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| Grapevine | 1 | Opponent: McNeil AR | Judge: Favian Sun 1AC structural violence |
| Grapevine | 4 | Opponent: Karan Shah | Judge: Dylan Jones 1AC Kant larp |
| Greenhill | 1 | Opponent: Cabot JB | Judge: Nick Flemming 1AC Covid |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Andrew Gong 1AC Crispr |
| Greenhill | 6 | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: David Dosch 1AC Weed |
| Greenhill | Octas | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Tarun, Serena, Truman 1AC Covid |
| Greenhill | Quarters | Opponent: Lexington BF | Judge: Annie, Jp, Javier 1AC Covid |
| Longhorn Classic | 1 | Opponent: Parker Traxler | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1AC Kant |
| Loyola | 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake OF | Judge: Richard Li 1AC Hwl aff |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: Yerba Buena KN | Judge: Chris Castillo 1AC Soft left |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: Adam Mimou | Judge: Valorie Lam 1AC evergreening |
| Loyola | Octas | Opponent: Tommy Yu | Judge: panel 1AC tricks |
| Valley RR | 1 | Opponent: Sequioa AS | Judge: Jayanne, Eric 1AC Jordon |
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0 -- Contact InfoTournament: Contact Info | Round: 4 | Opponent: you | Judge: lolz Phone: 4699961855 | 9/4/21 |
ND - DA - Air TrafficTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Parker Traxler | Judge: Javier Navarrete Low Air Traffic Strikes now due to lack of Right to Strike – the plan reverses penalties.Youn 19 Soo Youn 1-22-2019 "Why TSA and FAA workers can't just go on strike to end the shutdown" https://abcnews.go.com/US/tsa-faa-workers-strike-end-shutdown/story?id=60540070 (Freelance Journalist)Elmer AND . But as a union leader, he's well aware of the penalties. Trade is rebounding now.Wood 9-16 Laura Wood 9-16-2021 "Global Terminal Tractor Market (2021 to 2026) - Advancements in Terminal Tractors Presents Opportunities" https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2021/09/16/2298189/28124/en/Global-Terminal-Tractor-Market-2021-to-2026-Advancements-in-Terminal-Tractors-Presents-Opportunities.html (Senior Press Manager at Research and Markets)Elmer AND pandemic-induced collapse that bottomed out in the second quarter of 2020. Strong Airline Industry key to global trade and the economy – strikes obliterate these benefits.PWC 16, Pricewaterhouse Coopers. "Economic impact of air traffic control strikes in Europe." (2016). (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP)Elmer AND this linkage directly into our economic modelling of the impact of ATC strikes. Collapse of Trade causes Hotspot Escalation – goes Nuclear.Kampf 20 David Kampf 6-16-2020 "How COVID-19 Could Increase the Risk of War" https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28843/how-covid-19-could-increase-the-risk-of-war (Senior PhD Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School)Elmer AND deterrents to conflict declining around the world, major wars could soon return. | 12/4/21 |
ND - NC - Util v2Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Parker Traxler | Judge: Javier Navarrete Ethics begin a posteriori.1. Knowledge is based on experience – I wouldn’t know 2+24 without experience of objects nor the color red without some experience of color. We can’t obtain evidence of goodness without experience.==== 2. Indifference – Even if there are apriori moral truths, I can choose to ignore them. Cognition is binding – if I put my hand on a hot stove, I can’t turn off my natural aversion to it.The standard is act hedonistic util. Prefer –1 – Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2 – No intent-foresight distinction – if I foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of my deliberation since its intrinsic to my action3 – Actor spec – governments lack wills or intentions and inevitably deals with tradeoffs – outweighs because agents have differing obligations.4 – No act omission distinction – choosing not to act is an action in of itself since you had to make an active decision to omit. Walking past a drowning baby and choosing not to save it is a cognitive decision you were faced with and you actively decided to keep walking b) warranting a distinction gives agents the permissible choice of omitting from any ethical action since omissions lack culpability.No calc indicts – a) no philosophy actually says that consequences don’t matter at all since otherwise it would indict every theory since they use causal events to understand how their ethics have worked in the past and through the justification of premises b) we don’t need consequences – winning hedonism proves we’re the only one with impacts to it which means risk of offense framing is sufficient c) they’re blippy nibs that set the aff at an unfair advantage since they only have to win one while we have to beat them all – voting issue for fairnessExtinction first –1 – Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible2 – Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessities3 – Moral obligation – allowing people to die is unethical and should be prevented because it creates ethics towards other people4 – Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical5 – Moral uncertainty – if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true – we ought to preserve the world to keep debating about it | 12/4/21 |
ND - Th - Performativity badTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Parker Traxler | Judge: Javier Navarrete Interpretation: Debaters must not claim that act of debating concedes the validity of their framework.Violation: You read a performativity standard and gave it a pre fiat implication.Standards:1~ Strat Scew: A~ It allows you to extend one argument to invalidate 99 of the framework debate because contesting your framework concedes its authority which 1~ ensures the aff has a massive structural advantage and 2~ Puts me in a double bind where I either dump on performativity and undercover something else or auto lose the phil debate. B~ Performativity creates a reducto-ad-absurdum where if I respond to it, you will just say that I relied your framework to respond to it creating a paradox. That makes the framework debate unwinnable and irresolvable. Resolvability is an independent voter since fairness and education presuppose the judge can make a coherent decision.2~ Phil Ed: A~ Performativity encourages debaters to only read frameworks with good performativity warrants such as Agonism or Libertarianism. That 1~ Discourages researching different framework’s relationship to the topic and 2~ prevents debaters from learning a wider variety of philosophy. B~ It kills clash since you never have to respond to 90 of objections to the framework since they all go away if you win one discourse argument. Phil ed is a voter since it teaches debaters how to determine good and bad in the world. C~ My interpretation solves objections that we won’t learn philosophy of language since 1~ You can still read these arguments without giving them a pre fiat implication and 2~ It encourages debaters to represent linguistics accurately instead of bastardizing them in order to win rounds.Voters:Fairness and education are voters – debate’s a game that needs rules to evaluate it and education gives us portable skills for life like research and thinking.Drop the debater – a) they have a 7-6 rebuttal advantage and the 2ar to make args I can’t respond to, b) it deters future abuse and sets a positive norm.Use competing interps – a) reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention since we don’t know your bs meter, b) collapses to competing interps – we justify 2 bright lines under an offense defense paradigm just like 2 interps. C) judges don’t vote a disad if there is a reasonable amount of offense.No RVIs – a) illogical – you shouldn’t win for being fair – it’s a litmus test for engaging in substance, b) norming – I can’t concede the counterinterp if I realize I’m wrong which forces me to argue for bad norms, c) chilling effect – forces you to split your 2AR so you can’t collapse and misconstrue the 2NR, d) topic ed – prevents 1AR blip storm scripts and allows us to get back to substance after resolving theoryEvaluate T before 1AR theory – a) norms – we only have a couple months to set T norms but can set 1AR theory norms anytime, b) magnitude – T affects a larger portion of the debate since the aff advocacy determines every speech after itThey can’t weigh the case—lack of preround prep means their truth claims are untested which you should presume false—they’re also only winning case because we couldn’t engage with itNo impact turns to T—T is a procedural that determines case’s validity, and every argument says the aff is bad | 12/4/21 |
SO - CP - Consult WHOTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake OF | Judge: Richard Li Counterplan Text – Member states of the World Trade Organization ought to consult the World Health Organization on whether or not to ~Member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines for COVID-19.~. The World Health Organization ought to publicly declare that their decision on ~the Plan~ will represent their future decisions on all intellectual property protections on medicines.WHO Cred key to Global Right to Health – medicine access is critical.Note the Bottom Paragraph is at the bottom of the PDF – I put a paragraph break to indicate it as such – no words are missing. AND of health services. Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch. Right to Health solves Nationalist Populism.Friedman 17 Eric Friedman March 2017 "New WHO Leader Will Need Human Rights to Counter Nationalistic Populism" https://www.hhrjournal.org/2017/03/new-who-leader-will-need-human-rights-to-counter-populism/ (JD, Project Leader of the Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC)Elmer AND , and FCGH leadership ought to be a core part of that endeavor. Populism is an existential threat.de Waal 16 Alex de Waal 12-5-2016 "Garrison America and the Threat of Global War" http://bostonreview.net/war-security-politics-global-justice/alex-de-waal-garrison-america-and-threat-global-war (Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School at Tufts University)Elmer AND —without having to suffer the catastrophic traumas of trying everything else first. | 9/4/21 |
SO - CP - National Assembly scientistsTournament: Greenhill | Round: 4 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Andrew Gong Text: A nation appointed international panel of scientists including National Academies and corresponding organizations should reduce IP protections for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats.and manage similar conflicts of interest between intellectual property.International panel of science diplomats can rule over IP—-that’s key to science diplomacy.Hajjar and Greenbaum 18 ~David; Dean Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State, and a recent Senior Fellow in Science Policy at the Brookings Institute; Steven; Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State; "Leveraging Diplomacy for Managing Scientific Challenges," American Diplomacy; September 18; https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2018/09/leveraging-diplomacy-for-managing-scientific-challenges-an-opportunity-to-navigate-the-future-of-science/~~ Justin AND or funding agency panelists for the advancement of science toward the greater good. Solves every existential threat.Haynes 18—research associate in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School (Trevor, "Science Diplomacy: Collaboration in a rapidly changing world," http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/science-diplomacy-collaboration-rapidly-changing-world/, dml) Re-Cut Justin AND can to foster collaboration. The future of human civilization depends on it. | 9/19/21 |
SO - CP - ProductionsTournament: Greenhill | Round: Octas | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Tarun, Serena, Truman Text – the United States ought toanonymously invest $25 billion into 25 production lines dedicated solely to COVID-19 vaccines to boost global vaccine production managed by the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.distribute 8 billion doses of COVID vaccines using an equitable distribution framework prioritizing developing countries in the Global South.The CP solves the entirety of the case and does it faster.Stankiewicz 21 Mike Stankiewicz 5-6-2021"Opinion: For just $25 billion, the U.S. could jump-start a project to quickly vaccinate the entire world against COVID" https://www.marketwatch.com/story/for-just-25-billion-the-u-s-could-jump-start-a-project-to-quickly-vaccinate-the-entire-world-against-covid-11614898552 (a press officer in Public Citizen's communication's department, where he focuses on legislative policy and health-orientated advocacy)Elmer AND , it is also not in our own economic interest to do so. | 9/20/21 |
SO - DA - China RiseTournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cabot JB | Judge: Nick Flemming China is using a lack of alternate COVID vaccines to engage in aggressive vaccine diplomacy and expand influence – the Plan’s increase of access to perceptively more efficacious vaccines devastates those efforts.Zhao 4-29 Suisheng Zhao 4-29-2021 "Why China’s vaccine diplomacy is winning" https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/04/29/why-chinas-vaccine-diplomacy-is-winning/ (Professor and Director of the Center for China–US Cooperation at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver)Elmer AND countries, receive the vaccines they need to finally beat COVID-19. Waivers are a critical issue in the perceptual ineptness of America and the West.Pratt and Levin 4-29 Simon Frankel Pratt and Jamie Levin 4-29-2021 "Vaccines Will Shape the New Geopolitical Order" https://archive.is/OgDcA~~#selection-847.23-857.11 (Simon Frankel Pratt is a lecturer in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies at the University of Bristol. Jamie Levin is an assistant professor of political science at St. Francis Xavier University in Canada.)Elmer AND inequities within already inequitable trade relationships between these countries and the global south. Chinese leadership solves existential threats.Yamei 18 Shen Yamei 18, Deputy Director and Associate Research Fellow of Department for American Studies, China Institute of International Studies, 1-9-2018, "Probing into the "Chinese Solution" for the Transformation of Global Governance," CAIFC, http://www.caifc.org.cn/en/content.aspx?id=4491 AND , refugees, climate change and public hygiene by debt forgiveness and assistance. That solves the Case – China has the vaccine production capacity to vaccinate the world.Mallapaty 6-9 Smriti Mallapaty 6-9-2021 "China is vaccinating a staggering 20 million people a day" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01545-3 (She has a master of science degree in environmental technology from Imperial College London.)Elmer AND is crucial that everything arrives at the right location at the right time." | 9/18/21 |
SO - DA - Climate PatentsTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake OF | Judge: Richard Li Climate Patents and Innovation high now and solving Warming but COVID waiver sets a dangerous precedent for appropriations - the mere threat is sufficient is enough to kill investment.Brand 5-26, Melissa. "Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors." IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/. sid AND is unlikely they will continue to invest at the current and required levels. Private sector innovation is key to solve climate change – short term politicking and priority shifts means government can’t solve alone.Henry 17, Simon. "Climate Change Cannot Be Solved by Governments Alone. How Can the Private Sector Help?" World Economic Forum, 21 Nov. 2017, www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/governments-alone-cannot-halt-climate-change-what-can-private-sector-do/. Programme Director, International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA) sid AND to contribute to the solution to help secure the viability of their businesses. Warming causes ExtinctionKareiva 18, Peter, and Valerie Carranza. "Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back." Futures 102 (2018): 39-50. (Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA)Re-cut by Elmer AND complete scientific understanding when it comes to positive feedback loops and climate change. | 9/4/21 |
SO - DA - Infrastructure PoliticsTournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil AR | Judge: Favian Sun Biden’s infrastructure bill will pass through reconciliation but absolute Dem Unity is key.Turns Structural Violence AND — would sink legislation, Democrats have to satisfy a diverse range of views Pharma backlashes to the Plan – they’re aggressive lobbyists and will do anything to preserve patent rights.Turns Case – Waters down the Plan due to lobbying AND it," she said. "And when the bill finally came Democrat Senators in Big Pharma’s pocket derails the Plan.Sirota 8-23 David Sirota 8-23-2021 "Dem Obstructionists Are Bankrolled By Pharma And Oil" https://www.dailyposter.com/dem-obstructionists-are-bankrolled-by-pharma-and-oil/ (an American journalist, columnist at The Guardian, and editor for Jacobin. He is also a political commentator and radio host based in Denver. He is a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, political spokesperson, and blogger)Elmer AND House, obstructionism from these conservative Democrats could decouple the infrastructure and budget measures Infrastructure reform solves Existential Climate Change – it results in spill-over.USA Today 7-20 7-20-2021 "Climate change is at 'code red' status for the planet, and inaction is no longer an option" https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/07/20/climate-change-biden-infrastructure-bill-good-start/7877118002/ Elmer AND season. And scientists say warming oceans are fueling ever more powerful storms, | 9/10/21 |
SO - DA - InnovationTournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil AR | Judge: Favian Sun 2Pharma innovation is doing great now – answers all your warrants. Biopiracy key to innovationChen, Jim. "There's no such thing as biopiracy... and it's a good thing too." McGeorge L. Rev. 37 (2006): 1.As is true of roughly four-fifths of all known drugs, an effective pharmaceutical remedy for obesity is likely to be derived from a natural source.14 One plausible pharmacological candidate, the cactus Hoodia gordoniis, is prized for its appetite-suppressing, thirst-quenching, and awareness-heightening qualities. What the San people of South Africa have known for thousands of years about the plant they call "Xhoba" languished for three decades in the laboratories of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). 6 Pfizer Corporation eventually acquired the rights to a hoodia-derived compound called P57 (so named because it was the 57th chemical tested) and at one time planned to market a diet drug that would compete against currently available concoctions that rely on the troubled combination of ephedra and caffeine. 7 A safe, effective substitute, if successfully tested and marketed, would earn massive profits. "Purchasers of diet products are often 'pathetically eager' to obtain a slenderer figure."' 8 In July 2003, however, Pfizer withdrew from the project and discontinued clinical development of P57.' 9 The failure to exploit hoodia commercially mooted the immediate question of whether P57's developers owed the San people any compensation. As the stories of neem and the rosy periwinkle illustrate, however, demands for global justice hound almost every effort to extract agricultural or pharmaceutical value from the biological bounty of the developing world. ====Reducing IP protections chills future investment – even the perception of wavering commitment scares off companies.==== AND (accounting for 36 percent of all university patent awards in 2012). 13 ====RandD’s key to innovation – otherwise, future pandemics.==== AND such public health threats to an even greater extent under improved innovation conditions. Evolving superbugs trigger extinction.Srivatsa ’17 (Kadiyali; specialist in pediatric intensive and critical care medicine in the UK. Invented the bacterial identification tool ‘MAYA’; 1-12-2017; "Superbug Pandemics and How to Prevent Them", American Interest; https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/01/12/superbug-pandemics-and-how-to-prevent-them/, Accessed: 8-31-2021; AU) AND most of the medical advances we have made over the past fifty years. | 9/10/21 |
SO - K - Set colTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Adam Mimou | Judge: Valorie Lam Genocidal settlement is a structure, not an event meaning ontological logic of elimination is an everyday manifestation that defines settler identity.Rifkin 14, Mark. Settler common sense: Queerness and everyday colonialism in the American renaissance. U of Minnesota Press, 2014. (Associate Professor of English and WGS at UNC-Greensboro)Elmer AND through which U.S. settler colonialism enacts itself " (xix). That results in land exploitation and ecocide – specifically manifests in knowledge institutions making forefronting Settler Colonialism a prior question.Paperson 17 la paperson or K. Wayne Yang, June 2017, "A Third University is Possible" (an associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, San Diego)Elmer AND As Cindi Mayweather says, "your freedom’s in a bind."~11~ Expansion of medical access is a form of settler colonial biomedical onslaught – humanitarian promotions of health proliferate genocidal assimilation.Klausen 13, Jimmy Casas. "Reservations on hospitality: contact and vulnerability in Kant and indigenous action." Hospitality and World Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2013. 197-221. (Associate Professor in the Instituto de Relações Internacionais at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)Elmer AND peoples is a sickness unto that other perpetual peace Kant mentions: death. Biomedicine itself is invested in colonial exploitation through testing done on indigenous communities to biopiracy and stealing indigenous knowledge.Lift Mode 17 3-10-2017 "Pharmaceutical Colonialism" https://medium.com/@liftmode/pharmaceutical-colonialism-3-ways-that-western-medicine-takes-from-indigenous-communities-3a9339b4f24f (We at Liftmode.com are a team of professionals from a variety of backgrounds, dedicated to the mission of providing the highest quality and highest purity nutritional health supplements on the market. We look specifically for the latest and most promising research in the fields of cognition enhancement, neuroscience and alternative health supplements, and develop commercial strategies to bring these technologies to the marketplace.)Elmer AND benefit the least from pharmaceutical colonialism are the ones who need healthcare the most Vote negative to endorse a cartography of refusalDay 15 Iyko, Associate Professor of English. Chair, Critical Social Thought. "Being or Nothingness: Indigeneity, Antiblackness, and Settler Colonial Critique." Source: Critical Ethnic Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 102-121 Elmer AND states unambiguously, "For Indigenous nations to live, capitalism must die." Reject Reformism or Plan Focus - Challenging the 1AC’s colonialist framework of interpretation is a prior question to whether or not the Aff is a good ideaDeloria Jr. 99 – Member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Professor at University of Colorado Boulder The Aff relegates indigenous possibility to reservation, accelerating death-making – only an orientation of refusal as generative can solve. This the ROTB is to reject systems of settler colonialism.King 17, Tiffany Lethabo. "Humans involved: Lurking in the lines of posthumanist flight." Critical Ethnic Studies 3.1 (2017): 162-185. (Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State)GZ but re-cut by Elmer AND argue, "knowledge to facilitate interdictions on Indigenous and Black life."23 | 9/5/21 |
SO - NC - TTTournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil AR | Judge: Favian Sun The ROB is to determine the truth of falsity of the resolution –1~ Textuality – five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true.That OW –a~ Jurisdiction – judges are constrained through their constitutive purpose and proves it’s a side constraint on what arguments they can vote on.b~ Predictability – people base prep off the pregiven terms in the resolution.2~ Isomorphism – alternative ROBs aren’t binary truth/false because of topic lit biases which increases intervention and takes the debate out of the hands of debaters.3~ Inclusion – any offense functions under it as long as debaters implicate their positions to prove the truth or falsity of the resolution which maximizes substantive clash through ground and is a sequencing question for engaging in debate.4~ Logic – any statement relies on a conception of truth to function – for example, I’m hungry is the same as its true that I’m hungry – logic is a litmus test for any argument and proves your ROB collapse since it relies on truth.Presumption and permissibility negates – a) more often false than true since I can prove something false in infinite ways b) real world policies require positive justification before being adopted c) ought means "moral obligation" so the lack of that obligation means the aff hasn’t fulfilled their burden d) resolved indicates "firmly determined" which means they proactively did something, to negate that means that they aren’t resolved e) permissibility can’t affirm since then anything would be ok which would justify racism – we should be safe and do nothing. f) to negate means to deny the truth of which means if the aff is false you vote negNegate –1~ member is "a part or organ of the body, especially a limb" but an organ can’t have obligations2~ of is to "expressing an age" but the rez doesn’t delineate a length of time3~ the is "denoting a disease or affliction" but the WTO isn’t a disease4~ to is to "expressing motion in the direction of (a particular location)" but the rez doesn’t have a location5~ reduce is to "(of a person) lose weight, typically by dieting" but IP doesn’t have a body to lose weight.6~ for is "in place of" but medicines aren’t replacing IP.7~ medicine is "(especially among some North American Indian peoples) a spell, charm, or fetish believed to have healing, protective, or other power" but you can’t have IP for a spell. | 9/10/21 |
SO - NC - UtilTournament: Grapevine | Round: 4 | Opponent: Karan Shah | Judge: Dylan Jones Ethics begin a posteriori.1. Knowledge is based on experience – I wouldn’t know 2+24 without experience of objects nor the color red without some experience of color. We can’t obtain evidence of goodness without experience.==== 2. Indifference – Even if there are apriori moral truths, I can choose to ignore them. Cognition is binding – if I put my hand on a hot stove, I can’t turn off my natural aversion to it.The standard is act hedonistic util. Prefer –1 – Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2 – No intent-foresight distinction – if I foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of my deliberation since its intrinsic to my action3 – Actor spec – governments lack wills or intentions and inevitably deals with tradeoffs – outweighs because agents have differing obligations.4 – No act omission distinction – choosing not to act is an action in of itself since you had to make an active decision to omit. Walking past a drowning baby and choosing not to save it is a cognitive decision you were faced with and you actively decided to keep walking b) warranting a distinction gives agents the permissible choice of omitting from any ethical action since omissions lack culpability.No calc indicts – a) no philosophy actually says that consequences don’t matter at all since otherwise it would indict every theory since they use causal events to understand how their ethics have worked in the past and through the justification of premises b) we don’t need consequences – winning hedonism proves we’re the only one with impacts to it which means risk of offense framing is sufficient c) they’re blippy nibs that set the aff at an unfair advantage since they only have to win one while we have to beat them all – voting issue for fairnessExtinction first –1 – Forecloses future improvement – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible which proves moral uncertainty2 – Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessities3 – Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical | 9/11/21 |
SO - T - MedicineTournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: David Dosch Interpretation – Marijuana isn’t a MedicineMosley 20, Mark. "Medical Marijuana Is a Dangerous Lie." Emergency Medicine News 42.8 (2020): 2-3. (Dr. Mark Mosley is an emergency medicine physician in Wichita, Kansas and is affiliated with Wesley Healthcare Center. He received his medical degree from University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.)Elmer AND willow tree in place of acetylsalicylic acid, the active ingredient in aspirin. FDA and CDC definitions prove.CDC ’18 (CDC; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 3-7-2018; "Is marijuana medicine?"; CDC; https://www.cdc.gov/marijuana/faqs/is-marijuana-medicine.html; Accessed: 9-4-2021; AU) AND way to know what kind and how much of a chemical you’re getting. ====Violation – the resolution calls for reductions on IP protections for medicines, but the aff prevents future patents for cannabis-derived products.==== Vote neg for limits and ground. Expanding the definition of "medicine" to anything that could be used in a medical setting floods the neg with cases to prep for – everything from new methods of chemo to upgrading stethoscopes becomes topical.Excluding Marijuana from the Topic is good for Limits – there’s infinite advantage areas like Cartels, Treaties, Medical Research, Cotton, Terror, Education, and Competitiveness – an area that could be a Topic by itself – adds on 1/5 of an entire College Debate Topic to thousands of medicines.At best – they’re extra-T since Cannabis isn’t intrinsically medicinal, it just has medicinal uses so they would reduce Recreational Marijuana patents too which isn’t topical and explodes limits.Johnson 20 Ian Johnson 1-20-2020 "Cannabis Patents 2000 – 2019: Trends Following Legalization" https://plantlaw.com/2020/01/20/cannabis-trends-medical-recreational/ (Registered Patent Agent, Plant and Planet Law Firm)Elmer AND below demonstrates the growth of the recreational sector’s share of cannabis patent activity. | 9/19/21 |
SO - T - ReduceTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake OF | Judge: Richard Li 1~ Interpretation - Reduce means permanent reduction – it’s distinct from "waive" or "suspend."Reynolds 59 (Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents ~NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL~ Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959, lexis) AND or degrade. The word "reduce" seems adequately to indicate permanency. 2~ Violation – the plan waives intellectual property protections temporarily, which is an indefinite suspension. That’s 1AC ~WTO Recommendation~ "a waiver from the implementation, application and enforcement".~Pre-empting the We Meet~ – Plan Text in a Vacuum is a useless guideline since words are contextually defined based on function – the only basis for determining Topicality should be if the implementation of the Plan as per their 1AC solvency evidence follows the directional meaning of the Topic’s intent – anything else allows the 1AR to re-contextualize what the Plan says forcing the 1NC to predict infinite 1AR spin since they’re not tied to their evidence.3~ Vote neg for limits and neg ground – re-instatement under any infinite number of conditions doubles aff ground – every plan becomes either temporary or permanent – you cherry-pick the best criteria and I must prep every aff while they avoid core topic discussions like reduction-based DAs which decks generics like Pharma Innovation and Bio-Tech.4~ Paradigm Issues –a~ Topicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability.b~ Use Competing Interps – 1~ Topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical and 2~ Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation.c~ No RVI’s - 1~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. | 9/4/21 |
SO - T - Reduce vs WeedTournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: David Dosch 1~ Interpretation – Reduce means to annul.Black’s Law 90 Black’s Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Reduce" https://dictionary.thelaw.com/reduce/ Elmer That means the Aff has to cancel IP protections in their entirety, they can’t just modify it.Black’s Law 90 Black’s Law Dictionary 2ND ED. "Annul" https://thelawdictionary.org/annul/ AND re Morrow’s Estate, 204 Pa. 484, 54 Atl. 342. 2~ Violation – They "delay enforcement" which is a modification, not a complete annulment3~ Standards –a~ Neg Ground – Core Neg Generics like Innovation and Biotech Heg are predicated on scope of effect – minor modifications in how long a patent lasts for or what it effects allows the 1AR to minimize our links to zero which destroys being Neg on a Topic w/ very little Generic Ground.b~ Limits – Allowing Affs to make patent modifications explodes Aff ground by three-fold because for all four intellectual property protections for every medicine MULTIPLIED by different time modifications, different scope modifications which makes predictable preparation and in-depth clash impossible.4~ TVA – eliminate the enforcement of all cannabis patents – solves their offense.5~ Paradigm Issues –a~ Topicality is Drop the Debater – it’s a fundamental baseline for debate-ability.b~ Use Competing Interps – 1~ Topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical and 2~ Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation.c~ No RVI’s - 1~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, 2~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and 3~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for not being abusive. | 9/19/21 |
SO - Th - MinksTournament: Greenhill | Round: Octas | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Tarun, Serena, Truman A~ Interpretation: Debaters must not misrepresent the content of cards or the intent of authorsB~ Three violations, all in the Scholer 21 evidence1~ The evidence is not talking about human extinction, but the virus going extinct – this is the exact opposite of their impact2~ It’s not about humans, it’s about minks – there’s a photo of a mink in the doc in case you need to be convinced they aren’t humans AND a bill to interim ban Danish mink production until the end of 2021. 3~ The authors specifically say this article should not be used for guiding practice – screenshot belowwww.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.05.21260005v1.full.pdf+html Miscutting is a voting issue - kills fairness because debaters can just make up cards, giving them access to "evidence" that nobody else can find, which creates a structural imbalance.Drop the debater to deter future abuse – uniquely key for evidence ethics because unlike something like condo, you have to be caught miscutting evidence, which means debaters think they can get away with it. It should not be my obligation to read through all of the small text of their cards because I’m scared that the authors don’t actually say what the opponent says they say. It’s an unreasonable burden to place on debaters to expect us to have read through the source PDF of every card any debater reads, so it’s important that we can trust the validity of evidence, and the only way to ensure this is to have an extremely severe punishment for ev ethics violations. AND DTA regresses – we don’t know if you’re lying about everything else in the aff, so rejecting it is necessary. | 9/20/21 |
SO - Th - Spec - EnforcementTournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: McNeil AR | Judge: Favian Sun Interpretation – the Affirmative must present a delineated enforcement mechanism for the Plan. There is no normal means since terms are negotiated contextually among member states.WTO No Date "Whose WTO is it anyway?" https://www.wto.org/english/thewto'e/whatis'e/tif'e/org1'e.htm Elmer AND , for example, influence a country’s policy by threatening to withhold credit. Violation: they don’tStandards1~ Shiftiness- They can redefine the 1AC’s enforcement mechanism in the 1AR which allows them to recontextualize their enforcement mechanism to wriggle out of DA’s since all DA links are predicated on type of enforcement i.e. sanctions bad das, domestic politics das off of backlash, information research sharing da if they put monetary punishments, or trade das.2~ Real World - Policy makers will always specify how the mandates of the plan should be endorsed. It also means zero solvency, absent spec, states can circumvent the Aff’s policy since there is no delineated way to enforce the affirmative which means there’s no way to actualize any of their solvency arguments.ESpec isn’t regressive or arbitrary- it’s an active part of the WTO is central to any advocacy about international IP law since the only uniqueness of a reduction of IP protections is how effective its enforcement isCi no rvis dtd 1nc theory first fairness and education | 9/10/21 |
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