1AC - China 1NC - T-PrivatePublic Nebel T Case 1AR - All RVI 2NR - RVI Case 2AR - Case
Nano Nagle Classic
2
Opponent: Northern Valley HS Independent DN | Judge: Christopher Perez
1AC - Non-Domination 1NC - New Affs Bad Infrastructure Case 1AR - All 2NR - Infrastructure Case 2AR - Case Infrastructure
Nano Nagle Classic
4
Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Ben Cortez
1AC - CRISPR 1NC - T-Medicine T-Nebel Case 1AR - All 2NR - Case 2AR - Case
Nano Nagle Classic
6
Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin
1AC - Evergreening 1NC - Case 1AR - Case 2NR - Case 2AR - Case
Nano Nagle Classic
Octas
Opponent: Northern Valley HS Independent JS | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi, David Dosch, Lukas Krause
1AC - Burdens 1NC - Util Infrastructure Case 1AR - All AFC Util K 2NR - Util K AFC All 2AR - Case
Nano Nagle Classic
Finals
Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: David Dosch, Felicity Park, Ben Cortez
1AC - Jordan 1NC - T-Data Exclusivity Case 1AR - Case T 2NR - Case 2AR - Case
Nano Nagle Classic Round Robin
1
Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: David Dosch
1AC - Jordan 1NC - T-Plural Case 1AR - Case T-Plural 2NR - Case 2AR - Case
Nano Nagle Classic Round Robin
3
Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Margaret Strong
1AC - CRISPR 1NC - T-Nebel T-Medicine Case 1AR - Case 2NR - Case 2AR - Case
Nano Nagle Classic Round Robin
Semis
Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: Margaret Strong, Felicity Park, David Dosch
1AC - Jordan 1NC - T-Data Exclusivity T-Plural Case 1AR - All 2NR - Case 2AR - Case
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9/23/21
JanFeb -- DA - NASA
Tournament: Harvard Westlake RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Chris Castillo, Leah Clark-Villanueva NASA is preserving resources by leveraging private partnerships Miriam Kramer 21, author of Space, “NASA's plans for the future hinge on the success of private companies,” Axios, 12-7-2021, https://www.axios.com/nasa-private-spaceflight-plans-5a5710e6-5223-4da3-8c5d-5a712e1d862e.html The private space .. operated space stations. Plan forces spending trade-offs that crush effective Earth sciences and mining --- risks catastrophic climate change Haymet 7 (Tony, Director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography – University of California, San Diego, Mark Abbott, Dean of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science – Oregon State University, and Jim Luyten, Acting Director – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, “The Planet NASA Needs to Explore”, Washington Post, 5-10, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/09/AR2007050902451.html) Decades ago, a ..
our own planet. Commercial mining solves extinction from scarcity, terror, war, and disease. – this is an independent scenario Pelton 17—(Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown).. Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. Are We Humans .. to the future.
Tournament: Harvard Westlake RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Krish Patel, Austin Broussard Xi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development. Mitter and Johnson 21 Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21 Adam In China, however, ..
in scientific research. Cross apply 1AC Patel – it proves that the private sector is seen as key to ccp legitimacy Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardliners Weiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 “Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China” http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer Public support—or .. even the U.S. government.”11 Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspots and causes nuclear war Norris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer Populist pressures might .. toward domestic consumption.
1/13/22
JanFeb -- NC - Util
Tournament: Harvard Westlake RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Chris Castillo, Leah Clark-Villanueva the standard is maximizing expected wellbeing Independently: 1 Death matters – a trillions of people means the future holds a lot of value which extinction destroys b turns suffering – lack of access to food, water, shelter 2 Even the most conservative estimates prove reducing existential risk outweighs all other impacts, regardless of probability – actively prioritize our calculus since you are cognitively biased against it Whittlestone 17 – (Jess Whittlestone, PhD in Behavioural Science and has worked as a policy consultant for government, specialising in security and foreign policy. She also has experience as a freelance journalist for a number of online magazines, including Quartz, Vox, and Aeon. Before her PhD, she studied Maths and Philosophy at Oxford, and played a key role in developing 80,000 Hours' coaching process and research. Currently, Jess is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge, “The Long-Term Future”, Effective Altruism, 11-16-17, Available Online at https://www.effectivealtruism.org/articles/cause-profile-long-run-future/, accessed 12-4-18, HKR-AM) The number of ..
worth taking seriously. 3 Non util ethics are impossible Greene 07 – Joshua, Associate Professor of Social science in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul published in Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, accessed: https://www.gwern.net/docs/philosophy/ethics/2007-greene.pdf, pages 47-50) What turn-of-the-millennium science is .. philosophy in question. 4 That justifies util – it’s impartial, specific to public actors, and resolves infinite regress which explains all value. Greene 15 — (Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology @ Harvard, being interviewed by Russ Roberts, “Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism”, The Library of Economics and Liberty, 1-5-15, Available Online at https://www.econtalk.org/joshua-greene-on-moral-tribes-moral-dilemmas-and-utilitarianism/#audio-highlights, accessed 5-17-20, HKR-AM) NB: Guest = Greene, and only his lines are highlighted/underlined Guest: Okay. So .. of my defense. War worsens structural inequalities – a takes away valuable resources to combat issues like economic and social injustice b war falls the hardest on those who can’t protect themselves – especially nuclear war c those who fight war are more likely to be worse off socially – aff ballot actively consigns the oppressed to fight for the state d war kills everyone – death means we literally cannot fight injustice
1/13/22
JanFeb -- T - Nebel
Tournament: Harvard Westlake RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Krish Patel, Austin Broussard Interpretation: “Private entities” is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend that a subset of nations ban the appropriation of outer space. Nebel 19. Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh. “Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution.” Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO_avWCNzi14 TG Both distinctions are ..
in the resolution. It applies to “private entities” – 1 upward entailment test – “appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust” doesn’t entail that all entities ought to ban private entities because public entities don’t, 2 adverb test – adding “generally” to the res doesn’t substantially change its meaning because a ban is universal. Precision o/w – anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Violation – They specified China Standards: 1 Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend any combination of private entities in any countries which explodes negative burden and causes random affs every tournament Drop the debater:– we can’t restart the round from the 1AC and I’m skewed for the rest of the debate.
1/13/22
JanFeb -- T - PrivatePublic
Tournament: Harvard Westlake RR | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Holden Bukowsky, Leah Clark-Villanueva Interpretation: the affirmative must only defend that the appropriation of space by private entities is unjust. China's "private" sector companies aren't private Olson 20 Stephen Olson, research fellow at the Hinrich Foundation. "Are Private Chinese Companies Really Private?" The Diplomat, 9-30-2020, accessed 1-14-2022, https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/are-private-chinese-companies-really-private/ HWIC China has often ..
to Chinese companies.
Negate – they skirt the core controversy of the topic which is national vs private space activities – kills stasis point and pre-round prep and means we lose access to generics that rely on the motives of private companies differing from national interest proven by the fact that their advantage is functionally China space good/bad – competing interps and DTD on T, it's a question of models and we indict their advocacy
1/14/22
NovDec -- DA - Protectionism
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 7 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Anthony Brown Unions cause protectionism – that slows growth and causes tariffs Epstein 16 Richard A. Epstein Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow @ the Hoover Institution. "The Rise of American Protectionism." https://www.hoover.org/research/rise-american-protectionism This point explains ..
compound the problem. New trade conflicts cause global war and undermine cooperation on collective action problems Dr. Michael F. Oppenheimer 21, Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, Senior Consulting Fellow for Scenario Planning at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Former Executive Vice President at The Futures Group, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Foreign Policy Roundtable at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and The American Council on Germany, “The Turbulent Future of International Relations”, in The Future of Global Affairs: Managing Discontinuity, Disruption and Destruction, Ed. Ankersen and Sidhu, p. 23-30 Four structural forces ..
seems awfully dry.
11/21/21
NovDec -- DA - Unions
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lexington VM | Judge: Morgan Copeland Unions cause protectionism – that slows growth and causes tariffs Epstein 16 Richard A. Epstein Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow @ the Hoover Institution. "The Rise of American Protectionism." https://www.hoover.org/research/rise-american-protectionism This point explains ..
compound the problem. New trade conflicts cause global war and undermine cooperation on collective action problems Dr. Michael F. Oppenheimer 21, Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, Senior Consulting Fellow for Scenario Planning at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Former Executive Vice President at The Futures Group, Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Foreign Policy Roundtable at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, and The American Council on Germany, “The Turbulent Future of International Relations”, in The Future of Global Affairs: Managing Discontinuity, Disruption and Destruction, Ed. Ankersen and Sidhu, p. 23-30 Four structural forces ..
seems awfully dry.
11/21/21
NovDec -- Framework - Util
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lexington VM | Judge: Morgan Copeland the standard is maximizing expected wellbeing Independently: 1 Death is bad Burns 2017 (Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, What’s wrong with human extinction?, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00455091.2016.1278150?needAccess=true, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2017) Many, though certainly .. required human extinction. .
11/21/21
NovDec -- Framework - Util v2
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 7 | Opponent: Dulles VN | Judge: Anthony Brown the standard is maximizing expected wellbeing Independently: 1 Death is bad Burns 2017 (Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, What’s wrong with human extinction?, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00455091.2016.1278150?needAccess=true, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2017) Many, though certainly .. r required human extinction. 2 Governments require weighing between allocation of resources through utilitarianism Mack 4 (Peter, MBBS, FRCS(Ed), FRCS (Glasg), PhD, MBA, MHlthEcon) “Utilitarian Ethics in Healthcare.” International Journal of the Computer, the Internet, and Management Vol. 12, No.3. 2004. Department of Surgery. Singapore General Hospital. SJDI Medicine is a .. situation are ignored. 3 Non util ethics are too difficult to abide by Greene 10 – Joshua, Associate Professor of Social science in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul published in Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, accessed: www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/lchang/material/Evolutionary/Developmental/Greene-KantSoul.pdf) What turn-of-the-millennium science .. philosophy in question. 4 That justifies util – it’s impartial, specific to public actors, and resolves infinite regress which explains all value. Greene 15 — (Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology @ Harvard, being interviewed by Russ Roberts, “Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism”, The Library of Economics and Liberty, 1-5-15, Available Online at https://www.econtalk.org/joshua-greene-on-moral-tribes-moral-dilemmas-and-utilitarianism/#audio-highlights, accessed 5-17-20, HKR-AM) NB: Guest = Greene, and only his lines are highlighted/underlined Guest: Okay. So .. part of my defense.
11/21/21
NovDec -- K - CLS
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harrison JP | Judge: Morgan Copeland, Andrew Wixson, Arianna Nelson The right to strike is a dangerous distraction that prevents the labor movement from challenging systems at the root cause of class inequality and that make it structurally impossible for legal institutions to protect workers. Empirically “right to strike” legislation hamstrings actual strikes via circumventive policies that jail strikers for engaging in theft, violence, etc while allowing for a façade of acceptance and forcing union representation, wages, and economic equality to plummet. The AFF results in scattered, ineffective, and “respectable” strikes and labor disputes re-routed towards legal arbitration while increased legal incorporation results in more tools for the elite to constrain the labor movement -- turns case and kills workers’ movement writ large. Vote NEG for an alternative that affirms a “direct endorsement of militancy and a turn away from the law and instead towards a political program that might advance the interests of the working class regardless of what the law might hold” White 18 (Ahmed White – Nicholaus Rosenbaum Professor of Law @ University of Colorado Law School, “Its Own Dubious Battle: The Impossible Defense of an Effective Right to Strike”, https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2369andcontext=articles , 2018, pgs. 1065-1073, EmmieeM) One of the …
of this argument.
There is no strike wave, just media smoke tricks. Empirics on current strike trends and outcomes of “Right to Strike” legislation go heavily NEG – you cannot legalize revolution and all legislation is merely a ruse to constrain the workers’ movement through the guise of “legal management” White 18 (Ahmed White – Nicholaus Rosenbaum Professor of Law @ University of Colorado Law School, “Its Own Dubious Battle: The Impossible Defense of an Effective Right to Strike”, https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2369andcontext=articles , 2018, pgs. 1124-1131, EmmieeM) In fact, at …
the same thing. Illegal strike activity solves the affirmative – the aff is an attempt to regulate the ongoing strike wave Olivier 10/28 Indigo Olivier is a Brooklyn-based freelance journalist covering politics, labor, and higher education. “Striketober: America’s workers are rising up”, https://conversationalist.org/2021/10/28/striketober-americas-workers-are-rising-up/, published 10-28-21, accessed 11-4-21 mk Workers across the .. an unsuccessful one.” The 1AC is respectability politics – their endorsement of non-violence legitimizes violent responses to perceived violent protestors and splits up solidarity among different factions. Militarized violent responses are inevitable and black and brown people are already coded as violent and beget violence for even nonviolence. The 1AC is part of an ahistorical fantasy about nonviolent resistance, papering over the blood of activists and their own regrets over pursuing nonviolence. This turns the case and decimates solvency. Pierce 20 Rebecca Pierce, “The Limits and Dangers of a Fixation on “Nonviolence””, 2020, New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/158087/limits-dangers-fixation-nonviolence In the immediate .. , is his watchword.”
11/22/21
NovDec -- T - A
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Julian Kuffour Interpretation—the aff may not specify a just government That outweighs—only our evidence speaks to how indefinite singulars are interpreted in the context of normative statements like the resolution. This means throw out aff counter-interpretations that are purely descriptive Violation—they specified Brazil Vote neg: 1 Precision –any deviation justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. 2 Limits—specifying a just government offers huge explosion in the topic since they get permutations of hundreds of governments in the world depending on their definition of “just government”. Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for No RVIs—it’s your burden to be topical.
11/21/21
NovDec -- T - Framework
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lexington VM | Judge: Morgan Copeland Interp: Affirmatives must only defend the implementation of a law that a just government recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike This does not require the use of any particular style, type of evidence, or assumption about the role of the judge — only that the topic should determine the debate’s subject matter.
“Resolved” means enactment of a law. Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition (Multi-volume set of judicial definitions). “Resolved”. 1964. Definition of .. establish by law”.
Violation – they reinterpret the resolution as a metaphorical rejection of productivity – that’s distinct from legally establishing a right to strike
TVA- defend a material right to strike and justify that by saying work as an ideology is bad – that still lets you discuss semiocapitalism but requires the aff to materially defend strikes as a stasis point. Disads to the TVA prove neg ground and no right to a perfect 1ac. Materially defending implentation is also important for limits – key for the DA’s that we’re reading and the fact they will say “no link” in the 1AR proves our claim of negative contestment and engagement.
Switch side debate – critiques of liberalism and performance can be read on the neg – solves dogmatism by testing different viewpoints Debate doesn’t have any effect on the political and the individual arguments we read have no effect on our subjectivity, even if they spur immediate reflection, those insights aren’t integrated into deep-stored memory—this means you can vote negative on presumption. Encouraging focused, nuanced research and clash is the only chance to change attitudes long term—which means they can’t solve their impact turns but our model can. Vote Neg – The resolution is the only common stasis point that anchors negative preparation. Allowing any aff deviation from the resolution is a moral hazard which justifies an infinite number of unpredictable arguments with thin ties to the resolution. Because debate is a competitive game, their interpretation incentivizes affirmatives to run further towards fringes and revert to truisms which are exceedingly difficult to negate—this asymmetry is compounded by their monopoly on preparation That outweighs – The competitive incentive from debate creates pressures for research and focused clash which generates important skills and makes debate a training ground for future work. The impact Successful movement organizing is analogous to mainstream politics – it requires skilled organization, negotiating relationships, strategic leadership, and proto-institutionalism – sacrificing debate as training ensures we never translate opinion into political power, but requiring the aff defend contestable positions linearly increases debate’s capacity for movement advocacy as they get more predictable Han and Barnett-Loro 18 Hahrie Han, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara. Carina Barnett-Loro, Climate Advocacy Lab, San Francisco. To Support a Stronger Climate Movement, Focus Research on Building Collective Power. December 19, 2018. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2018.00055/full Building public will ..
around gun rights. filter their impacts through predictable testability ---debate inherently judges relative truth value by whether or not it gets answered---a combination of a less predictable case neg, the burden of rejoinder, and them starting a speech ahead will always inflate the value of their impacts, which makes non-arbitrarily weighing whether they should have read the 1ac in the first place impossible within the structure of a debate round so even if we lose framework, vote neg on presumption. No RVIs – this includes impact turns and independent voting issues – 1 – exclusions are inevitable – we only have 45 minutes to discuss things – doesn’t prove harmful intent 2 – T is an aff burden – doesn’t justify them winning 3 – forces unreasonable standard of epistemic perfection – bad arguments should be rejected, but that doesn’t implicate the team
11/21/21
NovDec -- T - Workers
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harrison JP | Judge: Morgan Copeland, Andrew Wixson, Arianna Nelson Interpretation: The aff many not specify workers Violation: They do Vote neg: Limits – you can pick any worker in any occupation– it explodes neg prep and leads to random worker of the week affs bc there’s more than a 1000 different occupations.
11/22/21
NovDec -- Theory - New Affs Bad
Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AV | Judge: Lukas Krause Interpretation: New, un-disclosed affs are a voting issue –
Testing – they make it impossible to adequately test the aff without adequate pre-round prep – favors newness over engagement – disclosure solves their offense – you can break new affs, you just have to disclose the plan text personally or disclose it on the wiki before round 2. Negative ground – they make negative ground concessionary to the goodwill of the aff and results in extremist generics that heavily skew ground in favor of the aff
11/20/21
SeptOct -- DA - Infrastructure
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northern Valley HS Independent DN | Judge: Christopher Perez The Debt Ceiling expansion gives Democrats two months to finalize and pass Biden’s spending package – every moment is necessary to resolve intraparty disputes Cochrane 10/7 Cochrane, Emily. Emily Cochrane is a correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure. "Senate Leaders Agree to Vote on Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase." N.Y. Times, 7 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-senate.html. Senator Chuck Schumer .. a long-term increase. Pushing a WTO takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU allies Bhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. On the other .. all opposed the idea. Package is sufficient, necessary, and the last opportunity to solve climate change – extinction Leber 10/7 Leber, Rebecca. Rebecca Leber covers climate change for Vox. Before joining Vox, she was an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, where her investigations exposed government corruption and fossil fuel industry disinformation. She has worked as a staff writer at Grist, The New Republic, and ThinkProgress. A dozen more outlets have published her work over her decade as a climate journalist. "A last chance for US climate action: Democrats’ Build Back Better and infrastructure bills." Vox, 7 Oct. 2021, www.vox.com/22685920/democrats-infrastructure-build-back-better-climate-change. The United States .. countries,” Cleetus said. Warming causes extinction –hurts marginalized communities the most Melton 19 Michelle Melton is a 3L at Harvard Law School. Before law school, she was an associate fellow in the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she focused on climate policy. Climate Change and National Security, Part II: How Big a Threat is the Climate? January 7, 2019. https://www.lawfareblog.com/climate-change-and-national-security-part-ii-how-big-threat-climate At least until ..
among other consequences.
10/9/21
SeptOct -- NC - Util
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Northern Valley HS Independent JS | Judge: Saianurag Karavadi, David Dosch, Lukas Krause the standard is maximizing expected wellbeing Independently: 1 Death outweighs Burns 2017 (Elizabeth Finneron-Burns is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, What’s wrong with human extinction?, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00455091.2016.1278150?needAccess=true, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2017) Many, though certainly .. required human extinction. 2 All other frameworks fail Mack 4 (Peter, MBBS, FRCS(Ed), FRCS (Glasg), PhD, MBA, MHlthEcon) “Utilitarian Ethics in Healthcare.” International Journal of the Computer, the Internet, and Management Vol. 12, No.3. 2004. Department of Surgery. Singapore General Hospital. SJDI Medicine is a .. situation are ignored. 3 Non util ethics are impossible Greene 10 – Joshua, Associate Professor of Social science in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University (The Secret Joke of Kant’s Soul published in Moral Psychology: Historical and Contemporary Readings, accessed: www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/lchang/material/Evolutionary/Developmental/Greene-KantSoul.pdf) What turn-of-the-millennium science .. philosophy in question. 4 That justifies util – it’s impartial, specific to public actors, and resolves infinite regress which explains all value. Greene 15 — (Joshua Greene, Professor of Psychology @ Harvard, being interviewed by Russ Roberts, “Joshua Greene on Moral Tribes, Moral Dilemmas, and Utilitarianism”, The Library of Economics and Liberty, 1-5-15, Available Online at https://www.econtalk.org/joshua-greene-on-moral-tribes-moral-dilemmas-and-utilitarianism/#audio-highlights, accessed 5-17-20, HKR-AM) NB: Guest = Greene, and only his lines are highlighted/underlined Guest: Okay. So, I .. of my defense.
10/11/21
SeptOct -- T - Data Exclusivity
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: Finals | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: David Dosch, Felicity Park, Ben Cortez Interpretation – topical affs must defend a reduction of intellectual property protections. IP is a specific, definable category which doesn’t include data exclusivity. WTO “World Trade Organization.” WTO, https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/intel1_e.htm. Intellectual property rights .. holders and of users. Prefer – Limits – allowing non intellectual property explodes limits to include literally all possible plans out there – makes neg prep impossible because the case negs to the different affs would have no overlap – privileges the aff by stretching pre-tournament neg prep too thin and precluding nuanced rigorous testing of aff No RVIs—it’s your burden to be topical
10/11/21
SeptOct -- T - Medicine
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Ben Cortez Medicines are substances used to prevent, diagnose, or treat harms. MRS 20 (MAINE REVENUE SERVICE SALES, FUEL and SPECIAL TAX DIVISION) “A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE SALES AND USE TAX LAW” https://www.maine.gov/revenue/sites/maine.gov.revenue/files/inline-files/Reference20Guide202020.pdf December 2020 SS Medicines means antibiotics, .. sold in packaging.
Medicines solely refer to physical substances. American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.yourdictionary.com/medicineElmer "A substance, especially .. disease, condition, or injury."
CRISPR is a platform technology, not a medicine. Editas Medicine (a clinical-stage biotechnology company which is developing therapies based on CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing technology)., No Date, CRISPR Gene Editing, https://www.editasmedicine.com/crispr-gene-editing/ Justin CRISPR (pronounced “crisper”) is an .. in any cell or tissue.
Negate – 1 Limits – their model explodes it to medical devices, any form of strategy for medical research, databases that are used to create medicines and more – only our definition creates a reasonable caselist for medicines while they make prep impossible and wreck engagement Use competing interps – reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention
10/9/21
SeptOct -- T - Nebel
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Ben Cortez Interpretation: The aff may not defend WTO member nations reducing intellectual property protections for a subset of medicines.
Violation: They only defend CRISPR Vote neg: 1 Limits – you can pick anything from COVID vaccines to HIV/AIDS to random biotech to insulin treatments and there’s no universal disad since each one has a different function and implication for health, tech, and relations – explodes neg prep and leads to random medicine of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible. No RVIs – a) illogical – you shouldn’t win for being fair – it’s a litmus test for engaging in substance
10/9/21
SeptOct -- T - Plural
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic Round Robin | Round: 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: David Dosch A. Interpretation: The aff must defend that one or more member nations of the WTO reduce IP protections for medicines. “Nations” in the resolution is a plural noun which implicates more than one nation. Daniel Scocco, 2007 (English Grammar 101: Plural Form of Nouns. Online. Internet. Accessed May 13, 2014 at http://www.dailywritingtips.com/english-grammar-101-plural-form-of-nouns/) The English language .. and two cars.
Jurisdiction – the resolution they agreed to debate pluralizes countries for a reason. Outweighs all pragmatic standards:
A. Topicality is a constitutive rule of the activity, they agreed to debate the topic when they came to the tournament, and they should be held to that agreement. Tournament invitation says we are debating Sept-Oct, not a different topic.
B. You only have jurisdiction to vote on topical advocacies, you can’t vote affirmative if they haven’t affirmed.
2. Limits – their interp allows them to specify any country which explodes neg prep burden since there’s no unifying ground versus the Jordan aff or Russia aff – specifying two forces the aff to have a defense of the two countries in the literature which solves limits but still allows for a robust set of affs like the US and China, developing countries, and more.
4. TVA – defend Jordan and the uS – TRIPS plus is what causing the worse economic situation in Jordan
D. Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for—there’s no way for the negative to know what constitutes a “reasonable interpretation” when we do prep – reasonability is arbitrary and causes a race to the bottom, proliferating abuse
No RVIs—it’s your burden to be topical
10/11/21
SeptOct -- Theory - New Affs Bad
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northern Valley HS Independent DN | Judge: Christopher Perez New, un-disclosed affs are a voting issue –
Testing – they make it impossible to adequately test the aff without adequate pre-round prep – favors newness over engagement – disclosure solves their offense – you can break new affs, you just have to disclose the plan text personally or disclose it on the wiki before round 2. Negative ground – they make negative ground concessionary to the goodwill of the aff and results in extremist generics that heavily skew ground in favor of the aff No RVIs:
Logic- aff doesn’t win for proving they’re fair or educational 2. Chilling effect- debaters won’t read legitimate theory for fear of losing to a prepped-out counter-interp- proliferates abuse 3. Substantive education- RVIs force a collapse to theory which crowds-out substance