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| Greenhill | 4 | Bronx Science RP | Tej Gedela |
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| Greenhill RR | 4 | Strake Jesuit ZD | panel |
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| Emory | 2 | Opponent: Riverwood LF | Judge: Gerard Grigsby 1ac space debris |
| Emory | 3 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JS | Judge: Grant Brown 1ac korsgaard |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Truman Le 1ac virtue ethics |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: Tej Gedela 1ac kant lib |
| Greenhill RR | 4 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit ZD | Judge: panel 1ac black |
| Greenhill RR | 2 | Opponent: Harrison AA | Judge: panel 1ac insulin |
| Greenhill RR | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: panel 1ac Vaccine apartheid |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: none | Judge: none | 9/16/21 |
1 - Util vs KantTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: Tej Gedela UtilThe standard is maximizing expected well-being. ~To clarify, hedonistic act util~. Prefer –1~ Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2~ No act omission distinction – outweighs on actor specificity because different actors have different obligations.Shwartz 19 Schwartz, Gregory. (2019). THE ETHICS OF OMISSION. Think, 18(51), 117–121. doi:10.1017/s1477175618000404 AND same source: consent. Ultimately, the root of responsibility is consent. No 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 force against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere Substitutability—only consequentialism explains necessary enablers.Sinnott-Armstrong 92 ~Walter, professor of practical ethics. "An Argument for Consequentialism" Dartmouth College Philosophical Perspectives. 1992.~ AND explain moral substitutability if it claims that properties like this provide moral reasons. Reject non-naturalist ethics –Greene 10 – Joshua, Associate Professor of Social science in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University AND religion, they don't really explain what's distinctive about the philosophy in question. 10~ Consequentialism can account for deontic theories but the opposite isn’t true – this means you prefer consequentialism as it can subsume their assumptionsPeterson 10 ~"A Royal Road to Consequentialism?" Martin Peterson (Section for Philosophy and Ethics, Eindhoven University of Technology). Ethic Theory Moral Prac (2010) 13:153–169~ AJ AND virtually impossible not to be a consequentialist. Call this the asymmetry argument. 11~} Libertarianism collapses to util – it relies on an empirical question about the best way to protect freedom.Jeffrey Friedman 1997 ~Department of Political Science @ Yale University~, "What's wrong with Libertarianism," Critical Review, 11:3, 407-467 AND human beings; only empirical investigation, not moral imperatives, could say. | 9/19/21 |
1 - Util vs virtue ethicsTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Truman Le UtilThe standard is maximizing expected well being. Prefer –1~ Only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable – all other frameworks collapse.Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. 6~ Preserving life is a pre requisite to the ideal conditions their theory assumes — all value stems from experienced wellbeing.7~ Substitutability—only consequentialism explains necessary enablers.Sinnott-Armstrong 92 ~Walter, professor of practical ethics. "An Argument for Consequentialism" Dartmouth College Philosophical Perspectives. 1992.~ AND explain moral substitutability if it claims that properties like this provide moral reasons. 8~ The public nature of policy-making necessitates consequentialism.Dan W. Brock is an American philosopher, bioethicist, and professor emeritus. He is the Frances Glessner Lee Professor Emeritus of Medical Ethics in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, the former Director of the Division of Medical Ethics (now the Center for Bioethics) at the Harvard Medical School, and former Director of the Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health (PEH). He has held the Tillinghast Professorship at Brown University and served as a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. Brock earned his B.A. in economics from Cornell University and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. "The Role of Philosophers in Policy-Making." Life and Death: Philosophical Essays in Biomedical Ethics. Cambridge University Press, Jan 29, 1993. P. 409-410. AND why did they enter the policy domain? What are they doing there? ~ Reducing existential risks is the top priority in any coherent moral theoryPlummer, PhD, 15 AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) | 9/18/21 |
JF - DA - Space RaceTournament: Emory | Round: 2 | Opponent: Riverwood LF | Judge: Gerard Grigsby DAUS wins space race now due to private competition – it's key to space dominance and militarization is good – the plan nukes the US’s silver bullet against Chinese aggressionWeichert 21 – former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics ~Brandon, "The Future of Space Exploration Depends on the Private Sector," 7/5/2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/the-future-of-space-exploration-depends-on-the-private-sector/~~#slide-1~~ AND America’s dynamic start-ups win that race, not China’s state capitalism. And, space dominance key to global peace – nuclear and conventional deterrence is collapsing, which will provoke civilization-ending revisionist aggression from Russia and ChinaDr. Robert Zubrin 19, Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Washington, President of Pioneer Energy, Founder and President of the Mars Society, Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy, The Case for Space: How the Revolution in Spaceflight Opens Up a Future of Limitless Possibility, p. Google Books AND of the other, we would be the overwhelming loser by the exchange. Space dominance solves hegemony – deterrence strategies, even rudimentary ones, are perceived as weakness and causes aggressionWeichert 17 (Brandon J. Weichert. Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics, "The High Ground: The Case for U.S. Space Dominance," Orbis, Vol 61, Issue 2, 2017, pp 227 – 237, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030438717300108) AND example, the overwhelming American presence in space presumably would dissuade potential attackers. | 1/28/22 |
SO - CP - Abolish WTOTournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison AA | Judge: panel CP - Abolish WTOText: The World Trade Organization ought to be abolished. The following 164 countries listed in the speech doc ought to independently and without influence from international government reduce intellectual property protections for diabetes medicines.Afghanistan AND its leading institutions, the World Trade Organization. We should abolish it. The WTO as an institution is unethical and perpetuates colonialismGodrej 20 AND world – were living on less than $5.50 a day. | 9/17/21 |
SO - CP - Abolish WTO Heg BadTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Bronx Science RP | Judge: Tej Gedela Text: The World Trade Organization ought to be abolished. The following 164 countries listed in the speech doc ought to independently and without influence from international government ~opponent’s plan~Afghanistan AND its leading institutions, the World Trade Organization. We should abolish it. Eliminating the WTO ends U.S. global hegemonyBello, PhD, 2000 AND the pace of technological and industrial development in the rest of the world. Primacy causes endless war, terror, authoritarianism, prolif, and Russia-China aggression.Ashford, PhD, 19 AND they constructed it in the 1nc is contradictory and impossible to respond to. The WTO as an institution is unethical and perpetuates colonialismGodrej 20 AND world – were living on less than $5.50 a day. | 9/19/21 |
SO - CP - China Vaccine DiplomacyTournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: panel CPText: The People’s Republic of China should offer Chinese developed vaccines and medical technology related to COVID-19 to the world for freeThe CP massively ramps up Chinese "vaccine diplomacy" which solves the caseJuecheng and Yuwei 8-13-21 AND production, boosting fair distribution, and licensing local production in more countries. | 9/17/21 |
SO - CP - UHC InsulinTournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison AA | Judge: panel CP - UHC InsulinThe member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to implement a universal healthcare system including free insulinIP isn’t the problem stopping insulin access or the bad innovation discussed in Hanson, it’s long standing corruption that forces any entering companies to have extremely long and expensive trialsGoozner PhD 20 AND end the patent games drug companies use to delay generics entering the market. Implementing a UHC system gets insulin to the uninsuredGoozner PhD 20 AND access to timely, acceptable, and affordable health care of appropriate quality." Insulin needs to made free DIRECTLY – even after IP removal, likely new laws + industry subsidies to keep big pharma in powerGoozner PhD 20 AND Boston, and San Francisco/Silicon Valley) that are heavily Democratic. | 9/17/21 |
SO - DA - Counterfeit InsulinTournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harrison AA | Judge: panel Trademark/Counterfeits DACounterfeit medicines related to insulin are prevalent in the squo and disproportionately affect oppressed peoples – the agrees in Konrad 17Cheng 09 AND purchased the bogus strips, but there were no reports of injuries.17 Counterfeits for hormones like insulin have the wrong amount of API – literally killing patients who think they are being treatedWilliams PharmD and MSPH 14 AND global health, the growing threat of counterfeit medications may begin to decline. Trademark is the single effective preventative measure against counterfeit medicine, removal would explode the counterfeit drug market hurting diabetes prevention globallyKonski 08 AND strong trademark is the strongest intellectual property tool for combating counterfeiting. | 9/17/21 |
SO - DA - InnovationTournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: panel DAPharma profits are up from COVID vaccines, patent waivers threaten thisBuchholz 5-17-21 AND almost $428 million accrued in the first nine months of the year. Innovation is high now – multiple sectors.Wellesley Primary Care Medicine 9/11 AND of effort that went into the development and the review that was increased." Strong IP protection spurs innovation by encouraging risk-taking and incentivizing knowledge sharing—prefer statistical analysis of multiple studiesEzell and Cory 19 AND for foreign direct investment which in turn also leads to economic growth."56 Biopharmaceutical innovation is key to prevent future pandemics and bioterrorMarjanovic and Feijao 20 AND such public health threats to an even greater extent under improved innovation conditions. Pharmaceutical profits are key to innovation against emerging disease threatsEngelhardt 8 – PhD, MD, Professor of Philosophy @ Rice AND profit in medicine and especially in the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries. That causes extinction, which outweighs.Millett and Snyder-Beattie 17 AND and Japan using plague to cause an epidemic in China during WWII.27 | 9/17/21 |
SO - K - Cap vs AfropessTournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 4 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit ZD | Judge: panel Afropessimism misreads history and prescribes a counter-productive political agenda. The language of social death" erases a rich heritage of anti-racist resistance and demobilizes coalitional mass movements that are necessary for actualizing a productive struggle against racism. The empirical result is a strange nexus between separatism and reformism that strengthens neoliberalism and occludes a genuinely emancipatory project.Haider, PhD Candidate, 18 AND from a weird epub, but I believe p. 37-39) Pessimism eliminates the animating life force of the black radical tradition.Smith, PhD, 16 AND feel me? / We gon’ be alright." (184-5) Capital insurance is the root cause of antiblackness – blackness is subsumed in the form of human capital, which explains expropriation better than the aff.Amaro 18 (Ramon Amaro, Lecturer in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; Research Fellow in Digital Culture at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam; worked as Assistant Editor for the SAGE open access journal Big Data and Society; 2018, PhD, Philosophy, Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths; 2013, MA, Sociological Research, University of Essex; 1999, BSe, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan; "Machine Learning, Black Labour and Bio-epistemic Resistance," presented as part of After Work: Life, Labour and Automation, a symposium exploring work and resistance through and against technology. Transcription from cvs, finders credit and cutting goes to tris) AND precedent of actual citizenship being viewed as potential financial gain or potential investment. Neoliberalism threatens survival- only coalitional politics can challenge its dominanceDean, PhD, 15 AND , as solidary members of a fighting collective. (399-401) Our alternative creates a new standpoint on analysis of inequalities. Rather than beginning with the framework of race and racism to orient our political struggle, politics should begin with a critique of capitalism – only understanding the way in which capitalism produces race in the first place can create a truly effective politicsDarder, and Torress, 04 (Antonia, Prof of education policy studies at U of Illinois, and Rodolfo, Associate prof of latino studies at UC Irvine, After Race: Racism after multiculturalism, p. 98-101liam) AND , controlled, and made disposable at the point of production. Class is a key starting point—not to obscure intersecting inequalities, but to historicize them and address the engines of mass immiserationTaylor 11 ~Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University; "Race, class and Marxism," SocialistWorker.org, http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/04/race-class-and-marxism~~ AND one group of workers suffer oppression, it negatively impacts the entire class. Conceptual Afropessimism is philosophical idealism and can’t be translated to the material realm, which is contingent and explained by dialectical materialism.Cruz, PhDc, ‘17 AND figured as fixed- within a scheme that rewards those doing the fixing. Dialectical theories are not reducible to Hegel’s Eurocentric theorization.Cruz, PhDc, ‘17 AND instability, and that these are precisely what keeps the circuit in motion: | 9/17/21 |
SO - T - MedicineTournament: Greenhill RR | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: panel TA. Interpretation: medicine refers to treatments and cures only. Affirmatives must not reduce other medical IP protections.B. Violation: they dovaccines are medical interventions, not medicinesElbe 10 ~Stefan Elbe, director of the Centre for Global Health Policy and a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. "Security and Global Health," ISBN 0745643744, accessed 8-10-2021, https://www.wiley.com/en-ee/Security+and+Global+Health-p-9780745643731~~ HWIC AND security to be practised through the introduction of new medical interventions in society. Vaccines are different from medicines in the context of intellectual propertyGarrison 04 ~Christopher Garrison, Consultant Legal Advisor to WHO. "Intellectual Property Rights and Vaccines in Developing countries," 04-13-2004, accessed 9-2-2021, https://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/events/en/Background'paper.pdf?ua=1~~ HWIC AND and outlines the impact of some of the differences between vaccines and medicines. C. Reasons to prefer1. Limits — allowing any patented medical intervention includes testing and screening methods, surgery, contact tracing software etc. which takes away generics like innovation bc that applies to pharmaceutical development not distribution of preventative measures which explodes neg prep burden2. Precision — we cite the WHO which proves common usage — they add a whole new caselist based on social medicine which kills predictability — that's k2 pre-tournament prep and deep clash around the core topic controversy. Reject counter-interps without a positive vision of the topic — otherwise they can always shift the goalpostsD. Paradigm issues1. Drop the debater — they skewed the debate from the 1AC and T indicts their advocacy2. Competing interps — you can't be reasonably topical and reasonability invites judge intervention3. No RVIs — forcing the 1NC to go all in kills substance education and discourages checking abuse4. TVAs exist: anything about normal medication like insulin, even covid cures like ventilators and remdeservir, just not vaccines | 9/17/21 |
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