Opponent: lincoln east high eb | Judge: austin broussard
1ac - butler 1nc - a prioris bad police pic racist strikes cp hobbes nc case 1ar - all 2nr - racist strikes cp hobbes nc 2ar - same
apple valley
4
Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: leo matthes
1ac - hegemony 1nc - cap k racist strikes cp hobbes nc case 1ar - grammar da condo bad pics bad all 2nr - shells pic hobbes 2ar - pics bad
apple valley
5
Opponent: northern valley js | Judge: aryan jasani
1ac - pettit 1nc - tournament name theory racist strikes hobbes nc case 1ar - condo bad pics bad all 2nr - ivi shells hobbes 2ar - pics bad
apple valley
Doubles
Opponent: iowa west nw | Judge: tajaih robinson, wyatt hatfield, mia berman
1ac - agonism acc no neg nibs must defend squo tricks 1nc - rvi on ac shells must disclose at the flip racist strikes cp hobbes nc ivis case 1ar - combo shell out of round violations bad hobbes 2nr - rvi on afc 1ar shells hobbes 2ar - out of round violations bad
apple valley
Quarters
Opponent: harker as | Judge: samantha mcloughlin, derek ying, chris castillo
1ac - eu 1nc - cap k racist strikes cp hobbes nc case 1ar - condo bad ivi on hobbes all 2nr - condo bad ivi cap k 2ar - case cap
apple valley
Semis
Opponent: dths hv | Judge: tajaih robinson, chris castillo, silma bathily
1ac - semiotic insurrection 1nc - t-worker police pic kant nc case 1ar - impact turn on t kant bad all 2nr - t police pic case 2ar - same
apple valley
Finals
Opponent: strake jw | Judge: lawrence zhou, silma bathily, jalyn wu
1ac - courts util 1nc - cap k racist strikes cp hobbes nc case 1ar - ivi on hobbes condo bad all 2nr - ivi condo bad cap k 2ar - case cap k
blue key
1
Opponent: bellarmine ak | Judge: sabrina callahan
1ac - biopower 1nc - new affs bad t-worker hobbes case 1ar - rvi all 2nr - hobbes biopower turns 2ar - biopower
blue key
4
Opponent: strake jw | Judge: curtis chang
1ac - util international law afc ivi 1nc - police cp hobbes nc particularism hijack 1ar - afc all 2nr - afc hobbes 2ar - ivi
blue key
6
Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: arun mehra
1ac - whole res util 1nc - police cp hobbes nc particularism nc case 1ar - hobbes niemi condo bad must be functionally and textually competitive 2nr - shells hobbes 2ar - niemi
blue key
Doubles
Opponent: king at | Judge: sanjana bhatnagar, wyatt hatfield, eshwar mohan
1ac - kant tricks acc 1nc - a prioris bad hobbes nc particularism nc case 1ar - same 2nr - ivi on spikes hobbes 2ar - same
bronx
1
Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: andrew lee
1ac - covid 1nc - wto cp kant case 1ar - condo bad process bad must have a solvency advocate kant ivi kant turns 2nr - shells kant 2ar - kant
bronx
3
Opponent: mcdowell sa | Judge: doron darnov
1ac - fem k 1nc - disclosure kant case 1ar - all rvi 2nr - disclosure fem 2ar - rvi fem
bronx
Octas
Opponent: bergen county ak | Judge: nikita tanguturi, grant brown, anand rao
Opponent: american heritage broward ss | Judge: mark kivimaki
1ac - patent the nc 1nc - t-fwk kant case 1ar - rvi kant 2nr - same 2ar - rvi
greenhill
5
Opponent: marlborough wr | Judge: david dosch
1ac - covid 1nc - wto cp midterms da case 1ar - condo bad process bad all 2nr - wto cp 2ar - midterms L
greenhill
3
Opponent: strake ks | Judge: william freedman
1ac - kant trix util 1nc - tt bad kant 1ar - all 2nr - kant 2ar - kant
greenhill
2
Opponent: harker pg | Judge: tom evnen
1ac - trade secrets 1nc - must disclose contact info trade secret pic kant nc case 1ar - condo bad all 2nr - condo bad kant 2ar - util
loyola
5
Opponent: lynbrook md | Judge: andrew torrez
1ac - util 1nc - kant case 1ar - all 2nr - util kant 2ar - kant
loyola
4
Opponent: strake ks | Judge: connor self
1ac - kant afc trix util adv 1nc - wto cp util case 1ar - alt actor fiat bad condo bad agent cp bad "stupid" k case 2nr - multiple shells bad all 2ar - alt actor fiat bad
loyola
2
Opponent: mcneil sc | Judge: phoenix pittman
1ac - setcol 1nc - agent cp util nc innovation da case 1ar - all 2nr - agent cp 2ar - all
nano nagle
4
Opponent: harker as | Judge: ben cortez
1ac - covid 1nc - wto agent cp kant nc case 1ar - condo bad competition all 2nr - wto agent cp shells 2ar - perm
nano nagle
2
Opponent: proof dr | Judge: lukas krause
1ac - evergreening 1nc - tjfs bad kant nc innovation econ da 1ar - all 2nr - permissibility econ case 2ar - same
nano nagle
6
Opponent: southlake carroll ep | Judge: emmiee malyugina
1ac - weed 1nc - wto agent cp kant nc case 1ar - condo bad process bad all 2nr - shells kant case 2ar - util kant
nano nagle
Octas
Opponent: sage mp | Judge: vishan chaudhary, patrick fox, quentin clark
1ac - jordan 1nc - kant case 1ar - all 2nr - kant 2ar - util
please
1
Opponent: no | Judge: bully
how's life
scarsdale
1
Opponent: eden prairie ag | Judge: micah thode
1ac - ag 1nc - cap k tribal law cp hobbes nc case 1ar - hobbes ivi all 2nr - hobbes tribal law cap k 2ar - case cp k
scarsdale
3
Opponent: southlake carroll sd | Judge: sai karavadi
1ac - teachers 1nc - t-workers strikes cp cap k hobbes nc case 1ar - condo bad all 2nr - condo bad cap k case 2ar - same
scarsdale
6
Opponent: edgemont aa | Judge: andrew chin
1ac - lay 1nc - same 1ar - same 2nr - same 2ar - same
scarsdale
Octas
Opponent: harrison jp | Judge: daniel zhang, mariel cruz, derek ying
1ac - prison strikes 1nc - t-worker pic cap k kant case 1ar - rvi all 2nr - rvi cap k 2ar - case cap k
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully i’m on debatedrills - the following url has our roster, conflict, policy, code of conduct, relevant team policies, and harassment/bullying complaint form: https://www.debatedrills.com/debate-club?ld
12/18/21
0 - navigation
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully 0 - contact, navigation, basic info 1 - theory interps/any generic position so - sept/oct nd - nov/dec jf - jan/feb
nc - phil/trix k - kritik th - theory t - topicality da - disad
12/18/21
0 - wiki errors, disclosure info
Tournament: please | Round: 1 | Opponent: no | Judge: bully here's a list of all the things i'll always disclose on my wiki - if u don't see them, that probably means that the wiki is broken/i forgot so pls contact me before u run disclosure!
as of 9/25 it seems that os and cites randomly stop working, if a doc shows up as blank on os it's cuz the wiki isn't taking it, pls email me if you want the doc!
os nc off positions and cards, rr, cites are first three last three for off positions
12/18/21
1 - broken interps
Tournament: greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: harker pg | Judge: tom evnen (greenhill r2) interp: debaters must disclose at least one (1) form of contact info on their page of the 2021-2022 NDCA LD Wiki. This can be any way I can reach them before the round (Facebook, Phone number, Email, Discord, etc). standards extempt
(valley r4) interp: debaters must not run epistemic modesty and an extinction-level impact
(valley r5) interp: neither debater may read arguments that result in a win for them independent of whether they are winning arguments back to a specific framework. This does not include arguments that link to fairness or education. To clarify, no a prioris. strat skew - clash -
(bronx r3) interp: debaters must disclose all offensive positions on the 2021-2022 ndca hs ld wiki accessibility - preround prep - clash -
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.
Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ SJDI Let us start by observing, empirically, that a widely shared judgment about intrinsic
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places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value.
Moral uncertainty means preventing extinction should be our highest priority. Bostrom 12 ~Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority." Global Policy (2012)~
These reflections on moral uncertainty
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, we must prevent any existential catastrophe.
10/9/21
1 - th - must spec util
Tournament: valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: northern valley dn | Judge: isabella nadel
Interpretation: If the affirmative defends a consequentialist framework, they must explicitly delineate which theory of the good they defend in the form of a text in the 1ac.
Each nuance of the ethic entails different obligations and would exclude different offense – there are 7 different versions.
from being done), or may only require passive avoidance of bad outcomes.
B. Violation: They don’t and maximizing expected well-being doesn’t cut it.
Crisp, Roger, "Well-Being", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/well-being/.Massa Well-being is most commonly used in philosophy to describe what is non-
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how a person’s moral character and actions relate to their well-being.
Content Warning: Mentions of Police Violence in the Card CP: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike except for police officers. Samantha Michaels, Sept/Oct-2020, Samantha Michaels is a reporter at Mother Jones, "If you want to defund the police, start with their unions," Mother Jones, https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2020/08/police-unions-minneapolis/SR As the year 1990 came… the movement for workers’ rights.
Strikes empower unions.
Erin Corbett, 6-23-2020, Freelance journalist and writer on politics, feminism, and social justice. Seen in MSN, Yahoo, VICE, Fortune, People Magazine, Bustle, The Daily Dot, Alternet, Money, The Trace, Rewire.News, Daily Hampshire Gazette, and more. "Police Are Going On Strike. Should Anyone Care?," https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2020/06/9874441/police-going-on-strike-walkout-reasonSR Atlanta police officers across the city last week staged a "sick-out"
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organize a union. During the work stoppage the city experienced more robberies.
10/30/21
nd - cp - police vs semiotic insurrection
Tournament: apple valley | Round: Semis | Opponent: dths hv | Judge: tajaih robinson, chris castillo, silma bathily
CP: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers’ souls to strike except for the souls of police officers.
cites not working except for the tag for some reason, the cards are the same sa the nd - cp - police
11/8/21
nd - cp - racist strikes
Tournament: apple valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: lincoln east high eb | Judge: austin broussard
Counterplan: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike except in the instance that strikes directly demand discrimination towards certain groups of individuals. It’s condo.
BPSC ~Unfair Labor Practices by Union, http://bpscllc.com/unfair-labor-practices-by-unions.html, N.D., Business and People Strategy Consulting Group, California's trusted source for workplace human resources and employment law~ ~SS~ Causing or Attempting to Cause Discrimination: Section 8(b)(2) makes
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union-security agreement for failure to pay a fine levied by the union
and trolleys. The National Guard was called in but dispersed in June.
11/5/21
nd - cp - teacher strikes
Tournament: scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: southlake carroll sd | Judge: sai karavadi cites broken, check os
11/13/21
nd - cp - tribal law
Tournament: scarsdale | Round: 1 | Opponent: eden prairie ag | Judge: micah thode
CP: The United States should to recognize an unconditional right of agricultural laborers to strike through tribal law.
Normal means is federal law, but tribal law is key to respect indigenous sovereignty and solves the aff better. The perm is severance and creates an overlap that undermines tribal jurisdiction and 1ac plan text proves they defend the NLRA.
to engage collaboratively with Native nations to build institutions that better serve both.
11/13/21
nd - cp - violent strikes vs prisoner strikes
Tournament: scarsdale | Round: Octas | Opponent: harrison jp | Judge: daniel zhang, mariel cruz, derek ying
Counterplan: A just government should recognize the unconditional right to strike for prisoners except in the case when strikes directly demand violence and discrimination.
11/14/21
nd - k - cap
Tournament: apple valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: lexington bf | Judge: leo matthes
Legitimizing the right to strike enables the state to have a monopoly on violence shutting down any possibility of change.
and to take responsibility for it that the left regularly loses workers’ support.
Unions are limited to defending against the system instead of overthrowing it, reinforcing capitalism by making it easier for workers to be productive.
Labor unions have long occupied a paradoxical position within Marxist theory. They are
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Engels saw that the transition from workplace struggles to politics was not automatic.
Capitalism’s successes necessitate human extinction and destroy the value to life – it’s try or die for alternative organizing
Duzgun 20 Eren Duzgun (teaches Historical Sociology and International Relations at Leiden University, Netherlands), 4-5-2020, "Capitalism, Coronavirus and the Road to Extinction," Socialist Project, https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/capitalism-coronavirus-and-road-to-extinction/, SJBE Covid-19, by contrast, has begun its journey and taken its biggest
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market. The beast is not tameable; it needs to be killed.
Vote neg for dual power organizing – only by refusing the 1ac’s opportunistic politics can we produce actual change.
Escalante 18 Alyson Escalante (Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist), 8-24-2018, "Against Electoralism, For Dual Power!," Forge News, https://theforgenews.org/2018/08/24/against-electoralism-for-dual-power/, pat recut sjbe If we, as socialists, truly fight for a classless world, we must
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to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen.
know that we’re making the right decision
11/6/21
nd - k - cap v2
Tournament: apple valley | Round: Quarters | Opponent: harker as | Judge: samantha mcloughlin, derek ying, chris castillo
Unions are limited to defending against the system instead of overthrowing it, reinforcing capitalism by making it easier for workers to be productive.
Labor unions have long occupied a paradoxical position within Marxist theory. They are
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Engels saw that the transition from workplace struggles to politics was not automatic.
Capitalism’s successes necessitate human extinction and destroy the value to life – it’s try or die for alternative organizing
Duzgun 20 Eren Duzgun (teaches Historical Sociology and International Relations at Leiden University, Netherlands), 4-5-2020, "Capitalism, Coronavirus and the Road to Extinction," Socialist Project, https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/capitalism-coronavirus-and-road-to-extinction/, SJBE Covid-19, by contrast, has begun its journey and taken its biggest
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market. The beast is not tameable; it needs to be killed.
Vote neg for dual power organizing – only by refusing the 1ac’s opportunistic politics can we produce actual change.
Escalante 18 Alyson Escalante (Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist), 8-24-2018, "Against Electoralism, For Dual Power!," Forge News, https://theforgenews.org/2018/08/24/against-electoralism-for-dual-power/, pat recut sjbe If we, as socialists, truly fight for a classless world, we must
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to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen.
11/7/21
nd - nc - hobbes
Tournament: blue key | Round: 1 | Opponent: bellarmine ak | Judge: sabrina callahan
The metaethic is perspectivism – truth is not absolute but rather created by individuals based on their own individual perspective. Prefer it
~1~ Opacity – we can never access another person’s perspective because we can never fully understand who someone else is or what they think. Every truth I create cannot be universalized because I can’t guarantee that they will create the same truth because they do what they want.
~2~ Linguistics – Truth is constructed by language, which is completely arbitrary. Nothing tells me that a chair is a chair; I only assign it that name arbitrarily because I want to. Meaning can’t be contained within language if we make it up ourselves, and truth doesn’t exist absent language.
But, the state of nature leads to infinite violence – competing truth claims means conflicts cannot be resolved. Two warrants:
~1~ Ambiguity – everyone can assert their own claims to be true and refuse contestation – this means we always fight over who is correct. This is irresolvable because there is no mediator to adjudicate the dispute and tell who is correct – we just fight forever
~2~ Self-Interest – everyone wants their truth claims to be true because it benefits them – this leads to conflict because we can’t divide limited resources and must compete with each other – terminates in death because neither of us want to concede to the other
This state of nature is brutish and has no conception of morality because we don’t have any unified truth to guide us, and thus outweighs on magnitude. The solution is the creation of the sovereign to mediate what is true and enforce the law; they are the ultimate ruler and arbitrator. It must eliminate all conflicts to bring peace to our violent natures. Thus, the standard is consistency with the will of the sovereign. Prefer it because it outweighs on bindingness: Only the sovereign can get everyone to follow their rule and enforce the law, it creates motivations for any moral rules we create. Otherwise, the framework collapses and truth becomes impossible.
Offense
Negate –
~1~ The sovereign has absolute authority; strikes contest the rule of the authority of the sovereign which leads to infinite regress and freezes action.
Lloyd and Sreedhar (Sharon A. Lloyd and Susanne Sreedhar, Sharon Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy, Law, and Political Science at the University of Southern California. She co-founded the USC Center for Law and Philosophy, and directs the USC Levan Institute's Conversations in Practical Ethics Program., Susanne Sreedhar is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston University. Sreedhar's work on social contract theory has been influential, and has mostly been aimed at the nature and scope of obligation within political systems, and the possibility of ethical civil disobedience within a Hobbesian system., 2-12-2002, accessed on 6-29-2021, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), "Hobbes’s Moral and Political Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)", https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/hobbes-moral/)//st Although Hobbes offered some mild pragmatic grounds for preferring monarchy to other forms of government
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state of nature, people should treat their sovereign as having absolute authority.
~2~ The sovereign hasn’t granted the unconditional right to strike in the squo - proves that it doesn’t want it. Passing the res blocks the sovereign’s will.
The practice of ethical life is complicated and multifaceted – different moral features are relevant in different moral cases. This isn’t deducing justifications for them but reflecting on the way we practice.
James Griffin 5, Rhodes Scholar, American-born philosopher, who was White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2000., Corpus Christi College, 2005, "Human Rights: Whose Duties?," Human Rights And The Moral Responsibilities Of Corporate And Public Sector Organisations Volume 20 Of The Series Issues In Business Ethics Pp 31-43, http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.10072F1-4020-2361-8'3 I said a moment ago that mere ability is one reason-generating consideration in
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there is a moral burden, without yet knowing who should shoulder it.
Negate - the AC is an absolute principle which is inconsistent with the call for particularity - it says that unconditional means all rights to strike -
not conditional or limited : ABSOLUTE, UNQUALIFIED
unconditional rights are bad - it’s terrible for ethics bc it means that under no conditions can we question things, which doesn’t account for particular situations i.e. it may be bad to strike while blocking the entrance to the emergency room which proves there are bad conditions to strike on
10/30/21
nd - t - workers
Tournament: blue key | Round: 1 | Opponent: bellarmine ak | Judge: sabrina callahan
Interpretation – the aff may not defend that a just government ought to recognize the right to strike for a subset of workers
1. Workers is a generic bare plural
Nebel 20 ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" Victory Briefs, 19 August 2020. no url AG I agree that if "a democracy" in the resolution just meant "one
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This suggests that "a democracy" in the resolution is not existential.
It applies to this topic – a~ workers is an existential bare plural bc it has no determiner b~ The sentence "A just government ought to recognize the right of workers to strike" does not imply "a just government ought to recognize the right of people to strike"
2. The aff makes the right to strike conditional on worker type which is the opposite of unconditional
Cambridge Dictionary No Date, (Cambridge Dictionary, "Unconditional"), https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/unconditional MNHS NL complete and not limited in any way: the unconditional love that parents feel for their children unconditional surrender We demand the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners.
Violation – they spec ''''''''
Standards
1~ Limits – they can spec infinite different workers like agricultural workers, nurses etc - that’s supercharged by the ability to spec combinations of types of strikes. This takes out functional limits – it’s impossible for me to research every possible combination of workers, strikes and governments
2~ TVA solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff – we don’t stop them from reading new FWs, mechanisms or advantages. PICs aren’t aff offense – a~ it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff being non-T b~ There’s only a small number of pics on this topic c~ PICs incentivize them to write better affs that can generate solvency deficits to PICs
10/29/21
nd - t - workers v2
Tournament: scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: southlake carroll sd | Judge: sai karavadi cites broken, check os
Counterplan Text: The member states of the European Union should reduce trade secret protections for medicines by requiring that plaintiffs prove that the acquisition, use, and disclosure of the trade secret did not pertain to revealing misconduct, wrongdoing, or illegal activity, but not protecting the general public interest.
Their author agrees general public interest is legally undefined and worsens whistleblower protection
Abazi 16 — (Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor @ Maastricht University, "Trade Secrets and Whistleblower Protection in the European Union", European Papers, Vol. 1, 2016, No 3, European Forum, Insight of 3 September 2016, pp. 1061-1072, Available Online at https://www.europeanpapers.eu/en/europeanforum/trade-secrets-and-whistleblower-protection-in-the-eu, accessed 9-17-21, Bergen AK) Art. 5, let. b), refers to "general public interest",
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considered as exposing trade secrets and doing so in the general public interest.
10/16/21
so - cp - wto
Tournament: loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: mcneil sc | Judge: phoenix pittman the cites isn't working for this position for some reason - check the os
Rising RandD costs mean that pharma is on the brink of losing monetary incentive to innovate
Gassmann et al 16— Schuhmacher, Alexander, Oliver Gassmann ~Professor of Technology management at University of St. Gallen~, and Markus Hinder. "Changing RandD models in research-based pharmaceutical companies." Journal of translational medicine 14.1 (2016): 1-11. (AG DebateDrills) The costs for pharmaceutical RandD increased in the past decades significantly. Munos
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2002–2011, invested more than USD 5 billion per new drug.
Secondary patents are necessary to incentivize research of both initial active ingredients and follow on innovations, this controls the internal link to all of their innovation impacts—also competitor litigation controls the negative effects well
Foor 21— Meredith Foor; JD candidate at University of New Hampshire; "INCENTIVIZING INNOVATION AND RECLAIMING BALANCE IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY: A CASE FOR SECONDARY PATENTS"; HeinOnline; May 2021; https://law.unh.edu/sites/default/files/media/2021/05/foor'final.pdf. (AG DebateDrills) Patents remain a primary focus for the pharmaceutical industry as a means to protect new
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a profit, and recycle their profits into new groundbreaking research and innovation.
The follow-on patents also are the only way that we discover miraculous cross-applications of drugs, which is the fastest way to solve emerging disease, which is especially important during a pandemic so it turns and outweighs case on probability
Holman 18—Christopher Holman; Professor of Law at University of Missouri-Kansas City; Why Follow-On Pharmaceutical Innovations Should Be Eligible For Patent Protection; Intellectual Property Watch; 9/21/2018; https://www.ip-watch.org/2018/09/21/follow-pharmaceutical-innovations-eligible-patent-protection/. (AG DebateDrills) The attack on secondary pharmaceutical patents is based in part on the flawed premise that
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to the development of drugs as a patent on the active ingredient itself.
Externally, pharma collapses without strong IP protections
Buckland 17 - Danny Buckland (award-winning journalist who writes about health, general features and news, shortlisted for the prestigious Mind Media Awards for his work covering mental health issues), April 26, 2017, "Patents are lifeblood of pharmas", https://www.raconteur.net/legal/intellectual-property/patents-are-lifeblood-of-pharmas/ WJ Pharmaceutical companies are staffed by ranks of attorneys, and the intellectual property (IP
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and innovation. Quite frankly, it would all collapse without good IP."
Biopharmaceutical research is the bedrock of our economy – even minor reductions in income result in mass unemployment and butterfly effects
Sullivan 11 – Thomas Sullivan (Thomas Sullivan is Editor of Policy and Medicine, President of Rockpointe Corporation, founded in 1995 to provide continuing medical education to healthcare professionals around the world. Prior to founding Rockpointe, Thomas worked as a political consultant), July 12, 2011, Study Shows Importance of Biopharmaceutical Jobs For US Economy," Policy and Medicine, http://www.policymed.com/2011/07/study-shows-importance-of-biopharmaceutical-jobs-for-us-economy-for-every-20-billion-loss-in-revenue.html WJ Biopharmaceutical research companies produce the highest-value jobs, the types of jobs Americans
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the biopharmaceutical sector is a key foundation of the life sciences innovation ecosystem.
Bipoharma collapse causes economic meltdown – it’s far worse than previous recessions
Howrigon 17 — Ron Howrigon "(President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Western Michigan University and a Master's in Economics from North Carolina State University, focusing in the area of Health Economics) http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2017/01/health-care-crash-u-s-economy.html, January 19 2017, WJ In recent history, the U.S. economy has experienced the near catastrophic
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resulting fallout could be could be much worse than even the housing crisis.
Extinction
Tønnesson 15 Stein Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Leader of East Asia Peace program, Uppsala University, 2015, "Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace," International Area Studies Review, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 297-311 Several recent works on China and Sino–US relations have made substantial contributions to
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each other, with a view to obliging Washington or Beijing to intervene.
Current WTO legislation on IP rights promotes innovation
Ezell et al 4/29 Jaci McDole, Stephen Ezell ~Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He focuses on science and technology policy, international competitiveness, trade, manufacturing, and services issues.~ 4/29/21, "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic" Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through DD AG Although anti-IP proponents have attacked biopharmaceutical manufacturers particularly hard, the reality is
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top two filing growths of 73 percent and 26 percent, respectively.30
Reductions in protections kill medical innovation, economic growth, and knowledge building for the future
McDole and Ezell 04/29 – Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at ITIF. She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. Her work includes ITIF’s Innovate4Health Initiatives (2017–2019) and A Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver Makes No More Sense for Copyrights Than It Does for Patents (2021). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she cofounded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen J. Ezell is ITIF vice president for Global Innovation Policy. He focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy as well as international competitiveness and trade policy issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service Driven Economy: Insights Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale 2012). The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized by its peers in the think tank community as the global center of excellence for science and technology policy, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress; April 29, 2021; "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic"; https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-throughadvay Innovation can—and does—happen anywhere and at any time. As society
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generations of biomedical innovation and thus perpetuate the enterprises into the future.13
Future pandemics are more likely and more deadly which makes innovation key to stop extinction
Ceballos 5/27 Gerardo Ceballos ~PhD, Dr Gerardo Ceballos is an ecologist and conservationist at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is particularly recognized for his influential work on global patterns of distribution of diversity, endemism, and extinction risk in vertebrates. He is also well-known for his contribution to understanding the magnitude and impacts of the sixth mass extinction.~, 5/27/21, "THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY", Population Matters, https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/05/sixth-mass-extinction-and-future-humanity DD AG Somewhere, sometime in late 2019, a coronavirus from a wild species, perhaps
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and civilization. What it is at stake is the future of mankind.
Dems win the Senate now, but it’s close—-it determines the Biden presidency.
Shane Goldmacher 7/17. Reporter, New York Times, "Democrats See Edge in Early Senate Map as Trump Casts Big Shadow," The New York Times, July 17, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/politics/midterm-elections.html, RJP, DebateDrills. Six months into the Biden administration, Senate Democrats are expressing a cautious optimism that
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through President Biden’s expansive agenda on the economy, the pandemic and infrastructure.
The plan is unpopular—-it’s seen as soft on China.
Cynthia Hicks 21. Director of Public Affairs at PhRMA focusing on polling and opinion research that supports advocacy communications and strategy. "New polling shows Americans are sounding the alarm on the TRIPS IP waiver," PhRMA, May 14, 2021, https://catalyst.phrma.org/new-polling-shows-americans-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-the-trips-ip-waiver, RJP, DebateDrills *NOTE – the stuff after "include the following" is a picture that
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– expressed by more than six in ten voters – include the following:
China is the key for the midterms—-Senate control hinges on it.
by (President) Xi (Jinping) and the Chinese Communist Party.
GOP control of the Senate will be used to usher in a new wave of Trumpism, crushing democracy.
Morton Kondracke 21. Retired executive editor of Roll Call, a former "McLaughlin Group" and Fox News commentator and co-author, with Fred Barnes, of Jack Kemp: The Bleeding Heart Conservative Who Changed America. "Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022," RealClearPolitics, August 4, 2021, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/08/04/why'democrats'must'retain'control'of'congress'in'2022'146189.html, RJP, DebateDrills The 2020 election demonstrated how fragile our democracy is. As Donald Trump tried,
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for election results and the rule of law would again be in peril.
Extinction
Kasparov 17 Garry Kasparov, Chairman of the Human Rights Foundation, former World Chess Champion, "Democracy and Human Rights: The Case for U.S. Leadership," Testimony Before The Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, February 16th, https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/021617'Kasparov'20Testimony.pdf As one of the countless millions of people who were freed or protected from totalitarianism
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having the exceptional courage to always try to be better. Thank you.
9/24/21
so - nc - contracts
Tournament: bronx | Round: Octas | Opponent: bergen county ak | Judge: nikita tanguturi, grant brown, anand rao
~1~ IP rights are included in multiple international contracts – the aff violates that.
WIPO (WIPO, 11-9-1998, accessed on 8-25-2021, World Intellectual Property Organization, "Intellectual Property and Human Rights", https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo'pub'762.pdf) The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and the Office of the United Nations
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of Action, 1993 (VDPA), and other international and regional instruments.
~2~ Consent – the aff disregards the consent of medicine producers and allows it to be violated by removing patents - negates because violating a party’s consent is an act of violating a hypothetical contract since their side of the contract isn’t accounted for
10/17/21
so - nc - kant
Tournament: loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: lynbrook md | Judge: andrew torrez cites aren't working for this position either - check os
10/9/21
so - t - fwk
Tournament: bronx | Round: 6 | Opponent: american heritage broward ss | Judge: mark kivimaki
Our interpretation is that the resolution should determine the division of affirmative and negative ground.
Violation: they don’t – the member nations of the world trade organization ought to ban intellectual property protectiosn for medicines wasn’t in the 1ac
Resolved means a policy
Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition. "Resolved". 1964. Definition of the word "resolve," given by Webster is "to express an
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," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law".
Medicines prevent, diagnose, or treat diseases and injuries
by a medical professional authorized by law to prescribe medicines for human beings.
The NC is not a medicine, you can’t patent it and still be topical – since I’m the one who made it I’ll defend that the nc is just a speech and soemthing that isn’t used in prevention, diagnosis, or treatment of disease or injury
Vote neg -
1~ Limits: if you don’t have to be topical there’s an infinite amount of aff syou can make which guts my ability to prep and respond to them and forces me into generics –
2~ TVA Solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. We aren’t stopping them from reading new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don’t solve – it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff making it impossible for me to win – run the aff as a cap advantage to why monopolies are bad, or a baudrillard aff that says that medicines are symbols and patenting is impossible
3~ Not universalizable – if nobody had to debate the chosen topic then there’d be no reason to have a topic in the first place which creates a contradiction.
10/26/21
so - t - medicines
Tournament: bronx | Round: Octas | Opponent: bergen county ak | Judge: nikita tanguturi, grant brown, anand rao
Interpretation – the affirmative may not specify a subset of medicines
1~ Grammar – Medicines is a generic bare plural
Nebel 20 ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" Victory Briefs, 19 August 2020. no url AG I agree that if "a democracy" in the resolution just meant "one
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This suggests that "a democracy" in the resolution is not existential.
It applies to this topic – a~ the noun "medicines" in the topic has no determiner preceding it to justify speccing a subset of medicines. that means medicines is an existential bare plural b~ it fails the upward entailment test bc "member nations ought to reduce ip protections for medicines" does not entail that "member nations ought to reduce ip protections for pharmaceuticals" even though all medicines are pharmaceuticals.
Semantics first – the judge doenst have any jursidiction to vote on any other topic and it’s the only stable statis point of the round
Violation – they only defend the COVID vaccine
Standards:
1~ Prep hazard – there are an infinite number of medicines they could possibly spec exploding neg prep – generics and functional limits don’t apply because each medicine has different effects, capabilities, and implications which makes there infinite arguments for each weapon being bad
2~ TVA Solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. We aren’t stopping them from reading new FWs, mechanisms, or advantages. PICs don’t solve – it’s ridiculous to say that neg potential abuse justifies the aff making it impossible for me to win
10/17/21
so - t - vaccines
Tournament: bronx | Round: Octas | Opponent: bergen county ak | Judge: nikita tanguturi, grant brown, anand rao
Interpretation: medicine means only treatment and cure – affs cannot defend medical interventions, which is distinct
Elbe 10 ~Stefan Elbe, director of the Centre for Global Health Policy and a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. "Security and Global Health," ISBN 0745643744, accessed 8-10-2021, https://www.wiley.com/en-ee/Security+and+Global+Health-p-9780745643731~~ HWIC Yet here too we must be careful not to overlook other types of medical intervention
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security to be practised through the introduction of new medical interventions in society.
Standards:
1. Limits – allowing any patented medical intervention allows testing methods, scanning machinery, and tracing software – it takes away generics like innovation which are specific to pharmaceutical development, not preventative measures, which takes away our main IP good argument
Reis ‘6 (TarcÃsio Hardman Reis, PhD in International Law from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland) The Role of Intellectual Property in the Global Challenge for Immunization, 22 June 2006, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1422-2213.2006.00284.x IP and vaccines: a troubled relationship The Doha Declaration12 is considered to be