategy, a conceptual suicide that pushes the logic of the system to the point of systemic implosionHoofd 10. Assistant Professor in the Communications and New Media Programme at the National University of Singapore, "The accelerated university: Activist-academic alliances and simulation of thought," Ephemera Journal, vol. 10 no. 1 AND activist-research projects hopefully invite alterity can thankfully not yet be thought. Such semiotic codification creates a form of technovisuality in which static algorithms of productivity dictated by semiocapitalism function as the metric by which bodies are deemed valuable, forming the register through which violence is enactedBeller 13. Jonathan Beller, Edited by Arne De Boever and Warren Neidich, "Pathologistics of Attention," Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Part 2, Archive Books, p. 117-155 brackets for clarity AND capital is concerned, we do not exist. Shall we prove otherwise? Thus, vote affirmative to endorse a space outside of the productive imperativeFleming 14. Peter Fleming, Nate’s dad, Resisting Work: The Corporatization of Life and Its Discontents, p. 124-144 brackets for clarity AND throughout our entire lives, workplaces, neighborhoods, homes, and desires. | 9/4/21 |
NSD - AC - StockTournament: 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: EvaSin AT | Judge: Conal Thomas-McGinnis | 7/9/21 |
NSD - AC - Teacher UnionsTournament: 2021 NSD Camp Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: KruSel AL | Judge: Ben Waldman 1AC - DemocracyUS Democracy is declining, reform is urgentHouse 3/22’ ~Freedom House, 3-22-2021, "NEW REPORT: US Democracy Has Declined Significantly in the Past Decade, Reforms Urgently Needed," https://freedomhouse.org/article/new-report-us-democracy-has-declined-significantly-past-decade-reforms-urgently-needed~~ AND inferiority and as a sort of license for their own abuses of power." Teacher union legitimacy is key to strengthen democracy – multiple internal links.Khalenberg 16 Kahlenberg, — Richard D. "How Defunding Public Sector Unions Will Diminish Our Democracy." The Century Foundation, 5 Oct. 2016, tcf.org/content/report/how-defunding-public-sector-unions-will-diminish-our-democracy/?session=1. ~Richard D. Kahlenberg is director of K–12 equity and senior fellow at The Century Foundation. The author or editor of seventeen books, he has expertise in education, civil rights, and equal opportunity. Kahlenberg has been called "the intellectual father of the economic integration movement" in K–12 schooling and "arguably the nation’s chief proponent of class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions." He is also an authority on teachers’ unions, private school vouchers, charter schools, community colleges, housing segregation, and labor organizing.~dhsNJ AND democracy in action, underlining the lessons found in the civics books."45 US democracy is the greatest international stabilizer and is key to stop extinctionFried 20 Fried, Daniel. "America's Commitment to Democracy Must Prevail at Home and Abroad." Atlantic Council, 6 Nov. 2020, www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/americas-commitment-to-democracy-must-prevail-at-home-and-abroad/. ~ Daniel Fried is the Weiser Family distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council. He was the coordinator for sanctions policy during the Obama administration, assistant secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia during the Bush administration, and senior director at the National Security Council for the Clinton and Bush administrations. He also served as ambassador to Poland during the Clinton administration.~ AND anyone, least of all Americans. So, we’d better learn fast. The alternative to democracy is violent civil wars, ethnic cleansing, and genocide—- best research confirmsCortright 13, David Cortright is the director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Fourth Freedom Forum, and author of 17 books, Kristen Wall is a Researcher and Analyst at the Kroc Institute, Conor Seyle is Associate Director of One Earth Future, Governance, Democracy, and Peace How State Capacity and Regime Type Influence the Prospects of War and Peace, http://oneearthfuture.org/sites/oneearthfuture.org/files//documents/publications/Cortright-Seyle-Wall-Paper.pdf AND Rummel shows that genocidal killing is directly associated with the absence of democracy, 1AC – Climate ChangeStatus Quo policies make the opportunity cost for teacher strikes too highCasey 20 Leo Casey, 12-2-2020, "The Teacher Strike: Conditions for Success," Dissent Magazine, https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online'articles/the-teacher-strike-conditions-for-success AND points, it will become difficult to mount or sustain a successful strike. That causes teachers uproot and quitting through unsatisfactionCarpenter 21 Jennifer Carpenter., 05-17-21, "Opinion: Protect local control for schools," Burlington Free Press, https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/opinion/my-turn/2017/05/17/opinion-protect-local-control-schools/101726614/ AND impact on programs and teachers, would have devastating consequences on local communities. Current quality of education is sharply decreasing through teacher shortagesBoyce 19 Paul Boyce, 9-17-2019, "The Teacher Shortage Is Real and about to Get Much Worse. Here's Why," No Publication, https://fee.org/articles/the-teacher-shortage-is-real-and-about-to-get-much-worse-heres-why/ AND more of the difference in educational gains than race and parent education combined. Quality of education is key for innovation to stop climate changeKwauk et al 3/26’ ~Christina Kwauk and Rebecca Winthrop, 3-26-2021, "Unleashing the creativity of teachers and students to combat climate change: An opportunity for global leadership," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/research/unleashing-the-creativity-of-teachers-and-students-to-combat-climate-change-an-opportunity-for-global-leadership/~~ AND , charting new paths forward for what life can and should be like. Climate change destroys the world.Specktor 19 ~Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years~ 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html Justin AND and perhaps "the end of human global civilization as we know it." Nuke war causes extinctionPND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock’s 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans’ International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer AND course the immediate post-nuclear results for Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well. 1AC – PlanThus, the plan Resolved: The United States ought to recognize teachers’ unconditional right to strike.Shanker 73’ ~SHANKER, ALBERT L. "Why Teachers Need the Right to Strike." Monthly Labor Review, vol. 96, no. 9, 1973, pp. 48–51. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41839103. Accessed 21 June 2021.~ AND legislatures have found it possible to create mecha-nisms for collective bargaining. Definition of unconditional right to strike:NLRB 85 ~National Labor Relations Board; "Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947: Volume 1," Jan 1985; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=7o1tA''v4xwCandrdid=book-7o1tA''v4xwCandrdot=1~~ AND health and welfare of our people in order to attain a selfish end. Empirics confirm right to strike improves teacher union legitimacyDiSalvo, Daniel, and Michael Hartney. "Teachers Unions in the Post-Janus World." Education Next, 2 Sept. 2020, www.educationnext.org/teachers-unions-post-janus-world-defying-predictions-still-hold-major-clout/~ Daniel Disalvo AND 209 social workers. All of these new employees are potential union members. 1AC – FrameworkThe standard is act hedonistic util. Prefer –1 – 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. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2 – No intent-foresight distinction – if I foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of my deliberation since its intrinsic to my actionNo intent foresight distinction for states.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 AND against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. 3 - Extinction first –A – Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible which proves moral uncertaintyB – Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessitiesC – Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical4 – TJFs – Util is the only framework that makes sense for collective bargaining topicsSaylor n.d. "Unions." The Business Ethics Worksho, saylordotorg.github.io/text'the-business-ethics-workshop/s19-04-unions.html. AND provide a way for union leaders to justify decisions making some members unhappy. Outweighs –A. Most articles about strikes are written through util – means other frameworks can never engage with the core questions of the literature which decks predictability. | 7/8/21 |
SO - AC - Evergreening v1Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Joshua St Peter | 9/5/21 |
SO - AC - Evergreening v2Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 5 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JX | Judge: Arjan Kang | 9/5/21 |
SO - AC - Stock v1Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Joseph Georges 1AC ~Lay~ ~UNDERVIEW AT THE BOTTOM~1AC – FrameworkThe role of the ballot is to determine whether the resolution is a true or false statement – anything else moots 6 minutes of the aca priori's 1st – even worlds framing requires ethics that begin from a priori principles like reason or pleasure so we control the internal link to functional debates.The ballot says vote aff or neg based on a topic – five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true so it's constitutive and jurisdictional.The GCB exists and determines morality.~1~ Premise 1 is that everything that exists that is not the GCB has the potential for nonexistence since they have conditions for their existence. For example, a bottle of coke is dependent on labor and plastic for its existence. | 9/6/21 |
SO - AC - Stock v2Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Byram Hills AK | Judge: Joseph Georges, Neville Tom, JP Stuckert | 9/6/21 |
SO - AC - Stock v3Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Plano East AW | Judge: Javier Navarrete, JP Stuckert, Wyatt Hatfield | 9/6/21 |
SO - AC - Stock v4Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 6 | Opponent: Montville RP | Judge: Jake Vigeant 1ACFrameworkI affirm the resolution Resolved: that The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.The value is morality since ought indicates a moral obligationThe value criterion is maximizing expected well-being which means causing the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people.There are two main reasons for this:Everyone does not like painful or emotionally harmful experiences, so naturally we should try to replace these things with good experiences.Things like death and oppression are intuitively bad, and affect everyone, so we should try to prevent them.In summary, if I can prove to you that reducing intellectual property protections would have a good impact on the world, then you should vote for the affirmative in today’s debate.IP includes patents, copyrights, trademarks, etc.WIPO No Date ~World Intellectual Property Organization, UN agency that specifically deals with IP law, No date, "What is Intellectual Property (IP)?," WIPO, https://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/~~/Kankee AND system aims to foster an environment in which creativity and innovation can flourish.
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SO - AC - Stock v5Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Semis | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Wyatt Hatfield, Mariana Colicchio, Neville Tom | 9/21/21 |
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