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| Heart of Texas | 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan 1ac- Whole res |
| Heart of Texas | 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan 1ac- Whole res |
| Heart of Texas | 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan 1ac- Whole res |
| Jack Howe | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough EW | Judge: Leah Villanueva 1AC- Vaccine Apartheid |
| Jack Howe | 5 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Elmer Yang 1AC-Covid Vaccines |
| Middle America Cup | 1 | Opponent: Lexington Brett Fortier | Judge: Castillo, Chris 1AC- WTO Cred Indo-Pak War Disclosure |
| Middle America Cup | 3 | Opponent: Millard North Evan Burns | Judge: Sylvester, Cort 1AC-Whole Res Innovation |
| Middle America Cup | 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale David Huang | Judge: Jackson, Cyrus 1AC- Kant (constitutivism) Whole Res |
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0-Contact InfoTournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: Contact Info | Judge: Contact Info For Disclosure: | 9/18/21 |
SO-CP-PricesTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan 1Member nations of the WTO should:Institute value-based pricing for new medicinesAllow health service agencies to negotiate over drug pricesInstitute price increase caps on existing drugs to an international reference priceSet aside public funding in the form of Development Impact Bonds and cash-on-delivery tied to health gain and encourage risk-sharing for NTD researchEngage in health diplomacy where richer nations share medicines and information to poorer nations to combat neglected diseasesPlanks 1-3 solve drug prices but avoids the patent good turns.Rajkumar 2020 (S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (S.V.R.). "The high cost of prescription drugs: causes and solutions" Blood Cancer Journal volume 10, Article number: 71 2020)DR 21 AND state and/or federal legislation to prevent such unjustified price increases 21. Plank 4 and 5 solves NTDs and Health diplomacy BUT pharma profits are key—NTD research is high-risk and capital-intensiveBarofksy and Schneider 2017 (Jeremy Barofsky, Sc.D., M.A. is a non-resident Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Research Associate at Tulane University’s Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Institute. He received his doctorate from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Global Health and Population (Economics) and holds an M.A. in Economics from Boston University. and Jake Schneider, Research Assistant - The Brookings Insitution "Promoting Private Sector Involvement in Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development" The Brookings Private Sector Global Health RandD Project https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/br'health4'optimized'final.pdf December 2017)DR 21 AND varies based on the level of innovation produced compared to current clinical practice. | 10/16/21 |
SO-CP-PricesTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan 1Member nations of the WTO should:Institute value-based pricing for new medicinesAllow health service agencies to negotiate over drug pricesInstitute price increase caps on existing drugs to an international reference priceSet aside public funding in the form of Development Impact Bonds and cash-on-delivery tied to health gain and encourage risk-sharing for NTD researchEngage in health diplomacy where richer nations share medicines and information to poorer nations to combat neglected diseasesPlanks 1-3 solve drug prices but avoids the patent good turns.Rajkumar 2020 (S. Vincent Rajkumar, MD, Division of Hematology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (S.V.R.). "The high cost of prescription drugs: causes and solutions" Blood Cancer Journal volume 10, Article number: 71 2020)DR 21 AND state and/or federal legislation to prevent such unjustified price increases 21. Plank 4 and 5 solves NTDs and Health diplomacy BUT pharma profits are key—NTD research is high-risk and capital-intensiveBarofksy and Schneider 2017 (Jeremy Barofsky, Sc.D., M.A. is a non-resident Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Research Associate at Tulane University’s Commitment to Equity (CEQ) Institute. He received his doctorate from Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Global Health and Population (Economics) and holds an M.A. in Economics from Boston University. and Jake Schneider, Research Assistant - The Brookings Insitution "Promoting Private Sector Involvement in Neglected Tropical Disease Research and Development" The Brookings Private Sector Global Health RandD Project https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/br'health4'optimized'final.pdf December 2017)DR 21 AND varies based on the level of innovation produced compared to current clinical practice. | 10/16/21 |
SO-FW-UtilTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan FWThe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ Pleasure is intrinsically valuable and pain is intrinsically disvaluableMoen 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~ SJDI AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. 2~ Moreover, only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. All other values can be explained with reference to pleasure; Occam’s razor requires us to treat these as instrumentally valuable.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~ SJDI AND why do they tend to point toward pleasure and away from pain?27 3~ 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.4~ Lexical pre-requisite: threats to bodily security preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose5~ Use epistemic modesty – that’s multiplying the probability of a framework being true by its general contention impact –—-A~ It maximizes the probability of achieving net most moral value—beating a framework acts as mitigation to their impacts but the strength of that mitigation is contingent—-B~ EC is too high a burden—thousands of years of philosophy can’t be resolved in 40 minutes.—-C~ Topic education—disincentives debaters from going all in for framework which means we get the ideal balance between topic ed and phil ed—it’s important to talk about contention-level offense because we only have the topic for two months.—-D~ Clash — we don’t know if our frameworks are true, but we can debate the topical question. That incentivizes debating both layers instead of solely focusing on framework.Death and the process is prereq to sv | 10/16/21 |
SO-FW-UtilTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan FWThe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ Pleasure is intrinsically valuable and pain is intrinsically disvaluableMoen 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~ SJDI AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. 2~ Moreover, only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. All other values can be explained with reference to pleasure; Occam’s razor requires us to treat these as instrumentally valuable.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~ SJDI AND why do they tend to point toward pleasure and away from pain?27 3~ 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.4~ Lexical pre-requisite: threats to bodily security preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose5~ Use epistemic modesty – that’s multiplying the probability of a framework being true by its general contention impact –—-A~ It maximizes the probability of achieving net most moral value—beating a framework acts as mitigation to their impacts but the strength of that mitigation is contingent—-B~ EC is too high a burden—thousands of years of philosophy can’t be resolved in 40 minutes.—-C~ Topic education—disincentives debaters from going all in for framework which means we get the ideal balance between topic ed and phil ed—it’s important to talk about contention-level offense because we only have the topic for two months.—-D~ Clash — we don’t know if our frameworks are true, but we can debate the topical question. That incentivizes debating both layers instead of solely focusing on framework.Death and the process is prereq to sv | 10/16/21 |
SO-FW-UtilTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlbrough VA | Judge: Chaudhary, Vishan FWThe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ Pleasure is intrinsically valuable and pain is intrinsically disvaluableMoen 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~ SJDI AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. 2~ Moreover, only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. All other values can be explained with reference to pleasure; Occam’s razor requires us to treat these as instrumentally valuable.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~ SJDI AND why do they tend to point toward pleasure and away from pain?27 3~ 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.4~ Lexical pre-requisite: threats to bodily security preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose5~ Use epistemic modesty – that’s multiplying the probability of a framework being true by its general contention impact –—-A~ It maximizes the probability of achieving net most moral value—beating a framework acts as mitigation to their impacts but the strength of that mitigation is contingent—-B~ EC is too high a burden—thousands of years of philosophy can’t be resolved in 40 minutes.—-C~ Topic education—disincentives debaters from going all in for framework which means we get the ideal balance between topic ed and phil ed—it’s important to talk about contention-level offense because we only have the topic for two months.—-D~ Clash — we don’t know if our frameworks are true, but we can debate the topical question. That incentivizes debating both layers instead of solely focusing on framework.Death and the process is prereq to sv | 10/16/21 |
SO-Innovation DATournament: Jack Howe | Round: 5 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Elmer Yang 1NC – Innovation DAOff1NC – Climate InnovationThe United States should publicly repudiate a COVID vaccine waiver.Current IP protections protect investment in climate change reduction – COVID waiver spills over to reduce innovationBrand 5/26 ~Melissa Brand is Assistant General Counsel and Director of Intellectual Property at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), a major trade association with over 1,000 members in the biotechnology industry. May 26, 2021, "TRIPS IP Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors," ipwatchdog, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964lhs-ap~ AND the biotech sector addressing climate change may be next on the chopping block. ExtinctionDr. Yew-Kwang Ng 19, Winsemius Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Member of Advisory Board at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University, PhD in Economics from Sydney University, "Keynote: Global Extinction and Animal Welfare: Two Priorities for Effective Altruism", Global Policy, Volume 10, Number 2, May 2019, pp. 258–266 AND the whole world is more important to avoid by literally a trillion times. 1NC – Pharma InnovationDisease research high now – Vaccine waiver is ineffective at accelerating vaccine distribution, but does stifle investmentSpiegel 8/5 ~Andrew Spiegel is the executive director of the Global Colon Cancer Association, based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. 5 August 2021, "How the COVID IP-waiver could sabotage crucial cancer research | Opinion," delaware online, www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/2021/08/05/covid-vaccine-patent-waiver-endangers-crucial-cancer-research/5487664001lhs-ap~ AND , he's undermining the only industry that may find a cure for cancer. | 9/25/21 |
SO-Innovation DA v2Tournament: Middle America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Millard North Evan Burns | Judge: Sylvester, Cort DA1NC – Climate InnovationThe United States should publicly repudiate a COVID vaccine waiver.Current IP protections protect investment in climate change reduction – COVID waiver spills over to reduce innovationBrand 5/26 ~Melissa Brand is Assistant General Counsel and Director of Intellectual Property at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), a major trade association with over 1,000 members in the biotechnology industry. May 26, 2021, "TRIPS IP Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors," ipwatchdog, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964lhs-ap~ AND the biotech sector addressing climate change may be next on the chopping block. ExtinctionDr. Yew-Kwang Ng 19, Winsemius Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Member of Advisory Board at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University, PhD in Economics from Sydney University, "Keynote: Global Extinction and Animal Welfare: Two Priorities for Effective Altruism", Global Policy, Volume 10, Number 2, May 2019, pp. 258–266 AND the whole world is more important to avoid by literally a trillion times. 1NC – Pharma InnovationDisease research high now – Vaccine waiver is ineffective at accelerating vaccine distribution, but does stifle investmentSpiegel 8/5 ~Andrew Spiegel is the executive director of the Global Colon Cancer Association, based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. 5 August 2021, "How the COVID IP-waiver could sabotage crucial cancer research | Opinion," delaware online, www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/2021/08/05/covid-vaccine-patent-waiver-endangers-crucial-cancer-research/5487664001lhs-ap~ AND , he's undermining the only industry that may find a cure for cancer. mRNA innovation key to pandemic response-IP solves covid better than no IP~Alexis Hubaud is a PhD student in Developmental Biology working at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. "RNA vaccines: a novel technology to prevent and treat disease," May 5, 2015, Harvard SITN, https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/rna-vaccines-a-novel-technology-to-prevent-and-treat-disease//lhs-ap~~ AND , RNA vaccines appear to be a promising technology worth watching out for. | 9/26/21 |
SO-Innovation DA v3 Climate ChangeTournament: Middle America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale David Huang | Judge: Jackson, Cyrus 1NC – Climate InnovationThe United States should publicly repudiate waivers.Current IP protections protect investment in climate change reduction – COVID waiver spills over to reduce innovationBrand 5/26 ~Melissa Brand is Assistant General Counsel and Director of Intellectual Property at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), a major trade association with over 1,000 members in the biotechnology industry. May 26, 2021, "TRIPS IP Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors," ipwatchdog, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964lhs-ap~ AND the biotech sector addressing climate change may be next on the chopping block. ExtinctionDr. Yew-Kwang Ng 19, Winsemius Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and Member of Advisory Board at the Global Priorities Institute at Oxford University, PhD in Economics from Sydney University, "Keynote: Global Extinction and Animal Welfare: Two Priorities for Effective Altruism", Global Policy, Volume 10, Number 2, May 2019, pp. 258–266 AND the whole world is more important to avoid by literally a trillion times. | 9/26/21 |
SO-Neoliberalism KTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough EW | Judge: Leah Villanueva Neolib KLinksWTO linkThe Aff endorsement of the WTO as the actor in the plan text is bad- The WTO was created to further entrench us in Neolib- and values everything that’s wrong w NeolibMartin Hart-Landsberg, 4-1-2006, "Monthly Review," Monthly Review, https://monthlyreview.org/2006/04/01/neoliberalism-myths-and-reality/ (LHS IB) AND trade. In fact, this is an easier task than generally assumed. Innovation LinkThe Neoliberalism approach the aff takes in by restricting IP’s for competition, the invisible hand, and by restricting IP’s is a myth- further entrenches us in neoliberalism and causes meaningless death and drives less innovation and distribution.Ognian Kassabov, 1-20-2021, "What the vaccine debacle tells us about predatory capitalism," No Publication, https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/21/the-vaccine-debacle-shows-the-predatory-nature-of-capitalism (LHS IB) AND this global apartheid will be questionable and the human cost – surely appalling. Root CauseNeolib is the root cause of Covid and all pandemics- multiple warrants- the aff attempts are just a hopeless attempt and an example of disaster neolib to solve through restricting IP’s- when in reality they can’t since they’re dependent on free markets sacrifices which proliferates the virusMiloš ŠUmonja, 21- June"Neoliberalism is not dead – On political implications of Covid-19," PubMed Central (PMC), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7770495/ (LHS IB) AND , if only they are willing to use it. (Saxer 2020) ImpactNeolib capitalism is the greatest impact—root cause of Covid— it’s the greatest existential threat and the biggest affront to human rights and causes catastrophic healthcare crises, climate change, structural racism, and value to life deprivation. Litany of recent studies prove that transition is possible and would save humanity, but requires urgent divestment from current modes of politicsAhmed 20 (Nafeez Ahmed — Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University's Faculty of Science and Technology + M.A. in contemporary war and peace studies + DPhil (April 2009) in international relations from the School of Global Studies @ Sussex University, "Capitalism is Destroying ‘Safe Operating Space’ for Humanity, Warn Scientists", https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-24/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists/, 24 June 2020, EmmieeM) AND quite literally, destroying the foundations for human survival over the coming decades. Global Capitalism is the root cause of ecological crisis and makes extinction and ongoing violence inevitable – only total rejection of the system solvesYonghong Zhang 13 is a professor at School of Marxism Studies at the Research Center for Marxist Theory, "Capitalism and Ecological Crisis", pg online@ wscholars.com/index.php/jss/article/download/440/pdf AND in the long run, the ecological crisis will be controlled and overcome. Our critique independently outweighs the case - neoliberalism causes extinction and massive social inequalities – the affs single issue legalistic solution is the exact kind of politics neolib wants us to engage in so the root cause to go unquestioned. Farbod 15 ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) AND enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return. AltThe alternative is to decentralize global trade. A pluralistic global system allows for flexible industrial development while avoiding the pitfalls of centralized neoliberalism. Alternative indicts are unfounded fearmongering.Bello 99 ~(Walden, Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social worker who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.) "Why Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda" Focus on Trade, No. 43, December 1999, https://www.tni.org/my/node/6851~~ TDI AND on their values, their rhythms, and the strategies of their choice. Other cap cardsEven if they win our alt doesn’t solve you vote negative – capitalism and neolib frames decision making – radically breaking away from the way the status quo produces knowledge is key to solving oppressionDe Angelis 3 (Massimo, Dept of Economics at East London, The commoner, http://www.ainfos.ca/03/jan/ainfos00479.html) AND , at the same time building and strengthening communities through the social fields. | 9/25/21 |
SO-Neoliberalism K v2Tournament: Middle America Cup | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington Brett Fortier | Judge: Castillo, Chris Neolib KLinksWTO linkThe Aff endorsement of the WTO as the actor in the plan text is bad- The WTO was created to further entrench us in Neolib- and values everything that’s wrong w NeolibMartin Hart-Landsberg, 4-1-2006, "Monthly Review," Monthly Review, https://monthlyreview.org/2006/04/01/neoliberalism-myths-and-reality/ (LHS IB) AND trade. In fact, this is an easier task than generally assumed. Innovation LinkThe Neoliberalism approach the aff takes in by restricting IP’s for competition, the invisible hand, and by restricting IP’s is a myth- further entrenches us in neoliberalism and causes meaningless death and drives less innovation and distribution.Ognian Kassabov, 1-20-2021, "What the vaccine debacle tells us about predatory capitalism," No Publication, https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/21/the-vaccine-debacle-shows-the-predatory-nature-of-capitalism (LHS IB) AND this global apartheid will be questionable and the human cost – surely appalling. Root CauseNeolib is the root cause of Covid and all pandemics- multiple warrants- the aff attempts are just a hopeless attempt and an example of disaster neolib to solve through restricting IP’s- when in reality they can’t since they’re dependent on free markets sacrifices which proliferates the virusMiloš ŠUmonja, 21- June"Neoliberalism is not dead – On political implications of Covid-19," PubMed Central (PMC), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7770495/ (LHS IB) AND , if only they are willing to use it. (Saxer 2020) ImpactNeolib capitalism is the greatest impact—root cause of Covid— it’s the greatest existential threat and the biggest affront to human rights and causes catastrophic healthcare crises, climate change, structural racism, and value to life deprivation. Litany of recent studies prove that transition is possible and would save humanity, but requires urgent divestment from current modes of politicsAhmed 20 (Nafeez Ahmed — Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University's Faculty of Science and Technology + M.A. in contemporary war and peace studies + DPhil (April 2009) in international relations from the School of Global Studies @ Sussex University, "Capitalism is Destroying ‘Safe Operating Space’ for Humanity, Warn Scientists", https://www.resilience.org/stories/2020-06-24/capitalism-is-destroying-safe-operating-space-for-humanity-warn-scientists/, 24 June 2020, EmmieeM) AND quite literally, destroying the foundations for human survival over the coming decades. Capitalism causes extinction from climate change – outweighs nuke war – only transition solves.Polychroniu, 21 AND a policy paper by the Breakthrough National Center for Climate Restoration in Melbourne. Our critique independently outweighs the case - neoliberalism causes extinction and massive social inequalities – the affs single issue legalistic solution is the exact kind of politics neolib wants us to engage in so the root cause to go unquestioned. Farbod 15 ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2) AND enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return. AltThe alternative is to decentralize global trade. A pluralistic global system allows for flexible industrial development while avoiding the pitfalls of centralized neoliberalism. Alternative indicts are unfounded fearmongering.Bello 99 ~(Walden, Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social worker who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.) "Why Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda" Focus on Trade, No. 43, December 1999, https://www.tni.org/my/node/6851~~ TDI AND on their values, their rhythms, and the strategies of their choice. | 9/25/21 |
SO-T-WaiversTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough EW | Judge: Leah Villanueva T-WaiverT WaiverAffirmatives must defend the reduction of intellectual property protections for medicine.Medicine treats disease Merriam-Webster n.d.
They don’tA WTO waiver covers non-medicine techBraman 9/14 ~Nancy Braman is a registered U.S. patent attorney. She has been contributing to IPWatchdog since 2019. 9/14/21, "Iancu, Kilbride, Israel Separate Fact from Fiction During IPWatchdog LIVE Panel on TRIPS IP Waiver," IP Watchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/09/14/iancu-kilbride-israel-separate-fact-fiction-ipwatchdog-live-panel-trips-ip-waiver/id=137589//lhs-ap~~ AND disagree, and thus the revised proposal effectively would make the waiver permanent. Drop them for extra-topicality – a waiver justifies fiat abuse allowing affs to generate offense off of non-topical positionsVote neg:1 – Semantics – controls the internal link to any pragmatic offense and determines what we research in the first place – without grounding in the topic there’s no way to debate the aff – independent voter for jurisdiction since judges can’t vote on an aff not defending the rez.2 – Ground – The aff’s interp destroys neg ground by forcing the neg to defend fringe patents on software unrelated to the core of the topic; kills pre-round prep and research | 9/25/21 |
SO-T-Whole ResTournament: Middle America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Millard North Evan Burns | Judge: Sylvester, Cort T-Medicines====Interpretation: Affs must spec a type of medicine==== Standards:Extra T: Defending all medicine explodes topic limits allowing the defense of all sorts of meds for anything AND get out of various black market / cartel / alt causes because of it Voters:Fairness: Paradigm IssuesTopicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability. | 9/26/21 |
SO-Util FWTournament: Middle America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale David Huang | Judge: Jackson, Cyrus FWThe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.1~ Pleasure is intrinsically valuable and pain is intrinsically disvaluableMoen 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~ SJDI AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value. 2~ Moreover, only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. All other values can be explained with reference to pleasure; Occam’s razor requires us to treat these as instrumentally valuable.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~ SJDI AND why do they tend to point toward pleasure and away from pain?27 3~ 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.4~ Lexical pre-requisite: threats to bodily security preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose5~ Use epistemic modesty – that’s multiplying the probability of a framework being true by its general contention impact –—-A~ It maximizes the probability of achieving net most moral value—beating a framework acts as mitigation to their impacts but the strength of that mitigation is contingent—-B~ EC is too high a burden—thousands of years of philosophy can’t be resolved in 40 minutes.—-C~ Topic education—disincentives debaters from going all in for framework which means we get the ideal balance between topic ed and phil ed—it’s important to talk about contention-level offense because we only have the topic for two months.—-D~ Clash — we don’t know if our frameworks are true, but we can debate the topical question. That incentivizes debating both layers instead of solely focusing on framework.6~ Extinction comes first under any frameworkPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT, recut BWSEKL. | 9/26/21 |
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