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| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 2 | Eden Prairie AG | Czyz, Kaya |
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| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 3 | Minnetonka AJ | Chang, Curtis |
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| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 6 | Apple Valley KW | Kuffour, Julian |
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| Sunvite | 1 | Isidore Newman PJ | Eberhart, Henry |
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| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 1 | BrxSci RA | Cruz, Mariel |
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| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 5 | Siegal, Zach | NorChr LB |
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| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 4 | Prince PE | Augustin, Shamika |
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| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 2 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Czyz, Kaya 1AC-Util Space exploration |
| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 3 | Opponent: Minnetonka AJ | Judge: Chang, Curtis 1AC- Util space col debris russia |
| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 6 | Opponent: Apple Valley KW | Judge: Kuffour, Julian 1AC- Productivity |
| Princeton Classic | 1 | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Stanley, Abishek 1AC- UK plan Nuke Teachers |
| Princeton Classic | 3 | Opponent: Olympia OE | Judge: Palmer, Jacob 1AC- Dysfluency |
| Ridge | 2 | Opponent: CR North NS | Judge: Jain, Vikas 1AC-lay |
| Ridge | 4 | Opponent: Livingston RB | Judge: Ogundare, Temitope 1AC- dysfluency |
| Sunvite | 1 | Opponent: Isidore Newman PJ | Judge: Eberhart, Henry 1AC- China RR |
| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 1 | Opponent: BrxSci RA | Judge: Cruz, Mariel 1AC- Kant disclosure |
| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 5 | Opponent: Siegal, Zach | Judge: NorChr LB 1AC- Kant disclosure |
| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 4 | Opponent: Prince PE | Judge: Augustin, Shamika 1AC- Dysfluency |
| none | 9 | Opponent: none | Judge: none contact info |
| none | 9 | Opponent: none | Judge: none navigation |
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0- Contact InfoTournament: none | Round: 9 | Opponent: none | Judge: none | 11/11/21 |
0- NavigationTournament: none | Round: 9 | Opponent: none | Judge: none | 11/11/21 |
1- DisclosureTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 1 | Opponent: BrxSci RA | Judge: Cruz, Mariel erpretation: Debaters must disclose all broken constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2020-21 NDCA LD wiki under their own names and schools after the round in which they read themViolation – they don't See the screen shots bellow – they participated in Byram Hills and didn't disclose any positions 1~ Debate resource inequities—you'll say people will steal cards, but that's good—it's the only way to truly level the playing field for students such as novices in under-privileged programs who can't bypass paywalled articles.Louden 10 – Allan D. Louden, professor of Communication at Wake Forest ("Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century" Wake Forest National Debate Conference. IDEA, 2010) 2~ Evidence ethics – open source is the only way to verify pre-round that cards aren't miscut or highlighted or bracketed unethically. That's a voter – maintaining ethical ev practices is key to being good academics and we should be able to verify you didn't cheat3~ Depth of clash – it allows debaters to have nuanced researched objections to their opponents evidence before the round at a much faster rate, which leads to higher quality ev comparison – outweighs cause thinking on your feet is NUQ but the best quality responses come from full access to a case.Fairness – all arguments concede the validity of fairnessEducation – the only reason schools fund debateCompeting interps on theory – A~ disclosing is a yes/no question, you can't reasonably not disclose B~ norm setting – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention C~ reasonability causes a race to the bottom.Drop the debater – Sets good norms for the debate space, losing this round will make my opponent disclose next round, Dropping the argument means dropping their case essentially making it a drop the debaterNo RVIs: 1~ Encourages theory baiting and chills checking real abuse. 2~ Illogical b/c don't win for being fair and logic is meta-constraint on arguments because it comes lexically prior. | 11/13/21 |
1- Spec StatusTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 5 | Opponent: Siegal, Zach | Judge: NorChr LB Interp: The neg must specify the status of all advocacies in the 1NC during the 1NC. To clarify, you must say if advocacies are condo, uncondo, or dispo in the 1NC.Violation – they didn't~1~ Strat Skew – waiting till CX means I lose 7 minutes to prep answers and determine strategies like reading case outweighs or theory. Irreciprocal since you know the aff is uncondo and have the whole 36 minutes to prep so I need the ability to prep during the NC too.Key to education since I'll have less time to think of quality arguments for clash. Also key to inclusion since newer debaters are less likely to ask about the status in CX, so debaters are incentivized to not tell novices the status and shift after encouraging a strategic error. Inclusion is an independent voter – you can't debate if you can't participate. | 11/14/21 |
2- DysfluencyTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 4 | Opponent: Prince PE | Judge: Augustin, Shamika KritikCommunicative arenas such as debate links disabled folk under modes of compulsive able-bodiedness. They are controlled by biopolitical systems of fluency which systematically smooths dysfluencies to maintain a fluid semiotic operation. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that best resists the technologies of fluency.St. Pierre 17 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ Lex VM New biopolitical developments in neoliberal capitalism has shifted the focus of normalizing the disabled body to profiting off of its capacitation through medicalization. Bodies are now evaluated in regard to their productivity and health blurring the distinction between abled and disabled forming gradations of capacity and debility.Fritsch 15 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ Lex VM Speech and technologies of fluency has fueled the rise of Semiocapitalism which requires information to move quickly and effortlessly. This results in the capacitation of certain disabled bodies at the expense of debilitating dysfluent ones.St. Pierre 2 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ Lex VM Biocapitalism creates a structure of value where the ideal Child that symbolizes the image of futurity is the one that embodies maximized productivity. In reality, this sacred Child is unobtainable and requires the death and enhancement of disability to give it meaning. This locks disability in a cycle of cruelly optimistic futures that are predicated on disabled death.Fritsch 2 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ Lex VM Neoliberal biocapitalism forecloses futures by constructing groups based on historical suffering. Only gradations if ability can move beyond the abled/disabled binary.Fritsch 3 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ Lex VM Vote aff to enact dysfluencies in communicative spheres to create frictions that disrupt the semiotic flow of debate. Our politics resists the spell of the linguistic by using dysfluent systems of grammar, norms and communication to escape the totalizing demands of fluency.St. Pierre 3 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ Lex VM Our method is a heterotopic imagination of disability that views disability differently outside of the current neoliberal conditions. The product is a figure of disability not as something to overcome but as a life worth living.Fritsch 4 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ UTDD recut Lex VM uvUs violating any T or theory shells is a performative reason to vote for us since we are creating dysfluencies within the systemNeg may only read 1 T or theory shell. Multiple shells spread out the 1AR and allow the 2NR to collapse to whichever shell was under covered, meaning disabled bodies aren't able to defend themselves. Multiple rounds solve your offense since we can check lots of abusive practices over time.No omissions: All neg theory violations and kritik links must come from the text of the AC, not the absence of specification. (A) I have a limited time to speak so it's an infinite aff burden (B) Race to bottom – incentivizes people to not engage the aff and make a bunch frivolous spec argument to preclude | 12/3/21 |
2- Dysfluency v2Tournament: Ridge | Round: 4 | Opponent: Livingston RB | Judge: Ogundare, Temitope 1ACCommunicative arenas such as debate links disabled folk under modes of compulsive able-bodiedness. They are controlled by biopolitical systems of fluency which systematically smooths dysfluencies to maintain the fluid semiotic operation. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that best resists the technologies of fluency.St. Pierre 17 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ Lex VM New biopolitical developments in neoliberal capitalism has shifted the focus of normalizing the disabled body to profiting off of its capacitation through medicalization. Bodies are now evaluated in regard to their productivity and health blurring the distinction between abled and disabled forming gradations of capacity and debility.Fritsch 15 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ Lex VM Speech and technologies of fluency has fueled the rise of Semiocapitalism which requires information to move quickly and effortlessly. This results in the capacitation of certain disabled bodies at the expense of debilitating dysfluent ones.St. Pierre 2 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ UTDD recut Lex VM Biocapitalism creates a structure of value where the ideal Child that symbolizes the image of futurity is the one that embodies maximized productivity. In reality, this sacred Child is unobtainable and requires the death and enhancement of disability to give it meaning. This locks disability in a cycle of cruelly optimistic futures that are predicated on disabled death.Fritsch 2 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ Lex VM This affective economy determines the value and circulation of social goods which allows biocapitalism to frame disability through a narrative of overcoming suffering. This produces disability as tragedy, pity, and disgust.Fritsch 2 The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices by Kelly Fritsch JUNE 2015 UTDD Vote aff to enact dysfluencies in communicative spheres to create frictions that disrupt the semiotic flow of debate. Our politics resists the spell of the linguistic by using dysfluent systems of grammar, norms and communication to escape the totalizing demands of fluency.St. Pierre 3 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ UTDD recut Lex VM Voting affirmative engages in a heterotopic imagination of disability. This is a method of imagining disability differently outside of the current neoliberal conditions. The product is a figure of disability not as something to overcome but as a life worth living.Fritsch 3 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ UTDD recut Lex VM | 12/11/21 |
2- ProductivityTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 6 | Opponent: Apple Valley KW | Judge: Kuffour, Julian 1ACCommunicative arenas such as debate links disabled folk under modes of compulsive able-bodiedness. They are controlled by biopolitical systems of fluency which systematically smooths dysfluencies to maintain the fluid semiotic operation. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that best resists the technologies of fluency.St. Pierre 17 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ Lex VM New biopolitical developments in neoliberal capitalism has shifted the focus of normalizing the disabled body to profiting off of its capacitation through medicalization. Bodies are now evaluated in regard to their productivity and health blurring the distinction between abled and disabled forming gradations of capacity and debility.Fritsch 15 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ Lex VM Speech and technologies of fluency has fueled the rise of Semiocapitalism which requires information to move quickly and effortlessly. This results in the capacitation of certain disabled bodies at the expense of debilitating dysfluent ones.St. Pierre 2 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ UTDD recut Lex VM Biocapitalism creates a structure of value where the ideal Child that symbolizes the image of futurity is the one that embodies maximized productivity. In reality, this sacred Child is unobtainable and requires the death and enhancement of disability to give it meaning. This locks disability in a cycle of cruelly optimistic futures that are predicated on disabled death.Fritsch 2 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ Lex VM This affective economy determines the value and circulation of social goods which allows biocapitalism to frame disability through a narrative of overcoming suffering. This produces disability as tragedy, pity, and disgust.Fritsch 2 The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices by Kelly Fritsch JUNE 2015 UTDD Vote aff to enact dysfluencies in communicative spheres to create frictions that disrupt the semiotic flow of debate. Our politics resists the spell of the linguistic by using dysfluent systems of grammar, norms and communication to escape the totalizing demands of fluency.St. Pierre 3 ~Becoming Dysfluent: Fluency as Biopolitics and Hegemony Joshua St. Pierre Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Volume 11, Issue 3, 2017, pp. 339-356 (Article) Published by Liverpool University Press~ UTDD recut Lex VM Voting affirmative engages in a heterotopic imagination of disability. This is a method of imagining disability differently outside of the current neoliberal conditions. The product is a figure of disability not as something to overcome but as a life worth living.Fritsch 3 ~Fritsch, Kelly Michelle. "The Neoliberal Biopolitics of Disability: Towards Emergent Intracorporeal Practices." Diss. York U, Toronto, 2015. YorkSpace Institutional Repository. York University, 16 Dec. 2015. Web.~ UTDD recut Lex VM Uv1~ Theory is incoherent:A~ The ballot is always determined off inequalitiesB~ Theory is evaluating off the flow rather than making the better normC~ Things get proven true in debate rounds all the time that aren't true in the real worldD~ No competitive activity would establish rules in the middle of a competition.E~ It sets bad norms because we vote for interps that are marginally better rather than the best versionF~ It's paradoxical because it limits arguments but uses arguments to do that | 12/19/21 |
3- Util v1Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Stanley, Abishek FrameworkThe standard is maximizing expected well being or saving lives.1~ Death is bad and outweighs – it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite.2~ Extinction outweighs –1 – Paternalism – taking everyones lives without their consent is actively violent and takes away people's autonomy.2 – Suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can't get access to resources and basic necessities3 – Moral uncertainty – if we're unsure about which interpretation of the world is true – we ought to preserve the world to keep debating about it3~ Util forces you to justify why actions are good and bad – intuitions fail in the real world.Hare 79, R.M. What Is Wrong with Slavery. Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1979, links,jstor.org/sici?sici=0048-3915281979242983A23C1033AWIWWS3E2.0.CO3B2-6. TG | 12/3/21 |
3- Util v3Tournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Czyz, Kaya UtilPleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. People consistently regard pleasure and pain as good reasons for action, despite the fact that pleasure doesn't seem to be instrumentally valuable for anything.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, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10790-015-9506-9~~ TDI Moral uncertainty means preventing extinction should be our highest priority. | 12/18/21 |
JF- ChinaTournament: Sunvite | Round: 1 | Opponent: Isidore Newman PJ | Judge: Eberhart, Henry 1Interp: Debaters must disclose round reports on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech.Violation: screenshot in the doc – they have none – look in the round reports column Standards:1~ Level Playing Field – big schools can go around and collect flows but independents are left in the dark so round reports are key for them to prep- they give you an idea of overall what layers debaters like going for so you can best prepare your strategy against them. Accessibility first and independent voter – it's an impact multiplier.2~ Strategy Education – round reports help novices understand the context in which positions are read by good debaters and help with brainstorming potential 1NCs vs affs – helps compensate for kids who can't afford coaches to prep out affs.3~ Pre-round prep –1ARs gives especially give an idea of what type of debater someone is – they could go for 1AR theory every round– otherwise I enter every round unknowing whereas you have an idea of what you want to go for from the start – key to good clash~1~ DTD on 1ac theory and disclosure – a) disclosure cannot be drop the argument because it would just drop you because you're the norm b) deterrence~2~ No RVI on ac theory – otherwise the neg would dump for 7 mins on a shell and moot the possibility of a 1ar out – any reason why they get an rvi is nonunique because you would have to respond to 6 minutes of the 1AC regardless of if its theory or a contention~3~ Competing Interps – 1~ reasonability is arbitrary – impossible to know what is reasonable until you establish a brightline 2~ bites judge intervention cuz they have to gut check what they think is good 3~ reasonability collapses cuz u use offense defense to evaluate offense under the BL 4~ norms – you can sidestep norms by selectively choosing a different brightline you meet every round.~4~ Fairness is a voter because debate is a game governed by rules and you can't tell who actually won if the layer was skewed.1AC – China1AC – FootnoteCounter Solvency Advocates – 1AC – PlanPlan: The Peoples Republic of China ought to prohibit appropriation of space by private entities.1AC – AdvThe Advantage is Primacy.The US is in the lead now but China's set to surpass – space becomes a new frontier for war, influence, and property.Kharpal 21 ~Arjun Kharpal, 5-29-2021, "China once said it couldn't put a potato in space. Now it's eyeing Mars," CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/china-space-goals-ccp-100th-anniversary.html JB~ Appropriation is key to meet China's goals through space resources and techCampo 21 ~Jose A. Martin del Campo, J.D. Candidate at Texas AandM University School of Law, 3-23-2021, "Finders K Finders Keepers: Who Has Say Over Private Property in Space," Texas AandM Journal of Property Law, https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155andcontext=journal-of-property-law~~/Kankee It's exponential – more and more companies will followJiang Zhao 18 ~Shengli Jiang and Yun Zhao (2018) "The Aftermath of the US Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act: What's Left for China?" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c3a4/fb6e0f91f4d8a13ddac4b0f949f6c3afa5c0.pdf JB~ Space becomes a new domain where China establishes primacy and appropriation is their golden ticketJiang Zhao 18 ~Shengli Jiang and Yun Zhao (2018) "The Aftermath of the US Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act: What's Left for China?" https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c3a4/fb6e0f91f4d8a13ddac4b0f949f6c3afa5c0.pdf JB~ Scenario 1 is Primacy –Space dominance is key to US hegemonyWeichert 17 ~(Brandon J., a former Congressional staff member who holds a Master of Arts in Statecraft and National Security Affairs from the Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C. He is the founder of The Weichert Report: An Online Journal of Geopolitics, and is currently completing a book on national security space policy.) "The High Ground: The Case for U.S. Space Dominance," Science Direct, 2017. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0030438717300108~~ RR Primacy solves arms races, land grabs, rogue states, and great power war.Brands 18 ~Hal, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments." American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump." Page 129-133~ Chinese leadership in technology causes extinction.Kroenig 18 ~Matthew, Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Deputy Director for Strategy in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council, and Bharath Gopalaswamy, Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, holds a PhD in mechanical engineering with a specialization in numerical acoustics from Trinity College, Dublin, Nov 2018, "Will disruptive technology cause nuclear war?", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, https://thebulletin.org/2018/11/will-disruptive-technology-cause-nuclear-war~~ Reject heg bad arguments – their evidence is epistemologically suspectGilsinan 20 ~(Kathy, a St. Louis-based contributing writer at The Atlantic. Her book, The Helpers: Profiles From the Front Lines of the Pandemic, comes out in March 2022. She was previously an editor at World Politics Review.) "How China Is Planning to Win Back the World" The Atlantic, 5/28/2020. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/05/china-disinformation-propaganda-united-states-xi-jinping/612085/~~ BC 1AC – FramingI value morality.The metaethic is naturalism.The standard is act hedonistic util.~1~ Pleasure and pain are the starting point for moral reasoning—they're our most baseline desires and the only things that explain the intrinsic value of objects or actionsMoen 16, Ole Martin (PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo). "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50.2 (2016): 267. ~2~ Extinction is bad and outweighsMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ | 1/7/22 |
JF- DebrisTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 3 | Opponent: Minnetonka AJ | Judge: Chang, Curtis DebrisPrivatization of space travel kills off public space exploration.Commercial rocket launches produce space clutter—increased debris could reach a tipping pointThompson 20 ~(Clive, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, a columnist for Wired magazine, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine) "Monetizing the Final Frontier The strange new push for space privatization," December 3, 2020 https://newrepublic.com/article/160303/monetizing-final-frontier~~ TDI Space dust wrecks satellites and debris exponentially spiralsIntagliata 17 ~(Christopher Intagliata, MA Journalism from NYU, Editor for NPRs All Things Considered, Reporter/Host for Scientific American's 60 Second Science) "The Sneaky Danger of Space Dust," Scientific American, May 11, 2017, https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-sneaky-danger-of-space-dust/~~ TDI Privatized space tourism increases collision risks due to orbital debris.Tehrani 4/1 ~(James, Editor in Chief of Spark Magazine) "Space Junk: A Safety and Sustainability Problem Moving at 18,000 MPH," April 1, 2021, https://sphera.com/spark/space-junk-a-safety-and-sustainability-problem-moving-at-18000-mph/~~ TDI Increased space debris makes future space exploration impossibleWebb 18 ~(Amy Webb is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and is the chief executive of the Future Today Institute, a strategic foresight and research group in Washington, D.C.), "Space Oddities: We Need a Plan to Stop Polluting Space Before It's Too Late" WIRED Science April 12, 2018 https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-a-plan-to-stop-polluting-space-before-its-too-late/~~ TDI Early warning satellites going dark signals attacks – causes miscalc and goes nuclearOrwig 16 ~(Jessica, MS in science and tech journalism from Texas AandM, BS in astronomy and physics from Ohio State) "Russia says a growing problem in space could be enough to spark a war," Insider,' January 26, 2016, https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-says-space-junk-could-spark-war-2016-1~~ TDI Earth observation satellites key to warming adaptationAlonso 18 ~(Elisa Jiménez Alonso, communications consultant with Acclimatise, climate resilience organization) "Earth Observation of Increasing Importance for Climate Change Adaptation," Acclimatise, May 2, 2018, https://www.acclimatise.uk.com/2018/05/02/earth-observation-of-increasing-importance-for-climate-change-adaptation/~~ TDI Warming causes extinctionKlein 14~(Naomi Klein, award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist, former Miliband Fellow at the London School of Economics, member of the board of directors of 350.org), This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, pp. 12-14~ | 12/18/21 |
JF- RussiaTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 3 | Opponent: Minnetonka AJ | Judge: Chang, Curtis RussiaDeep space exploration is a shared goal that prevents escalation of US-Russia tensions. But privatization threatens it independent of our other internal linksCSIS 18 ~(Center for Strategic and International Studies), "Why Human Space Exploration Matters," August 21, 2018 https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/space-cooperation~~ TDI It's make or break for the relationship—Ukraine, decline of US moral authority on international affairs puts us at the brink of the end of Russian diplomacy and even warWeir 21 ~(Fred Weir has been the Monitor's Moscow correspondent, covering Russia and the former Soviet Union, since 1998. He's traveled over much of that vast territory, reporting on stories ranging from Russia's financial crash to the war in Chechnya, creeping Islamization in central Asia, Russia's demographic crisis, the rise of Vladimir Putin and his repeated returns to the Kremlin, and the ups and downs of US-Russia relations). "Worse than the Cold War? US-Russia relations hit new low." Christian Science Monitor 4-20-2021 https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2021/0420/Worse-than-the-Cold-War-US-Russia-relations-hit-new-low~~ TDI Nuke war causes extinction – it won't stay limitedEdwards 17 ~(Paul N. Edwards, CISAC's William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Being interviewed by EarthSky/card is only parts of the interview directly from Paul Edwards.) "How nuclear war would affect Earth's climate," EarthSky, September 8, 2017, earthsky.org/human-world/how-nuclear-war-would-affect-earths-climate~ TDI | 12/18/21 |
JF- Space ColTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 3 | Opponent: Minnetonka AJ | Judge: Chang, Curtis AC – Space ColSpace exploration is essential to the survival of humanity. Two impacts—First, colonization—It solves a litany of existential threats – don't put all your eggs in one basket.Fitzgerald 3/9 ~(Shanon, Assistant Websites Editor at Liberty Fund), "Why Human Space Exploration Matters," March 9 2021, https://www.econlib.org/why-human-space-exploration-matters/~~ TDI Space col key to innovation,West 20 Darrell M. West, 8-18-2020, "Five reasons to explore Mars," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/08/18/five-reasons-to-explore-mars/ TDI | 12/18/21 |
JF- Space ExplorationTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Czyz, Kaya AC – Exploration AdvantageSpace exploration is essential to the survival of humanity. Two impacts—First, colonization—It solves a litany of existential threats – don't put all your eggs in one basket.Fitzgerald 3/9 ~(Shanon, Assistant Websites Editor at Liberty Fund), "Why Human Space Exploration Matters," March 9 2021, https://www.econlib.org/why-human-space-exploration-matters/~~ TDI Space col key to innovation,West 20 Darrell M. West, 8-18-2020, "Five reasons to explore Mars," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/08/18/five-reasons-to-explore-mars/ TDI Second, Russia—Deep space exploration is a shared goal that prevents escalation of US-Russia tensions. But privatization threatens it independent of our other internal linksCSIS 18 ~(Center for Strategic and International Studies), "Why Human Space Exploration Matters," August 21, 2018 https://www.csis.org/blogs/post-soviet-post/space-cooperation~~ TDI It's make or break for the relationship—Ukraine, decline of US moral authority on international affairs puts us at the brink of the end of Russian diplomacy and even warWeir 21 ~(Fred Weir has been the Monitor's Moscow correspondent, covering Russia and the former Soviet Union, since 1998. He's traveled over much of that vast territory, reporting on stories ranging from Russia's financial crash to the war in Chechnya, creeping Islamization in central Asia, Russia's demographic crisis, the rise of Vladimir Putin and his repeated returns to the Kremlin, and the ups and downs of US-Russia relations). "Worse than the Cold War? US-Russia relations hit new low." Christian Science Monitor 4-20-2021 https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2021/0420/Worse-than-the-Cold-War-US-Russia-relations-hit-new-low~~ TDI Space weapons heighten potential for escalation and make perceptions of US-Russia space conflict key.Alexey Arbatov et al, head of the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Major General Vladimir Dvorkin, a principal researcher at the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations and Peter Topychkanov, fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center's Nonproliferation Program, '17 "Russian And Chinese Perspectives On Non-Nuclear Weapons And Nuclear Risks" Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Publications, https://www.russiamatters.org/sites/default/files/media/files/Entanglement_interior_FNL.pdf Nuke war causes extinction – it won't stay limitedEdwards 17 ~(Paul N. Edwards, CISAC's William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Being interviewed by EarthSky/card is only parts of the interview directly from Paul Edwards.) "How nuclear war would affect Earth's climate," EarthSky, September 8, 2017, earthsky.org/human-world/how-nuclear-war-would-affect-earths-climate~ TDI Privitiation of space exploration kills off public explorationdebris—Commercial rocket launches produce space clutter—increased debris could reach a tipping pointThompson 20 ~(Clive, author of Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, a columnist for Wired magazine, and a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine) "Monetizing the Final Frontier The strange new push for space privatization," December 3, 2020 https://newrepublic.com/article/160303/monetizing-final-frontier~~ TDI Space dust wrecks satellites and debris exponentially spiralsIntagliata 17 ~(Christopher Intagliata, MA Journalism from NYU, Editor for NPRs All Things Considered, Reporter/Host for Scientific American's 60 Second Science) "The Sneaky Danger of Space Dust," Scientific American, May 11, 2017, https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-sneaky-danger-of-space-dust/~~ TDI Privatized space tourism increases collision risks due to orbital debris.Tehrani 4/1 ~(James, Editor in Chief of Spark Magazine) "Space Junk: A Safety and Sustainability Problem Moving at 18,000 MPH," April 1, 2021, https://sphera.com/spark/space-junk-a-safety-and-sustainability-problem-moving-at-18000-mph/~~ TDI Increased space debris makes future space exploration impossibleWebb 18 ~(Amy Webb is a professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and is the chief executive of the Future Today Institute, a strategic foresight and research group in Washington, D.C.), "Space Oddities: We Need a Plan to Stop Polluting Space Before It's Too Late" WIRED Science April 12, 2018 https://www.wired.com/story/we-need-a-plan-to-stop-polluting-space-before-its-too-late/~~ TDI Early warning satellites going dark signals attacks – causes miscalc and goes nuclearOrwig 16 ~(Jessica, MS in science and tech journalism from Texas AandM, BS in astronomy and physics from Ohio State) "Russia says a growing problem in space could be enough to spark a war," Insider,' January 26, 2016, https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-says-space-junk-could-spark-war-2016-1~~ TDI | 12/18/21 |
ND- Kant AC v1Tournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 1 | Opponent: BrxSci RA | Judge: Cruz, Mariel | 11/13/21 |
ND- LayTournament: Ridge | Round: 2 | Opponent: CR North NS | Judge: Jain, Vikas FrameworkI value morality, Plan text: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.
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ND- NukesTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Stanley, Abishek aAdvantage 1: NukesStrikes are key to safety of nuclear weapons facilities, Williams 10-18~Martin Williams, 10-18-2021, "Clyde nuclear base emergency staff to strike from tomorrow over safety fears", https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/19655524.clyde-nuclear-base-emergency-staff-strike-tomorrow-safety-fears/, date accessed 10-24-2021~ Lex AT Fires are a huge threat to nuclear explosions—UK is on the brink, Ritchie 14~Dr Nick Ritchie, 2014, "Nuclear risk: the British case", University of York, https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/78773/1/Nuclear_risk_paper.pdf, date accessed 10-24-2021~ Lex AT One explosion escalates,Roth and Burn 17, 9-28-2017, Matthew Bunn is a professor of practice at the Harvard Kennedy School. A former advisor in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Nickolas Roth is a research associate at the Belfer Center's Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University."The effects of a single terrorist nuclear bomb," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, https://thebulletin.org/2017/09/the-effects-of-a-single-terrorist-nuclear-bomb/, 3/29/20)ww BJ Nuke war causes extinctionPND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock's 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans' International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer | 12/3/21 |
ND- TeachersTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Stanley, Abishek Advantage 2: TeachersEducation is on the decline—STEM is hit hardest, Signal 20~The Signal, 8-20-2020, "A Closer Look at the Current UK Teacher Shortage", Santa Clarita Valley Signal, https://signalscv.com/2020/08/a-closer-look-at-the-current-uk-teacher-shortage/, date accessed 10-24-2021~ Lex AT Recognition from strikes is key to teacher satisfaction, Weale 21~Sally Weale, 4-8-2021, "One in three teachers plan to quit, says National Education Union survey", Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/08/one-in-three-uk-teachers-plan-to-quit-says-national-education-union-survey, date accessed 10-24-2021~ Lex AT Strong STEM education solves climate change, SITU 10-4~StudyUSA, 10-4-2021, "Why Is STEM Important? The Impact of STEM Education on Society", Study in the USA, https://www.studyusa.com/en/a/2157/why-is-stem-important-the-impact-of-stem-education-on-society, date accessed 10-25-2021~ Lex AT Climate change destroys the world.Specktor 19 ~Brandon; writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years; "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, 6/4/19; https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html~~ Justin | 12/3/21 |
ND- UK PlanTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Stanley, Abishek Plan - The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.I'll defend enforcement through modelling the NLRA, Bondi 95Victor Bondi , 1995, "American Decades: 1940-1949," No Publication, https://www.cengage.com/search/productOverview.do?N=197+4294921854+4294916915+4294904579andamp;Ntk=P_EPIandamp;Ntt=15051676421114137871909840985170930831andamp;Ntx=mode2Bmatchallpartial
The Unconditional Right to Strike is defined in the NLRA as,National Labor Relations Board, ~The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is comprised of a team of professionals who work to assure fair labor practices and workplace democracy nationwide. Since its creation by Congress in 1935, this small, highly respected, independent Federal agency has had daily impact on the way America's companies, industries and unions conduct business. Agency staff members investigate and remedy unfair labor practices by unions and employers.~, xx-xx-xxxx, "NLRA and the Right to Strike," No Publication, https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-rights/nlra-and-the-right-to-strike Covid makes organized strikes impossible—status quo efforts are doomed to fail, Gall 20~Gregor Gall, 4-16-2020, "Right Now in the UK, Strikes Are Effectively Illegal", Tribune Magazine, https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/04/right-now-in-the-uk-strikes-are-effectively-illegal, date accessed 10-24-2021~ Lex AT | 12/3/21 |
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