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| Glenbrooks | 5 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake WL | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal 1AC- Innovation |
| Greenhill | 3 | Opponent: Presentation NR | Judge: Daksh Kapoor 1AC- Waivers |
| Greenhill | 5 | Opponent: Strath Haven LP | Judge: Jack Quisenberry 1AC- Waivers |
| Greenhilll | 2 | Opponent: Coppell HA | Judge: Ursula Gruber 1AC- Waivers |
| Heart of Texas | 3 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake CR | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal 1AC- Koorsgard |
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| Silver and Black | 1 | Opponent: Mercer Island KS | Judge: Parth Misra 1AC- US |
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| Silver and Black | Doubles | Opponent: Peninsula CS | Judge: Asher Towner, Parth misra, Amy Nyberg 1AC- US |
| St Marks | 6 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake MT | Judge: Joshua Martin 1AC- Koorsgard |
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0- Contact InfoTournament: Suuiiiiiiiiiiiii | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA Preferably email and FB are the two best ways to contact me. | 9/18/21 |
0- DisclosureTournament: Ronaldo Tourney | Round: 1 | Opponent: idk | Judge: idk 1.) My goal is to have all rounds that I participated in on my wiki. If I don't include cities, it's because I have already read it. | 9/18/21 |
1AC- KoorsgardTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake CR | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal Aff R3 marksFramingPractical reason constrains everything:~1~ Postulation – reason is a prior question to evaluation of ethics since anything else collapses on itself as we can infinitely question our foundations otherwise but raising the question of reason proves itself valuable as it necessitates reason.~2~ Epistemology – rational deliberation of educational concepts is necessary to interpret other arguments since it’s a prerequisite to interpreting epistemological concepts and it’s the terminal impact of debate as education is the only portable impact.~3~ Procedure – reason is a side constraint on debate since otherwise we can’t refute – responding to this concedes the authority of reason since you’re reasoning via logical deliberation.Freedom follows:~1~ We could not hold agents responsible for their actions if we did not assume them to have the freedom to control their actions for themselves.~2~ Freedom implies our actions occur after practical deliberation if it were retrospective, then we could claim that any and all events that happened before we decided to do something were part of our free action which is incoherent.Moral law follows – it stems uniquely from reason and not from empiricism. That outweighs – a) if morality were based on things like desires then it would be imposed on us from the outside and we could not be said to be free b) anything else is non-binding and arbitrary since empiricism is always subject to change, i.e. my hair is brown is a true statement but it could be false in a week c) an evil demon could deceive us or we could be dreaming which proves the only viable metric to guide action begins a priori d) past experiences have no effect on causality or internal link to continuity, i.e. raining yesterday doesn’t mean rain today.Duty of right is impossible in state of nature:~1~ Ethical disagreements are inevitable because individuals have different areas of self-interest and desire. Only a non-arbitrary shared authority that can resolve disputes of interpretation resolves this problem.~2~ Claims to freedom and property are solely to peer discretion since empirical features of compliance are temporal and nonbinding – only the unification of will solves.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative. Prefer additionally:~1~ 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. Thus, it is logically incoherent to justify a standard without first willing that we can pursue ends free from others.~2~ Consequences fail: ~A~ They only judge actions after they occur, which fails action guidance ~B~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence. Probability doesn’t solve because 1) Probability is improvable, as it relies on inductive knowledge, but induction from past events can’t lead to deduction of future events and 2) Probability assumes causation, we can’t assume every act was actually the cause of tangible outcomes ~C~ Every action is infinitely divisible, only intents unify action because we intend the end point of an action – but consequences cannot determine what step of action is moral or not. ~D~ If you’re held responsible for things other than an intention ethics aren’t binding because there are infinite events occurring over which you have no control, so you can never be moral as you are permitting just action. ~E~ There’s no objective arbiter to evaluate consequences ~F~ You can’t aggregate consequences, happiness and sadness are immutable – ten headaches don’t make a migraine~3~ Practical identities – we find our lives worth living under practical identities such as student but that presupposes agency.Korsgaard 92 CHRISTINE M. Korsgaard 92 ~I am a Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, where I have taught since 1991. From July 1996 through June 2002, I was Chair of the Department of Philosophy. (The current chair is Sean Kelly.) From 2004-2012, I was Director of Graduate Studies in Philosophy. (The current DGS is Mark Richard.) Before coming here, I held positions at Yale, the University of California at Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago, as well as visiting positions at Berkeley and UCLA. I served as President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2008-2009, and held a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award from 2006-2009. I work on moral philosophy and its history, practical reason, the nature of agency, personal identity, normativity, and the ethical relations between human beings and the other animals~, "The Sources of Normativity", THE TANNER LECTURES ON HUMAN VALUES Delivered at Clare Hall, Cambridge University 16-17 Nov 1992, BE AND identity, your nature; your obligations spring from what that identity forbids. ~4~ Only universalizable reason can effectively explain the perspectives of agents – that’s the best method for combatting oppression.Farr 02 Arnold Farr (prof of phil @ UKentucky, focusing on German idealism, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy). "Can a Philosophy of Race Afford to Abandon the Kantian Categorical Imperative?" JOURNAL of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2002, 17–32. AND choosing my maxims I attempt to include the perspective of other moral agents. ~5~ Put away your generic Kant indicts – our framework is a rejection of the western foundations of Kantianism in favor of a radical reconstruction of inclusion of the racialized and marginalized struggle.Mills 18 Charles W. Mills. "Black Radical Kantianism." Res Philosophica, Vol. 95, No. 1, January 2018, pp. 1–33 https:// doi.org/ 10.11612/ resphil.1622 SJCPJG AND to a white domination predicated on the denial of equal personhood to blacks. AdvocacyPlan text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines during pandemics.Enforcement through limited IP waivers solve – patent term extensions are normal means and solves innovation and scale-up.Young and Potts-Szeliga 21 ~Roberta; Counsel in Seyfarth’s Litigation department and Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation practice groups in Los Angeles; Jamaica Potts-Szeliga; Partner in Seyfarth’s Litigation department and Intellectual Property and Patent Litigation practice groups in Washington, DC. She also provides advice on FDA regulatory issues and is part of the firm’s Health Care, Life Sciences, and Pharmaceuticals team; "A Third Option: Limited IP Waiver Could Solve Our Pandemic Vaccine Problems," IP Watch Dog; 7/21/21; https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/07/21/third-option-limited-ip-waiver-solve-pandemic-vaccine-problems/id=135732/~~ Justin AND deter the technological investment to create life-saving solutions in the future. Offense~1~ IPP unjustifiably restricts agents from setting and pursuing ends in healthcare because patents prevent people from taking part in scientific advancements in medicine – that violates freedom in multiple waysHale 18 (Zachary Hale, 4-4-2018, accessed on 8-22-2021, The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service, "Patently Unfair: The Tensions Between Human Rights and Intellectual Property Protection - The Arkansas Journal of Social Change and Public Service", https://ualr.edu/socialchange/2018/04/04/patently-unfair/) BHHS AK AND to the most fundamental of all human rights: the right to life. ~2~ IPP is inconsistent with free market principlesKinsella 11 (Stephan Kinsella, 5-25-2011, accessed on 8-23-2021, Foundation for Economic Education, "How Intellectual Property Hampers the Free Market | N. Stephan Kinsella", https://fee.org/articles/how-intellectual-property-hampers-the-free-market/) BHHS AK AND own property. Is that compatible with private property and the free market? That affirms: Free market economies are the only ones that allow people to be free to pursue their own interests.Richman 12 ~Sheldon Richman, 8-5-2012, "The Free Market Doesn't Need Government Regulation," Reason, https://reason.com/2012/08/05/the-free-market-doesnt-need-government-r/~~ SJ AME AND people in the market care about. Not so regulation by market forces. ~3~ IPP is nonuniversalizable – universalizing the act of restricting the production of a certain medicine terminates in a contradiction because it entails that you restrict your own ability to produce the medicineUnderview1.) Aff gets 1AR theory and RVIs – otherwise the neg can be infinitely abusive and there’s no way to check against this2.) 1AR theory is drop the debater, competing interps, and the highest layer of the round – ~A~ the 1ARs too short to be able to rectify abuse and adequately cover substance, ~B~ they get to go for their shell and beat back mine in the long 2NR but the 2AR is too short to do both3.) The neg must concede to the Aff framework. ====A. Changing the role of the ballot moots 6 minutes of AC offense because I’m forced to either a) concede to the neg role of the ballot and lose the entirety of the 1AC or b) defend my role of the ballot through the rest of the debate in which case I still lose the AC- I have no coherent strategic options. Key to fairness, an effective strategy creates our road the ballot.==== AdvantageAmerican vaccine diplomacy is failing in Latin America – that allows for Chinese influence. Only the plan can return the world back to a US led order.Carman and Carl 6/15 ~Ezequiel and Joseph; Argentine lawyer and global health and trade policy consultant. Previously, he served as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Justice of Buenos Aires, an assistant professor of international public law at the Universidad Católica Argentina, and a research assistant at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Graduate of Liberty University, where he studied international relations and strategic international studies. He has worked for the U.S. Department of State and the Heritage Foundation; "A U.S. vaccine diplomacy strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean," Global Americans; 6/15/21; https://theglobalamericans.org/2021/06/a-u-s-vaccine-diplomacy-strategy-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/~~ Justin AND agreements have proven successful in achieving similar public perceptions of transparency and accountability. It's not over – Latin America is still skeptical of Chinese aid but lack of US presence means it’s the only choice – try or die to capitalize on this weakness.Kneip 8/10 ~Lucie; Student at the University of Notre Dame studying Political Science and Global Affairs. Her research interests include U.S. foreign policy and democratization, civil and criminal warfare, and the intersection of religion and politics; "China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America," The Diplomat; 8/10/21; https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/chinas-vaccine-diplomacy-in-latin-america/~~ Justin AND Washington has an opportunity to rebound by increasing the pace of vaccine donations. Chinese influence ends the liberal order.Cossu 7/16 ~Elena; Early-stage researcher for the MSCA Innovative Training Network FATIGUE, PhD candidate in economics at Corvinus University of Budapest and recently finished her year as a visiting researcher at University College London and at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Elena comes from a place culturally in between Germany and Italy. She has also had experience working in Greece, France, Latin America, Thailand, and Hungary. Elena is passionate about political and economic inequalities between states, and about understanding what prevents the political and economic convergence of different peripheries of the world; "In Latin America, Chinese vaccine diplomacy is directly challenging US’s declining authority," Scroll.in; 7/16/20; https://scroll.in/article/1000114/in-latin-america-chinese-vaccine-diplomacy-is-directly-challenging-uss-declining-authority~~ Justin AND "bad" and more concerned with the concrete opportunities different choices offer. Collapse of the liberal order causes extinction.Yulis 17 ~Max; Major in PoliSci, Penn Political Review; "In Defense of Liberal Internationalism," Penn Political Review; 4/8/17; http://pennpoliticalreview.org/2017/04/in-defense-of-liberal-internationalism/~~ Re-Cut Justin AND limelight to advocate the virtues of peace, stability, and human rights. Yes transition wars—-both sides miscalculate.Min-hyung Kim 20. Department of Political Science and International Relations, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. "A real driver of US–China trade conflict: The Sino–US competition for global hegemony and its implications for the future" Emerald Insight. 02-04-2019. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ITPD-02-2019-003/full/html Re-Cut Justin AND its hegemony such as reducing its commitments abroad and appeasing a rising challenger. | 10/16/21 |
1AC- Koorsgard V2Tournament: St Marks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake MT | Judge: Joshua Martin 1ACEthics must begin a priori:~A~ Naturalistic fallacy – experience only tells us what is since we can only perceive what is, not what ought to be. But it’s impossible to derive an ought from descriptive premises, so there needs to be additional a priori premises to make a moral theory.~B~ Empirical uncertainty – evil demon could deceive us, dreaming, simulation, and inability to know others’ experience make empiricism an unreliable basis for universal ethics. Outweighs since it would be escapable since people could say they don’t experience the same.~C~ Constitutive Authority – practical reason is the only unescapable authority because to ask for why we should be reasoners concedes its authority since it uses reason – anything else is nonbinding and arbitrary.Next, the relevant feature of reason is universality – any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends i.e. if I want to eat ice cream, I must recognize that others may affect my pursuit of that end and demand the value of my end be recognized by others which also means universalizability acts as a side constraint on all other frameworks. It’s impossible to will a violation of freedom since deciding to do would will incompatible ends since it logically entails willing a violation of your own freedomThus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative. Prefer:~1~ 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. Thus, it is logically incoherent to justify a standard without first willing that we can pursue ends free from others.~2~ Consequences Fail: ~A~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can’t predict or calculate. ~B~ Aggregation fails – suffering is not additive can’t compare between one migraine and 10 head aches~3~ Only universalizable reason can effectively explain the perspectives of agents – that’s the best method for combatting oppression.Farr 02 Arnold Farr (prof of phil @ UKentucky, focusing on German idealism, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy). "Can a Philosophy of Race Afford to Abandon the Kantian Categorical Imperative?" JOURNAL of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2002, 17–32. AND choosing my maxims I attempt to include the perspective of other moral agents. AdvocacyResolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.Enforcement is to eliminate all IPR for medicinesBaker 16 Brook Baker (Professor of Law, Northeastern University. He is a senior policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project) and is actively engaged in campaigns for universal access to treatment, prevention, and care for people living with HIV/AIDS, especially expanded and improved medical treatment. He has written and consulted extensively on intellectual property rights, trade, access to medicines and medicines regulatory policy, including with the African Union, NEPAD, Uganda, ASEAN, Thailand, Indonesia, Venezuela, CARICOM, UK DfID, the World Health Organization, the Millennium Development Goals Project, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Open Society Institute, UNDP, UNITAID, the Medicines Patent Pool, the Global Commission on HIV and the Law, and others). and Health GAP, Contribution to the United Nations Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines, February 26, 2016, http://www.unsgaccessmeds.org/inbox/2016/2/26/z73kpodxk4jw96mhqe2tivq0sdl g3v/ AND and attributional interests of inventors and creators can be met through other means. Offense1~ The categorical imperative rejects the idea of intellectual property as it suppresses freedom by preventing others from innovating and suppressing speech in the name of a copyright.Pievatolo 10 Pievatolo, Maria. "Freedom, Ownership and Copyright: Why Does Kant Reject the Concept of Intellectual Property?" Freedom, Ownership and Copyright: Why Does Kant Reject the Concept of Intellectual Property?, 7 Feb. 2010, bfp.sp.unipi.it/chiara/lm/kantpisa1.html. SJEP AND to the Roman Law tradition because of conservatism, but because of Enlightenment. 2~ Property rights can’t be universalizable when they forgo the opportunity for an individual to access their own freedom. Medical patents restrict an individual to pursue freedom from death by foreclosing treatment.Merges 11 Merges, Robert P. Justifying Intellectual Property. Harvard University Press, 2011. SJEP AND given Kant’s text and the problem of pharmaceutical patents as I understand it. UV1~ 1AR theory is legit otherwise the neg can be infinitely abusive and there would be no way to check back against that.Competing interps – rzn is artbitrary and invites judge intervention and race to the top1AR theory is drop the debater – a 4 minute 1AR doesn’t have time to win both theory and substance – you must be punished.No RVI on 1AR theory-It would be impossible to check back against neg abuse because the 2NR could just spend 6 minutes railing on the theory debate and the aff couldn’t winAdv- CovidOnly the plan can solve covid access – inequalities heighten the risk of mutations and uneven development – neg objections miss the boat.Kumar 21 ~Rajeesh; Associate Fellow at the Institute, currently working on a project titled "Emerging Powers and the Future of Global Governance: India and International Institutions." He has PhD in International Organization from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Prior to joining MP-IDSA in 2016, he taught at JamiaMilliaIslamia, New Delhi (2010-11and 2015-16) and University of Calicut, Kerala (2007-08). His areas of research interest are International Organizations, India and Multilateralism, Global Governance, and International Humanitarian Law. He is the co-editor of two books;Eurozone Crisis and the Future of Europe: Political Economy of Further Integration and Governance (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); and Islam, Islamist Movements and Democracy in the Middle East: Challenges, Opportunities and Responses (Delhi: Global Vision Publishing, 2013); "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," IDSA Issue Briefs; https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721~~ Justin AND , from trade-offs to pressurising, to make the waiver happen. Yes scale-up for covid.Erfani et al 21 ~Parsa; Lawrence Gostin; Vanessa Kerry; Parsa Erfani is a Fogarty Global Health Scholar at Harvard Medical School and the University of Global Health Equity. Lawrence Gostin is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, director of the school’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, and director of the World Health Organization Center on National and Global Health Law. Vanessa Kerry is a critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, director of the Program for Global Public Policy at Harvard Medical School, and CEO of Seed Global Health, a nonprofit that trains health workers in countries with critical shortages; "Beyond a symbolic gesture: What’s needed to turn the IP waiver into Covid-19 vaccines," STAT; 5/19/21; https://www.statnews.com/2021/05/19/beyond-a-symbolic-gesture-whats-needed-to-turn-the-ip-waiver-into-covid-19-vaccines/~~ Justin AND to acquire the IP necessary for mRNA technologies— which is currently missing. Causes global terror networks including resurgent Boko HaramNamayanja 6/10 ~Rose Namayanja is a Ugandan lawyer and author. She is the former Uganda information minister and current Deputy Secretary General of the National Resistance Movement, the ruling party. She is a graduate of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. June 10, 2021, " Lack of Vaccines Fuels Terrorism in Africa," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/10/vaccines-africa-terrorism-covid-19//lhs-ap~~ AND around the world, conflict and the coronavirus have never been far apart." Corona escalates security threats that cause extinction – cooperation thesis is wrong.Recna 21 ~Research Center for Nuclear Weapon Abolition; Nagasaki, Japan; "Pandemic Futures and Nuclear Weapon Risks: The Nagasaki 75th Anniversary pandemic-nuclear nexus scenarios final report," Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament; 5/28/21; https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2021.1890867~~ Justin AND by nuclear threat, with cascading effects on the risk of nuclear war. Adv- Vaccine DiplomacyAmerican vaccine diplomacy is failing in Latin America – that allows for Chinese influence. Only the plan can return the world back to a US led order.Carman and Carl 6/15 ~Ezequiel and Joseph; Argentine lawyer and global health and trade policy consultant. Previously, he served as a legal advisor to the Ministry of Justice of Buenos Aires, an assistant professor of international public law at the Universidad Católica Argentina, and a research assistant at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law; Graduate of Liberty University, where he studied international relations and strategic international studies. He has worked for the U.S. Department of State and the Heritage Foundation; "A U.S. vaccine diplomacy strategy for Latin America and the Caribbean," Global Americans; 6/15/21; https://theglobalamericans.org/2021/06/a-u-s-vaccine-diplomacy-strategy-for-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/~~ Justin AND industry and and re-establish its leadership role among the Western powers. It's not over – Latin America is still skeptical of Chinese aid but lack of US presence means it’s the only choice – try or die to capitalize on this weakness.Kneip 8/10 ~Lucie; Student at the University of Notre Dame studying Political Science and Global Affairs. Her research interests include U.S. foreign policy and democratization, civil and criminal warfare, and the intersection of religion and politics; "China’s Vaccine Diplomacy in Latin America," The Diplomat; 8/10/21; https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/chinas-vaccine-diplomacy-in-latin-america/~~ Justin AND Washington has an opportunity to rebound by increasing the pace of vaccine donations. Chinese influence ends the liberal order.Cossu 7/16 ~Elena; Early-stage researcher for the MSCA Innovative Training Network FATIGUE, PhD candidate in economics at Corvinus University of Budapest and recently finished her year as a visiting researcher at University College London and at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Elena comes from a place culturally in between Germany and Italy. She has also had experience working in Greece, France, Latin America, Thailand, and Hungary. Elena is passionate about political and economic inequalities between states, and about understanding what prevents the political and economic convergence of different peripheries of the world; "In Latin America, Chinese vaccine diplomacy is directly challenging US’s declining authority," Scroll.in; 7/16/20; https://scroll.in/article/1000114/in-latin-america-chinese-vaccine-diplomacy-is-directly-challenging-uss-declining-authority~~ Justin AND yet fundamentally different in philosophy. Collapse of the liberal order causes extinction.Yulis 17 ~Max; Major in PoliSci, Penn Political Review; "In Defense of Liberal Internationalism," Penn Political Review; 4/8/17; http://pennpoliticalreview.org/2017/04/in-defense-of-liberal-internationalism/~~ Re-Cut Justin AND limelight to advocate the virtues of peace, stability, and human rights. Yes transition wars—-both sides miscalculate.Min-hyung Kim 20. Department of Political Science and International Relations, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. "A real driver of US–China trade conflict: The Sino–US competition for global hegemony and its implications for the future" Emerald Insight. 02-04-2019. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ITPD-02-2019-003/full/html Re-Cut Justin AND its hegemony such as reducing its commitments abroad and appeasing a rising challenger. | 10/17/21 |
1AC- WaiversTournament: Greenhilll | Round: 2 | Opponent: Coppell HA | Judge: Ursula Gruber 1AC – AdvantageThe advantage is global vaccination –Experts agree current vaccination initiatives fail – Global South manufacturing capacity is keyMaxmen, Ph.D., 9/16 ~Amy Maxmen, PhD, 9/16/21, Senior Reporter at Nature, "The fight to manufacture COVID vaccines in lower-income countries," Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-02383-z//lhs-ap~~ AND supplies, and they visited the plants to teach them the manufacturing process. The key internal link is manufacturing capacity not vaccines – Only future production resolves increased travel and new variantsGostin 6/10 ~Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, Georgetown University Law Center; June 10, 2021; "9 Steps to End COVID-19 and Prevent the Next Pandemic: Essential Outcomes From the World Health Assembly," JAMA Health Forum. 2021;2(6):e211852. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2021.1852lhs-ap~ AND impede vaccine discovery and production in low- and middle-income countries. The vaccine shortage will worsen global political instability –1 – Increases the number and severity of violent protestsLabott 7/22 ~Elise Labott, a columnist at Foreign Policy and an adjunct professor at American University’s School of International Service. July 22, 2021, "Get Ready for a Spike in Global Unrest," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/22/covid-global-unrest-political-upheaval//lhs-ap~~ AND for the world’s poorest to recover from the economic impacts of the pandemic." 2 – Causes global terror networks including resurgent Boko HaramNamayanja 6/10 ~Rose Namayanja is a Ugandan lawyer and author. She is the former Uganda information minister and current Deputy Secretary General of the National Resistance Movement, the ruling party. She is a graduate of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. June 10, 2021, " Lack of Vaccines Fuels Terrorism in Africa," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/06/10/vaccines-africa-terrorism-covid-19//lhs-ap~~ AND around the world, conflict and the coronavirus have never been far apart." Pandemic instability goes nuclear – ExtinctionRECNA et al. 21 ~Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN) and Nautilus Institute (2021) Pandemic Futures and Nuclear Weapon Risks: The Nagasaki 75th Anniversary pandemic-nuclear nexus scenarios final report, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 4:sup1, 6-39, DOI: 10.1080/25751654.2021.1890867lhs-ap~ AND by nuclear threat, with cascading effects on the risk of nuclear war. 1AC – PlanPlan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by implementing a COVID-19 vaccine waiver.1AC – SolvencyWaiver drives information sharing and accelerates vaccine innovation and production within monthsKavanagh et al. 7/1 ~Matthew M. Kavanagh, PhD1,2; Lawrence O. Gostin, JD1; Madhavi Sunder, JD1; 1Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC; 2Department of International Health, Georgetown University, Washington, DC; July 1, 2021, "Sharing Technology and Vaccine Doses to Address Global Vaccine Inequity and End the COVID-19 Pandemic," JAMA. 2021;326(3):219-220. doi:10.1001/jama.2021.10823lhs-ap~ AND on mRNA vaccine formulations stored at room temperature for lower-resource settings. No alt causes – Waiver includes broader information sharing, not just patent enforcementLabonté 5/21 ~Ronald Labonté, School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; Mira Johri, École de santé publique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada; Katrina Plamondon, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Srinivas Murthy, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; 21 May 2021; Canada, global vaccine supply, and the TRIPS waiver. Can J Public Health 112, 543–547 (2021). https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-021-00541-4//lhs-ap~~ AND but not the multi-billion-dollar profits some of them anticipate. Feasibility concerns are overblown – Waiver quickly accelerates vaccine distributionErfani et al. 8/3 ~Parsa Erfani, Fogarty global health scholar1 2, Agnes Binagwaho, vice chancellor2, Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, vice president3, Muhammad Yunus, chair4, Paul Farmer, professor57, Vanessa Kerry, associate professor810 1Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA 2University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda 3Sierra Leone 4Yunus Centre, Bangladesh 5Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA 6Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA 7Partners In Health, USA 8Seed Global Health, USA 9Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA 10Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA; 03 August 2021, "Intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines will advance global health equity," BMJ, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1837//lhs-ap~~ LMIC = Low and Middle Income Country AND offer a path to overcome bottlenecks and expand production of necessary vaccine materials. Threat of alternate vaccine sources alone drives manufacturers to expand accessZarocostas quoting Appleton 5/22 ~John, Geneva-based independent international correspondent and broadcaster; Arthur, adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, May 22, 2021, The Lancet, Vol 397, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01151-X//lhs-ap~~ AND may also lead to voluntary licensing agreements on terms favourable to developing countries." 1AC – FWNuclear war is a bad consequence –1~ Nukes hurt – Nuclear war would be a slow, painful death from starvation, radiation poisoning, resource wars, etc.2~ Agency – Involuntary mass death forecloses subject formation3~ Reducing existential risks is the top priority in any coherent moral theoryPlummer, PhD, 15 AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) Consequentialism is good –1~ Actor specificity – A~ Aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, so side constraints freeze action. B~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions. C~ No act-omission distinction—governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere, so inaction is implicit authorization of action: they have to yes/no bills, which means everything collapse to aggregation. D~ Actor-specificity first since different agents have different ethical standings. Link turns calc indicts because the alt would be no action.2~ No intent-foresight distinction – A~ Choosing to omit is an act itself since a consequence becomes part of our deliberation once we foresee it, so it becomes intrinsic to our action B~ Intuition – Else states wouldn’t ban murder since it’s not their responsibility, and I wouldn’t be culpable for leaving poisoned dog food outside for my pet to eat. Outweighs – All moral statements, even modus ponens are based on intuitions. | 9/18/21 |
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