Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll PK | Judge: Sreyaash Das
Thus, the standard is Consistency with the Categorical Imperative. Prefer:
~3~ Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. All frameworks are functionally topicality interpretations of the word ought so they must theoretically justified. Prefer our standard –
1~ Patents attempt to assert ownership over nature and impede individuals' abilities to pursue their own ends
Long 95 ~(Roderick T., professor of philosophy at Auburn University, editor of the Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, director and president of the Molinari Institute and a Senior Fellow at the Center for a Stateless Society) "The Libertarian Case Against Intellectual Property Rights," Free Nation Foundation, 1995~ JL recut Lex VM
The moral case against patents is even clearer. A patent is, in effect
AND
the idea on his own, will be forbidden to market his invention.
2~ IPR is nonuniversalizable and interferes with the freedom of people who need medicine
Merges 11 ~(Robert, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati Professor of Law and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law) "Justifying Intellectual Property," Harvard University Press, 2011~ JL recut Lex VM
Under Kant's Universal Principle of Right (UPR), "laws secure our right to
AND
, meaning the resolution is already passed, causing an automatic aff ballot.
~1~ Aff gets 1AR theory otherwise the neg can be infinitely abusive and I can't check back. It's DTD, competing interps, and highest layer bc the 1AR is too short to win both theory and substance. No 2NR theory or paradigm issues cuz they can dump on it for 6 minutes and my 3-minute 2AR is screwed.
Stanford https://web.stanford.edu/~~bobonich/dictionary/dictionary.html Abbreviated Dictionary of Philosophical Terminology An introduction to philosophy Stanford University ACCS JM
~In a~ Conditional statement: an "if p, then q"
AND
of true and false antecedents and consequents, the conditional statement is true.