1ac - Prison v1 1nc - T-uncondo Disclosure Congress CP case 1ar - Case T-uncondo Disclosure RVI Congress CP Agent CPs bad 2nr - All 2ar - Disclosure RVI Agent CPs bad
1ac - beller 1nc - trad 1ar - all 2nr - all 2ar - all
Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational
3
Opponent: Greenhill NT | Judge: Lucan Chan
1ac - i became god for 45 seconds it really was soothing 1nc - tfwk cap k case ivi 1ar - all 2nr - cap K case ivi 2ar - case ivi
Colleyville Heritage Winter Invitational
Quarters
Opponent: Harrison AC | Judge: Joseph Wofford, Jason Sykes, Chris Randall
1ac - i became god for 45 seconds it really was soothing 1nc - disclosure DA disability fem K case 1ar - all 2nr - disability fem K case 2ar - all
Grapevine Classic
2
Opponent: Lake Highland Prep IK | Judge: Javier Hernandez
1ac - ipr aff 1nc - Hegel fw Personality Theory Off Innovation Off case 1ar - hegel hijack tjfs 1ar theory innovation case 2nr - kicked hegel innovation case 2ar - 1ar theory
Grapevine Classic
5
Opponent: Westwood VL | Judge: Nicky Smith
1ac - ipr v3 1nc - heg da inc prod cp case 1ar - case 1ar theory cp condo 2nr - da cp case 1ar theory condo 2ar - perm 1ar theory
Grapevine Classic
4
Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Jack Quisenberry
1ac - ipr aff v2 disclosure 1nc - UV us inc prod cp bipartisan bill case 1ar - 1ac theory disclosure 2nr - case disad 1ac theory disclosure 2ar - disclosure
Heart of Texas Invitational
2
Opponent: Harvard-Westlake EJ | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal
1ac - drug prices covid variants-econ bioterror 1nc - disease reps biomedical da case 1ar - condo perfcon 1ar theory pharma da case 2nr - condo perfcon 1ar theory disease reps K 2ar - perfcon 1ar theory case
Heart of Texas Invitational
3
Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AW | Judge: Lindsey Williams
1ac - ipr v7 1nc - one and done cp threat cp proteomic cp pharma da trademark cp case 1ar - condo process cp bad one and done proteomic cp trademark cp pharma da case 2nr - condo proteomic pharma da dedev on case 2ar - condo perm on proteomic case
Loyola Invitational
1
Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Tej Gedela
1ac - covid vaccines 1nc - e-specnc theory consult WHO CP modi da info sharing da 1ar - e-spec 1ar theory 2nr - modi da e-spec 1ar theory 2ar - 1ar theory
please make an attempt to contact me on messenger first since i'm checking my phone and get notifications instantly through messenger.
if i don't respond via email that's on you, i'm human, not a debate robot. (poop)
2/1/22
0 - Novices and other non-wiki Midlothian competitors
Tournament: ArmaanDrills | Round: Finals | Opponent: Everyone | Judge: Myself If you encounter a Midlothian competitor that's not on the Midlothian wiki,
please contact this email: a.christ.2022@gmail.com and put in the subject line:
"DISCLOSURE Round {number/elim name} - Midlothian short code - Tournament" and I'll be sure to get them in contact with you. (Example: DISCLOSURE Round 5 - Midlothian VS - Example Invitational)
They'll most likely be reading Lay/Stock positions, so don't run disclosure on them as a way to run the ballot, that's sad. This is terminal defense to your interps.
2/1/22
0 - Safety, accommodations, and other miscellaneous notes
Tournament: ArmaanDrills | Round: Finals | Opponent: Everyone | Judge: Myself To ensure safety in every round I partake, I am more than willing to commit to keeping the debate space a safe place as much as I can accommodate.
Please contact me at any point before round so I can accommodate accordingly.
With that being declared, I do have some request(s) below for accommodations to address personal/structural inequalities:
- I have a hard time reading text that is clustered together that makes it even harder with stigmatism, so having all analytics/cards/tags spaced out and delineated is necessary (if analytics aren't in the doc, I ask that you go 60 percent slower than if it were in the doc)
Here's an example of what not to do: Aff gets 1AR theory 1. DTD to deter abuse 2. Competing interps is key to norm setting 3. No rvis for meeting the burden of winning 4. fairness is a voter k2 accessibility 5. education is a voter as it is the only thing we get out of the round
Here's what I mean by delineating: Aff gets 1AR theory
DTD to deter abuse 2. Competing interps is key to norm setting 3. No rvis for meeting the burden of winning 4. fairness is a voter k2 accessibility 5. education is a voter as it is the only thing we get out of the round
As long as any spikes and/or subpoints are delineated with an enter break that is sufficient
Sometimes my response time may be slow, so if I do not respond within 5-10 mins, please make sure you make an attempt to contact me on multiple platforms (Messenger is best place for contact)
otherwise I automeet all disclosure interps based on contact.
2/1/22
0 - Sitemap
Tournament: ArmaanDrills | Round: Finals | Opponent: Everyone | Judge: Myself 0 - General Info SO - September/October Cites ND - November/December Cites JF - January/February Cites T - Theory Interps FW - Framework
2/1/22
JF - Debris v1
Tournament: Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire | Round: 2 | Opponent: Claudia Taylor Johnson AP | Judge: Sriya Subramanian os
1/22/22
JF - Debris v2
Tournament: Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire | Round: 3 | Opponent: Byron Nelson PM | Judge: Vincent Liu os
1/22/22
JF - i became god for 45 seconds, it really was soothing
Tournament: Barkley Forum for High Schools | Round: Triples | Opponent: Claudia Taylor Johnson AP | Judge: Sim Guerrero, Dahlia Bekong, Carlos Carrasco Hello, this affirmative case contains performance dialogue that I am not comfortable with disclosing.
The cards without tags/dialogue is open sourced.
If you would like to know more, please contact me, thanks.
1/29/22
JF - i became god for 45 seconds, it really was soothing v2
Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake ML | Judge: Lindsay Van Luvanee new addition - 1 new card
2/13/22
JF - the mega computer or whatever
Tournament: The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VJ | Judge: Patrick Fox
1AC
Welcome to the age of the World Computer where society codifies life through abstractions which racial capitalism uses to reify difference. Information is not a real product of the world but is rather a byproduct of this new system that arises from value management. The World Computer uses our every move to repair itself through the punishment of difference. The role of the ballot should be to resist informatics – resisting further automation of our thought processes is key
For spec purposes: Anything can function as offense as long as it proves/disproves how the resolution substantively challenges the World Computer. Weighing between how each method functions, and indicting separate methods Any advocacy that AND oppression which is at once beyond all calculation and one with it.7
Capital has taken its project of computation to extend outwards of the cosmos – the world computer as such has colonized space as part of its larger effort to continue its expansion via methods of intelligibility, colonization, and exploration
Beller 21-2 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 12/10/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 71-74) HB Without a doubt, the computational process, like the capitalist process, has a AND , or perhaps, even if or even as that encounter is catastrophic.
From this closed system arises a feeback between the epistemological and the ontological which gives rise to reactionary measures of geopolitics. This creates the notion of the terrestrial and the alien – one of which is securitized – the other is eliminated. The logic of data syncs with the World Computer to create endless global disasters
Parisi 19 (Luciana Parisi; 5/22/19; ŠUM Journal of Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory, Special Issue Number 11; "Surrational Fugitives" from Hypersonics Hyperstitions; http://sumrevija.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SUM-11_FINAL_pages.pdf**; Luciana Parisi is Reader in Cultural Theory, Chair of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths University of London. She published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013). She is currently researching the history of automation and the philosophical consequences of logical thinking in machines.; pages 1460-1463) HB *Note – the evidence uses "Man" as a description of dominating structures, not as a general reference to the human* The metaphysical overcoding of alien worlds has continued to impart a colonial vision on outer AND unknown world that has always run parallel to the military mission of Man.
Debate also operates through this project of disappearance – visualizing the appropriation of space only through their truncation as information for recursion and iteration. Even as the noises of the crisis outside restructures our activity into zoom calls and chat boxes, we are told to stubbornly return to run the same code year after year in a ressentiment-driven will to abstraction. COVID along with thousands of other holocausts of racial capitalism's derivative system: from debt to municipal plunder to resource extraction to Palantir's military tech.
Against the demand to input a binary 1 or 0 into the operating system of the world computer, our affirmation of the resolution refuses the presumed instrumentality of the question, in favor of the proliferation of the beautiful, cacophonous noise of the otherwise and outside. Only this rethinking of thinking can reveal the geopolitical alternatives that are excluded from the episteme of the world computer.
Thus, I affirm that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.
Rather than let automation continue to control our thoughts, the affirmative acts as an example of the embrace of the potential of a new communist horizon. It is a strike within debate against algorithmic logics. In our experiment, we refuse the technological image that has abstracted itself onto reality and create new ways to know that cannot be cataloged into the code. This new method of communism is one that devises a plan of revolution, radicalizing the semiotic, libidinal, and political
Beller 21-3 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 4/11/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 184-195) HB My discussion here of advertisarial relations having colonized the fabric of representation is not really AND Perhaps we have only begun to glimpse what a total refusal might achieve.
Capitalism is unsustainable – it generates several intertwined crises that make it try or die for the affirmative – we've got charts!
von Weizsäcker and Wijkman 17 (Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Anders Wijkman; 2018; Springer Publishing; "Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet A Report to the Club of Rome"; accessed 12/12/21; Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel; Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel; pages 1-9; ask me for the pdf) RC/HB We all know that the world is in crisis. Science tells us that almost AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4).
The aff acts as a means of politicizing thought – in the face of the world computer, our strategy seeks to decolonize thought itself. The abstraction of information seeks to reify lines of death in the scheme of racial capitalism
Beller, 21-4(Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 4/11/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 58-59) RC/HB Despite not being able to write in the key of Marx any longer, it AND namely, that capitalist technology is a racial formation, will remain unintelligible.
The drive to space exploration is just an attachment of the same unsustainability of capital that renders life calculable and controllable
Dunker and Hui 20 (Anders Dunker and Yuk Hui; 6/9/20; LA Review of Books; "On Technodiversity: A Conversation with Yuk Hui"; accessed 12/11/21; https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-technodiversity-a-conversation-with-yuk-hui/**; Anders Dunker is a Norwegian writer and journalist, currently living in Los Angeles; Yuk Hui currently teaches at the City University of Hong Kong. He did his Ph.D. thesis at Goldsmiths College in London, postdoctoral studies in France, and Habilitation thesis in Germany, and since 2012 he has taught at the Leuphana University and Bauhaus University in Germany) RC/HB What about people who want to develop new technologies in order to establish a new AND follow Dao, as a philosophy of nature and a philosophy of life.
1/10/22
JF - the mega computer or whatever v2
Tournament: The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | Round: 4 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit EP | Judge: Breigh Plat
1AC
UV
Aff gets 1AR/1AC theory and RVIs –
A~ else neg can be infinitely abusive and no way to check back.
B~ 1AR theory is drop the debater to deter abuse, no rvis because they could brute force us in the 2n with double our time, and competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention even with a brightline and the highest layer of the round – the 1ARs too short to be able to rectify abuse and cover substance.
C~ no 2NR paradigm issues, theory, RVIs, or recontextualizations because you can make whole new arguments in the 2n with 6 minutes forcing me to respond in only half the time.
D~ Education is a voter because it controls the internal link to debate existing the first place – schools don't fund uneducational games
E~ Fairness is a voter because Debate is a game with a winner and a loser – we all have different motives for winning and fairness is the means for that fulfilling motive
Case
Welcome to the age of the World Computer where society codifies life through abstractions which racial capitalism uses to reify difference. Information is not a real product of the world but is rather a byproduct of this new system that arises from value management. The World Computer uses our every move to repair itself through the punishment of difference. The role of the ballot should be to resist informatics – resisting further automation of our thought processes is key
For spec purposes: Anything can function as offense as long as it proves/disproves how the resolution substantively challenges the World Computer. Weighing between how each method functions, and indicting separate methods Any advocacy that AND oppression which is at once beyond all calculation and one with it.7
Capital has taken its project of computation to extend outwards of the cosmos – the world computer as such has colonized space as part of its larger effort to continue its expansion via methods of intelligibility, colonization, and exploration
Beller 21-2 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 12/10/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 71-74) HB Without a doubt, the computational process, like the capitalist process, has a AND , or perhaps, even if or even as that encounter is catastrophic.
From this closed system arises a feeback between the epistemological and the ontological which gives rise to reactionary measures of geopolitics. This creates the notion of the terrestrial and the alien – one of which is securitized – the other is eliminated. The logic of data syncs with the World Computer to create endless global disasters
Parisi 19 (Luciana Parisi; 5/22/19; ŠUM Journal of Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory, Special Issue Number 11; "Surrational Fugitives" from Hypersonics Hyperstitions; http://sumrevija.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SUM-11_FINAL_pages.pdf**; Luciana Parisi is Reader in Cultural Theory, Chair of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths University of London. She published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013). She is currently researching the history of automation and the philosophical consequences of logical thinking in machines.; pages 1460-1463) HB *Note – the evidence uses "Man" as a description of dominating structures, not as a general reference to the human* The metaphysical overcoding of alien worlds has continued to impart a colonial vision on outer AND unknown world that has always run parallel to the military mission of Man.
Debate also operates through this project of disappearance – visualizing the appropriation of space only through their truncation as information for recursion and iteration. Even as the noises of the crisis outside restructures our activity into zoom calls and chat boxes, we are told to stubbornly return to run the same code year after year in a ressentiment-driven will to abstraction. COVID along with thousands of other holocausts of racial capitalism's derivative system: from debt to municipal plunder to resource extraction to Palantir's military tech.
Against the demand to input a binary 1 or 0 into the operating system of the world computer, our affirmation of the resolution refuses the presumed instrumentality of the question, in favor of the proliferation of the beautiful, cacophonous noise of the otherwise and outside. Only this rethinking of thinking can reveal the geopolitical alternatives that are excluded from the episteme of the world computer.
Thus, I affirm that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.
Rather than let automation continue to control our thoughts, the affirmative acts as an example of the embrace of the potential of a new communist horizon. It is a strike within debate against algorithmic logics. In our experiment, we refuse the technological image that has abstracted itself onto reality and create new ways to know that cannot be cataloged into the code. This new method of communism is one that devises a plan of revolution, radicalizing the semiotic, libidinal, and political
Beller 21-3 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 4/11/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 184-195) HB My discussion here of advertisarial relations having colonized the fabric of representation is not really AND Perhaps we have only begun to glimpse what a total refusal might achieve.
Capitalism is unsustainable – it generates several intertwined crises that make it try or die for the affirmative – we've got charts!
von Weizsäcker and Wijkman 17 (Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Anders Wijkman; 2018; Springer Publishing; "Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet A Report to the Club of Rome"; accessed 12/12/21; Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel; Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel; pages 1-9; ask me for the pdf) RC/HB We all know that the world is in crisis. Science tells us that almost AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4).
The aff acts as a means of politicizing thought – in the face of the world computer, our strategy seeks to decolonize thought itself. The abstraction of information seeks to reify lines of death in the scheme of racial capitalism
Beller, 21-4(Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 4/11/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 58-59) RC/HB Despite not being able to write in the key of Marx any longer, it AND namely, that capitalist technology is a racial formation, will remain unintelligible.
1/10/22
JF - the mega computer or whatever v3
Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Mohammad Ullah, Avery Wilson, Isaiah Salgado os
1/16/22
JF - the mega computer or whatever v4
Tournament: University of Houston Cougar Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Fabrice Etienne, Avery Wilson, Tajaiah Robinson os
1/16/22
MA - beep boop
Tournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood PP | Judge: Christopher Sterns os
3/10/22
MA - i became god for 40 seconds, it really was soothing
Tournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles RZ | Judge: Ishan Rereddy os
Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Coppell SK | Judge: Madeleine Houck Open sourced
12/11/21
SO - Covid Vaccines
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Tej Gedela Advantages Rez Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
Adv. 1 is the pandemic tens of thousands of deaths taken from emerging variants that are caused from global vaccine inequality Princewill 8/3 - (Princewill, N. (2021, August 3). Nimi Princewill is a Nigerian digital journalist famed for exposing government corruption and holding public officials to account. Prior to joining CNN in 2021, Nimi worked as a reporter at Peoples Gazette -- a Nigeria-based digital media notable for truth and courage. Delta variant has spiked Covid-19 deaths in Africa by 80 in one month, WHO says. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/africa/delta-variant-covid-africa-intl/index.html) a^c Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)Coronavirus deaths … each week," he said.
which only gaslights variants Hassan et al. 8/16 (Hassan, F., Yamey, G., and Abbasi, K. (2021). {Fatima Hassan is a human rights lawyer and activist who has conducted public interest litigation, education, training, and legal reform on behalf of people with HIV/AIDS in South Africa for over a decade through her work with the AIDS Law Project and its primary client, the Treatment Action Campaign. She has litigated against the South African government, private employers, and pharmaceutical companies}, {Gavin Mark Yamey is an English-American physician and vaccine researcher. He is the director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at Duke University and a professor of the practice of global health and public policy}, {Kamran Abbasi is a physician, visiting professor at the Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College, London, executive editor of the British Medical Journal (BMJ), editor of the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM), journalist, cricket writer and broadcaster, who contributed to the expansion of international editions of the BMJ and has argued that medicine cannot exist in a political void} . Profiteering from vaccine inequity: A crime against humanity? BMJ, 374, n2027. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n2027) a^c Companies and rich nations are … vaccine through his employer (Duke University).
the current covid variants can only be combatted in the squo by vaccines Roberts 8/2 - (Roberts, M. (2021, August 2). Michelle Roberts is a doctor and health reporter @ BBC, and has worked with 13 other unique news agencies. What are the Delta, Gamma, Beta and Alpha Covid variants? BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55659820) a^c An outbreak of cases … vulnerable people later in the year. and eliminating IP protections for covid vaccines is the only way to solve for global vaccine ineq Nature Editorial, 8/11 (Nature Editorial, publishing its most significant discoveries—findings that advance knowledge and address some of the greatest challenges that we face as a society today, 5-25-2021, accessed on 8-11-2021, Nature, "A patent waiver on COVID vaccines is right and fair", https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01242-1) a^c Every country should have … of the patent waiver must recognize it, too. and vaccine inequality harms the econ that is solved by only IPP removal Gigova et al., 21 (Radina Gigova and Jeevan Ravindran, Journalist @ CNN - Radina has a master's degree in Broadcast Journalism and Public Policy from American University in Washington, DC and has received a Diploma DELE Superior in Spanish , Digital News Intern @CNNi, 7-22-2021, accessed on 8-11-2021, CNN, "Vaccine inequality is costing tens of billions in lost output", https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/22/economy/vaccine-inequity-covid-who-economy-intl/index.html) a^c Atlanta/London (CNN Business)Vaccine inequity … Jeevan Ravindran wrote from London.
Other Framing The standard is maximizing expected well-being – Prefer 1 Actor specificity – A – Aggregation – B – Collectivism – C – Bureaucrats aren’t philosophers –
2 Extinction first – a. Wager – b. Sequencing – c. Repugnance – d. Performativity –
UV
Aff gets 1AR theory and these paradigm issues a. They can be infinitely abusive without a check in the 1N – b. 1AR Theory is drop the debater to deter abuse c. No RVIs because they could collapse to it in the 2N and win on a brute force 6v3 skew d. Use Competing interps because reasonability is forcing the judge to intervene to determine what is and what isn’t reasonable e. 1AR theory should be the highest layer – anything else would allow them to win every round since they would have a 13v7 advantage on theory with both the 1N and 2N when we only get the 1AR and 2AR. f. no 2NR paradigm issues or recontextualizations to 1ar theory if paradigm issues were read in the 1ac – it’s equal to reading a new case turn in the 2n – you had the chance in the 1n to answer it. g. Education is a voter because it controls the internal link to debate existing the first place – schools don’t fund uneducational games h. Fairness is a voter because Debate is a competition which requires competitive equity – hence why we have equal speech times.
9/5/21
SO - IPR
Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep IK | Judge: Javier Hernandez will update cites l8r open sourced for now
9/11/21
SO - IPR v2
Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Jack Quisenberry will do it later os for now
10/20/21
SO - IPR v3
Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood VL | Judge: Nicky Smith will do cites later os for now
9/11/21
SO - IPR v4
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Dylan Jones will updates cite later os for now
10/9/21
SO - IPR v5
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AS | Judge: Carlos Astacio will cite later, os for now
10/9/21
SO - IPR v6
Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough LF | Judge: Amy Nyberg cites not working os for now
10/11/21
SO - IPR v7
Tournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake EJ | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal
1ac
1AC – FW
The standard is maximizing expected well-being – Prefer
~1~ Actor specificity – state actors can only use util – outweighs since different actors have different obligations.
A – Aggregation – all policies benefit some and hurts others – only util can resolve these cuz it gives a clear weighing mechanism
B – Collectivism – States are composed of many actors who inevitably disagree about intent means they can only use consequentialism because they don't have to agree
~2~ Extinction first –
a. Wager – if there is any chance of goodness existing, we ought to preserve our existence to maximize it.
b. Sequencing – if their framework is true, people dying is bad because it means those people can't use their framework
1AC – Text
Plantext: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
1AC – Bioterror Adv
COVID-19 has heightened and exposed vulnerabilities for bioterror
Trushar and D'Souza 7/21 Trushar R. Patel Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, and Michael Hilary D'Souza Masters Student. "Coronavirus Is Not a Bioweapon - but Bioterrorism Is a Real Future Threat." The Conversation, 8 July 2021, theconversation.com/coronavirus-is-not-a-bioweapon-but-bioterrorism-is-a-real-future-threat-135984. Phoenix The pandemic's effect on the world isn't a conventional attack on government targets or the AND can be masked by developments in medical industry, health and agricultural research.
IPR gives patent holders complete control of solutions and forces responses to go through a deep, slow bureaucratic process creating a near-impossible obstacle course for any bioterror solutions
Oriola 7 Taiwo A. Oriola (Cardiff Law School, and the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability, and Society, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom). "AGAINST THE PLAGUE: EXEMPTION OF PHARMACEUTICAL PATENT RIGHTS AS A BIOSECURITY STRATEGY." JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY and POL ICY. 2007.. http://illinoisjltp.com/journal/wp content/uploads/2013/10/05 05 08_Oriola_AHW_Formatted_FINAL.pdf Phoenix weird formatting probably due to OCR B. The Propriety of Article 30 of the TRIPS Agreement for Bi0terrorism- Induced AND for unreasonably conflicting with the normal exploitation of the pharmaceutical patent in question.
====Biotech advancements allow for bioweapons to wipe out all of humanity by combining traits – the brink is now before the weapons are too powerful ==== Millett and Snyder-Beattie 17 (Piers Millett and Andrew Snyder-Beattie; 2017; Health Security, Volume 15, Number 4; "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity"; accessed 8/13/21; https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdf/10.1089/hs.2017.0028**; Piers Millett, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow, and Andrew Snyder-Beattie, MS, is Director of Research; both at the University of Oxford, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford, England.; page 374) HB rc Phoenix In the modern context, no single disease currently exists that combines the worst- AND becomes more accessible and the pool of experienced users grows.31,3
1AC – Drug Prices Adv
Drug prices are higher than ever
Bunis 6/21 Bunis, Dena. "Drug Price Increases Continue to Outpace Inflation." AARP, 7 June 2021, www.aarp.org/politics-society/advocacy/info-2021/prescription-price-increase-report.html. Phoenix Retail prices for some of the most widely used brand name prescription drugs continue to AND more than the $29,650 average annual income for Medicare beneficiaries.
IPR skyrockets prices by stifling competition and granting exclusivity
Hickey et. al 3/21 Hickey, Kevin, et al. Drug Pricing and Intellectual Property: The Legislative Landscape for the 117th Congress. 31 Mar. 2021. https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R46741.pdf Phoenix Intellectual property (IP) rights play an important role in the development and pricing AND IP rights are often among the most important factors driving high drug prices.
High prices kill accessibility
Bhatt '8 — member at Landman Corsi Ballaine and Ford ~Tina S., Amending TRIPS: A New Hope for Increased Access to Essential Medicines, 33 Brook. J. Int'l L., 2008, https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/bjil/vol33/iss2/6, accessed 8-1-21~ rc Phoenix Eighty percent of people in low- and middle-income countries that need antiretroviral AND as contributing to the price drops that have occurred within the last few years
Inaccessibility creates variants – the unvaccinated are petri dishes for mutations
Plater 8/21 Plater, Roz. "Unvaccinated People Are Fueling Coronavirus Variants." Healthline, Healthline Media, 10 Aug. 2021, www.healthline.com/health-news/unvaccinated-people-are-increasing-the-chances-for-more-coronavirus-variants-heres-how~#Millions-unvaccinated. Phoenix Experts say the number of unvaccinated people in the United States is a key reason AND is easy for it to mutate into a more contagious and virulent form."
And COVID is an impact magnifier for the laundry list – climate change, overheating, and pandemic variants pull the trigger on extinction
McPherson 20 ~Guy R McPherson, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona, "Will COVID-19 Trigger Extinction of All Life on Earth?" Eart and Envi Scie Res and Rev, 2020, https://opastonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/will-covid-19-trigger-extinction-of-all-life-on-earth-eesrr-20-.pdf, y2k, reformatted by a^c~ The cooling effect is "nearly twice what scientists previously thought," and the paper AND that a microscopic virus could pull the trigger on our extinction ~15~.
1AC – Variants – Econ
The pandemic is raging across the globe – vaccines are our only safeguard
TRIPS creates unchecked variants and a deep inequality – waiver is needed
Gupta and Namboodiri 2021 ~Vineeta, Sreenath, Health Affairs, "America And The TRIPS Waiver: You Can Talk The Talk, But Will You Walk The Walk?" July 13, https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20210712.248782/full/ Phoenix The TRIPS waiver is critical to combating the COVID-19 pandemic around the world AND low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) will only widen.
The brink is now to prevent lasting effects - Vaccine inequity kills economic recovery – developing countries can't recover without protection against COVID
WHO 7/21 World Health Organization, July 22, 2021, https://www.who.int/news/item/22-07-2021-vaccine-inequity-undermining-global-economic-recovery, Vaccine inequity undermining global economic recovery Phoenix New Global Dashboard on COVID-19 Vaccine Equity finds low-income countries would AND all countries and risks reversing hard won progress on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Econ collapse is the most probable scenario for war.
Elhefnawy 11 Nader Elhefnawy (professor of English at the University of Miami, writer on IR published in peer-reviewed journals including International Security, Astropolitics, and Survival). "Twenty Years After the Cold War: A Strategic Survey," Parameters, The U.S. Army War College Quarterly. Spring 2011. http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/2011spring/Ehlefnawy.pdf Relative calm has prevailed among the great powers since the demise of the Soviet Union AND to the United States' freedom of action if such events ever do materialize.
Great power war goes nuclear
Talmadge 18 ~Caitlin Talmadge is Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. This essay is adapted from "Would China Go Nuclear? Assessing the Risk of Chinese Nuclear Escalation in a Conventional War With the United States," International Security, Spring 2017. Beijing's Nuclear Option: Why a U.S.-Chinese War Could Spiral Out of Control. 2018. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-15/beijings-nuclear-option~~ As China's power has grown in recent years, so, too, has the AND , Libya, and Serbia, none of which was a nuclear power.
Nuke war causes extinction
Edwards 17 ~Paul N. Edwards, CISAC's William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Being interviewed by EarthSky. How nuclear war would affect Earth's climate. September 8, 2017. earthsky.org/human-world/how-nuclear-war-would-affect-earths-climate~ Note, we are only reading parts of the interview that are directly from Paul Edwards — MMG In the nuclear conversation, what are we not talking about that we should be AND two nuclear powers would stay limited to these smaller, less destructive bombs.
1AC — Solvency
The plan allows for mass production – solving bioterror crises
Oriola 7 Taiwo A. Oriola (Cardiff Law School, and the ESRC Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability, and Society, University of Cardiff, United Kingdom). "AGAINST THE PLAGUE: EXEMPTION OF PHARMACEUTICAL PATENT RIGHTS AS A BIOSECURITY STRATEGY." JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY and POL ICY. 2007.. http://illinoisjltp.com/journal/wp content/uploads/2013/10/05 05 08_Oriola_AHW_Formatted_FINAL.pdf Phoenix Time is of the essence in getting crucial drugs to victims of bioterrorism attacks to AND of the contemporary patent regime, and the TRIPS access to medicines paradigms.
Competition causes a skydive in prices – empirics prove
Boustany '18 Charles Boustany is a retired physician and former congressman from Louisiana, August 9, 2018, http://fortune.com/2018/08/09/trump-drugs-prices-pharmaceutical-research/ Americans Fund Most of the World's Drug Research. Here's How Trump Can End That Phoenix If U.S. companies earned more revenue from foreign nations, then the AND market competition works. It delivers cutting-edge medicines at reasonable prices.
Critics of the IP waiver are wrong- it's the most effective way to combat covid inequality, alternatives fail
Erfani et al, 21 (Parsa Erfani, Fogarty global health scholar1 2, Agnes Binagwaho, vice chancellor2 AND been "other people's" problem. It is not. It is our
10/16/21
T - AFC
Tournament: Southlake Carroll TOC TFA Dragon Faire | Round: 3 | Opponent: Byron Nelson PM | Judge: Vincent Liu Interpretation: The negative debater must concede the affirmative framework if its maximizing expected wellbeing and disclosed
1/22/22
T - Agent CPs Bad
Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll ASa | Judge: Aisha Bawany Agent CP’s are a voting issue – they steal the whole aff mooting 6 minutes of offense and forcing a 1AR restart against an infinite amount of possible tiny changes to the process – destroying nuanced engagement.
2/11/22
T - PICs Bad
Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: Octas | Opponent: Westwood EV | Judge: Isa Barrera PICs are a voting issue – they moot aff offense with minute policy changes, shifting debates from the core of the literature towards its margins, undermining both topic specific education and strategic options. DAs solve content education since if there are questions like their pic, reading it as DA presents an actual debate between whether the advantage is worth the disad .. that's a voter for fairness and education, default to DTD, c/i, and no RVI since they did not provide any.
12/12/21
T - Process CPs Bad
Tournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AW | Judge: Lindsey Williams CPs that do the aff through a different process Is a voting issue – moots 6 minutes of the AC and kills education by pushing the debate outside core topic lit.
10/17/21
T - Thomas Edison Theory
Tournament: Barkley Forum for High Schools | Round: 6 | Opponent: Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter VG | Judge: Rafael Li Who are you and what have you done with the real Thomas Edison? Until the neg answers these questions truthfully, you can’t vote for them –
A. Fairness – how the heck can I have a chance to win when the aff could be a lightbulb inventor in a costume? B. Education – we can’t get good education if we don’t first address the elephant in the room that the negative team is harboring an impersonator.
1/29/22
T - Utopian CPs Bad
Tournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake MT | Judge: Joshua StPeter Interp - utopian CPs should not be ran in debate