Harvard Westlake Feldman Aff
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| greenhill fall classic | 1 | westwood pm | rachel mauchline |
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| loyola invitational | 4 | oa independent dm | yardley rosas |
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| loyola invitational | 5 | strake jesuit ms | brett cryan |
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| greenhill fall classic | 1 | Opponent: westwood pm | Judge: rachel mauchline 1ac - covid v3 |
| loyola invitational | 2 | Opponent: plano east aw | Judge: richard li 1ac - covid v1 |
| loyola invitational | 4 | Opponent: oa independent dm | Judge: yardley rosas 1ac - covid v2 |
| loyola invitational | 5 | Opponent: strake jesuit ms | Judge: brett cryan 1ac - covid v1 |
| x | Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x osourced penny pic ! |
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contact infoTournament: x | Round: Finals | Opponent: x | Judge: x fb message for the aff/if there's anything you want changed ab disclosure/to send me pictures of your pets if you don't want to use fb email me at ofeldman1@hwemail.com or text me at (323) 365-4111 open sourcing every round + cites unless the aff i read is identical to a previous version | 8/24/21 |
so - covid v1Tournament: loyola invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: plano east aw | Judge: richard li AdvantageContention 1: Vaccine Inequality1. Global health inequality threatens progress in fight vs COVID-19 encouraging vaccine resistant mutationsFink 7-30-21 AND We can test for it and we can treat it," Ghebreyesus said. 2. IP protections are the vital internal link to resolve vaccine deficiencies. Empirics disprove all pro patent argumentsKumar, PhD, 7-12-21 AND not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. 3. Failure to contain COVID-19 causes extinctionGuy R. McPherson, PhD, 20 ~PhD Range Science, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology~, "Will COVID-19 Trigger Extinction of All Life on Earth?" Eart and Envi Scie Res and Rev, Volume 3 Issue 2, 4-8-2020, https://opastonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/will-covid-19-trigger-extinction-of-all-life-on-earth-eesrr-20-.pdf AND that a microscopic virus could pull the trigger on our extinction ~15~. 4. Continued COVID spread causes great power war-diversion, nationalism, psychologyKitfield 20 AND dangerous period when cooler heads may not prevail among the great power leaders." 5. Risk of U.S.-China nuclear escalation to total war is high – Chinese planners don’t believe nuclear weapons are usable and US decisionmakers are too confident in limited nuclear war.Fiona CUNNINGHAM Poli Sci @ GW AND Taylor FRAVEL Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’19 "Dangerous Confidence? Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation" International Security 44 (2) p. EBSCO AND but it investigates only one of multiple pathways to nuclear escalation.~11~ 6. Lack of waiver will kill the WTO- there are no alternate causes and solvency is reverse causalMeyer 6-18-21 AND all our ambassadors to the table to negotiate a text," she said. 7. The WTO dampens US-China great power conflict which is crucial to solve a laundry list of existential threats. Cooperation on global vaccine distribution is a vital test caseShaffer, JD Stanford, 21 AND outcomes, such as to provide vaccines globally and to develop green technologies. 8. The WTO reduces war through peace dividends, interdependence, and rule of lawBaldwin, PhD, and Nakotomi 15 AND only – example of a multilateral and nearuniversal framework of rules and law. Plan: Member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines for COVID-19.Communication from India and South Africa to the WTO 20 AND TRIPS urgently recommends to the General Council adoption of the annexed decision text. Solvency1. The plan creates a new goldilocks patent law that exempts pandemicsLindsey, JD Harvard, 21 AND up by blocking competitors and raising prices pushes in the completely wrong direction. 2. Critics of the IP waiver are wrong- it’s the most effective way to combat covid inequality, alternatives failErfani et al, 21 AND other people’s" problem. It is not. It is our problem. FramingThe standard is maximizing expected well being. ~To clarify, hedonistic act util~. 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. 2~ No act omission distinction – Psychology — choosing to omit is an act itself – people decide not to act which means being presented with the aff creates a choice between two actions, neither of which is an omission3~ Weighability – only consequentialism can explain the ethical difference in breaking a promise to take someone to the hospital and breaking a promise to take someone to lunch – intuitions outweigh – they’re a necessary side constraint on all ethics4~ No intent foresight distinction — if we foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of our deliberation which makes it intrinsic to our action since we intend it to happen — proves util because we’re ethically culpable for the consequences of our actions5~ 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) Underview1. 1AR theory –A~ AFF gets it because otherwise the neg can engage in infinite abuse, making debate impossibleB~ Fairness and education are voters – debate’s a game that needs rules to evaluate it and it teaches portable skills that we use lifelongC~ Drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theoryD~ 1AR theory first – it’s a bigger percentage of the 1AR than neg theory is of the 1NC which means the abuse was probably worse and only the 2NR has time to win multiple layers2. Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures by contesting the implausibility that inequitable structures can produce catastrophe – attempts to describe the world in its totality lock in the squo and close of revolutionary potentiality.Jessica Hurley 17, Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée", Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/89/4/761/132823/Impossible-Futures-Fictions-of-Risk-in-the-Longue AND of the Native nations who are most vulnerable to the site’s dangers.7 | 9/5/21 |
so - covid v2Tournament: loyola invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: oa independent dm | Judge: yardley rosas AdvantageContention 1: Vaccine InequalityGlobal health inequality threatens progress in fight vs COVID-19 encouraging vaccine resistant mutationsFink 7-30-21 AND We can test for it and we can treat it," Ghebreyesus said. IP protections are the vital internal link to resolve vaccine deficiencies. Empirics disprove all pro patent argumentsKumar, PhD, 7-12-21 AND not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Failure to contain COVID-19 causes extinctionGuy R. McPherson, PhD, 20 ~PhD Range Science, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology~, "Will COVID-19 Trigger Extinction of All Life on Earth?" Eart and Envi Scie Res and Rev, Volume 3 Issue 2, 4-8-2020, https://opastonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/will-covid-19-trigger-extinction-of-all-life-on-earth-eesrr-20-.pdf AND that a microscopic virus could pull the trigger on our extinction ~15~. Continued COVID spread causes great power war-diversion, nationalism, psychologyKitfield 20 AND dangerous period when cooler heads may not prevail among the great power leaders." Lack of waiver will kill the WTO- there are no alternate causes and solvency is reverse causalMeyer 6-18-21 AND all our ambassadors to the table to negotiate a text," she said. The WTO dampens US-China great power conflict which is crucial to solve a laundry list of existential threats. Cooperation on global vaccine distribution is a vital test caseShaffer, JD Stanford, 21 AND outcomes, such as to provide vaccines globally and to develop green technologies. The WTO reduces war through peace dividends, interdependence, and rule of lawBaldwin, PhD, and Nakotomi 15 AND only – example of a multilateral and nearuniversal framework of rules and law. Critics of the IP waiver are wrong- it’s the most effective way to combat covid inequality, alternatives failErfani et al, 21 AND other people’s" problem. It is not. It is our problem. Plan: Member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines for COVID-19.Communication from India and South Africa to the WTO 20 AND TRIPS urgently recommends to the General Council adoption of the annexed decision text. FramingThe 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. 2~ No act omission distinction – Psychology — choosing to omit is an act itself – people decide not to act which means being presented with the aff creates a choice between two actions, neither of which is an omission3~ Weighability – only consequentialism can explain the ethical difference in breaking a promise to take someone to the hospital and breaking a promise to take someone to lunch – intuitions outweigh – they’re a necessary side constraint on all ethics4~ No intent foresight distinction — if we foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of our deliberation which makes it intrinsic to our action since we intend it to happen — proves util because we’re ethically culpable for the consequences of our actions5~ 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) Underview1. 1AR theory –A~ AFF gets it because otherwise the neg can engage in infinite abuse, making debate impossibleB~ Fairness and education are voters – debate’s a game that needs rules to evaluate it and it teaches portable skills that we use lifelongC~ Drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theoryD~ 1AR theory first – it’s a bigger percentage of the 1AR than neg theory is of the 1NC which means the abuse was probably worse and only the 2NR has time to win multiple layers2. Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures by contesting the implausibility that inequitable structures can produce catastrophe – attempts to describe the world in its totality lock in the squo and close of revolutionary potentiality.Jessica Hurley 17, Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée", Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/89/4/761/132823/Impossible-Futures-Fictions-of-Risk-in-the-Longue AND of the Native nations who are most vulnerable to the site’s dangers.7 | 9/5/21 |
so - covid v3Tournament: greenhill fall classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: westwood pm | Judge: rachel mauchline AdvantageContention 1: Vaccine InequalityGlobal health inequality threatens progress in fight vs COVID-19 encouraging vaccine resistant mutationsFink 7-30-21 AND We can test for it and we can treat it," Ghebreyesus said. IP protections are the vital internal link to resolve vaccine deficiencies. Empirics disprove all pro patent argumentsKumar, PhD, 7-12-21 AND not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Failure to contain COVID-19 causes extinctionGuy R. McPherson, PhD, 20 ~PhD Range Science, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology~, "Will COVID-19 Trigger Extinction of All Life on Earth?" Eart and Envi Scie Res and Rev, Volume 3 Issue 2, 4-8-2020, https://opastonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/will-covid-19-trigger-extinction-of-all-life-on-earth-eesrr-20-.pdf AND that a microscopic virus could pull the trigger on our extinction ~15~. Continued COVID spread causes great power war-diversion, nationalism, psychologyKitfield 20 AND dangerous period when cooler heads may not prevail among the great power leaders." Risk of U.S.-China nuclear escalation to total war is high – Chinese planners don’t believe nuclear weapons are usable and US decisionmakers are too confident in limited nuclear war.Fiona CUNNINGHAM Poli Sci @ GW AND Taylor FRAVEL Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ’19 "Dangerous Confidence? Chinese Views on Nuclear Escalation" International Security 44 (2) p. EBSCO AND but it investigates only one of multiple pathways to nuclear escalation.~11~ Lack of waiver will kill the WTO- there are no alternate causes and solvency is reverse causalMeyer 6-18-21 AND all our ambassadors to the table to negotiate a text," she said. The WTO dampens US-China great power conflict which is crucial to solve a laundry list of existential threats. Cooperation on global vaccine distribution is a vital test caseShaffer, JD Stanford, 21 AND outcomes, such as to provide vaccines globally and to develop green technologies. The WTO reduces war through peace dividends, interdependence, and rule of lawBaldwin, PhD, and Nakotomi 15 AND only – example of a multilateral and nearuniversal framework of rules and law. Plan: Member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines for COVID-19.Communication from India and South Africa to the WTO 20 AND TRIPS urgently recommends to the General Council adoption of the annexed decision text. SolvencyThe plan creates a new goldilocks patent law that exempts pandemicsLindsey, JD Harvard, 21 AND up by blocking competitors and raising prices pushes in the completely wrong direction. Critics of the IP waiver are wrong- it’s the most effective way to combat covid inequality, alternatives failErfani et al, 21 AND other people’s" problem. It is not. It is our problem. FramingThe standard is maximizing expected well being. ~To clarify, hedonistic act util~. 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. 2~ No act omission distinction – Psychology — choosing to omit is an act itself – people decide not to act which means being presented with the aff creates a choice between two actions, neither of which is an omission3~ Weighability – only consequentialism can explain the ethical difference in breaking a promise to take someone to the hospital and breaking a promise to take someone to lunch – intuitions outweigh – they’re a necessary side constraint on all ethics4~ No intent foresight distinction — if we foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of our deliberation which makes it intrinsic to our action since we intend it to happen — proves util because we’re ethically culpable for the consequences of our actions5~ 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) Underview1. 1AR theory –A~ AFF gets it because otherwise the neg can engage in infinite abuse, making debate impossibleB~ Fairness and education are voters – debate’s a game that needs rules to evaluate it and it teaches portable skills that we use lifelongC~ Drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theoryD~ 1AR theory first – it’s a bigger percentage of the 1AR than neg theory is of the 1NC which means the abuse was probably worse and only the 2NR has time to win multiple layers2. Apocalyptic images challenge dominant power structures by contesting the implausibility that inequitable structures can produce catastrophe – attempts to describe the world in its totality lock in the squo and close of revolutionary potentiality.Jessica Hurley 17, Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, "Impossible Futures: Fictions of Risk in the Longue Durée", Duke University Press, https://read.dukeupress.edu/american-literature/article/89/4/761/132823/Impossible-Futures-Fictions-of-Risk-in-the-Longue AND of the Native nations who are most vulnerable to the site’s dangers.7 Covid unique- no spilloverReuters 5-5-21 https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/biden-says-plans-back-wto-waiver-vaccines-2021-05-05/ AND sort of broader long- term impact across the industry," he said. | 9/18/21 |
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