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| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 2 | Stuyve LC | Toth, Eugene |
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| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 3 | EdePra AG | Ratnasabapathy, Tarun |
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| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 6 | BrxSci IP | StPeter, Joshua |
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| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 1 | Opponent: Ridge Point VM | Judge: Thomas-McGinnis, Conal 1AC- Jeff bezos story |
| John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | 5 | Opponent: Charlotte Latin EL | Judge: Totz, Kate 1AC- Queer celestial |
| Princeton Classic | 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Wu, Jalyn 1AC- Alienation |
| Princeton Classic | 4 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Ribera, Claudia 1AC- China |
| Ridge | 1 | Opponent: Montville TV | Judge: Speert, Alan 1AC-lay |
| Ridge | 3 | Opponent: Bridgewater Raritan AD | Judge: Grey, James 1AC-lay |
| Sunvite | 2 | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: Romero, Sierra 1AC- Debris Ozone |
| Sunvite | 3 | Opponent: Durham ZG | Judge: Salgado, Isaiah 1AC- Debris Multilat |
| Sunvite | 5 | Opponent: Buchholz LW | Judge: Tiwary, Sohum 1AC- Debris Company Towns |
| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 2 | Opponent: Stuyve LC | Judge: Toth, Eugene 1AC- Kant |
| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 3 | Opponent: EdePra AG | Judge: Ratnasabapathy, Tarun 1AC- ag workers |
| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | 6 | Opponent: BrxSci IP | Judge: StPeter, Joshua 1AC- Climate Change India |
| Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Octas | Opponent: SouCar SD | Judge: Behrend, Beth Vega, Miana Guo, Vivian lay |
| none | 9 | Opponent: none | Judge: none contact info |
| none | 9 | Opponent: none | Judge: none 1 - Theory |
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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 - New Affs BadTournament: Sunvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: Romero, Sierra Interpretation: Debaters may not break new affirmatives without first disclosing them on the NDCA wiki at least 30 minutes before the round or disclosing frame work, plan text, and advantage area.Violation: this is a new aff
1~ Vote neg for Predictability and clash—breaking new affs that aren't disclosed forces us to rely on generics rather than specific strategies tailored to the affirmative—that kills nuanced clash and turns their education arguments because we don't get to discuss the aff in depth, instead we just have recycled T and Kant debates. They get infinite time to frontline their one aff, while I coming into the round guessing2~ Encourages students to value new above good which is a bad educational model since it creates superficial learning. Counter-Interp offense isn't competitive because you can still read new affs, they just have to be disclosed before the round. And, critical thinking is non-unique because people would still have to come up with answers to the aff before the round.3~ Academic integrity – disclosing new afs is key to ensure that evidence isnt miscut or powertagged – 4 minutes of prep isnt enough especially since I need to save some for the 2nr and also construct a 1nc speech docCross app paradigm issues | 1/8/22 |
1- Content WarningTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 5 | Opponent: Charlotte Latin EL | Judge: Totz, Kate ====B. Violation: They didn't give a content warning for the 3 EXTREMELY graphic murders described in detail within the Stanley 11 card – see the header bellow for 3 quotes but be warned they are very graphic==== ====C. Standard: ==== ====1. Access – Content warnings for those who suffer from trauma or anxiety are excluded from the conversation without content warnings. Carter 15, ~Angela Carter (Ph.D. Candidate in Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota), "Teaching with Trauma: Trigger Warnings, Feminism, and Disability Pedagogy," Disabilities Studies Quarterly, 2015~ Given these findings, it is imperative that the debate on trigger warnings focus on the inherent questions of access. However, because of the misuse of "triggered" to reference anything that makes someone uncomfortable, disagreements about the classroom as a "safe space" often divert the conversation away from any real discussion of pedagogy and access in higher education. In his 2012 research, Mark Salzer found that students with mental illness were more likely to withdraw because of the impact of "perceived sigma and discrimination" than because of personal struggles with the symptoms or stresses related to their disability (Salzer 1). Because such students are "often viewed as disruptive, lacking academic skill, prone to violence" they are often socially isolated and left alone to question "how welcome they are on campus" (2). These findings suggest that simply providing information about mental illness and "chiding the audience to treat individuals with mental illness" by noting the available resources, is not an effective approach to decreasing the rate of withdraw for disabled students (6). The false conflations of access with "safety" allow accommodations to be dismissed, and only serve to further marginalize mentally disabled students by telling them they are in fact not welcome because their needs disrupt the processes of learning their peers deserve. In the most basic sense, accommodations are not about "safety," but about access to opportunity for a more livable life. When disability is denied because it is not understood or seen, or when access is denied because it is inconvenient or complicated, humanity is denied. While it is certainly possible to recognize trauma as a mental disability and still be hesitant toward trigger warnings as an accommodation practice,14 the content and tenor of that conversation would be far removed from the outright hostility and rejection that has reverberated most widely. When presented as an access measure, it becomes evident that trigger warnings do not provide a way to "opt out" of anything, nor do they offer protection from the realities of the world. Trigger warnings provide a way to "opt in" by lessening the power of the shock and the unexpectedness, and granting the traumatized individual agency to attend to the affect and effects of their trauma. Traumatized individuals know that trigger warnings will not save us. Such warnings simply allow us to do the work we need to do so that we can participate in the conversation or activity. They allow us to enter the conversation, just like automatic doors allow people who use wheelchairs to more easily enter a building.==== Voters: Access is an independent voter – a) it's a prior question to engaging in the space b) it's a violation of the humanity of the opponent c) we are people before we're debaters which makes it most intrinsic to the nature of the activity.Drop the debater a) to deter future abuse, b) otherwise they could just kick and go for the positive time tradeoff on theory, c) the round has been skewed so theory is the only fair place to vote, and d) the ballot asks you to vote for the better debater, so if I prove that my interp is better, I have done the better debating and deserve the ballot.Use competing interps because a) reasonability requires judge intervention because I don't know where your BS meter is, and b) reasonability creates a race to the bottom since it motivates debaters to use increasingly unfair strategies and get away with them by playing defense on theory.No RVIs. 1. Illogical. Just because you are fair doesn't mean you should win. If that were true, both debaters would win rounds without theory, which would be irresolvable, and resolvability comes first since every debate needs a winner 2. Norm setting. I can't concede that the counter-interp is better even if I come to that realization in the middle of the round, so the RVI forces debaters to argue for bad debate practices, which is key to the most fair and educational interps in the long run. | 12/19/21 |
1- DisclosureTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 1 | Opponent: Ridge Point VM | Judge: Thomas-McGinnis, Conal 2Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki after the round in which they read them.Violation – they don't, they debated 5 rounds at "The Dulles Classic" and only disclosed 2 rounds
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.D~ Voters | 12/18/21 |
1- Must Use Real ArticlesTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 6 | Opponent: BrxSci IP | Judge: StPeter, Joshua Interpretation – Debaters must cite cut cards from any and all articles used on caseViolation – card can't be found anywhere online and there's no cite/link~1~ evidence ethics – impossible to verify that you didn't highlight, change words, or bracket unethically because there's no primary source to verify it – that's a voter for academic integrity which outweighs on portability~2~ Strat skew – you can read articles that don't exist which makes responding unpredictable and kills ability to answer with other cards through citationsFairness is a voter debate is competitive vote for the better debater don't vote for an abusive cheaterEducation is a voter reason why schools fund debate and the only skill we can use outside debate No RVIs – creates a chilling effect and you shouldn't win for proving your not abusiveDTD – they will learn and wont abuse in other rounds | 11/14/21 |
1- T Just govTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 3 | Opponent: EdePra AG | Judge: Ratnasabapathy, Tarun Interpretation: the affirmative must defend that only just governments ought to recognize the right to strikeJust governments respect libertiesDorn 12 James A. Dorn, Cato Journal, "The Scope of Government in a Free Society", Fall 2012, https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2012/12/v32n3-10.pdf Violation—the US is not just their court system is racistNellis, Ph.D., 18, Report to the United Nations on Racial Disparities in the U.S. Criminal Justice System, https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/, Sentencing Project, Prefer –1~ Precision — anything else justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.2~ Limits – there are 200 governments in the world – letting them pick an unjust ones explodes limits via infinite permutations of governments3~ Phil ed – 1AR will claim no government is just but that just means that we defend ideal theory. That's good –A~ forces philosophical contestation which can uniquely happen in LD debate whereas you can util debate on any topicB~ outweighs – framework debate allows to identify injustice which is a prereq to any other theory voter because they're all philosophically groundedFairness- consittutive of comp activites, args presumeEdu- funded ny schoolsDTD- dta illogical, time skewNo RVI's- illogical, baitingCI – intervention, collapses, yours vs best, race to bottom | 11/13/21 |
1- T Just gov v2Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Ribera, Claudia 1Interpretation: The aff must defend a just government. Just governments must be a full or flawed democracy as pertained by the 2020 democracy index. China doesn't qualify, ss and link below. China also commits hundreds of human rights violations to uighers on a daily basis - what they are doing is literally genocide.Vote neg for limits and ground - they can literally pick any government not grounded in the resolution making it impossible for us to predict and arbitrarily prepare specific political scenarios that we can never possibly expect. Especially true for authoritarian governments who have a lot worse conditions than democracies which means uniqueness will ALWAYS flip aff and their affs are objectively more likely to be true and unturnable. Our interp solves - just pick a full or flawed democracy which is still 75 different affs. to limits and precision Drop the debater bc you can't drop the arg on their advocacyNo rvis – they can dump on theory in the 1ar, chilling us from checking abuse and bad for topic ed .Competing interps – reasonability is arbtirary and causes race to the bottomFairness is a voter- all arguments concede the validity of fairnessEducation is a voter – reason schools fund debate | 12/4/21 |
1- T UncondoTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 3 | Opponent: EdePra AG | Judge: Ratnasabapathy, Tarun Interpretation: The affirmative must defend an unconditional right to strike. This means that the Affirmative must defend that anyone regardless of job or occupation has a fundamental right to strike.Merriam Webster ND, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unconditional sid "Unconditional" necessitates the absence of narrowing restrictions.US Legal 'ND (US Legal; dictionary of legal terms of art; US Legal; "Unconditional Law and Legal Definition"; https://definitions.uslegal.com/u/unconditional/; Accessed: 10-30-2021; AU) Violation – They only grant the Right to Strike to agricultural workers. That by definition is a condition since they condition the right to strike on a particular occupation.Jensen '18 (Eric; co-director of the Stanford Rule of Law Program, in collaboration with USAID, The Asia Foundation, and Stanford Law School; April 2018; "Introduction to the Laws of Timor-Leste"; Stanford Law School; https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Timor-Leste-Constitutional-Rights.pdf; Accessed: 10-30-2021; AU) Standards –a~ Limits – there are endless conditions the aff can place on the right to strike – i.e based on occupation, national holidays, location of strike, etc. That makes the topic untenable since the Aff can just infinitely specify any condition or permutation of conditions which makes predictable preparation and in-depth clash impossible.b~ Neg Ground – specifying scenarios lets affs spike out of core, reduction-based disads like Bizcon and Small Businesses. Links are already non-existent on this topic – letting affs impose restrictions on RTS makes it even narrower.4~ TVA – read this aff but defend whole res. | 11/13/21 |
2- QueerpessTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stuyve LC | Judge: Toth, Eugene Communicative spaces like debate form a heteronormative hyper reality creating resignifications of gender through the signifier of reproduction, rendering queerness fungible to create acceptable forms of anti queerness further excluding it from the conversation – Form v contentSichler 10 Karen Sichler is a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communications and a graduate teaching assistant for the Institute of Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. ~Sichler, Karen. "Post Queerness : Hyperreal Gender and the End of the Quest for Origins." (2010).~ Lex AKo Your philosophy says to procreate is our intrinsic sexual function to uphold for future production of rational agents so by indulging in queer sexual acts without procreation treats the subject and their partners as a mere means because they are not following their intrinsic properties destroying their agencySchaff 01: (Lecturer in Philosophy at California State University) Schaff, Kory. "Kant, Political Liberalism, and the Ethics of Same-Sex Relations." Journal of Social Philosophy, Blackwell Publishers, 2001, mindchanging.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Schaff-Kant-Same-Sex.pdf. Lex AKo Vying attachment to the fantasy, the subject immerses in political projections that require a subject for those futures to apply, casting this lack onto queers. To access imaginary futures, society requires reproductive futurism, which exists in opposition to queerness rendering it ontologically negative. Form v Content conceded in cross x when asked should a white debater lose the round for saying the N word the opponent said ye s warrant for cant weigh case against KEdelman 2 ~Lee Edelman (English Professor @ Tufts). "No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive," Duke University Press, December 2004, Pg. 1-3, 7-9, https://www.dukeupress.edu/no-future//~~ Lex AKo The result is queer overkill – Liberal democracy creates a category of human that excludes the queer. Antiqueer violence manifests to end queer life – a death beyond death – OW extinction through infinite painStanley 11 (assistant professor in the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of California) https://queerhistory.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/near-life-queer-death-eric-stanley.pdf Near Life, Queer Death: Overkill and Ontological Capture. Social Text 107. Vol, 29, No. 2. Duke University Press. Eric Stanley. AQ. Accessed 11/05/18. Vote negative to affirm the weaponization of queerness to turn the death drive and kill the Child accepting present destruction than future annihilation. Thus the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater with the best method of traversing the fantasy for a chance of social life within social deathBaedan 12 baedan, 2012, "baedan," Journal of Queer Nihilism, The Anarchist Library, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/baedan-baedan Lex AKo™ | 11/13/21 |
2- SemiocapTournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Wu, Jalyn THE DIGITAL AGE IS HERE – Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers must be evaluated; thus, the role of the ballot is to disrupt semiocapitalism.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ The topic's call for unionization and strikes might have worked a century ago, but post digital infosphere, the solvency is impossible.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ Thus, the only alternative is to symbolically take the system hostage through it's own method of exhaustion. We do this through radical passivity and a method of the Wu Wei – only radical passivity can escape the infosphere. Its condoBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 12/4/21 |
2- Semiocap v2Tournament: Sunvite | Round: 3 | Opponent: Durham ZG | Judge: Salgado, Isaiah KDebate is structured as a marketplace for information where we fetishize notions of "pedagogy" and is an extension of semiocapitalist logic through immaterial manors. Communication within the university isn't one that develops subjectivities and psychic identity rather a system geared towards fragmentation and futuristic productivity.Berardi 12 ~David Hugill and Elise Thorburn, 9-26-2012, "Interview with 'Bifo': Reactivating the Social Body in Insurrectionary Times," Critical Legal Thinking, https://criticallegalthinking.com/2012/09/26/interview-with-bifo-reactivating-the-social-body-in-insurrectionary-times JB~ Technology has created an age of constant information and signifiers floating through our phones and computers as media. This creates a dyslexia – reduced attention spans, no time for true human interaction – this leads to information overload, which is too fast for our organic minds to keep up with – that causes depression and drug use. It's no coincidence that the rise of tech in the 80s was complimented with a drug epidemic. These signifiers come prior to action, thus the role of the ballot is to disrupt semiocapitalism.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 40-42 LEX JB~ Financial absolutism is framed by accelerationism – appropriation of resources becomes the end goal of desire. Extinction has already happened but the race for space through appropriation allows that semiotic cycle of wealth to survive.Berardi 18 ~Excerpted from Breathing: Chaos and Poetry by Franco "Bifo" Berardi, published by Semiotext(e) © Franco "Bifo" Berardi, 2018. All Rights Reserved, https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/events-archive/vital-exhaustion/expiration-the-last-breath-franco-bifo-berardi-2018 JB~ Post digital infosphere, the notion of "private entities" appropriating is overdetermined by capitalist desire – the network economy means that privatization is static and collapses to the semiotic economy.Berardi 09 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2009. P. 59-60 JB~ Questions regarding ethics are irrelevant in the world of the infosphere. All information gets coopted by the inescapability of capitalism – it's search is cruelly optimistic in a world of semiocapitalism because of how information interacts with us.Berardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "0. Bifurications." Precarious Rhapsody, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 14-15 LEX JB~ Thus, the alternative is to symbolically take the system hostage through it's own method of exhaustion. We do this through radical passivity and a method of the Wu Wei – only radical passivity can escape the infosphereBerardi 11 ~Franco Berardi, Italian communist theorist and activist in the autonomist tradition, whose work mainly focuses on the role of the media and information technology within post-industrial capitalism "Chapter 4 Exhastion and Subjectivity." After the Future, by Franco Bifo Berardi et al., AK Press, 2011. P. 107-108 LEX JB~ | 1/8/22 |
2- YOUNG LAFLAME HE IN SICKO MODETournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 1 | Opponent: Ridge Point VM | Judge: Thomas-McGinnis, Conal 3travis connects his music in a way no artist can. There are very few artists where debaters can listen to every project without skipping most songs and Travis falls into that category. Literally even in his lowest points (Huncho Jack non sense) one can still find a way to enjoy his music. His old projects literally have millions coming back all the time just to listen to the harmonizing songs like 90210, and many more. He just connects and uses what he has to the best of his ability to make some fire music, which is why I think he's more than good. He's a visionary | 12/18/21 |
3- Util v2Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Wu, Jalyn The meta-ethic is substantive moral naturalism. Prefer – Bottom of Form~1~ Empiricism – naturalism is the only objective way to derive experiences for normative values based on the real world around us~2~ All other theories collapse – epistemological guidance is predisposed with a physical cognitive capacity to act which is reliant on the natural world.The standard is maximizing expected well-being. Prefer –~1~ Actor specificity – Governments must aggregate with util because their policies benefit some and harm others so side constraints freeze state action. Actor spec comes first – different agents have different ethical standings – takes out calc indicts because it proves the fwrk is empirically used.~5~ Extinction first – a) Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible b) Moral obligation – allowing people to die is unethical and should be prevented because it creates ethics towards other people c) Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical.The brain seeks pleasure to initiate action – optogenetics proves.Schaffer 17 (MIT technology review, Amanda Schaffer is a freelance journalist who writes about science and medicine for Slate, the New York Times, and other publications. Neuroscientist Kay Tye tackles the physical basis of emotions and behavior. ~"How the Brain Seeks Pleasure and Avoids Pain" MIT research lab https://www.technologyreview.com/2017/06/27/150948/how-the-brain-seeks-pleasure-and-avoids-pain/ 6/27/17~ Mberhe | 12/4/21 |
JF- Debris CPTournament: Sunvite | Round: 5 | Opponent: Buchholz LW | Judge: Tiwary, Sohum 1CP: Space-faring nations shouldEstablish a unified system of space traffic management modeled after the International Telecommunication UnionCollaborate on techniques to track and display the location of objects in real time and AI to automate debris-avoidance maneuversSet safety standards for private launchesThe United States Federal Government should:Shift responsibility for the Space-Track catalogue to the civilian Department of Commerce, allocating necessary fundsNature 8/11 ~(Nature Editorial Board, peer-reviewed, comprises experimental scientists and data-standards experts from across different fields of science) "The world must cooperate to avoid a catastrophic space collision," Nature, 8/11/2021~ JL | 1/8/22 |
JF- Kant NCTournament: John Edie Holiday Debates Hosted by The Blake School | Round: 1 | Opponent: Ridge Point VM | Judge: Thomas-McGinnis, Conal NCThe meta-ethic is procedural moral realism - substantive realism holds that moral truths exist independently of that in the empirical world. Prefer procedural realism –~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don't experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Naturalistic fallacy – experience only tells us what is since we can only perceive what is, not what ought to be, this means experience may be generally useful but should not be the basis for ethical action.Practical Reason is that procedure. To ask for why we should be reasoners concedes its authority since it uses reason – anything else is nonbinding and arbitrary. Aggregation is nonsensical since a~ it impedes on one persons ends for another and b~ assumes everyone values the same thing.Moral law must be universal—our judgements can't only apply to ourselves any more than 2+24 can be true only for me – any non-universalizable norm justifies someone's ability to impede on your ends.==== Thus, the standard is consistency with liberty. Prefer:1~ The state is obligated to prioritize freedom.Otteson 09 ~(James R., professor of philosophy and economics at Yeshiva University) "Kantian Individualism and Political Libertarianism," The Independent Review, v. 13, n. 3, Winter, 2009~ TDI 2~ Enterprise – we are composed of different practical identities, but reason unifies them and allows us to shift and act upon different enterprises. Consequentialist frameworks cannot produce unified moral actions.3~ Performativity—freedom is the key to the process of justification of arguments. Willing that we should abide by their ethical theory presupposes that we own ourselves in the first place.Contention –1~ Libertarianism mandates a market-oriented approach to space—that negatesBroker 20 ~(Tyler, work has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review, the Albany Law Review and the University of Memphis Law Review.) "Space Law Can Only Be Libertarian Minded," Above the Law, 1-14-20, https://abovethelaw.com/2020/01/space-law-can-only-be-libertarian-minded/~~ TDI 2~ Property rights in space can be consistent with international lawSimberg 12 ~(Rand, MSE in technical management from West Coast University, recognized as an expert in space transportation by the Office of Technology Assessment) "Homesteading the Final Frontier A Practical Proposal for Securing Property Rights in Space," Competitive Enterprise Institute, April 2012, https://cei.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Rand-Simberg-Homesteading-the-Final-Frontier.pdf~~ TDI 3~ Space appropriation and exploration originates from private companies such as Space X and Blue Origin. Preventing such is a restriction on the ability of companies to set and pursue their ends and these companies gain contracts with the government for projects which turns promise breaking offense. | 12/18/21 |
ND- CCP DATournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Catonsville AT | Judge: Ribera, Claudia This disad acts as an internal link turn to the aff-Restraining strikes is key to CCP stability- history provesGriffiths, 16 – CNN International senior producer Strikes hurt the economy – 2 warrantsa~ They hurt critical core industries that is necessary for economic growthMcElroy 19 John McElroy 10-25-2019 "Strikes Hurt Everybody" https://www.wardsauto.com/ideaxchange/strikes-hurt-everybody (MPA at McCombs school of Business) b~ Strikes create a stigmatization effect over labor and consumption that devastates the EconomyTenza 20, Mlungisi. "The effects of violent strikes on the economy of a developing country: a case of South Africa." Obiter 41.3 (2020): 519-537. (Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal) Loss of stability causes the CCP to escalate tensions and lash out – uniquely threatens Taiwan.Blumenthal and Urda 9/28 ~09-28-20, Dan Blumenthal, Jakob Urda, The National Interest, "China's aggressive tactics aim to bolster the Communist Party's legitimacy", https://www.aei.org/articles/chinas-aggressive-tactics-aim-to-bolster-the-communist-partys-legitimacy/, Jakob Urda is a Masters Student at Georgetown University and research specialist at a technology consultancy. He has previously worked at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats and studied in the Institute for the Study of War's War Studies Program. Dan Blumenthal is the director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the forthcoming book The China Nightmare: the Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State (AEI Press, November 17, 2020~ Lex AKu Attempts at Taiwan cause US draw in, even during declineBernstein 20 Richard Bernstein 8-17-2020, "The Scary War Game Over Taiwan That the U.S. Loses Again and Again," No Publication, https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2020/08/17/the_scary_war_game_over_taiwan_that_the_us_loses_again_and_again_124836.html mvp US-China war goes nuclearTalmadge 18, Caitlin ~PoliSci PhD from MIT, Government BA from Harvard, Prof of Security Studies at Georgetown's Walsh School of Foreign Service.~ "Beijing's Nuclear Option." Foreign Affairs. October 15, 2018. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-15/beijings-nuclear-option TG | 12/4/21 |
ND- Econ DATournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 3 | Opponent: EdePra AG | Judge: Ratnasabapathy, Tarun The 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 Strikes hurt the Economy – two warrants:1~ They hurt critical core industries that is necessary for economic growthMcElroy 19 John McElroy 10-25-2019 "Strikes Hurt Everybody" https://www.wardsauto.com/ideaxchange/strikes-hurt-everybody (MPA at McCombs school of Business) 2~ Strikes create a stigmatization effect over labor and consumption that devastates the EconomyTenza 20, Mlungisi. "The effects of violent strikes on the economy of a developing country: a case of South Africa." Obiter 41.3 (2020): 519-537. (Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal) Err Negative – over-estimate the effect on Strikes on the economy since traditional economic measures underestimate the damage.Babb No Date Katrina Babb "Chapter 11: The Economic Impact of Unions" http://isu.indstate.edu/conant/ecn351/ch11/chapter11.htm (Professor of Economic at Indiana State) Economic Collapse goes Nuclear.Tønnesson 15, Stein. "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace." International Area Studies Review 18.3 (2015): 297-311. (the Department of Peace and Conflict, Uppsala University, Sweden, and Peace research Institute Oslo (PRIO), Norway) | 11/13/21 |
ND- LayTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: Octas | Opponent: SouCar SD | Judge: Behrend, Beth Vega, Miana Guo, Vivian | 11/14/21 |
ND- Racism CPTournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 3 | Opponent: EdePra AG | Judge: Ratnasabapathy, Tarun Counterplan: The United States Federal Government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike except in the instance that strikes directly demand discrimination towards certain groups of individualsBPSC ~Unfair Labor Practices by Union, http://bpscllc.com/unfair-labor-practices-by-unions.html, N.D., Business and People Strategy Consulting Group, California's trusted source for workplace human resources and employment law~ ~SS~ Racist union strikes have happened beforeAllison Keyes, JUNE 30, 2017, "The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise," Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/ SR | 11/13/21 |
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