Tournament: Capital City Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Millard West MB | Judge: Michael Brooks
I affirm the resolution: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust
I provide these definitions: Colonialism is a practice of domination
The single standard is deconstructing colonialism
The only way to establish a just, peaceful society is to deconstruct colonialism
Bryne et al 18 1
(Sean Bryne, Mary Anne Clark, and Aziz Rahman. All at the University of Manitoba. “Colonialism and Peace Conflict Studies” 2018. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1432andcontext=pcs)
Colonial societies are built on exclusion, and do not take many people into account. Deconstructing colonialism is the only way to allow those harmed by colonizing violence back into any consequentialist calculus, meaning this framework is a prerequisite to all consequentialist frameworks.
Butler 03
(Butler, Judith. “Violence, Mourning, Politics” Studies in Gender and Sexuality 4.1 (2003) 20-23)
Traditional moral theories cannot accomplish what is necessary to deconstruct colonialism, meaning this framework is a prerequisite to other frameworks.
Bryne et al 18 2
(Sean Bryne, Mary Anne Clark, and Aziz Rahman. All at the University of Manitoba. “Colonialism and Peace Conflict Studies” 2018. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1432andcontext=pcs)
The debate cannot just exclude those harmed by colonial violence.
Alston and Timmons 14:
(Jonathan Alston, Head Debate Coach at Newark’s Science Park High School, and Aaron Timmons, Head Coach at the Greenhill School. “Nobody Knows the Trouble I See (And In National Circuit Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Does Anyone Really Care?” April 2014, VBriefly.)
Contention 1: Colonialism creates structural violence
Something as seemingly benign as medicine upholds violence in a colonial or postcolonial society.
Keller 11
(Richard C. Keller, professor of the history of medicine, from book, “Unconscious Domains” https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780822393986-010/html)
Violence from the colonial reality persists in indigenous communities, and can be passed on between generation and generation.
Bombay et al 09
(Amy Bombay MSc, Kim Matheson PhD, Hymie Anisman PhD, “Intergenerational Trauma” 2009. https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijih/article/view/28987/23916)
Contention 2: Space travel is colonialism
Historically, space travel has completely relied on colonialism and its violence. Even now, it still relies on continuing domination.
Durrani 19
(Haris Durrani, P.H.D candidate at Columbia Law School and Princeton University, “Is Spaceflight Colonialism?” 7/19/2019. https://www.thenation.com/article/world/apollo-space-lunar-rockets-colonialism/)
The modern billionaire space race repeats the same ideologies that led to colonialism in the first place.
McCormick 21
(Ted McCormick, associate professor of history at Concordia university, “The Billionaire Space Race Reflects a Colonial Mindset that Fails to Imagine a Different World” https://theconversation.com/the-billionaire-space-race-reflects-a-colonial-mindset-that-fails-to-imagine-a-different-world-165235)