Tournament: Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | Round: 1 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward EM | Judge: Barquin - Larson
The EU is in a public health crisis - its been piling up on IP protections and prioritizing pharma profits, worsening pandemic response
Corporate Europe Observatory, 03/2021, EU risks global public health in its protection of big pharma monopolies https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Pharma20briefing.pdf SR
In response to ... side of 2022.
HAI et al 14 — (Health Action International and a coalition of other NGOs, HAI works to expand health access in Europe, “EU trade secrets directive threat to health, environment, free speech and worker mobility”, 12-17-14, Available Online at https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/attachments/statement_-_eu_trade_secrets_directive_needs_amendments.pdf, accessed 9-8-21, HKR-AM)
AMSTERDAM—We strongly ... and human rights.
Ellen 'T Hoen, 12-2-2020, "Some Surprises in the European Commission's New Intellectual Property Strategy," Medicines Law and Policy, https://medicineslawandpolicy.org/2020/12/some-surprises-in-the-european-commissions-new-intellectual-property-strategy/ SR
The European Commission’s ... and Public Health
EU health coordination is uniquely necessary for global pandemic response, but there isn’t enough coordination. The plan is goldilocks--it ensures sufficient pressures to innovate while maintaining cooperation
Philippe Aghion, 9-1-2020, "How to strengthen European industries’ leadership in vaccine research and innovation," No Publication, https://voxeu.org/article/how-strengthen-european-industries-leadership-vaccine-research-and-innovation SR
The Covid crisis ... mitigate such shocks.
Piers Millett 17, Consultant for the World Health Organization, PhD in International Relations and Affairs, University of Bradford, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, “Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity”, Health Security, Vol 15(4), http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/hs.2017.0028
Historically, disease events ... modified as well.19-2
New pandemics are deadlier, faster, and coming – COVID is just the beginning
Antonelli 20 Ashley Fuoco Antonelli 5-15-2020 "Weekly line: Why deadly disease outbreaks could become more common—even after Covid-19" (Associate Editor — American Health Line) https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2020/05/15/weekly-line Elmer
While the new ... diseases' far spread.
Anthony Dworkin, 4-1-2021, Anthony Dworkin is the research director and a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He leads the organisation’s work in the areas of human rights, democracy, and justice. Among other subjects, Dworkin has conducted research and written on European and US frameworks for counterterrorism, the European Union’s human rights strategy, and the pursuit of justice in the international response to mass atrocities. "Built to order: How Europe can rebuild multilateralism after covid-19," ECFR, https://ecfr.eu/publication/how-europe-can-rebuild-multilateralism-after-covid-19/ SR
Summary The pandemic ... in its neighbourhood.
IP protections create the perception of a corrupt and selfish EU that shows a lack of solidarity, undermines global activism and public faith, and weakens vaccine diplomacy which destroys EU legitimacy
Rosa Pavanelli, 5-25-21, Rosa Pavanelli is the General Secretary of Public Services International, the global union federation for public sector trade unions "Europe failing its solidarity test," Social Europe, https://socialeurope.eu/europe-failing-its-solidarity-test SR
Earlier this month, ... vaccine patent waivers.
Empirically proven--the EU’s strategy is unsustainable and undermines multilateralism, and even lets countries sue the EU
OXFAM, 9/29/14, TRADING AWAY ACCESS TO MEDICINES – REVISITED: How the European trade agenda continues to undermine access to medicines, https://www-cdn.oxfam.org/s3fs-public/file_attachments/bp-trading-away-access-medicines-290914-en.pdf SR
DEMOCRACY AT RISK ... and the world.
Naja Bentzen, Sept 2020, Protecting, promoting and projecting Europe's values and interests in the world SR
European Council strategic ... Bulgaria and Romania.
Schultz 16 (Robert Schultz Retired Professor and Chair of Computer Information Systems at Woodbury University “Modern Technology and Human Extinction,” http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2016/InSITE16p131-145Schultz2307.pdf) RW
There is consensus ... place around then.
Yuval Noah Harari 18, Professor of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9/26/18, “We need a post-liberal order now,” The Economist, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/26/we-need-a-post-liberal-order-now
The second thing ... will feel the squeeze.
Starr 15 Steven, Senior Scientist for Physicians for Social Responsibility (www.psr.org) and Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri. Starr has published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Strategic Arms Reduction (STAR) website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology “Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen.” Ratical. March 2015. https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html TG
A war fought ... Earth essentially uninhabitable.
Corporate Europe Observatory, 03/2021, EU risks global public health in its protection of big pharma monopolies https://corporateeurope.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/Pharma20briefing.pdf SR
Call off the dogs ... pharma lobby groups.
Papineau 7, David Papineau, “Naturalism,” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2007SS
However, any such ... knowledge of them
Our experiences are derived from pleasure and pain, all other frameworks collapse
Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, “Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies”, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/ R.S.
Pleasure is not ... addiction or RDS.
Sinnot-Armstrong 92 -- Walter (prof. of philosophy @ Yale University, Philosophical Perspectives, 6, Ethics, “An Argument for Consequentialism”, p. 415-416)
All of this ... citizens or exist
The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. To clarify, hedonistic act util
1 Actor spec—governments must use util because they don’t have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations. Limited resources means limited state capabilities, as if the state runs out of resources it can no longer provide for citizens or exist
Pummer 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
There appears to ... On What Matters)
4 Epistemic modesty--substantively true since we can never have 100 certainty on any fw and extinction is obviously worse than a white lie--intuition outweighs since it determines which theories we accept e.g. theories that justify racism are bad even if we don’t know where
6 Reject calc indicts - hard ethics aren’t impossible and it’s better than doing nothing
b Drop the debater – the short 1AR irreparably skewed from abuse on substance and time investment on theory.
c No RVI – 6 minute 2n can just dump on a 20 second 1ar shell and win on sheer brute force