Park City Levinsky Aff
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| Blue Key | 1 | Lexington EY | Breigh Platt |
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| Blue Key | 4 | Coral Springs LV | Jose Denis |
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| Blue Key | 5 | Southlake Carroll EP | Samantha McLoughlin |
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| Harvard | 2 | King CP | Henry Eberhart |
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| Harvard | 4 | Lake Highland Prep AVe | Reed Weiler |
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| USC | 2 | Harvard Westlake MP | Yardley Rosas |
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| USC | 3 | Troy Independent AP | Nethmin Liyange |
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| USC | 5 | Harvard Westlake AL | David Dosch |
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| USC | Octas | Able2Shine MC | Panel |
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| Yale | 2 | American Heritage Broward JA | Amulya Natchukuri |
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| Yale | 4 | Lexington JB | Anand Rao |
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| Yale | 6 | Byram Hills SH | Eric Endsley |
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| ASU | 2 | Opponent: Peninsula JX | Judge: Jonah Gentleman 1AC - Commons |
| ASU | 3 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Anish Ramireddy 1AC - Commons |
| ASU | Octas | Opponent: Presentation AB | Judge: Panel 1AC - Arrakis |
| Alta | 1 | Opponent: Corner Canyon JN | Judge: Nicky Smith 1AC - Capitalism |
| Alta | 4 | Opponent: Interlake DB | Judge: Nethmin Liyange 1AC - Vulnerability |
| Alta | 5 | Opponent: Mercer Island KS | Judge: Albert Cardenas 1AC - Vulnerability the rest was just an AC NC debate |
| Apple Valley | 3 | Opponent: Lakeville North KN | Judge: Andrew Shay 1AC - Pettit (Lay) |
| Apple Valley | 5 | Opponent: DTHS HV | Judge: Zac Davis 1AC - cap |
| Apple Valley | 2 | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Patrick Fox 1AC - Alienation |
| Apple Valley | Doubles | Opponent: Westwood AR | Judge: Panel 1AC - Capitalism |
| Apple Valley | Quarters | Opponent: Evergreen Valley Independent SS | Judge: Panel 1AC - Vulnerability |
| Blue Key | 1 | Opponent: Lexington EY | Judge: Breigh Platt 1AC - Vulnerability |
| Blue Key | 4 | Opponent: Coral Springs LV | Judge: Jose Denis 1AC - lay pettit |
| Blue Key | 5 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll EP | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1AC - Vulnerability |
| Blue Key | Octas | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Panel 1AC - Alienation |
| Harvard | 2 | Opponent: King CP | Judge: Henry Eberhart 1AC - Cybernetics |
| Harvard | 4 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AVe | Judge: Reed Weiler 1AC - cybernetics |
| Harvard | 5 | Opponent: Memorial DXu | Judge: David Herrera 1AC - Cybernetics |
| USC | 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake MP | Judge: Yardley Rosas 1AC - Capitalism |
| USC | 3 | Opponent: Troy Independent AP | Judge: Nethmin Liyange 1AC - Vulnerability |
| USC | 5 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AL | Judge: David Dosch 1AC - Vulnerability |
| USC | Octas | Opponent: Able2Shine MC | Judge: Panel 1AC - Vulnerability |
| USC | Quarters | Opponent: Stockdale GS | Judge: Panel 1AC - Capitalism |
| USC | Semis | Opponent: Malborough JH | Judge: Panel 1AC - Qatar |
| Yale | 2 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward JA | Judge: Amulya Natchukuri 1AC - Virtue Ethics |
| Yale | 4 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Anand Rao 1AC - Virtue Ethics |
| Yale | 6 | Opponent: Byram Hills SH | Judge: Eric Endsley 1AC - Weheliye |
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Cites NoteTournament: Blue Key | Round: Octas | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VM | Judge: Panel | 11/6/21 |
Contact InfoTournament: Contact Info | Round: Finals | Opponent: You | Judge: I'd prefer if you contacted me by phone (773-619-1893) Please let me know if there's anything I should do to make our round more accessible that isn't a well-known circuit norm, because I don't always check my opponent's wiki page. | 9/10/21 |
JF - ArrakisTournament: ASU | Round: Octas | Opponent: Presentation AB | Judge: Panel Part 1: FrameworkEmpathy is the first question of ethics. In order to have a moral obligation to accept or reject the resolution, we must first have moral obligations towards the other. Before debating normative ethics, we must first find the procedure through which we give the other moral value. We must center policy that enables people to recognize the humanity of the other. The concept of the human is a relational subjectivity created in the context of a "we." Our relations to one another determine whose lives are recognizable as fully human. Therefore, life is constituted via our political relationships derived from vulnerability, not just our biological functions.Butler 1 (2004) A politics of grief is crucial to collective consciousness, class or otherwise, because it de-privitizes our phenomenological experience of politics and everyday life. This ensures we recognize others as human and address their struggles.Butler 2 A politics of vulnerability determines our relations to one another and is therefore crucial to making decisions that prioritize human life and prevent violence. I control a key meta-ethical question of how we identify evil and suffering.Butler 3 We can only grieve violence by decentering our narcissistic first-person representations of it. Listening to narratives of the victimized is necessary to engage in a politics of grief. Thus, the role of the judge is to vote for the debater who best uses decentered narratives to support their side of the resolution. Anything else justifies the status quo model of debate where we read statsitics about mass death but never engage with stories of loss, creating political apathy and moral complacency.Butler 4 Literary narratives can form communities beyond the boundaries of recognizability and enable us to grieve the losses of those we are seemingly disconnected with. A literature that builds concept of shared destiny and responsibility can push a politics of vulnerability based in collective struggle.Darda 14 Part 2: ArrakisFor citation purposes, this narrative is based on Dune, by Frank Herbert. | 1/9/22 |
JF - CommonsTournament: ASU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peninsula JX | Judge: Jonah Gentleman 1ACOVI get 1AR Theory – anything else justifies infinite 1NC abuse which outweighs on magnitude 1AC – Commons====The political status quo of empire maintains capitalist accumulation and biopolitical production with extreme violence – look to oil wars in the middle-east and agricultural interventions in Central America. Such violence will only persist when space becomes profitable: wars will be fought over asteroids and exoplanets that have economic resources.==== The commons are disappearing! Land is incorporated in private or public regimes while neoliberalism privatizes social productions and thought. Our lives may be defined by the absence of common wealth, but it still can be found. Locating politics in the social and material commons opens the way for a truly participatory democratic movement. Thus, the role of the ballot is to preserve the commons.Hardt and Negri 09 Extractivism is a dominant economic activity that draws upon common resources like minerals, care, and knowledge for wealth accumulation. This robs the commons of its potential for political change – social and physical energies are drawn into property relations instead of being used for anti-capitalist projects. Only collective owenership of the commons can pave the way for social movements that challenge capitalism. AND this is an independent reason to affirm: any privatization of space will destroy it physically and sociallyHardt and Negri 20 The push against private space appropriation is one backed by victims of empire in the global south – solidarity against empire requires affirmation of the resolution. Viewing space as a commons lets us conceive of resource distribution beyond the colonial mechanisms of the nation state.Levine 15 Private appropriation of space instead of treating it as a global commons amplifies inequality on Earth.Stockwell 20Samuel Stockwell, 7-20-2020, "Legal ‘Black Holes’ in Outer Space: The Regulation of Private Space Companies," E-International Relations, https://www.e-ir.info/2020/07/20/legal-black-holes-in-outer-space-the-regulation-of-private-space-companies/ marlborough JH Private control of space inevitably leads to exploitation.Spencer ‘20Spencer, Keith A. ~senior editor at Salon~"Against Mars-a-Lago: Why SpaceX's Mars Colonization Plan Should Terrify You." Salon, Salon.com, 7 Jan. 2020, https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/against-mars-a-lago-why-spacexs-mars-colonization-plan-should-terrify-you/. Treating space as a commons is key to human survival because it ensures that an escape to space is equitable.Fisk N.D. - L. A. Fisk ~President of the Committee on Space Research, chartered by the International Council for Scientific Unions~, "Space as a Global Commons," UNOOSA (Web). ND. Accessed Dec. 13, 2021. https://www.unoosa.org/documents/pdf/hlf/1st'hlf'Dubai/Presentations/26.pdf AT 1AC – AdvantagePrivate companies are cramming satellites into the Earth’s orbit which are quickly becoming defunct pieces of "space junk."Therese Wood, 20 - ("Who owns our orbit: Just how many satellites are there in space?," World Economic Forum, 10-23-2020, 12-8-2021, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/visualizing-easrth-satellites-sapce-spacex)//AW Increasing space debris levels will inevitably set off a chain of collisions.Chelsea Muñoz-Patchen, 19 - ("Regulating the Space Commons: Treating Space Debris as Abandoned Property in Violation of the Outer Space Treaty," University of Chicago, 2019, 12-6-2021, https://cjil.uchicago.edu/publication/regulating-space-commons-treating-space-debris-abandoned-property-violation-outer-space)//AW It cascades with catastrophic results including nuclear war, mass starvation, and economic destruction.Les Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Sodety and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 9-12 ~language modified~ Treating space as a commons solves orbital debris. States already agree to a limited regime of this type.Silverstein and Panda ‘3/9 - Benjamin Silverstein ~research analyst for the Space Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. MA, International Relations, Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs BA, International Affairs, George Washington University~ and Ankit Panda ~Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. AB, Princeton University~, "Space Is a Great Commons. It’s Time to Treat It as Such." Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Web). March 9, 2021. Accessed Dec. 13, 2021. https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/03/09/space-is-great-commons.-it-s-time-to-treat-it-as-such-pub-84018 AT | 1/7/22 |
JF - Cybernetics v1Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: King CP | Judge: Henry Eberhart 1ACThe world computer structures postmodernity – qualities become quantities as racial capitalism creates information and maps codes onto people. Information is not neutral, but produced by white supremacist and capitalist ideology. When this information is plugged into algorithms, the result is profit for some and dispossession for the rest. Global crises are not independent events, but codified by profit algorithms.Beller 1 The world computer alienates labor as data, turning life activity into bits for the market in the colonial dehumanization of the digital subject. Our consciousness is enclosed by the technical profit-motive, stealing from the oppressed their forms of collectivity and democracy. It’s not over yet, but capitalism saps our political capacity every time it encloses our communication.Beller 2 Information is gathered in the sociohistorical context of computational racial capitalism – knowledge is stained by a logic of commodification. Without first addressing the computational roots of postmodern knowledge, information is merely a fetish. This socially conditioned information is the OS of racial capitalism: allocating resources and violence unequally throughout the world.Beller 3 Ontological claims project capitalist informatics onto beings – data and quantities are fitted to the metaphysical subject to alienate and exploit them.Beller 4 Information alienates us via colonization and extraction, but we refuse to think about its material sources, letting it control our thought. This relegates us to the factory code, where we think in production.Beller 5 The computational mode of thought colonizes all meaning, expression, and thought. The only way to resist is to interrogate computational informatics that dominate under racial capitalism and support it. The role of the ballot is to endorse a critical poetics that disavows the capture of expressivity and overflows meaning into the utopian not-yet. This robs racial capital of its computational power and restores political potency.Beller 6 This methodology moves beyond politics to evade capture by communicative capital – liberatory movements must dwell in the nonrepresentable, the borderlands, the undercommons, the dead and the dispossessed.Beller 7 The cosmic scale of new imperialism demands a reformatting of ontology to enable extraction and abstraction. Just as earth-bound imperialism legitimizes itself with violence, space colonization creates new information about being, knowing, and producing that extends violent relationships into outer space in order to outsource capitalism off-world. The impacts are not only ontological and epistemic, but physical: the world computer creates information that conditions our being and action. The extension of computational racial capitalism into outer space brings militarization, neo-apartheid, and worker exploitation. Thus, I affirm resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.Beller 8 The drive to space colonization quantizes human life by overcoming any qualitative barriers and prepares outer space for algorithmic extraction.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 | 2/19/22 |
ND - AlienationTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Patrick Fox | 11/6/21 |
ND - CapitalismTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: DTHS HV | Judge: Zac Davis 1AC1. Capitalism is unsustainable – causes environmental crisis, fascism, violence, instability, and over-commodificationRobinson 14 2. Capitalism destroys commodifies every aspect of human life and restricts our freedom to engage in social activities.Shaviro 15 3. Endless economic growth under capitalism is actively destroying the climate – socialist alternatives are necessary to solve warming.Dawson 19 As an educator, the role of your ballot is to link your social location to the broader struggle against capitalism. To clarify, vote for the debater who presents the best strategy to combat capitalism. Educational spaces like debate are uniquely key to creating future revolutionaries, and judges are responsible for facilitating the conversations that create class-consciousness.McLaren and Farahmandpur ‘01 AdvocacyI affirm Resolved: "A just government ought to recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike."Strikes are an articulation of worker power over production – they halt the operation of capitalist society and refuse capitalist organization of laborTronti 1966 Worker recognition of the power of refusal is the starting point for political organizing – tactics combined with mass passivity bring capital to its knees. History proves – Bolshevik and Spanish revolutionaries came from the trade union movement and organized into militant revolutions.Tronti 1966 Collective trade union movements organized into socialist parties succeed – Greece proves.Dean 16 Underview
4. Post-modernism critiques injustice without providing feasible solutions – this makes resistance impossible and reifies capitalism. Post-modernist kritiks can’t solve case and reject the most important anti-capitalist strategies.Cole 13 | 11/6/21 |
ND - Pettit LayTournament: Blue Key | Round: 4 | Opponent: Coral Springs LV | Judge: Jose Denis 1AC – PettitI affirm resolved: A just government ought to recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike. FramingEvery person must recognize their ability to pursue their desires and ethical goals as a necessary good not contingent on the will of others. We must recognize our right to act autonomously in order to be moral agents.Alan Gewirth writes in 1984, Alan (1984) "The Ontological Basis of Natural Law: A Critique and an Alternative," American Journal of Jurisprudence: Vol. 29 : Iss. 1 , Article 5. http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ajj/vol29/iss1/5 *bracketed for gendered language* This has 2 important implications:1. Agency is inescapable since to engage in any enterprise is to engage in agency.2. Agency is a precondition to be able to act ethically because it requires you recognize yourself as the cause of your own actions.Therefore, my value is freedom. There are two models of freedom—the non-interference model and the non-domination model. The non-interference model holds that freedom is violated if someone is actually interfered with, whereas the non-domination model holds that freedom is violated if it is possible for someone to be arbitrarily exploited by an institution.You should prefer non-domination – the non-interference model can’t ground political legitimacy as it would reject all use of the state. That’s obviously bad because we need limited government authority to protect our freedoms.Dr. Phillip Pettit of Princeton University argues in 2012 that Philip Pettit, "Legitimacy and Justice in Republican Perspective" Current Legal Problems, 2012 By distinguishing between arbitrary and non-arbitrary interference, the non-domination model can ground political legitimacy and justify state interference. However, it still prevents the state from oppressing its citizens.Pettit continues that Philip Pettit, "Legitimacy and Justice in Republican Perspective" Current Legal Problems, 2012 Thus, my value criterion is consistency with freedom as non-domination.To clarify, it’s not a question of maximizing non-domination in certain instances, but rather having institutional constraints that prevent domination.Prefer additionally –Topic specificity – the framework of non-domination was specifically intended to answer the question of how a just government should distribute rights. Therefore, when discussing this resolution, we should prefer my framework because it’s tailored to be used in debates like this one. Contention 1 is the inherent domination of laborWorkers do not truly make free contracts of labor – the labor market is fundamentally coercive because workers only choice other than labor is starvation. This doesn’t mean work is bad, but it does mean that workers must have methods of maintaining their freedom.Dr. Alex Gourevitch of Brown University argues in 2016:Gourevitch, Alex. "Quitting work but not the job: Liberty and the right to strike." Perspectives on Politics 14.2 (2016): 307. Yoaks The right to strike is a means of reversing employer domination – it challenges the structural relationship between employer and employed and turns the dominating power dynamic on its head.Gourevitch continues:Gourevitch, Alex. "Quitting work but not the job: Liberty and the right to strike." Perspectives on Politics 14.2 (2016): 307. Yoaks Contention 2 is specific workplace exploitationWorkplaces are a site of personal domination that transfer worker liberty to managerial and discretion according to exploitative contracts – strikes challenge thisGourevitch furthers:Gourevitch, Alex. "Quitting work but not the job: Liberty and the right to strike." Perspectives on Politics 14.2 (2016): 307. Yoaks A broad unconditional right to strike should be understood as a right against domination and protects self-determination. Denying workers the ability to strike is a violation of non-domination.Gourevitch asserts in a 2018 article that:Gourevitch, Alex. "The right to strike: A radical view." American Political Science Review 112.4 (2018): 905-917. Yoaks | 10/30/21 |
ND - QatarTournament: USC | Round: Semis | Opponent: Malborough JH | Judge: Panel 1AC – QatarAdvantageMigrant workers in Qatar face widespread wage abuse including delayed and unpaid wages. Even when they are paid, it isn’t enough.Human Rights Watch 20 Migrants and domestic workers are exempt from Qatar’s right to strike – recent reforms structurally exclude them.Amnesty International 20 Qatari migrant workers are exploited and denied basic rights because of the kafala system that denies them organization rights.Human Rights Watch 19 The prohibition against migrant and domestic strikes results in labor struggles being defeated easily – this deters more strikes from occurring and enables labor exploitation.MEE Staff 15 Illegal strikes have worked – they encourage wage recovery, absconding rights, and labor law enforcement. Right to strike is key to broaden the scale of these actions.GCR Staff 19 SolvencyPlan text: The State of Qatar should recognize an unconditional right to strike, including for migrant workers and domestic workers. The legal framework already exists to decriminalize leaving work and recognize the right to organize – the Shura Council and Council of Ministers have can easily pass the plan.Human Rights Watch 20 FramingConsequences are morally relevant:1. Actor Specificity on aggregation – every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.2. Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable. People consistently regard pleasure and pain as good reasons for action, despite the fact that pleasure doesn’t seem to be instrumentally valuable for anything.3. Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first.4. Inclusion – any offense functions under consequentialism and it’s the first framework novices learnThe standard is minimizing structural violence. Prefer addressing the struggles of oppressed groups because we’re cognitively biased against them: we must morally include marginalized communities in order to fight for justice. This justifies reading the plan because we need to elevate the struggles of Qatar’s migrant workers.Winter and Leighton 1999 Frame the round through prioritizing structural, slow impacts because they’re difficult to identify and challenge, which makes it important to discuss them in educational spaces.Davies 19 Prioritize probability because high-magnitude impacts can’t be calculated – mathematics proves. They treat infinitely unlikely events as important because of the compounding effects of link chains.Kessler 08 (Oliver; April 2008; PhD in IR, professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld, and professor of history and theory of IR at the Faculty of Arts; Alternatives, Vol. 33, "From Insecurity to Uncertainty: Risk and the Paradox of Security Politics" p. 211-232) Rejecting reform condescendingly asserts the possibility of radical change is better than the certainty of real improvement. Reform also paves the way for radical changes.Delgado 1987 - Delgado, Richard ~teaches civil rights and critical race theory at University of Alabama School of Law. He has written and co-authored numerous articles and books~, "The Ethereal Scholar: Does Critical Legal Studies Have What Minorities Want?", Harvard Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review, 1987 UnderviewI get 1AR theory – anything else justifies infinite 1NC abuse which outweighs on magnitude. | 12/13/21 |
ND - VulnerabilityTournament: Blue Key | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington EY | Judge: Breigh Platt 1ACOverviewI get 1AR Theory – anything else justifies infinite 1NC abuse which outweighs on magnitude FrameworkEmpathy is the first question of ethics. In order to have a moral obligation to accept or reject the resolution, we must first have moral obligations towards the other. Before debating normative ethics, we must first find the procedure through which we give the other moral value. We must center policy that enables people to recognize the humanity of the other. The concept of the human is a relational subjectivity created in the context of a "we." Our relations to one another determine whose lives are recognizable as fully human. Therefore, life is constituted via our political relationships derived from vulnerability, not just our biological functions.Butler, Judith. Researcher and Professor at UC Berkeley (2004) Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence. London: Verso, Print. (p.20) A politics of grief is crucial to collective consciousness, class or otherwise, because it de-privitizes our phenomenological experience of politics and everyday life. This ensures we recognize others as human and address their struggles.Butler 2 My standard is consistency with a politics of vulnerability that determines our relations to one another and is therefore crucial to making decisions that prioritize human life and prevent violence. I control a key meta-ethical question of how we identify evil and suffering.Butler 3 1. Rights discourse - a politics of vulnerability is a necessary approach to the question of rights because it prevents their de-politiczing affect. Grief ensures an affective attachment to one another as the ruled, as workers, and the collectively passionate in the face of inequality.Butler 4 2. Subjectivity - vulnerability in the face of loss is a core component of subject formation. In order to recognize that one is part of a "we," they must lose something that changes their supposedly isolated "I." We do not need to know what we have lost to participate in a politics of grievability. Relationality is the starting point. An accurate notion of the subject is a prerequisite to ethics because we must tailor obligations to the obligated.Butler 5 ContentionI affirm resolved: A just government ought to recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike. Class violence is rampant and strikes are method of grieving that violence with other workers from across the world. When faced with oppression and exploitation, workers do not seek security or stability, they collectively grieve their loss. They enter mutually vulnerable relationships on the picket line.Brown 10/17 Striking itself is an act of communal vulnerability: Emotional vulnerability to those you walk with and those who support you. Physical vulnerability to cars and security guards. Economic vulnerability when you don’t get paid. Strikers engage in a politics of vulnerability when they stand and support each other in the face of capitalist violence. They do not know if the results will be good or stable, but they embrace the loss as they take to the streets.Morgan 16 AND | 10/29/21 |
SO - Virtue EthicsTournament: Yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward JA | Judge: Amulya Natchukuri
Framework Teleology is the starting point of ethics – we must first ask what is good, or what is the goal of being. The goal of ethics is to reach an end that is only good for its own sake. Thus, the meta-ethic is orienting towards Eudaimonia – the condition of flourishing or living well.
Sharpe 13 Other moral systems collapse into Eudaimonian ethics – obligations to do certain things only exist because they help achieve Eudaimonia. Eudaimonia is the end of ethics. Eudaimonia is only achievable via virtuous action The standard is consistency with the golden mean – acting virtuously by tacking between excess and deficiency of virtue. Only this form of virtuous action achieves eudemonia.
Greco 11 2. Constitutivism - Virtue ethics is constitutive to debate, as by debating we are exercising intellectual courage and gaining understanding. Only virtue ethics is capable of explaining why intellectual understanding is good. Any other moral framework would not justify debate, destroying the activity Greco 11 5. Virtue ethics are a good standard to base health ethics on – we already do it and it ensures care is high-quality Contention
2. Biotechnology access is hampered by intellectual property protections and open sourcing in a virtuous way solves all of those issues. | 9/18/21 |
SO - WeheliyeTournament: Yale | Round: 6 | Opponent: Byram Hills SH | Judge: Eric Endsley
Framework Legal recognition of rights and personhood exclude those outside legal definitions of humanity and erase those who become human. Just as limited and genocidal court recognition of indigenous sovereignty justified the Dred Scott decision, legal rights recreate violence against vulnerable flesh and divide the oppressed into distinct groups. Legal personhood is constructed in relation to “Man,” a white, male, propertied, liberal subject. Recognizing citizenship as humanity allows whiteness to insert itself in legally defined color lines based on phenotypical difference – leads to non-white and legally non-human bodies existing in oppressive liminal spaces. Pursuing recognition in liberal institutions focuses incompletely on one form of subjugation – attempts for legal inclusion only define the included as “Men” in contrast to those considered subhuman. This reifies continued violence against those not recognized as fully human by the state. The path forward is to embrace habeas viscus, a definition of humanity based on the flesh rather than constructs of the subject defined in relation to the law and whiteness. Habeas viscus opens avenues for guerrilla warfare as it removes politics from the realm of the Man, instead opting for a collective consciousness of the oppressed. Thus, the role of the ballot is to embrace habeas viscus. This requires a disconnection from legal recognition of personhood.
Advocacy Intellectual property law is inherently intertwined with racial concepts of citizenship and creatorship. WTO protections attempt to include creators in the liberal order of knowledge, but end up incorporating some innovators into the category of Man while further repressing the rest. IP laws can only perceive western subjects, others cannot be creators. Combatting racist IP protections challenges racist and colonial knowledge production and creates hope for a human beyond the world of Man. Inquiry into IP racism is uniquely key to interrogating racism as a whole. It’s inextricable – IP is inherently racist, especially in the medical field – it prioritizes the Western rendition of ownership. IP laws enable western “inventors” to trample over traditional knowledge based in community history. Communities of habeas viscus are destroyed to make way for western profits. Parthasarathy 20 | 9/19/21 |
Theory - PICs BadTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Patrick Fox | 11/6/21 |
Theory - Round ReportsTournament: USC | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AL | Judge: David Dosch
Fairness is a voter because Education is voter because: Disclosure is drop the debater: dropping the arg can’t rectify past abuse because their practice wasn’t an argument No RVI’s: Competing Interps: | 12/12/21 |
Theory - non black afropessimism badTournament: Apple Valley | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Evergreen Valley Independent SS | Judge: Panel Standards:
2. Co-option - afropessimism is a survival strategy used by black debaters to resist an activity full of racism – co-opting it into a strategic kritk as a non-black debater takes away its radicality and unpredictability. And, reps come first, meaning they should lose
2. Reversibility: once oppressive rhetoric is used it cannot be taken back | 11/7/21 |
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