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| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 2 | Marlborough Pressman | Hsu, Jonathan |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 3 | Dulles TY | Patel, Vandan |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 5 | Ardrey Kell RG | Fabrice Etienne |
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| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 2 | Strake MS | Weiller, Reed |
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| Bronx | 2 | SummitAK | Barry, Mitch |
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| Palm Classic | 2 | Mission San Jose SS | Johnathan Meza |
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| Palm Classic | 3 | Harker NA | Jeong, Johnathan |
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| Princeton | 1 | MontvillenNP | Dennis Nahl, William |
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| Princeton | 3 | La salle tp | Broadnax, Kiarra |
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| Sunvite | 2 | Lexington BF | Abhilash Datti |
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| 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough Pressman | Judge: Hsu, Jonathan 1AC - Global Commons |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Patel, Vandan 1AC - Moral Pluralism Disclose Round Reports |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 5 | Opponent: Ardrey Kell RG | Judge: Fabrice Etienne 1AC - Lunar |
| 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Strake MS | Judge: Weiller, Reed 1AC - Adorno |
| Bronx | 2 | Opponent: SummitAK | Judge: Barry, Mitch AC - LDCS fem Rest All |
| Lexington | 2 | Opponent: Auzbourough | Judge: Temitto Not working |
| NA | Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: Ya mum Bro what are you doing here |
| Palm Classic | 2 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SS | Judge: Johnathan Meza AC -GPS |
| Palm Classic | 3 | Opponent: Harker NA | Judge: Jeong, Johnathan 1AC - China |
| Princeton | 1 | Opponent: MontvillenNP | Judge: Dennis Nahl, William 1AC FW SV |
| Princeton | 3 | Opponent: La salle tp | Judge: Broadnax, Kiarra 1ACFW Prag |
| Sunvite | 2 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Abhilash Datti AC - Larp US Exploration |
| Sunvite | 4 | Opponent: CR North | Judge: Saied Beckford 1AC - Util Climate Change Cap |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: NA | Round: Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: Ya mum | 3/13/22 |
G - Must SpecTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Abhilash Datti 1) Ground: The Aff specificizing kills my ability to get ground. i.e. if I read a Doctors DA, they can just say that they do not defend that. o/w into Strat skew because they can spec out of my strats in the same way | 1/8/22 |
G - ROB - ScenarioTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Patel, Vandan 1. Use scenario analysis to evaluate offense. Scenario analysis hijacks fixed notions of truth – by imagining alternative worlds and possibilities, boundaries of ‘reality’ and knowledge are continuously reshaped. This has concrete effects on our relationship to the present. Kenter 98~blue highlighting~"The Art of the Possible The scenario method and the ‘Third Debate’ in international relations theory" By Renate Kenter 1998 AND reality’ is (re)shaped. The above reflects a postmodern attitude." 2. Use reasonability to evaluate offense under truth testing – this means you should not spend time considering blips under truth testing that you know are false even if you don’t know why or haven’t figured out the error in their syllogism. Net Benefit:Link turns truth testing—the rational activity that is motivated by a desire for truth seeking is not to consider or rigorously engage with every conceivable argument because there are indefinitely false arguments. There is only one true argument, but you can be wrong in infinite ways. Given this, if your task is to give a rigorous treatment to every conceivable proposition, you would just waste infinite time without even have made a single advancement to truth. The rational procedure motivated towards truth seeking is just to eliminate or dismiss a vast number of arguments that a person could make, but you just know are instinctively false and rather turn your attention to things that are maybe true3. Dictionary.com defines "affirm" as "to express agreement with or commitment to uphold; support". Prefer aff definitions – there are bidirectional definitions of every word and the aff has to choose one. Additionally, 12 dictionaries define "to affirm" as some variation of "to show support for" or "to state positively" – i.e. not truth testing.4. If the negative reads truth testing, they may only prove the resolution false by contesting one truth condition of the aff. To clarify, they can have multiple arguments that disproving one truth condition, but they cannot contest multiple truth conditions i.e they can read multiple arguments for skep, but they cannot read skep, the aff has no moral agent, and standardized test are good for example. Net Benefit: | 2/19/22 |
G - Theory - StratTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Patel, Vandan Interpretation: If there are offensive theory or paradoxical arguments in the AC, then they must explicitly outline in the text of the AC a strategy that the 1N could employ that doesn’t violate any theory or paradox constraints in the aff. To clarify, you can still read your spikes, you just need to also specify a strat.Violation:Standards:Substantive Education: They need to specify in the text of the aff what type of strategies would be permissible because otherwise it is inevitable that I will slip up and that the round will turn into a theory debate. This denies any sort of substantive education since there are always more constraints on what sort of substantive education is good under the aff underview. Theory debate worse because the UV is unclearThey can’t specify the arguments in CX becausea) there is no reason I should waste time on clarifying your advocacyb) I need all the prep time to make a strategyc) inneficienctd) they need to specify before I begin forming a strategy because they need to clarify what ground is entailed by the shellsKey to education because in order to know the truth of the claim we need to be able to contest it.B. Strat Skew: If they don’t specify what sort of strategy wouldn’t violate any of the shells then they can defend contradictory spikes that makes it impossible for the neg to win because there is always a violation. This outweighs any aff arguments for why the 1AR is hard because contradictory spikes are functionally NIBs, since you have to respond to the spikes but you don’t win if you do. If the strategy that they said wouldn’t violate any spikes is absurd and offers the neg no ground then you should err voting neg off of the independent unfairness of their specific combination of spikes. This is outweighs on fairness because it is a matter of comparing 0 possible neg ground to a slightly harder time in the 1AR.And, paragraph theory is uniquely hard to flow- it’s all short, blippy arguments that are not well structured, uniquely disadvantaging disabled individuals, which excludes them from the activity. THOMPSON:Marshall Thompson – Former Debater and Current Coach. http://vbriefly.com/2015/04/21/marshall-thoughts/ AND not track with what we want when assessing who did the better debating. Accessibility is an independent voter that outweighs: if people can’t participate in debate then what happens inside of rounds isn’t relevant. Also turns the aff because proves the aff isn’t open to everyone and procedural deliberation are uniquely hurting people.~3~ No RVI’s – AND allowing them to use their aff to take our shell just proves the abuse | 2/19/22 |
G - UtilTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake MS | Judge: Weiller, Reed 2Pain and pleasure are intrinsically valuable – to justify beyond that runs into moral incoherence. Moen 16,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~ SJDI RCT by JPark AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. Thus, the standard is maximizing expected well-being (Act Util). Prefer additionally:~1~ Lexical pre-req. Threats to bodily security and life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis. This means my offense OW under their fwk.Extinction hijacks and side constrains the framework – it o/w and comes firstPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) | 2/20/22 |
G - Util V2Tournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Patel, Vandan Thus, the standard is maximizing expected well-being (Act Util). Prefer additionally:~1~ Lexical pre-req. Threats to bodily security and life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis. This means my offense OW under their fwk.Extinction hijacks and side constrains the framework – it o/w and comes firstPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) | 2/19/22 |
JF22 - Cant SpecTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker NA | Judge: Jeong, Johnathan Interpretation: The Affirmative cant specify a a government in the AC plan extViolation: they didStandard:1~ Ground/Shiftiness: The Aff specificizing People’s Republic of China kills my ability to get ground. i.e. if I read a Doctors DA, they can just say that they do not defend that. o/w into Strat skew because they can spec out of my strats in the same way2~ Limits: Specification explodes limits because you can spec infinite number of jobs and AFFS which leads infinite abuse and o/w) - you can do a trivially true AFF which explodes my ability to win b) I can’t have any stasis point of my being able to predict it, so I cannot engage links into Prep skew) I cannot prep for something I cannot predict, which kills all my prep, while they had two months too links to breath v deathDrop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms.Competing interps – a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debateNo RVI’s –(a) creates a chilling effect – aff can prep a long counterinterp in the 1ar and always win(b) they’re illogical - "I’m fair vote for me" doesn’t make any sense - you dont win for meeting ur burden of being fairVoters: Fairness –~a~ debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Education – its why schools fund debate and has portable impacts. | 2/13/22 |
JF22 - DA - SBSPTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Patel, Vandan Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) is a megaconstellation, and it’s going to happen within 10 years in the squo. Aff banning private megaconstellations kills the necessary tech – David 21:David, Leonard. 11/03/21 Space Solar Power’s Time May Finally Be Coming."https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-research-advances LHP BT + LHP PS AND right answer is really clear: We need to just go do it." SBSP key to solve climate change – Katete 21 – the evidence is from today:Katete, Esthere. (December 17 2021) "Space-Based Solar Power: The Future Source of Energy?"https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2020/02/space-based-solar-power LHP BT + LHP PS AND be able to provide some key learnings for future improvements in the technology. Warming causes extinction - Xu 17:Yangyang Xu 17, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas AandM University; and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9/26/17, "Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 39, p. 10315-10323 AND | 2/19/22 |
JF22 - K - AnarchismTournament: Sunvite | Round: 4 | Opponent: CR North | Judge: Saied Beckford 1Definition based on on 6 legal documents:Law Insider, no date. https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/private-entities Private space appropriation gives the blueprint to anarchists/is anarchist appropriation, KevinCarson, Kevin. 8th Feb 2019. "Ephemeralization for Post-Capitalist Space Exploration." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-ephemeralization-for-post-capitalist-space-exploration AND luck, maybe it won’t lie with Elon Musk for much longer either. Anarchist revolutions are fragile; they need space apart, space to grow strong – and the process of reading the kritik is one of creating revolutionary spaces in literal, actual space.Bevensee, Emmi. No Date. "Anarchists Need Space Because We’re Fighting in All Directions." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emmi-bevensee-anarchists-need-space-because-we-re-fighting-in-all-directions AND the authoritarians and space capitalists andprevent them from expanding their sphere of havoc? Capitalism is a death cult and the apocalypse is currently happening – Earth is doomed to climate change, but we can escape, Allinson 21Allinson, J. (2021). The tragedy of the worker: towards the proletarocene. Verso Books. pg 8-17 AND of ‘adaptation’ has become the ideology of capitalism’s triumph over all life. The alternative is an anarchist space program making us space pirates. Revolution on earth is doomed. We don’t need to solve—we need to dream.Debord, Syzygy. 2020 "Another Galaxy for Another Life." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/syzygy-debord-another-galaxy-for-another-life AND ! We have a world to lose, but a universe to gain! The role of the ballot is fidelity to the truth – dedication to a shared horizon is liberatory and space is the best horizon of all, Dean 19:Dean, Jodi. Comrade: An essay on political belonging. Verso, 2019. LHP BT + LHP PS AND that comrade relations produce. It concentrates comradeship even as comradeship exceeds it. | 1/8/22 |
JF22 - K - Anarchism V2Tournament: Lexington | Round: 2 | Opponent: Auzbourough | Judge: Temitto | 1/15/22 |
JF22 - K - DeleuzeTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker NA | Judge: Jeong, Johnathan The 1AC’s perception of property and limitation of appropriation obliterates the subject’s transcendence of the mind, leaving them without freedoms. Property isn’t a totalizing relation that limits others access, instead Appropriation of outer space allows the subject to escape natural confines and attain freedom from their Earth prison, BUCHANAN "99Buchanan, Ian. "Deleuze and Cultural Studies". A Deleuzian Century?, edited by Ian Buchanan, New York, USA: Duke University Press, 1999, pp. 103-118. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822395973-006 LHP HP AND not free in prison, but that one can nevertheless achieve freedom there. Thir view is a direct violation of the subject infinite potential. Each individual is dictated to have a certain identity only when they are surrounded by stable structures that force the individual to understand themselves in a single way. We must be able to interact with new spacesDELEUZE and GUITARRI 88~Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia. Bloomsbury Publishing, 1988. Pg 53-55~ LHP HL AND blockages, comparative speeds, differences in deterritorialization creating relative fields of reterritorialization. Alternative is to interrogate the stable concept of the subject in favor of alignment with the Body without Organs. The Body without Organs is the exact moments a subject has infinite potential to become anything they may wish. The Alternative allows the subject to exist in society independent of social constructs such as gender, class, and nationality that have previously composed the stable subject, SMITH 18~Smith, Daniel. "What is the body without organs? Machine and organism in Deleuze and Guattari." Continental Philosophy Review 51.1 (2018): 95-110.~ LHP HL AND connections, each of which may lead to the production of an event. The Role of the Ballot is to interrogate the image of thought, the current figure of thought that manipulates the subject into conforming with societies demand, such as the capitalist image yelling, "Work or die!". Vote for the debater which better presents methods to question structures of limitation and oppression against the individual, it is only from this ROB can we move away from structures such as whiteness and settler innocence and resist oppressive mindsets that hold us all captive by dictating thought, DRONSFIELD 12Dronsfield, Jonathan. "Deleuze and the image of thought." Philosophy Today 56.4 (2012): 404-414. LHP HL AND by the step, underfoot, by the walk of the one metamorphosed. | 2/13/22 |
JF22 - K - Set ColTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Ardrey Kell RG | Judge: Fabrice Etienne evocation of common heritage of "mankind" always excludes those who are the constitutive excluded — mechanisms like the Moon treaty purport to be for the good of common humanity, but they in fact just reinforce the nation-state’s ability to make sovereign decisions over space – Cornum 18:Cornum, Lou. "Event Horizon." Real Life, 12 Mar. 2018, https://reallifemag.com/event-horizon/. DOA 2/19/22 AND givens, the most persistent and damning of them being contact as conquest. State space exploration destroys the hope for indigenous and afro futurism, subsuming space with ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬'''''', Cornum 15.Cornum, Lou. "The Space Ndn's Star Map." The New Inquiry, 26 Jan. 2015, https://thenewinquiry.com/the-space-ndns-star-map/. DOA 2/19/22 AND the space NDN reveals the myriad ways of relating to land beyond property. Not only does the aff plan do nothing, it legitimates the fiction that the actions of a coopted settler-colonial state are in fact for the people, while the state continues to make the private sector do its dirty work on command. Klinger 18Klinger, J. M. (2018). Rare earth frontiers: From terrestrial subsoils to lunar landscapes. Cornell University Press. DOA 2/19/22 AND the end of the Cold War (United States House of Representatives 1998). The only way to solve climate change is through anti-racist struggle because climate change is the result of colonialism – they can never solve the root cause - Yeampierre 20: DOA 2/19/22Gardiner, Beth, et al. "Unequal Impact: The Deep Links Between Racism and Climate Change." Yale E360, 9 June 2020, e360.yale.edu/features/unequal-impact-the-deep-links-between-inequality-and-climate-change. LHPBT AND one part of the problem without the other, because it’s so systemic. The alt is to refuse the fantasy of the 1AC. Refusal is not just a "no," but a generative process that challenges sanctioned modes of protocol and decorum in the universityKing 3 (Tiffany, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the Georgia State University "Humans Involved: Lurking in the Lines of Posthumanist Flight" Critical Ethnic Studies 3, No. 1, pp. 163-170) NIJ DOA 2/19/22 AND Indigenous people have never been fully folded into the category of the human. ROB is to vote for the debater with the best grammar for resisting conquest.Colonialism functions in education through rhetorical imperialism, decolonial framing and discourse is key.Grande, Sandy 2015: Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought, Tenth Anniversary Edition . United States of America. Rowman and Littlefield Publisher Inc. (pp 55-56). Sandy Grande is associate professor and Chair of the Education Department at Connecticut College. Her research interfaces critical Indigenous theories with the concerns of education. In addition to Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought. (HTE) DOA 2/19/22 AND it is and as it should be" (Alfred 1999, 132). | 2/20/22 |
JF22 - K - Setcol V2Tournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough Pressman | Judge: Hsu, Jonathan | 3/18/22 |
JF22 - K - StateTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SS | Judge: Johnathan Meza Definition based on on 6 legal documents:Law Insider, no date. https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/private-entities The state occasionally subverts capital in the name of stabilizing the overall system. Do not be deceived—the only way to get rid of capitalism is to get rid of the state.Laursen, E., 2021. The Operating System An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State The Operating System An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State. pg 109-111 AND capital. To get rid of capitalism requires getting rid of the State. Private Space entities create thee industry necessary for anarchist space travel. Public Space taxes them so they cant. i.e. Elon Musk doesCarson, Kevin. 8th Feb 2019. "Ephemeralization for Post-Capitalist Space Exploration." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kevin-carson-ephemeralization-for-post-capitalist-space-exploration AND luck, maybe it won’t lie with Elon Musk for much longer either. Anarchist revolutions are fragile; they need space apart, space to grow strong – and the process of reading the kritik is one of creating revolutionary spaces in literal, actual space.Bevensee, Emmi. No Date. "Anarchists Need Space Because We’re Fighting in All Directions." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emmi-bevensee-anarchists-need-space-because-we-re-fighting-in-all-directions AND the authoritarians and space capitalists andprevent them from expanding their sphere of havoc? Capitalism is a death cult and the apocalypse is currently happening – Earth is doomed to climate change, but we can escape, Allinson 21Allinson, J. (2021). The tragedy of the worker: towards the proletarocene. Verso Books. pg 8-17 AND of ‘adaptation’ has become the ideology of capitalism’s triumph over all life. The alternative is an anarchist space program making us space pirates. Revolution on earth is doomed. We don’t need to solve—we need to dream.Debord, Syzygy. 2020 "Another Galaxy for Another Life." https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/syzygy-debord-another-galaxy-for-another-life AND ! We have a world to lose, but a universe to gain! The role of the ballot is fidelity to the truth – dedication to a shared horizon is liberatory and space is the best horizon of all, Dean 19:Dean, Jodi. Comrade: An essay on political belonging. Verso, 2019. LHP BT + LHP PS AND that comrade relations produce. It concentrates comradeship even as comradeship exceeds it. | 2/12/22 |
JF22 - Space ColTournament: Sunvite | Round: 4 | Opponent: CR North | Judge: Saied Beckford | 1/8/22 |
JF22 - T - FiatTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Abhilash Datti Interpretation: The affirmative must not defend a non-status quo policy option. To clarify, the affirmative may not fiat ''''' (their advocacy)Violation: They do (explain)Vote neg:1~ Precision – the resolution doesn’t entail an actor nor does it an action – they are definitionally not topical or even a subset of the resolution – vote them down –A~ stasis point – the topic is the only reasonable focal point for debate – anything else destroys the possibility of debate because we will be two ships passing –B~ internal link turn – violating semantics justifies the aff talking about whatever with zero neg prep or prediction which is the most unfair and educational –C~ Jurisdiction – you can’t vote for them because the ballot and the tournament invitation say to vote for the better debater in the context of the resolution –D~ objectivity – only semantics are objective whereas pragmatics are subjective which means intervention2~ Limits – they explode them – they are super Extra T and justify an infinite possible number of affirmatives and different actors – none of which are part of the resolution which means there is no prediction ground. Multiple Impacts – A~ Stable Ground – they deck neg preparation ability and impose an infinitely reciprocal research burden on the negative to have to guess the infinite policy options and possible permutations and to cut specific disads to those - B~ Predictability – no actor or action means its impossible to have a way to predict affs on this topic which decks quality engagement and education – C~ Infinite Abuse – being non-topical justifies picking a trivially true aff which means they always win3~ TVA – don’t defend an action and use ideal theory to explain why appropriation is bad - That’s better – it promotes in-depth philosophical clash over law that’s constitutive to LDNo RVIs – LogicDrop the debater – Deter future abuse, drop the arg is same because offense is all fiatedFairness Extempted-Education ' Extempted | 1/8/22 |
JF22 - T - Fiat V2Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SS | Judge: Johnathan Meza Interpretation: The affirmative must not defend a non-status quo policy option. To clarify, the affirmative may not fiat ''''' (their advocacy)Violation: They do (explain)Vote neg:1~ Precision – the resolution doesn’t entail an actor nor does it an action – they are definitionally not topical or even a subset of the resolution – vote them down –A~ stasis point – the topic is the only reasonable focal point for debate – anything else destroys the possibility of debate because we will be two ships passing –B~ internal link turn – violating semantics justifies the aff talking about whatever with zero neg prep or prediction which is the most unfair and educational –C~ Jurisdiction – you can’t vote for them because the ballot and the tournament invitation say to vote for the better debater in the context of the resolution –D~ objectivity – only semantics are objective whereas pragmatics are subjective which means intervention2~ Limits – they explode them – they are super Extra T and justify an infinite possible number of affirmatives and different actors – none of which are part of the resolution which means there is no prediction ground. Multiple Impacts – A~ Stable Ground – they deck neg preparation ability and impose an infinitely reciprocal research burden on the negative to have to guess the infinite policy options and possible permutations and to cut specific disads to those - B~ Predictability – no actor or action means its impossible to have a way to predict affs on this topic which decks quality engagement and education – C~ Infinite Abuse – being non-topical justifies picking a trivially true aff which means they always win3~ TVA – don’t defend an action and use ideal theory to explain why appropriation is bad - That’s better – it promotes in-depth philosophical clash over law that’s constitutive to LDNO RVIS - 1~ Logic - It doesnt make sense to win for proving that you were fair ~2~ Chilling Effect - they are just gonna read prepped counterinterps and always win the roundCompeting interps – reasonabilityDTDFairnessEducation | 2/12/22 |
JF22 - T - Fiat V3Tournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: Ardrey Kell RG | Judge: Fabrice Etienne Interpretation: The affirmative must not defend a non-status quo policy option. To clarify, the affirmative may not fiat ''''' (their advocacy)Violation: They do (explain)Vote neg:1~ Precision – the resolution doesn’t entail an actor nor does it an action – they are definitionally not topical or even a subset of the resolution – vote them down –A~ stasis point – the topic is the only reasonable focal point for debate – anything else destroys the possibility of debate because we will be two ships passing –B~ internal link turn – violating semantics justifies the aff talking about whatever with zero neg prep or prediction which is the most unfair and educational –C~ Jurisdiction – you can’t vote for them because the ballot and the tournament invitation say to vote for the better debater in the context of the resolution –D~ objectivity – only semantics are objective whereas pragmatics are subjective which means intervention2~ Limits - their model explodes them - it justifies an infinite possible number of Extra and non-topical affirmatives with different actors because a policy requires some actor or action which the resolution doesn't have Multiple Impacts – A~ Stable Ground – they deck preparation ability and impose an infinitely reciprocal research burden on the negative to have to guess the infinite policy options and possible permutations and to cut specific disads to those - B~ Predictability – no actor or action means its impossible to have a way to predict affs on this topic which decks quality engagement and education – C~ Infinite Abuse – being non-topical justifies picking a trivially true aff which means affs always win | 2/20/22 |
JF22 - T - PrivateTournament: 48th Annual Harvard National Forensics Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake MS | Judge: Weiller, Reed 1Interpretation: The affirmative cannot defend The culture industry’s appropriation of outer space as an object of conspiracy theory is unjustThe resolution entails why private appropriation of outer space is unjust not the culture industry. To clarify, they cannot specify the culture industryVio: They doStandards1~ Shiftiness – They can sepc out of DA leaving no neg engagement or prep2~ Limits – they explode them – they are super Extra T and justify an infinite possible number of affirmatives and different actors – none of which are part of the resolution which means there is no prediction ground. Multiple Impacts – A~ Stable Ground – they deck neg preparation ability and impose an infinitely reciprocal research burden on the negative to have to guess the infinite policy options and possible permutations and to cut specific disads to those - B~ Predictability – no actor or action means its impossible to have a way to predict affs on this topic which decks quality engagement and education – C~ Infinite Abuse – being non-topical justifies picking a trivially true aff which means they always win3~ TVA – don’t defend an action and use ideal theory to explain why appropriation is bad - That’s better – it promotes in-depth philosophical clash over law that’s constitutive to LDNO RVIDTDCIFAIRNESSEDucation | 2/20/22 |
JF22 - T - UnjustTournament: 1st and 2nd Year National Championships at Woodward Academy | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough Pressman | Judge: Hsu, Jonathan | 3/18/22 |
JF22-DA-SpaceBasedPowerTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Abhilash Datti Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) is a megaconstellation, and it’s going to happen within 10 years in the squo. Aff banning private megaconstellations kills the necessary tech – David 21:David, Leonard. 11/03/21 Space Solar Power’s Time May Finally Be Coming."https://www.space.com/space-solar-power-research-advances LHP BT + LHP PS AND right answer is really clear: We need to just go do it." SBSP key to solve climate change – Katete 21 –Katete, Esthere. (December 17 2021) "Space-Based Solar Power: The Future Source of Energy?"https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/2020/02/space-based-solar-power LHP BT + LHP PS AND be able to provide some key learnings for future improvements in the technology. Warming causes extinction - Xu 17:Yangyang Xu 17, Assistant Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at Texas AandM University; and Veerabhadran Ramanathan, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9/26/17, "Well below 2 °C: Mitigation strategies for avoiding dangerous to catastrophic climate changes," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 114, No. 39, p. 10315-10323 AND . Fig. 2 displays these three risk categorizations (vertical dashed lines). | 1/8/22 |
Lake Highland-Hasan-Neg-Princeton-Round3Tournament: Princeton | Round: 3 | Opponent: La salle tp | Judge: Broadnax, Kiarra ~1~ Actor specificity A~ governments must aggregate because their policies benefit some and harm others so the only non-arbitrary way to prioritize is by helping the most amount of people~2~ It’s a lexical pre-requisite. Threats to bodily security and life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibit the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose.~A~ Topic lit – most articles are written through the lens of util since they’re crafted for policymakers and the general public to understand who take consequences to be important,~4~ Only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable – all other values can be explained with reference to pleasure.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~ SJDI AND why do they tend to point toward pleasure and away from pain?27 ~5~ 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) Economy DA: 2:10, 1:50The Global Economy is stabilizing and set for increases in 2021 but is still vulnerable to shocksWorld Bank 6-8 6-8-2021 "The Global Economy: on Track for Strong but Uneven Growth as COVID-19 Still Weighs" https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/06/08/the-global-economy-on-track-for-strong-but-uneven-growth-as-covid-19-still-weighs AND continues to flare, it will shape the path of global economic activity. Strikes kill the economy – Engineering News 18Reporter, Creamer Media. "Strikes And Their Economic Consequences." Engineering News, 2018, www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/strikes-and-their-economic-consequences-2018-10-01/rep'id:4136~#:~:text=Strike20action20results20in20less,or20to20lost20production20time. LHP PS AND physical assault, property invasion and intimidation during labour unrest," concludes Condon. Strikes skyrockets unemployment rates – kills the economy – empirically proven – Tenza 20Tenza, Mlungisi. "The Effects of Violent Strikes on the Economy of a Developing Country: a Case of South Africa." Obiter, Nelson Mandela University, 2020, www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci'arttextandamp;pid=S1682-58532020000300004. AND these factors put a strain on the already struggling economy of South Africa. Econ decline results in nuclear war through diplomacy decline. Tønnesson 15Tønnesson Tønnesson, Stein ~Tønnesson is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway and the leader of the East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University in Sweden.~ "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review, Vol. 18, pgs. 297-311, 2015 AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. Extinction – nuke war fallout creates Ice Age and mass starvation. Starr 15Starr, Steven ~Steven Starr is the director of the University of Missouri's Clinical Laboratory Science Program, as well as a senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Strategic Arms Reduction (STAR) website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology~ "Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen." March 2015 AA AND the operational and deployed nuclear arsenals, will leave the Earth essentially uninhabitable. Tech DA: 1:24, 1:10Innovation is high now – Tannen 21Tannen, Janette. "Pandemic Spurs a Burst of Technology Innovation." University of Miami News and Events, 7 Nov. 2021, https://news.miami.edu/stories/2020/08/pandemic-spurs-a-burst-of-technology-innovation.html. LHP SV AND is how we do life and it will change our economic lives completely." Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector.Hanasoge 16 ~Chaithra; Senior Research Analyst, Market Researcher, Consumer Insights, Strategy Consulting; "The Union Strikes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Supply Wisdom; April/June 2016 (Doesn’t specifically say but this is the most recent event is cites); https://www.supplywisdom.com/resources/the-union-strikes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/~~//SJWen AND in a city like Kolkata, which carries a strong trade union culture. Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector.Vynck et al 21 ~Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; "Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech," The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/~~//SJWen AND as the PRO Act, to recognize gig worker collectives as real unions. Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs we cannot solve extinction without negative innovation.Matthews 18 Dylan. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. AFFExtinction and death outweighs:1~ Moral Uncertainty – philosophers have been arguing over what is the most ethical theory for thousands over years, and still have not reached a 100 true conclusion. This means that any chance that we are uncertain about ethics means we should save the future possibility of doing so i.e. preventing death.2~ Sequencing Question – in order to do ''''' (say whatever the aff framework thinks is good) you must be alive in the first place. You can not act on their ethical theory if you are dead.3~ 3 Choices – either a~ their framework can explain why death is bad and thus means my impacts come first b~ their framework cannot explain why death is bad but should be rejected because governments have an obligation to ensure safety, and use intuitions to explain why life is good c~ they actively think death is good which you should reject on face for moral repugnanceqNo impact — Extinction from warming requires 12 degrees, far greater than their internal link, and intervening actors will solve before thenSebastian Farquhar 17, leads the Global Priorities Project (GPP) at the Centre for Effective Altruism, et al., 2017, "Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance," https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf AND will therefore face strong incentives to find other ways to reduce global temperatures. Democracy AND Climate – SolvencyDemocracy will catastrophically delay action on climate change—-authoritarianism is necessary to ensure rapid state-led transformationMann and Wainwright ’18 (Geoff, teaches political economy and economic geography at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Centre for Global Political Economy, Joel Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of Our Planetary Future, pp. 38-40, ME) AND the world’s climate trajectory, it is most likely to emerge in China. LinkClimate change policies aren’t feasible – SMALL 1Small, Diane. "Why the Climate Strike Is a Useless Act." Eluxe Magazine, 3 Apr. 2020, https://eluxemagazine.com/culture/articles/why-the-climate-strike-is-a-useless-act/. LHP HL AND are having serious difficulties? No strike of any magnitude will change that. Climate strike pushes no policy, actually causes harms – SMALL 2Small, Diane. "Why the Climate Strike Is a Useless Act." Eluxe Magazine, 3 Apr. 2020, https://eluxemagazine.com/culture/articles/why-the-climate-strike-is-a-useless-act/. LHP HL AND planet. But it seems too few are willing to make those sacrifices. 2nrOverview: Working strikes destroy our unstable economy through lost productivity and mass unemployment. Tanked economy links to nuclear war that causes extinction. Frontlines:A/T climate change: On Innovation: ~1~ Innovation is key to solving climate change, current infrastructure to move away from oil energies is nonexistent, we need innovation to solve. | 12/4/21 |
ND21-PrincetonR1vsMontvilleNPTournament: Princeton | Round: 1 | Opponent: MontvillenNP | Judge: Dennis Nahl, William ~4~ Extinction hijacks and side constrains the framework – it o/w and comes firstPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be ANTI SA and not PRO SA and killing black people like police strikes Economy DA: 2:10, 1:50The Global Economy is stabilizing and set for increases in 2021 but is still vulnerable to shocksWorld Bank 6-8 6-8-2021 "The Global Economy: on Track for Strong but Uneven Growth as COVID-19 Still Weighs" https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2021/06/08/the-global-economy-on-track-for-strong-but-uneven-growth-as-covid-19-still-weighs AND continues to flare, it will shape the path of global economic activity. Strikes kill the economy – Engineering News 18Reporter, Creamer Media. "Strikes And Their Economic Consequences." Engineering News, 2018, www.engineeringnews.co.za/article/strikes-and-their-economic-consequences-2018-10-01/rep'id:4136~#:~:text=Strike20action20results20in20less,or20to20lost20production20time. LHP PS AND physical assault, property invasion and intimidation during labour unrest," concludes Condon. Strikes skyrockets unemployment rates – kills the economy – empirically proven – Tenza 20Tenza, Mlungisi. "The Effects of Violent Strikes on the Economy of a Developing Country: a Case of South Africa." Obiter, Nelson Mandela University, 2020, www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci'arttextandamp;pid=S1682-58532020000300004. AND these factors put a strain on the already struggling economy of South Africa. Econ decline results in nuclear war through diplomacy decline. Tønnesson 15Tønnesson Tønnesson, Stein ~Tønnesson is a research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in Norway and the leader of the East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University in Sweden.~ "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review, Vol. 18, pgs. 297-311, 2015 AND each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene. Extinction – nuke war fallout creates Ice Age and mass starvation. Starr 15Starr, Steven ~Steven Starr is the director of the University of Missouri's Clinical Laboratory Science Program, as well as a senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Strategic Arms Reduction (STAR) website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology~ "Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen." March 2015 AA AND the operational and deployed nuclear arsenals, will leave the Earth essentially uninhabitable. 2NOverview: Working strikes destroy our unstable economy through lost productivity and mass unemployment. Tanked economy links to nuclear war that causes extinction. Frontlines:On Productivity: ~1~ This doesn’t answer that unemployment rates go up ~2~ Short term status much more, strikes shock the mark, econ spirals out of control – covid empirically proves Tech DA: 1:24, 1:10Innovation is high now – Tannen 21Tannen, Janette. "Pandemic Spurs a Burst of Technology Innovation." University of Miami News and Events, 7 Nov. 2021, https://news.miami.edu/stories/2020/08/pandemic-spurs-a-burst-of-technology-innovation.html. LHP SV AND is how we do life and it will change our economic lives completely." strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector.Hanasoge 16 ~Chaithra; Senior Research Analyst, Market Researcher, Consumer Insights, Strategy Consulting; "The Union Strikes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Supply Wisdom; April/June 2016 (Doesn’t specifically say but this is the most recent event is cites); https://www.supplywisdom.com/resources/the-union-strikes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/~~//SJWen AND in a city like Kolkata, which carries a strong trade union culture. Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector.Vynck et al 21 ~Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; "Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech," The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/~~//SJWen AND as the PRO Act, to recognize gig worker collectives as real unions. Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs we cannot solve extinction without negative innovation.Matthews 18 Dylan. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. AffRecognizing a right to strike reduces revolutionary potential and fractures class organizing – turnsCrépon 19 Mark Crépon (French philosopher), translated by Micol Bez "The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward the Critique of Violence,’" Critical Times, 2:2, August 2019, DOI 10.1215/26410478-7708331 AND be ANTI SA and not PRO SA and killing black people like police strikes 2nOverview: Working strikes destroy our unstable economy through lost productivity and mass unemployment. Tanked economy links to nuclear war that causes extinction. Frontlines:On Productivity: ~1~ This doesn’t answer that unemployment rates go up ~2~ Short term status much more, strikes shock the mark, econ spirals out of control – covid empirically proves AND the impact, tech development controls internal link to all extinction impact solvency. Frontlines:A/T climate change: On Innovation: ~1~ Innovation is key to solving climate change, current infrastructure to move away from oil energies is nonexistent, we need innovation to solve. | 12/3/21 |
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