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| Mid America Cup | 2 | Bishops Advay Chandra | Pittman, Phoenix |
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| Mid America Cup | 4 | Edina Nikhil Konkimalla | Nelson, Arianna |
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| Mid America Cup | 5 | Sam Barlow EL | Plat, Breigh |
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| Mid America Cup | 2 | Opponent: Bishops Advay Chandra | Judge: Pittman, Phoenix AC - COVID |
| Mid America Cup | 4 | Opponent: Edina Nikhil Konkimalla | Judge: Nelson, Arianna AC - Rawls |
| Mid America Cup | 5 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Plat, Breigh AC-QP |
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0 - ContactTournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Contact me at: If I don't meet one or more disclosure/spec practices please message me and I will do my best to adapt. | 9/25/21 |
0 - InterpsTournament: NA | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA I also read Cite Boxes, but until the wiki starts working I wont be(so it wont be here) | 9/25/21 |
SO - Biotech DATournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: Edina Nikhil Konkimalla | Judge: Nelson, Arianna 2====U.S dominance over biotech now BUT Misguided policy cedes control to China. ==== The plan chills American biomed innovation, ceding control to China – also can't solve future diseasesPaulsen 7/9 ~ERIK PAULSEN: We can save the world with our vaccines — without surrendering our IP to China," Bakersfield Californian, https://www.bakersfield.com/opinion/erik-paulsen-we-can-save-the-world-with-our-vaccines-without-surrendering-our-ip-to/article_b0b87692-df61-11eb-9a13-d7fa02eefaee.html~~//Lex AKu Biotech leadership key to future military primacy.Moore 21 ~(Scott Moore is a political scientist and administrator at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of a forthcoming book, "How China Shapes the Future," on China's role in public goods and emerging technologies.) 8-8-2021, "In Biotech, the Industry of the Future, the U.S. Is Way Ahead of China," Lawfare, https://www.lawfareblog.com/biotech-industry-future-us-way-ahead-china~~//Lex AKu Heg 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~ | 9/26/21 |
SO - DisclosureTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: Sam Barlow EL | Judge: Plat, Breigh 1Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all constructive positions first 3 last 3 in cites with links to articles and card tags as well as open source with highlights on the 2021-2022 NDCA LD WikiViolation –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) Lex VM 2~ Evidence ethics – disclosure is the only way to verify pre-round that cards aren't miscut or highlighted or bracketed unethically. That's a voter – maintaining ethical evidence 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 evidence comparison – outweighs cause thinking on your feet is NUQ but the best quality responses come from full access to a case.Paradigm issuesFairness is a voter since a) you concede its authority when you follow things like speech times and b) it is a gateway issue to correctly evaluating substance, which also means no cross-apps. Education is a voter b/c it's the only reason why debate actually happensDTD – a) DTA makes no sense on disclosure b) I had to spend time reading theory to check c) The round has already been skewedCompeting Interps – a) Reasonability is arbitrary since idk your BS meter b) Reasonability collapses by debating the brightlineNo RVI – a) It's illogical to vote for you for being fair b) to prevent the deterrence of legitimate theory c) It incentivizes you to bait theory and win off a scripted CI | 10/15/21 |
SO - Kant NCTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bishops Advay Chandra | Judge: Pittman, Phoenix 1NCFrameworkThe 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.Moral law must be universal—any non-universalizable norm justifies someone's ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with liberty.Freedom justifies property rights – which is conceptual and centered around the agent.Merges 11 ~Merges, Robert P. "Will and Object in the World of IP." Justifying Intellectual Property, Cambridge, Harvard UP, 2011, pp. 72-74. ISBN: 0674049489,9780674049482. Found on Libgen.~ Lex VM Prefer –1~ 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.I contend that reducing IP protections for medicines impedes on manufacturers' abilities to set and pursue ends –1~ Patents protect private companies.Na 19 ~Blake Na, "Protecting Intellectual Property Rights in the Pharmaceutical Industry", Chicago-Kent | Journal of Intellectual Property, 4-19-2019, https://studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/ckjip/protecting-intellectual-property-rights-in-the-pharmaceutical-industry/, accessed: 8-24-2021.~ Lex VM That negates – A~ Promise breaking – states promised legally binding IP protections to companies who might not have otherwise developed medicines – the aff is a unilateral violation of that contract. B~ That's a form of restricting the free economic choices of individuals.2~ IP is a reflection of our will and a form of property.Merges 11 ~Merges, Robert P. "Will and Object in the World of IP." Justifying Intellectual Property, Cambridge, Harvard UP, 2011, pp. 76-78. ISBN: 0674049489,9780674049482. Found on Libgen.~ Lex VM 3~ Neg contention choice – otherwise they can concede all of our work on framework and just read 4 minutes of turns which moots the four minutes of framework debate that the 1NC did giving them a massive advantage and limits phil debate. | 9/25/21 |
SO - Nebel TTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bishops Advay Chandra | Judge: Pittman, Phoenix Interpretation: "medicines" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend WTO member nations reducing intellectual property protections for a subset of medicines.The upward entailment test and adverb test determine the genericity of a bare pluralLeslie and Lerner 16 ~Sarah-Jane Leslie, Ph.D., Princeton, 2007. Dean of the Graduate School and Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy. Served as the vice dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, director of the Program in Linguistics, and founding director of the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University. Adam Lerner, PhD Philosophy, Postgraduate Research Associate, Princeton 2018. From 2018, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow in the Center for Bioethics at New York University. Member of the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab.~ "Generic Generalizations." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. April 24, 2016. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/generics/ TG
It applies to "medicines" – 1~ upward entailment test – "reduce intellectual property protections for medicines" doesn't entail reducing protections for aids, because it doesn't prove that we should derestrict other beneficial tech, 2~ adverb test – member nations "ought to usually reduce intellectual property protections for medicines" doesn't substantially change resolutional meaning, 3~ predicate level – the rez is an individual level predicate not a stage level because moral obligations in ought statements are long-lasting as opposed to fleeting phases. C/a precision ow.Violation – they only defend the COVID vaccineVote neg:1~ Limits – you can pick anything from COVID vaccines to HIV/AIDS to random biotech to insulin treatments and there's no universal disad since each one has a different function and implication for health, tech, and relations – explodes neg prep and leads to random medicine of the week affs which makes cutting stable neg links impossible. PICs don't solve – it's absurd to say neg potential abuse justifies the aff being flat out not T, which leads to a race towards abuse, AND if pics are as abusive as they say 1AR theory checks bad. Limits key to reciprocal engagement since they create a caselist for neg prep.2~ TVA – read the aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. S | 9/25/21 |
SO - Tax Credits CPTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: Edina Nikhil Konkimalla | Judge: Nelson, Arianna 3CP Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should form an intellectual property system that uses tax credits and grants for medicines.Solves high prices and innovation.Abramowicz 19 ~Abramowicz, Michael B., Prize and Reward Alternatives to Intellectual Property (2019). Prize and Reward Alternatives to Intellectual Property, in Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (P.S. Menell and B. Depoorter eds., forthcoming 2019). ; GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2019-13; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-13. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/ abstract=3366608~ Lex VM and Lex AKo
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SO - Uniqueness Kant CPTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bishops Advay Chandra | Judge: Pittman, Phoenix 1NC – UQ – CPCP Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should increase intellectual property protections for medicines.Zeidman et al. 16 ~Bob Zeidman andamp; Eashan Gupta, "Why Libertarians Should Support a Strong Patent System", IPWatchdog, 1-5-2016, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/01/05/why-libertarians-should-support-a-strong-patent-system/id=64438/, accessed: 8-9-2021.~ Lex VM | 9/25/21 |
SO - UtilTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: Edina Nikhil Konkimalla | Judge: Nelson, Arianna 1Pleasure 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. SM That outweighs their justifications on probability—simpler beliefs are more likely to be true and external standards collapse to pleasure and pain.Consequentialism is true—~A~ All actions are forward-looking, so intentions are constituted by foreseen consequences. ~B~ No act omission distinction—-choosing to omit is an act itself – people psychologically decide not to act.Thus, the standard is Maximizing Pleasure Minimizing Pain. Calc indicts don't link—my framework is a general principle to be applied intuitively, not a rigid calculator. Prefer—~1~ Death outweighs—agents cannot act if they fear for their bodily security—my framework constrains every NC.~2~ Brain studies disprove personal identity.Parfit '84Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon, 1984). – GV SK If nothing unifies agency from one second to the next, then only states of consciousness can matter—that's util.~3~ Actor-Spec – States are institutions and not agents with intentions so non-consequentialist impacts are incoherent—outweighs since different agents have different ethical obligations. Also takes out calc indict since governments use util all the time.~4~ Use modesty—we are limited by logical errors and sensory limitations so there's always a risk we are wrong.~5~ Presume util—If you're unsure about deontological obligations then default to util since there's always good in making the world a better place.~6~ Existential risk comes first under any frameworkOrd 20 Toby Ord ~Australian philosopher. He founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10 of their income to effective charities~, "The Precipice" Hachette Books, 2020 Lex CH ~Recut by Lex AKo~ | 9/26/21 |
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