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| Harvard Westlake Debates | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough OO | Judge: Lena Mizrahi 1AC - Global Commons |
| Harvard Westlake Debates | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough ZG | Judge: Viren Abhyankar 1AC - Global commons |
| Meadows | 1 | Opponent: Amplus MB | Judge: Vishnu Vennelakanti 1AC - whole res |
| Palm Classic | 2 | Opponent: IMAC SS | Judge: Nick Flemming 1AC - Mars Aff |
| Palm Classic | 3 | Opponent: Stockdale GS | Judge: Grant Brown 1AC - BaudrillardCap aff |
| Palm Classic | 5 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Jacob Nails 1AC - Kant Aff |
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AT BaudrillardTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stockdale GS | Judge: Grant Brown AT: Buidraillard L: Baudrillard theory/personBaudrillard’s a sexist and so are his theories linkA. Yikes - Baudrillard has literally advocated for killing women as an edgy experiment. He views women as objects to be acted upon and for men to sacrifice—he perpetuates rape culture because he thinks women who say they’ve been abused are lying and hysterical—the cherry on top is he blames failure of revolutionary thought on women because feminist scholars don’t agree with his misogynist theories- that’s BrodribbB. Objectification – he literally says to be women are only to be appearance and attempting to resist this is futile. That’s Gallop. Objectifying women is probs bad - This is literally engrained in his theoriesC. Subjection location – Baudrillard claims not to speak from the masculine viewpoint but the position of truth where he can advise women… but he just masks his privilege recreating patriarchal norms | 2/13/22 |
Afro PessTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stockdale GS | Judge: Grant Brown Afro Pess1NC- LeongOur thesis: The Atlantic Slave Trade provided the justification for the white human versus slave dichotomy – chattel slavery has recreated itself under different names, from Jim Crow to the Prison Industrial Complex – because of this, black death is not only accepted as normal, but pathologized and necessary for white civil society to survive. The plan is water denied from slaves in the hold of the slave ship – substantively, sustenance is available for black people, but structurally, it can never be distributed equally.Leong (Diana, Assistant Professor of English and Environmental Humanities Graduate Program at Utah University) 2017 (The Salt Bones: Zong! and an Ecology of Thirst, Published January 4th 2016, Isle Journal, Volume 23 Issue 4, November 2016, C.A.) AND thirst to consider how they might propose new ways of being "human." L: CapRoot Cause=== Anti-Blackness is the root cause of economic exploitation and punishment-based subordination – divide and conquer framing is an ineffective lens for analyzing disproportionately gratuitous violence done to black people.William Calathes, Professor @ NJCU (2017): Racial capitalism and punishment philosophy and practices: what really stands in the way of prison abolition, Contemporary Justice Review, DOI: 10.1080/10282580.2017.1383774 AND has played an integral role in its implementation, adjustability, and maintenance. 1NC- KingThe role of the ballot, judge, and all nonblack people is to offer themselves up to unbecoming through black studies – this requires centering the white erotic gaze as the object of study and holding ourselves accountable for the affective investments in humanism we make every second of every day – voting neg is a surrender to blackness, an acknowledgement that the affirmative’s "moral duty" to "save" black people from fatalism is nothing more than a psychological predisposition to solidify the white self over the black body – rather than asking how we can save black studies, the critique is a call to recognize how black studies has saved us.King, WGSS @GSU, 19 AND -black scholars who hope to abolish antiblack violence in their own work. A: Unflinching Paradigmatic AnalysisThe alternative is unflinching paradigmatic analysis- refuse moralized appeals to pragmatism that compromise an orientation towards the end of the world.Wilderson, PhD, ‘10 AND , Andile Mngxitama, Prishani Naidoo, John Shai, and S’bu Zulu. | 2/13/22 |
COPUOS CPTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: IMAC SS | Judge: Nick Flemming COPUOS CPShellText: The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS)’s Legal Subcommittee should ban the appropriation of Mars by private entities.)Normal means for treaties involves solely the signatory countriesBerkeley Law Library 16 AND force when both parties agree to be bound as of a certain date. The CP competes off of actor spec – they had complete control over how and who implements the aff, especially in this topic since the actor was not specified in the resolution. The actor is a key, debatable element and a change poses an opportunity cost, which is sufficient for competition.COPUOS has jurisdiction and has passed treaties on similar topics in the pastUNOOSA AND an annual resolution on international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. ====COPUOS is losing legitimacy due to an inability to reach consensus and thereby pass policies – the plan restores faith, discourages weak agreements, solves space debris, sustainability, and security issues==== AND and then identify current principles and future issues that may raise more concerns. Revitalizing COPUOS solves great power space conflict – it is the single organization that has enough member states, legitimacy, and empirical success to ensure peace – it stopped the first space race, it can do it againMcMillan 7-14-21 AND Based on experience, are international bodies helping to reduce friction in space? | 2/12/22 |
Innovation DATournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Amplus MB | Judge: Vishnu Vennelakanti Innovation DA1NC – DiseasePharma industry innovation is up but profit margins are razor thinYoung 9-14-21 AND more protected product areas. They are under intense pricing and competitive pressure. Strong IP protection spurs innovation by encouraging risk-taking and incentivizing knowledge sharing — prefer statistical analysis of multiple studiesEzell and Cory 19 ~Stephen Ezell, vice president and global innovation policy @ ITIF, BS Georgetown School of Foreign Service. Nigel Cory, associate director covering trade policy @ ITIF, MA public policy @ Georgetown. "The Way Forward for Intellectual Property Internationally," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 4-25-2019, accessed 8-25-2021, https://itif.org/publications/2019/04/25/way-forward-intellectual-property-internationally~~ HWIC AND for foreign direct investment which in turn also leads to economic growth."56 COVID exceptions erode IP policies broadly.PRMA 21 The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America SPECIAL 301 SUBMISSION 2021 https://phrma.org/-/media/Project/PhRMA/PhRMA-Org/PhRMA-Org/PDF/P-R/PhRMA'2021-Special-301'Review'Comment-1.pdf SM AND pandemic, and will inevitably affect IP discussions in countries around the world. Biopharmaceutical innovation is key to prevent future pandemics and bioterrorMarjanovic and Feijao 20 ~Sonja Marjanovic Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitative biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis," RAND Corporation, 05-2020, accessed 8-8-2021, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html~~ HWIC AND such public health threats to an even greater extent under improved innovation conditions. That causes extinction, which outweighs.Millett and Snyder-Beattie ‘17. Millett, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford; and Snyder-Beattie, M.S., Director of Research, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford. 08-01-2017. "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity," Health Security, 15(4), PubMed AND and Japan using plague to cause an epidemic in China during WWII.27 | 10/30/21 |
Native Patents PICTournament: Meadows | Round: 1 | Opponent: Amplus MB | Judge: Vishnu Vennelakanti Meadows Round 1 - NegNATIVE PATENTS PICText: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should reduce intellectual property protections for medicines, but should maintain patent rights for medicines when owned by Native American tribes.Native patent rights are justified under sovereign immunity. Tribes utilize medical patents to level the playing field- the Allergan case proves.Morinville 17 AND , but there are many other benefits of teaming up with a tribe. Tribal patents make the licensing system more efficient and fair. Preserving sovereign immunity ensures Native Nations can develop their local economies in underserved areas.Morinville 17 AND ? Or is the real reason that it is an American Indian tribe? Any attempt to deny Native Nations their sovereign right to patents is emblematic of racist paternalism.Gulliford 18 AND gaming as its sole revenue source. And there is more to come. We meet – the CP text is the advocate, I’m advocating for it, and we have cards explaining the importance of Native-owned patents as being the exception based on sovereign immunity.Even still, solvency advocates aren’t a reason to reject the team or counterplan—1~ There’s no brightline for you determine what counts as a legit solvency advocate which means their interpretation is comparatively worse because it’s infinitely regressive and allows debaters to arbitrarily decide what meets the threshold of a solvency advocate2~ Neg flex outweighs—the aff gets 1st and last speech and gets to control the rest of this debate—the neg should get flexibility to equalize the playing field3~ The aff doesn’t have a coherent solvency advocate either! Look at their evidence- it doesn’t say EXACTLY what the plan does, which proves how arbitrary their interp is4~ Better for education—forces the aff to think on their feet to come up with good responses—also means we learn more about different policy mechanisms within the government, which internal link turns their offense5~ Negation theory- the neg’s role is to negate the aff— the counterplan is an example of thatPICs are goodOur offense —1~ Fair side balance – PICs offset advantage of case selection, literature biased advantages, and the inherent problems with the status quo. The aff gets infinite prep to write the most strategic AC. No author defends every restriction so its important for the negative to PIC which advocacy is the most strategic otherwise they’ll get hosed by a well written aff every time.2~ Depth of Education – focusing on intricacies highlights comparative argument quality as well as moving past a vague "good/bad" focus. Prefer in depth strategies over generics that don’t generate clash3~ Intelligent Plan Writing and AFF Research – AFFs are forced to defend and research every part of the plan through in-depth analysis. No pics guarantees important arguments will be pushed aside in favor of high magnitude nonsense4~ Key to CP Ground – virtually every CP could be classified as a PIC and in the real world PICS are an important part of legislative deliberation- if Biden pushes tax cuts for the poor republicans can counter with tax cuts for the rich5~ Real world education – when policies have problems no one scraps it entirely – people propose small reforms that fix the problems and identify flaws – the devil is in the details in policymaking.propose the curtailment of his own power. One PIC which has been misinterpreted, had the President veto the plan instead of proposing the plan. The key to this strategy was a net benefit to a veto over cooperation that had to be won by the negative. This example demonstrates how the PIC could be crucial for the negative as affirmatives write their plans to avoid negative arguments. | 10/30/21 |
Set ColTournament: Harvard Westlake Debates | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough OO | Judge: Lena Mizrahi 1NC SetcolSettler colonialism is the permeating structure of the nation-state which requires the elimination of indigenous life and land via the occupation of settlers. The appropriation of land turns Natives into ghosts and chattel slaves into excess labor.Tuck and Yang 12 AND p. 36). Settler colonialism and its decolonization implicates and unsettles everyone. !!L- ExtinctionExtinction impacts are fabricated by the settler death drive. Settlers have a psychological investment in imagining the end of the world to create a sense of white vulnerability at the expense of enacting decolonization. You should presume the aff to be falseDalley 16 AND effects that shape much of the contemporary literature emerging from white colonial settings. L – Commons/Gov Better than CorporationsThe notion of the "commons" has historically been weaponized to build a state-sanctioned trust in white humanity – extending that trust to the stars does not make it less white supremacist and doing it in the name of "pragmatism" does not make it less colonialist.Goldstein, 18 AND conjuncture. These are the ideational and material sources of expectation as property. Framework:Counter-Interpretation: The 1AC is an object of research. The role of the neg should be to disprove the various meanings of that object. Plan focus restricts the debate to a ten second statement and leaves the rest of the aff unquestioned. They should be responsible for the way their knowledge is constructed and used because that produces the best model for activism and ethics in the context of the topic which is a unique education net benefit to our interpretation-They get to weigh their aff’s research and the reasons why that research is desirable, which resolves any fairness concerns-All of our links implicate the effects of the plan, which is sufficient for plan focusAlt1NC- Indigenous InternationalismThis debate is not private space good/bad, but instead a question of Native sovereignty and the power to invoke the plan. The 1AC eclipses the authority of Native nations, so in response we affirm the long tradition of Indigenous internationalism across colonial borders.Estes 19 AND life—the tree of resistance that would blossom into revolt decades later. Case:Global CommonsNU – space is already a global commonsPlan fails –Global commons still allow for private appropriationChina inevitably undermines solvencyToo many private actors ensure conflictTurn – limitations on commons access such as private entity restrictions lead to backlashStang 13 AND those states and competing states will continue to test each other’s cyber defences. | 1/15/22 |
Set Col kTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: IMAC SS | Judge: Nick Flemming 1NC SetcolSettler colonialism is the permeating structure of the nation-state which requires the elimination of indigenous life and land via the occupation of settlers. The appropriation of land turns Natives into ghosts and chattel slaves into excess labor.Tuck and Yang 12 AND p. 36). Settler colonialism and its decolonization implicates and unsettles everyone. !!L- ExtinctionExtinction impacts are fabricated by the settler death drive. Settlers have a psychological investment in imagining the end of the world to create a sense of white vulnerability at the expense of enacting decolonization. You should presume the aff to be falseDalley 16 AND effects that shape much of the contemporary literature emerging from white colonial settings. | 2/12/22 |
Space Militarization DATournament: Palm Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Jacob Nails 1NC Tools1NC - GenericThe US government is perfectly positioned to focus on space governance and let private entities develop tech – this avoids bilateral or unilateral missions that increase the chance for conflict and space weaponization while creating effective multilateral agreements that spill overRosenberg and Marber 21 (Mark Y. - CEO of Geoquant and an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, Peter - teaches at Harvard University and is a senior portfolio manager at Aperture Investors, 2/22, "America Needs a Supercharged Space Program," ~accessed 9/25/21~, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/02/22/biden-space-force-race-policy-rockets-china/) AND Who else but the United States could even contemplate such a bold plan? Non-state actors in space are conflict dampeners – they avoid geopolitical tension and have financial incentives to keep conflict lowFrankowski 17 (Pawel, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of National Security. His current research interests include space policy, labour standards in free trade agreements, and theories of international relations, Jagiellonian University in Kakow, "OUTER SPACE AND PRIVATE COMPANIES CONSEQUENCES FOR GLOBAL SECURITY", https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.14.2017.50.06) AND nascent public good provided by private actors for the sake of global security. Space weaponization and arms racing ensure space war goes nuclear – only strong private competition can check conflictHitchens ’17 (Theresa Hitchens, Theresa Hitchens is Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland, Prior to joining CISSM, Hitchens was the director of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva from 2009 through 2014. Among her activities and accomplishments at UNIDIR, Hitchens served as a consultant to the U.N. Group of Governmental Experts on Transparency and Confidence Building Measures in Outer Space Activities, provided expert advice to the Conference on Disarmament regarding the prevention of an arms race in outer space (PAROS), and launched UNIDIR's annual conference on cyber security, From 2001 to 2008, Hitchens worked at the Center for Defense Information, where she served as Director, and headed the center’s Space Security Project, setting the strategic direction of the center and conducting research on space policy and other international security issues, "Space weapon technology and policy", School of Public Policy University of Maryland, https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.5009221?class=pdf, November 2017) AND in space that it does on the Earth, remains to be seen. | 2/19/22 |
T - NebelTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: IMAC SS | Judge: Nick Flemming TAppropriationall=== Interp and violation: Affirmatives may not defend only specific instances/ states engaging in outer space appropriation by private entities as unjust.Moral statements are generic normative principles – necessitates the generic interpretationMcDonald 09 ~Hugh P. McDonald, professor of philosophy at the New York City College of Technology. "Principles: The Principles of Principles." The Pluralist, vol. 4, no. 3, ~University of Illinois Press, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy~, 2009, pp. 98–126, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20708996~~ HWIC AND of emission from the sun but are not identical with those for red. Negate –1~ Precision:A~ Topicality is a constitutive rule of the activity and a basic aff burden, they agreed to debate the topic when they came to the tournamentB~ Jurisdiction — you can’t vote affirmative if they haven’t affirmedC~ It’s the only stasis point we know before the round so it controls the internal link to engagement, and there’s no way to use ground if debaters aren’t prepared to defend it.2~ Limits: every specific instance or combination of instances of appropriation could be an aff like individual missions, programs or satellites, compounded by broad definitions of appropriation – unlimited topics incentivize obscure affs that negs won’t have prep on – limits are key to reciprocal prep burden. This topic already has very few neg generics and spec kills the innovation DA and space appropriation good – also means there is no universal DA to spec affsDrop the debater – their abusive advocacy skewed our 1NC construction, allowing 1AR restart doesn't solveCompeting interps on T – topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical, only competing interps create norms — reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention causing a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation | 2/12/22 |
T - Outer SpaceTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: IMAC SS | Judge: Nick Flemming T – Outer SpaceOuter Spaceextra-atmospheric=== Interpretation: outer space refers to space beyond the atmosphere – affirmatives must only defend private appropriation of this region as unjust.Vereshchetin 06 ~Vladlen S Vereshchetin, Member of the International Court of Justice from 1995-2006. "Outer Space." Oxford Public International Law, updated June 2006, https://spacelaw.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user'upload/p'spacelaw/EPIL'Outer'Space.pdf~~ HWIC AND referred to as outer space (ie extra-atmospheric) law. Negate – "outer" is in the res for a reason – it's generally agreed that countries have sovereignty over their own airspace within the atmosphere which means they skirt the core topic of sovereignty claims in outer space – the legal implications of the two regions are completely different which decks predictability and favors the affirmative because we're not prepared for debates outside the topicDrop the debater – their abusive advocacy skewed our 1NC construction, allowing 1AR restart doesn't solveCompeting interps on T – topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical, only competing interps create norms — reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention causing a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation | 2/12/22 |
T FrameworkTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stockdale GS | Judge: Grant Brown T Framework1NC – Hypothetical enactmentA. Interpretation: the affirmative may only garner offense from the hypothetical enactment of the resolution.Violation: THEY DON’T MEET B/C '''''''*GO SLOW* Our interp is compatible with them reading ''''' which solves their ''' offense and our offense bc '''''.B. Our Offense1. Limits- post-fiat impacts are limited enough based on the plan text but allowing performative and pre-fiat impacts opens the floodgates – there’s an infinite number of justifications behind the 1AC or performative aspects of they could claim to garner offense from. No part of the 1AC warranted why their performance was a good thing or how they could garner offense which especially proves our argument2. Causality – debating the resolution forces the affirmative to defend a cause and effect relationship, the state doing x results in y. Non topical affs establish their own barometer "I think x is good for me" that aren’t negateable. Only the neg promotes switch side debate3. Exclusionary rule- you can’t vote on the case outweighs T because lack of preparation prevents rigorous testing of the AC claims. If we win fairness we don’t have to "outweigh" other impactsC. Drop the debater on T – the round is already skewed from the beginning because their advocacy excluded by ability to generate NC offense– letting them sever doesn’t solve any of the abuseTheory is an issue of competing interpretations because reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention based on preference rather than argumentation and encourages a race to the bottom in which debaters will exploit a judge’s tolerance for questionable argumentation.1. The state isn’t monolithic or fixed- it’s a contingent site of political struggle. Blanket rejection empowers right wing policies, while strategic resistance can use cracks in the state as a focal point of transformation Khachaturian 17Khachaturian, PhD candidate, 17 AND a fantasy at a time when we can ill afford to do so. | 2/13/22 |
Util FWTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Bridgeland PT | Judge: Jacob Nails Governments must use util.Goodin 95 Robert, 1995, Philosopher of Political Theory, Public Policy, and Applied Ethics. Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy, Cambridge University Press, pg. 26-27 AND thus understood is, I would argue, a uniquely defensible public philosophy. 1NC – Util – MediumThe standard is maximizing expected well-being. ~To clarify, hedonistic act util~. Prefer –1~ Ethics is undergirded by desire – without it, we’d have never encountered goodness.Sayre-McCord 01 AND the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require." 2~ 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. 3~ 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. 4~ 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 lunchA~ Resolvability – there’s no way to weigh between competing offense under a deontological fw which means their fw can’t guide actionB~ Intuitions – they’re a necessary side constraint on all ethics – if a very well justified, logical theory concluded "rape good" you wouldn’t say "huh I guess rape is good" you would abandon it5~ Tradeoffs — governments are forced to decide between tradeoffs ie welfare for the rich and welfare for the poor which means they’re forced to aggregate – any nonconsequential framework can’t decide where to allocate resources or which promise to keep in the instance of conflicting promises6~ Preserving life is a pre-requisite to the ideal conditions their theory assumes — all value stems from experienced wellbeing.7~ Reject mind dependent ethics –A~ If morality doesn’t exist outside of how humans cohere of it, it collapses to moral relativism, which is repugnant cuz it denies objective moral truthB~ Governments aren’t individual people which means they don’t have minds or intents – outweighs on actor specificity8~ Only moral naturalism can explain the influence of moral facts on the physical world – ethics must be understood a posteriori.Papineau David ~Professor of Philosophy King's College London~, First published Thu Feb 22, 2007; substantive revision Tue Mar 31, 2020 https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/~~#MorFac AND conceptual gap, not a metaphysical one (Ridge 2014: Section 2). 9~ Only naturalism can explain supervenience and resolve evolutionary debunking arguments.Lutz Matthew Lutz, "Moral Naturalism", First published Thu Jun 1, 2006; substantive revision Wed May 30, 2018, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism-moral/~~#WhyMoraNatu AND think that moral properties, if they exist, must be natural properties. | 2/19/22 |
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