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| Berkner TFA | 2 | Opponent: Dulles AD | Judge: Jeffery Stirl 1ac - trad |
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| Vines | 1 | Opponent: SC Dhyan Patel | Judge: Chuck Brandon 1ac - trad |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: none | Round: Finals | Opponent: none | Judge: none hi! i go by she/her pronouns, but i don't mind any pronouns. as a heads up, i would really prefer that you give a trigger warning for suicide. please let me know if you don’t have access to any articles/books i’ve got cards disclosed from and i’ll send you the full text! if you need any of my speech docs, please let me know and i’ll send ’em your way. | 9/24/21 |
JF22 - AC - Traditional v1Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JX | Judge: Reed Weiler 1ACI affirm Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.FrameworkI value morality as ought implies a moral obligationThe standard is minimizing material and structural violence. Prefer: Addressing structural violence is a pre requisite to addressing other impacts – it is embedded into the framework of society.Structural violence must come first in our impact calculus —there is an ethical obligation to address it.Ansell 17 — David A. Ansell, Senior Vice President, Associate Provost for Community Health Equity, and Michael E. Kelly Professor of Medicine at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago), holds an M.D. from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University College of Medicine, 2017 ("American Roulette," The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills, Published by the University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226428291, p. kindle 307-363)Akrecut 3. Attempts to prioritize existential threats in the name of utilitarian calculus distorts our moral reasoning and ensures we will continue to ignore urgent structures of violence – you should over correct to resolve ongoing wrongs and refuse to be ethically blackmailed by the threat of large scale future impacts..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)Akrecut C1 – private sector badIt is inevitable we will need to get to space, but the private sector is structurally incapable of meeting that challenge – profit motives prevent private entities from being interested in the scope of the project that is needed – instead, they focus on smaller missions focused on raising capital at substantial risk to the rest of us.Phillips 20 ~(Leigh, science writer and EU affairs journalist, and science writer for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria.) "We Don't Need Elon Musk to Explore the Solar System," May 8, 2021, https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/elon-musk-space-exploration-mars-colonization//Ak / ====The legal playing field right now allows private companies to claim resources in space – that is likely to be modeled by other countries and will culminate in systemic exploitation of outer space. ==== That exploitative exploration has long lasting consequences – increasing the number of satellites from private companies like SpaceX would massively increase the risk of dangerous space debris.Scheer and Moss 20 ~(Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss, journalists from Davidson with phd's on environmental science respectively ) "The Good, The Bad andamp; The Ugly: Satellites andamp; The Environment," Emagazine https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2178042533743/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-satellites-the-environment, 8-13-2020Ak That debris risks a nightmare scenario known as the Kessler syndrome – debris from private space flight ensures massive satellite destruction + makes launching future space flight impossible.Thompson 20 ~(Clive, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, a columnist for Wired magazine, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine) "Monetizing the Final Frontier The strange new push for space privatization," December 3, 2020 https://newrepublic.com/article/160303/monetizing-final-frontier//ak In particular, climate oriented satellites that are currently in orbit are key to adapting to and preventing global warming, especially in developing countries. These measures become impossible with so much private sector debris. Alonso 18 ~(Elisa Jiménez Alonso, communications consultant with Acclimatise, climate resilience organization) "Earth Observation of Increasing Importance for Climate Change Adaptation," Acclimatise, May 2, 2018, https://www.acclimatise.uk.com/2018/05/02/earth-observation-of-increasing-importance-for-climate-change-adaptation/ak// Space debris disproportionally affects developing countries – climate change and falling debris ravages countries who played no role in creating this crisis.Anél Ferreira-Snyman, March 2013, ~Professor of Law, University of South Africa~,Institute of Foreign and Comparative Law, https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23644687.pdf?refreqid=excelsior3Aa1967e39b015b325681ae4df0973545c//Ak// Climate change is responsible for devastating consequences that disproportionately target marginalized populations in developing countries – it is the largest structural violence impact.(Abrahm Lustgarten, 2020- senior environmental reporter at ProPublica, "HOW CLIMATE MIGRATION WILL RESHAPE AMERICA," 15 September 2020, New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/15/magazine/climate-crisis-migration-america.html)//ak// | 1/15/22 |
SO21 - AC - Traditional v1Tournament: Newman Smith Spontanaeity | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood Kaur | Judge: Glenda Ferguson SO21 – Traditional Aff – GHIFrameworkI affirm Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.I value morality, per the use of ought in the resolution, asking us to evaluate the moral obligations for both sides.Since the resolution asks nations to take an action, our frameworks in this debate should focus on government action.The only ethical framework policymakers can use is utilRobert Goodin 90, ~professor of philosophy at the Australian National University college of arts and social sciences~, "The Utilitarian Response," pgs 141-142, BE Additionally, policy makers face moral uncertainty when making decisions since they are unsure of the ethical implications that their policy will have on each individual – as a result, they must make decisions that benefit the most people. That means that we should default towards preventing extinction as a meta-constraint on ethical theories.Thus, my value criterion is maximizing expected well-being.Contention 1 – Global Health Inequality (GHI)Subpoint A – Access to MedicineInternational property protections protect developed countries and allow them to maintain extended monopolies in pharma, disproportionately hurting low-income countriesEconomist Dean Baker writes in 2017 (Dean Baker is an American macroeconomist and co-founder, with Mark Weisbrot, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.C. He is credited as one of the first economists to have identified the 2007–08 United States housing bubble., Arjun Jayadev is an Associate Professor of Economics at Azim Premji University and University of Massachusetts Boston., Joseph Stiglitz is an American economist, public policy analyst, and a professor at Columbia University. He is a recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences and the John Bates Clark Medal.), "Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Development: A BETTER SET OF APPROACHES FOR THE 21st CENTURY", July 2017, Azim Premji University and Columbia University, pg. 27-28, https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/jstiglitz/sites/jstiglitz/files/IP20for2021st20Century20-20EN.pdf NT Patents and market exclusivity, a type of IPP, are vital to these monopolies, preventing generic medicines from entering the market and allowing heavily marked-up drug prices.Harvard Professor Aaron Kesselheim writes (Aaron S. Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Jerry Avorn, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Chief of the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Ameet Sarpatwari is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Assistant Director of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) within the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital.), "The High Cost of Prescription Drugs in the United States Origins and Prospects for Reform", Journal of the American Medical Association, 8-23-16, https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2545691 NT These big pharma monopolies are disproportionately detrimental to developing countries – patent law decreases access to medicineProffessors Saeed Ahmediani and Shekoufeh Nikfar write (Saeed Ahmadiani and Shekoufeh Nikfar both work in the Department of Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmaceutical Administration at Tehran University of Medical Sciences), "Challenges of access to medicine and the responsibility of pharmaceutical companies: a legal perspective", 5-4-16, DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, pg. 2-3, DOI 10.1186/s40199-016-0151-z, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855755/ NT This decreases innovation - pharma patents are rewarding failure and benefit the least innovative parts of the industryFeldman 8/8/21 (Robin Feldman's work focuses on the role of intellectual property law in technology and innovation; drug patents, pricing, and health care law; and artificial intelligence and data. She is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, the Albert Abramson '54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the UC Hastings Center for Innovation (C4i).), "Our patent system is broken. And it could be stifling innovation.", The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/08/08/our-patent-system-is-broken-it-could-be-stifling-innovation/ NT Subpoint B – Climate ChangeRemoving patents for drugs removes the incentive for pharma companies to merge by removing the common threat of patent cliffs, which solves innovation and increases drug researchFeldman 4/6/21 (Robin Feldman's work focuses on the role of intellectual property law in technology and innovation; drug patents, pricing, and health care law; and artificial intelligence and data. She is the Arthur J. Goldberg Distinguished Professor of Law, the Albert Abramson '54 Distinguished Professor of Law Chair, and Director of the UC Hastings Center for Innovation (C4i).), "Drug companies keep merging. Why that's bad for consumers and innovation.", The Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/04/06/drug-companies-keep-merging-why-thats-bad-consumers-innovation/ NT The pharma industry exacerbates climate change, with big pharma causing significantly more carbon emissions than even the automotive industryBelkhir 4/19/21 (Dr. Lotfi Belkhir, tenure track Associate Professor, Walter G. Booth School of Engineering Practice, and Class of 1962 Mechanical Engineering Endowed Chair in Eco-Entrepreneurship. Dr. Belkhir is a visionary and results-driven academic and business practitioner. He is a researcher, teacher, inventor and entrepreneurial leader with 17 years of distinguished industrial experience in sustainable and innovation-powered business creation and economic growth. Dr. Belkhir is an expert and thought-leader in the field of Total Sustainable Management, Eco entrepreneurship, digital convergence and its socio-environmental impact. Possesses proven leadership skills in research and development, IP protection, business development, finance, strategic planning, and general management. He possesses strong and successful international experience and alliances, public speaking, and relationship building. Multicultural, and fluent in English, French and Arabic, Dr. Belkhir earned his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from SUNY and MBA in Management of Technology, Walden University.), "How big pharma contributes to climate change", Global News, first published 6-1-19 and updated 4-19-21, https://globalnews.ca/news/5330863/climate-change-pharmaceutical-companies/ NT Warming causes extinction, mass inequality and guarantees every other impact—only the plan can reduce emissionsSpratt and Dunplop 19, David Spratt ~Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration, Melbourne, and co-author of Climate Code Red: The case for emergency action~ and Ian Dunlop ~member of the Club of Rome. Formerly an international oil, gas and coal industry executive, chairman of the Australian Coal Association, chief executive of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and chair of the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading 1998-2000~, "Existential climate-related security risk: A scenario approach," Breakthrough - National Centre for Climate Restoration, May 2019, pg. 8-10, beckert. Brackets in original text The plan solves - WTO is crucial to global equity and reduce povertyNarlikar, PhD, 18 | 9/25/21 |
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