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| Blue Key | 1 | Trinity Prep JC | Rohith Sudhakar |
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| Blue Key | 3 | Coral Springs LV | Sam Cogen |
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| Blue Key | 5 | Lexington AT | Sneh Chachra |
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| Blue Key | Doubles | Durham BG | Rafael Li, Jaylin Talmadge, Will Clark |
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| Blue Key | Octas | Park City NL | Rohit Lakshman, Jeong-Wan Choi, Sabrina Callahan |
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| Glenbrooks | 2 | Homestead SL | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Glenbrooks | 4 | Brophy JT | Gordon Krauss |
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| Glenbrooks | 5 | Harker SY | Tarun Ratanasabapathy |
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| Glenbrooks | 7 | Peninsula CS | Akshay Manglik |
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| NSD | 1 | McGinnis-Gilbert RB | Matt Moorhead |
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| NSD | 3 | KruSel LR | Henry Eberhart |
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| NSD | 6 | AzbKal AS | Zach Siegel |
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| TFA State | 1 | St Agnes EH | Ishan Rereddy |
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| TFA State | 3 | Grapevine FC | Avery Wilson |
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| TFA State | 5 | Jordan FW | Alex Yoakum |
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| TOC | 1 | Orange Lutheran AZ | Vishan Chaudary |
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| TOC | 3 | Ridge VS | Stephen Scopa |
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| UH | 3 | Cooper City NR | Gabby Lea |
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| UH | 5 | Coppell SK | Holden Bukowsky |
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| UT | 2 | Westwood AG | Jack Quisenberry |
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| UT | 4 | LC Anderson AA | Jugal Amodwala |
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| UT | 6 | Memorial DX | Tej Gedela |
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| UT | Triples | Claudia Taylor Johnson AP | Sreyaash Das, Austin Broussard, Alex Yoakum |
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| Winston Churchill | 4 | William Walker | Patrick Fox |
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| Winston Churchill | 6 | McNeil YM | Kenneth Nelson |
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| Winston Churchill | 2 | Flower Mound DB | angela zhong |
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| Winston Churchill | Doubles | Westwood EG | Isaac Chao, Nathan Rothenbaum, Breigh Plat |
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| Yale | 1 | Hunter AI | Animesh Joshi |
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| Yale | 6 | West Des Moines Valley SJ | Amulya Natchukuri |
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| Yale | 4 | Scarsdale JT | Bennet Fees |
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| Yale | Doubles | Princeton CB | Andrea Chow, Anand Rao, Alex Rivera |
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| Blue Key | 1 | Opponent: Trinity Prep JC | Judge: Rohith Sudhakar 1AC - Structural Violence |
| Blue Key | 3 | Opponent: Coral Springs LV | Judge: Sam Cogen 1AC - Equality |
| Blue Key | 5 | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: Sneh Chachra 1AC - UK |
| Blue Key | Doubles | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Rafael Li, Jaylin Talmadge, Will Clark 1AC - India |
| Blue Key | Octas | Opponent: Park City NL | Judge: Rohit Lakshman, Jeong-Wan Choi, Sabrina Callahan 1AC - Alienation |
| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: Homestead SL | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Beller |
| Glenbrooks | 4 | Opponent: Brophy JT | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - Agricultural Laborers |
| Glenbrooks | 5 | Opponent: Harker SY | Judge: Tarun Ratanasabapathy 1AC - EU |
| Glenbrooks | 7 | Opponent: Peninsula CS | Judge: Akshay Manglik 1AC - Hungary |
| NSD | 1 | Opponent: McGinnis-Gilbert RB | Judge: Matt Moorhead 1AC - Kant |
| NSD | 3 | Opponent: KruSel LR | Judge: Henry Eberhart 1AC - Pragmatism |
| NSD | 6 | Opponent: AzbKal AS | Judge: Zach Siegel 1AC - Kant |
| TFA State | 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1AC - India |
| TFA State | 3 | Opponent: Grapevine FC | Judge: Avery Wilson 1AC - Minimizing Oppression |
| TFA State | 5 | Opponent: Jordan FW | Judge: Alex Yoakum 1AC - Fem |
| TOC | 1 | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Vishan Chaudary 1AC - Stock |
| TOC | 3 | Opponent: Ridge VS | Judge: Stephen Scopa 1AC - Beller |
| UH | 3 | Opponent: Cooper City NR | Judge: Gabby Lea 1AC - Requiem |
| UH | 5 | Opponent: Coppell SK | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Stock |
| UT | 2 | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Jack Quisenberry 1AC - Egypt |
| UT | 4 | Opponent: LC Anderson AA | Judge: Jugal Amodwala 1AC - Stock |
| UT | 6 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Tej Gedela 1AC - Racial Cap |
| UT | Triples | Opponent: Claudia Taylor Johnson AP | Judge: Sreyaash Das, Austin Broussard, Alex Yoakum 1AC - Race War |
| Winston Churchill | 4 | Opponent: William Walker | Judge: Patrick Fox 1AC - Beller |
| Winston Churchill | 6 | Opponent: McNeil YM | Judge: Kenneth Nelson 1AC - Mining |
| Winston Churchill | 2 | Opponent: Flower Mound DB | Judge: angela zhong 1AC - Stock |
| Winston Churchill | Doubles | Opponent: Westwood EG | Judge: Isaac Chao, Nathan Rothenbaum, Breigh Plat 1AC - Space Settlers |
| Yale | 1 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Animesh Joshi 1AC - Lib |
| Yale | 6 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley SJ | Judge: Amulya Natchukuri 1AC - Locke |
| Yale | 4 | Opponent: Scarsdale JT | Judge: Bennet Fees 1AC - Deleuze |
| Yale | Doubles | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Andrea Chow, Anand Rao, Alex Rivera 1AC - Evergreening |
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0 - ContactTournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any I am happy to accommodate any requests you have before the round, just let me know beforehand if it isn't on your Wiki. I will usually try to put content warnings for any positions I find deserving. | 10/23/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any | 10/23/21 |
1 - Disclosure InterpsTournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any Interpretation: If debaters disclose full text, they must not post the full text of the cards in the cite box, but must upload an open source document with the full text of their cards. To clarify, you don’t have to disclose highlighting or underlining, you just need an open source document with minimally the full, un-underlined text of cards Interpretation: The affirmative must disclose the advocacy/plan text if they break new when pairings are released or at coin flip. If the debate occurs during flight 2 disclosure should occur at least 30 minutes before the round. Interpretation: The affirmative must disclose the framing text if they break new when pairings are released or at coin flip. If the debate occurs during flight 2 disclosure should occur at least 30 minutes before the round. Interpretation: At all TOC bid-distributing tournaments, debaters must disclose all constructive positions on open source with highlighting on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki after the round in which they read them. Interpretation: At all TOC bid-distributing tournaments, debaters must disclose round reports on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki for every round they have debated this season. Round reports disclose which positions (AC, NC, K, T, Theory, etc.) were read/gone for in every speech. Interpretation: At all TOC bid-distributing tournaments, debaters must disclose all constructive positions in cite boxes on the 2021-22 NDCA LD wiki. To clarify, they can’t say check open source. | 7/7/21 |
1 - T - ATournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Ishan Rereddy Interpretation: The affirmative may not specify a democracy in which a free press ought to priortize objectivity over advocacy"A" is an indefinite article that modifies "democracy" in the res – means that you have to prove the resolution true in a VACCUM, not in a particular instanceCCC Violation: they spec IndiaStandards:~1~ precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. Independent voter for jurisdiction – the judge doesn’t have the jurisdiction to vote aff if there wasn’t a legitimate aff.~2~ limits – the EIU says there are 75 full or flawed democracies but even that’s not an agreed upon brightline – explodes limits since there are tons of independent affs plus functionally infinite combinations, all with different advantages in different political situations. Kills neg prep and debatability since there are no DAs that apply to every aff – i.e. advocacy offense needs to be contextualized to each country because they have different advocacy climates and free press norms and laws are different within each nation where different countries value objectivity differently.~3~ tva – just read your aff as an advantage under a whole res advocacy, solves all ur offense- Potential abuse doesn’t permit 1AC abuse – allows you to be infinitely abusive in the 1AC-– if the neg doesn’t have specific prep, they’ll resort to cheaty word PICs which are net worseDrop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Education – its why schools fund debate and has portable impacts.Competing interps – a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices c~ topic ed – prevents 1AR blip storm scripts and allows us to get back to substance after resolving theory.1NC theory first a~ If I was abusive it was because the 1AC was b~ We have more speeches to norm over whether it’s a good idea | 3/10/22 |
1 - T - FrameworkTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Homestead SL | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Interpretation: The Affirmative must prove and garner offense from the desirability of a topical plan.Resolved indicates a policy action.Parcher 1. ~Jeff. 2/26/01. "Re: Jeff P—Is the resolution a question?" https://web.archive.org/web/20050122044927/http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200102/0790.html~~ Justin AND question before a legislative body. Should this statement be adopted or not. Definition of unconditional right to strike:NLRB 85 ~National Labor Relations Board; "Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947: Volume 1," Jan 1985; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=7o1tA''v4xwCandrdid=book-7o1tA''v4xwCandrdot=1~~ Justin AND health and welfare of our people in order to attain a selfish end. Violation: Ctrl-f "strikes" in the doc – communicative strikes aren’t the same as worker strikes.Vote neg for limits—no stasis or resolutional limit alters balance of prep making neg prep impossible since you can choose any argument, favoring the aff because they speak last and use perms.Fairness is a voter, debate is a competitive activity. Outweighs because it determines engagement in your ROTB which links turns your method. Presume their arguments false since it wasn’t within the scope of my research burden so I wasn’t ready to contest it.TVA solves – defend why employers contanerize the bodies of employees by denying strikes – DAs are neg ground since they prove opportunity for engagement. At worst SSD solves your offense sicne you can read the aff as a K on the neg.Drop the debater: T indicts the aff.Use Competing Interps: race to the top for the best normNo RVIs on Impact turns: a~ Illogical – being topical doesn’t mean you should win, it’s just a burden. b~ If T’s bad and you vote on impact turns – you’re voting on T. | 11/20/21 |
1 - T - Framework v Race WarTournament: UT | Round: Triples | Opponent: Claudia Taylor Johnson AP | Judge: Sreyaash Das, Austin Broussard, Alex Yoakum Interpretation: The Affirmative must prove the desirability of Resolved: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.Resolved indicates a policy action.Parcher 1. ~Jeff. 2/26/01. "Re: Jeff P—Is the resolution a question?" https://web.archive.org/web/20050122044927/http://www.ndtceda.com/archives/200102/0790.html~~ Justin AND question before a legislative body. Should this statement be adopted or not. Recognition requires policy action.Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/international-law/States-in-international-law AND contrast, contends that the act of recognition itself actually creates the state. Definition of unconditional right to strike:NLRB 85 ~National Labor Relations Board; "Legislative History of the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947: Volume 1," Jan 1985; https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=7o1tA''v4xwCandrdid=book-7o1tA''v4xwCandrdot=1~~ Justin AND health and welfare of our people in order to attain a selfish end. Violation they don’t.Standards:1~ Limits—no resolutional bound creates infinite 1ACs, favoring the aff because they set the stage and determine engagement.Impacts – a~ prepping every possible aff wrecks small schools, which has a disparate impact on under-resourced debaters b~ States will inevitability use militarization to suppress movements – engaging that weaponry is key to movement building c~ Not subjecting the aff to rigorous argumentation eliminates hope for the skills necessary to make real change.2~ T creates the legal education key to understand the law’s strategic reversibility paired with intellectual survival skills.Archer 18 (Deborah N., Associate Professor of Clinical Law @ NYU School of Law, "POLITICAL LAWYERING FOR THE 21ST CENTURY," draft, pp. 1-43) *Edited* AND that problem until they get to a point of entry for their advocacy. 3~ TVA solves–defend the Aff theory of power with a plan. Disads are neg ground since they prove ability to contest. DEFEND STRIKES THAT REJECT THE NEGATION OF BLACK LIFEReddy 20, Diana (Doctoral Fellow at the Law, Economics, and Politics Center at UC Berkeley Law, and a PhD candidate in UCB's Jurisprudence and Social Policy)"" There Is No Such Thing as an Illegal Strike": Reconceptualizing the Strike in Law and Political Economy." Yale LJF 130 (2020): 421. AND jail, Minneapolis bus drivers made claims about their vision for public transport. Fairness is a voter, debate is a competitive activity – a~ it determines engagement in your method which turns your ROTB b~ The AC wasn’t in the scope of my research burden so presume their args false c~ A ballot won’t actualize their method since what we read doesn’t change subjectivity but it can determine the direction of good norms so a risk of T outweighs any of the Aff d~ Every argument presupposes fairness and it being evaluated fairly. If they deny fairness hack against them – that’s the most unfair e~ Procedurals outweigh – structural fairness can be compensated for in different substantive ways while procedural fairness denies access to the space entirely f~ examples don’t disprove debates potential just isolate violent people in it.Drop the debater: T indicts the aff, I couldn’t have engaged.Use Competing Interps: a~ race to the top for the best norm b~ reasonability links to our offense.No RVIs: a~ Illogical – being topical doesn’t mean you should win, it’s just a burden. b~ If T’s bad and you vote on impact turns – you’re voting on T. | 12/5/21 |
1 - T - Must Not Spec Just GovernmentTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker SY | Judge: Tarun Ratanasabapathy Interpretation: The affirmative may not specify a just government in which a right to strike ought to be recognizedViolation: they spec nations in the EU.Standards:~1~ limits – the UN says there are 195 national governments but even that’s not an agreed upon brightline – explodes limits since there are tons of independent affs plus functionally infinite combinations, all with different advantages in different political situations. Kills neg prep and debatability since there are no DAs that apply to every aff – i.e. factors that affect labor shortages or unions in the US are different than in China – means the aff is always more prepared and wins just for speccing.~2~ tva – just read your aff as an advantage under a whole res advocacy, solves all ur offense. Potential 1nc abuse doesn’t justify 1AC abuse since it would justify reading 50 a prioris just cause I could read a pic.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms for debate.Competing interps – ~a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm, ~b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 11/21/21 |
1 - T - UnconditionalTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brophy JT | Judge: Gordon Krauss Interpretation: The affirmative must defend an unconditional right to strike. This means that the Affirmative must defend that anyone regardless of job or occupation has a fundamental right to strike.Merriam Webster ND, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unconditional sid AND promise even though the other party has not performed according to the bargain. Violation – They only grant the Right to Strike to agricultural laborers. That by definition is a condition since they condition the right to strike on a particular occupation.Jensen ’18 (Eric; co-director of the Stanford Rule of Law Program, in collaboration with USAID, The Asia Foundation, and Stanford Law School; April 2018; "Introduction to the Laws of Timor-Leste"; Stanford Law School; https://law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Timor-Leste-Constitutional-Rights.pdf; Accessed: 10-30-2021; AU) AND strike is important to give individuals the power to defend their labor rights. Prefer –a~ Limits – there are endless conditions the aff can place on the right to strike – i.e based on occupation, national holidays, location of strike, etc. That makes the topic untenable since the Aff can just infinitely specify any condition or permutation of conditions which makes predictable preparation and in-depth clash impossible.b~ Neg Ground – specifying scenarios lets affs spike out of core, reduction-based disads like Bizcon and Small Businesses. Links are already non-existent on this topic – letting affs impose restrictions on RTS makes it even narrower.4~ TVA – read this aff but defend whole res.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation.Competing interps – a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices c~ topic ed – prevents 1AR blip storm scripts and allows us to get back to substance after resolving theory.1NC theory first a~ If I was abusive it was because the 1AC was b~ We have more speeches to norm over whether it’s a good idea | 11/21/21 |
1 - Theory - Combo ShellTournament: NSD | Round: 6 | Opponent: AzbKal AS | Judge: Zach Siegel Interpretation – The Affirmative may not claim that 1AR theory is drop the debater, competing interps, no RVIs, and the highest layer.Violation: UnderviewStandards:Infinite abuse – 1AR theory becomes a no-risk issue since you can dump a bunch of shells that I have to respond to but you can win on a risk of offense. I can’t group shells, gain a route to the ballot, or uplayer which kills norming since you can get away with the worst norms if I can’t respond.Infinite abuse outweighs:1~ Clash – lack of engagement tilts any education to only you. Turns and outweighs critical thinking since it refines our arguments which is more constitutive to debate.Fairness is a voter – debate is competitive and needs objection evaluation. Outweighs since it determines engagement.Drop the debater – 1~ losing uniquely sets a norm for you and people watching that your strat won’t win 2~ time reading theory trades off dropping you for it since substance is skewed for me.No RVIs – 1~ they’d bait theory and prep it out 2~ its illogical to win for being fair – logic outweighs since it determines validity of our argsCompeting-interps – a~ race to top for norm-setting. Norming is an independent voter and outweighs since it’s the purpose of theory and better debates later on b~ there’s no guarantee you will be fair always so we outweigh on scopeNo cross-apps since we indict your practice and force them to win the counter-interp with offense – if they can be abusive and then just use random deflating takeouts it permits them getting away with abuse everytime. | 7/9/21 |
1 - Theory - Must Spec Outer SpaceTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 4 | Opponent: William Walker | Judge: Patrick Fox Interpretation: The affirmative must define "outer space" in a delimited text in the 1AC."Outer Space" is flexible and has too many interps – normal means shows no consensusLeepuengtham 17 ~Tosaporn Leepuengtham (Research Judge, Intellectual Property and International Trade Division, Supreme Court of Thailand). "International space law and its implications for outer space activities." 01-27-2017, Accessed 12-9-2021. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781785369612/06'chapter1.xhtml duongie AND of space technology, this problem is worth considering now rather than later. Violation – you don’t.Prefer –1~ Stable Advocacy – they can redefine in the 1AR to wriggle out of DA’s which kills high-quality engagement and becomes two ships passing in the night –We lose access to Tech Race DA’s, Asteroid DA’s, basic case turns, and core process counter plans that have different definitions and 1NC pre-round prep. Specifically true in this instance since the affirmative claims to strike against the internals of debate which means they can define space as the debate space.2~ Real World – Policy makers will always define the entity that they are recognizing. It also means zero solvency, absent spec, private entities can circumvent since there is no delineated way to enforce the aff and means their solvency can’t actualize.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms.Fairness is a voter, debate is a competitive activity – a~ it determines engagement in your method which turns your ROTB b~ The AC wasn’t in the scope of my research burden so presume their args false c~ A ballot won’t actualize their method since what we read doesn’t change subjectivity but it can determine the direction of good norms so a risk of T outweighs any of the Aff d~ Every argument presupposes fairness and it being evaluated fairly. If they deny fairness hack against them – that’s the most unfair e~ Procedurals outweigh – structural fairness can be compensated for in different substantive ways while procedural fairness denies access to the space entirely.Competing interps – a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate. Norming outweighs – it’s the goal of theory debate and ensures more fairness and education in the long run.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument1NC theory first a~ If I was abusive it was because the 1AC was b~ We have more speeches to norm over whether it’s a good idea | 1/8/22 |
1 - Theory - New Affs BadTournament: Blue Key | Round: Octas | Opponent: Park City NL | Judge: Rohit Lakshman, Jeong-Wan Choi, Sabrina Callahan Interpretation: The affirmative debater must disclose the plan text and framing to the negative debater at least 30 minutes before the round. To clarify, disclosure can occur on the wiki or over messenger.Violation—They didn’t, screenshots in the doc.Vote neg for prep and clash—two internal links—a) neg prep—4 minutes of prep is not enough to put together a coherent 1nc or update generics—30 minutes is necessary to learn a little about the affirmative and piece together what 1nc positions apply and cut and research their applications to the affirmative b) aff quality—plan text disclosure discourages cheap shot affs. If the aff isn’t inherent or easily defeated by 20 minutes of research, it should lose—this will answer the 1ar’s claim about innovation—with 30 minutes of prep, there’s still an incentive to find a new strategic, well justified aff, but no incentive to cut a horrible, incoherent aff that the neg can’t check against the broader literature.Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set better norms.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Education – its why schools fund debate and has portable impacts.Competing interps – a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate.No RVIs – a~ illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory especially true on new affs bad since you would break new and go for the RVI everytime c~ norming – I can’t concede the counterinterp if I realize I’m wrong which forces me to argue for bad norms, d~ topic ed – prevents 1AR blip storm scripts and allows us to get back to substance after resolving theory1NC theory first a~ If I was abusive it was because the 1AC was b~ We have more speeches to norm over whether it’s a good idea | 10/31/21 |
1 - Theory - New Affs BadTournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Ishan Rereddy Interpretation: Affirmative teams must not read new offense in the 1AR related to a new FW, recontextualize or weigh aff arguments under a different FW, or turn the 1nc FW.Violation – preemeptive.1~ Phil Clash and Time Skew- anything else allows them to concede all our framework interactions and just go for 4 minutes of turns against our NC which o/w since phil is the only thing unique to LD Debate and time is the only quantifiable metric of abuse2~ Skew- They have an inherent advantage on the contention debate since they get 2ar spin so they can easily sway judge psychology in contention debates that don’t err towards one side.3~ Depth o/w Breadth- prevents the debate from being split over two issues i.e. the framework and substance which outweighs since in depth testing is necessary to refine ideas while vague debates result in inept clash.4~ Planks Solves- because if the topic doesn’t actually negate you can put defense on the contention level.2Interp: Debaters must disclose affirmative advocacy texts and advantage areas thirty minutes before round if they haven’t read the aff before.Violation: Cx.Standards:1~ Clash- Not disclosing incentivizes surprise tactics and poorly refined positions that rely on artificial and vague negative engagement to win debates.2~ Shiftiness- Not knowing enough about the affirmative coming into round incentivizes 1ar shiftiness about what the aff is and what their framework/advocacy entails. | 3/10/22 |
1 - Theory - Read Spec in DocTournament: UT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Tej Gedela Interpretation – Debaters must read everything that they want to be relevant in the round. To clarify, all analytics and definitions must be read in order for it to be relevant on the flow in round. Violation – In the 1AC speech doc – they list definitions under their advocacy that they never read, but said "they defend".Violation: Blob of text below plan text, it talks about treaty verificaiton and a definitionStandards:1~ Infinite Abuse – their model of debate justifies putting any number of things in the doc that they no longer have to read ranging anywhere from preempts to plan texts to aprioris. Kills fairness since I don’t know how these arguments affect the round until I’ve already conceded them.2~ Prep Skew – I have to waste all my prep time looking at the doc, reflowing things, and making clarification questions because I flowed off of what you spread and not the doc, which kills my ability to make good substantive and strategic decisions which kills education.Fairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs since it determines engagement. Drop the debater – a~ deter future abuse and b~ set future norms.Competing interps – a~ reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention since there’s no clear norm b~ it creates a race to the top where we create the best possible norms for debate. Competing-interps – 1~ race to top for norm-setting. Norming is an independent voter and outweighs since it’s the purpose of theory and allows fairness and education later on 2~ there’s no guarantee you will be fair always so we outweigh on scopeNo RVIs – a~ illogical, you don’t win for proving that you meet the burden of being fair, logic outweighs since it’s a prerequisite for evaluating any other argument, b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices1NC theory first a~ If I was abusive it was because the 1AC was b~ We have more speeches to norm over whether it’s a good idea | 12/4/21 |
2 - K - Climate ChangeTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Flower Mound DB | Judge: angela zhong | 1/9/22 |
2 - K - DoezemaTournament: Yale | Round: 4 | Opponent: Scarsdale JT | Judge: Bennet Fees Their scholarship is bad and a reason to lose the round—their author endorsed pedophilia and actively advocated against the age of consent law.Doezema 18 ~Marie Doezema (Parisian Journalist). "France, Where Age of Consent Is Up for Debate." The Atlantic, 10 March 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/03/frances-existential-crisis-over-sexual-harassment-laws/550700/ WWDH~ | 9/19/21 |
2 - K - Hegemony v Settler ColonialismTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Westwood EG | Judge: Isaac Chao, Nathan Rothenbaum, Breigh Plat Nuanced debates about the necessity of internationalism lock in hegemony.Hal Brands 18. Hal, Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments." American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump." Page 21-23 AND a grand strategy that has delivered pretty good results for a quarter century. We’ll pull some lines – no shifting out of the link:1AC Smiles- current US "space exploration by the American settler state is situated within questions of hegemony, imperialism, and terra nullius", and private appropriation "became inextricably tied with questions of state hegemony and geopolitics"- the plan reverses hegemonic exploration that is necessary for satellite dominance and 5th generation technology which is the next Brands ev. AND methods to uncover, track, and resist these hidden hegemonic normative values" Hegemony sustains military overmatch—-decline emboldens rivals and causes miscalc and arms races that escalate.Hal Brands 18. Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Ph.D. in history from Yale University. "Chapter 6: Does America Have Enough Hard Power?" American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump; pp. 129-133. AND to its military dominance than it has for at least a quarter century. Retrenchment triggers great power war, nuclear proliferation and terrorism, and racist nationalism.Thomas Wright 20. Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and a Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. "The Folly of Retrenchment: Why America Can’t Withdraw From the World." https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2020-02-10/folly-retrenchment AND States would fall behind in new technologies, giving China an additional edge. Robust statistical analysis proves unipolarity prevents war—-the world has no alternative.Daniel Drezner 13. Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. "Military Primacy Doesn’t Pay (Nearly As Much As You Think)" International Security 38.1 52–79 AND the bipolar one where two superpowers fueled rival armies around the world."9 Yes transition wars—both sides miscalculate.Min-hyung Kim 20. Department of Political Science and International Relations, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, South Korea. "A real driver of US–China trade conflict: The Sino–US competition for global hegemony and its implications for the future" Emerald Insight. 02-04-2019. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ITPD-02-2019-003/full/html AND its hegemony such as reducing its commitments abroad and appeasing a rising challenger. Any nuclear war causes extinction – ice age and famine.Steven Starr 15 ~Director of the University of Missouri’s Clinical Laboratory Science Program, as well as a senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility. He has worked with the Swiss, Chilean, and Swedish governments in support of their efforts at the United Nations to eliminate thousands of high-alert, launch-ready U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons. "Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen." Ratical. March 2015. https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html~~ TG AND the operational and deployed nuclear arsenals, will leave the Earth essentially uninhabitable. US has been the cause of anti-imperialism globally.Daniel Deudney and John Ikenberry 15. Daniel Deudney, Johns Hopkins University G. John Ikenberry, Princeton University "America’s Impact: The End of Empire and the Globalization of the Westphalian System", August 2015, http://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/gji3/files/am-impact-dd-gji-final-1-august-2015.pdf) two charts from the article AND , institutionalization, and stabilization of the Westphalian state-system. Shallow disavowals of the nation state and hegemonic anti-imperialism creates a pessimism trap – this card ends the debate.Lightfoot 20—Associate professor in First Nations and Indigenous Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Ojibwe (Sheryl, "The Pessimism Traps of Indigenous Resurgence," Pessimism in International Relations, Chapter 9, pp 162-170, SpringerLink, dml) AND Indigenous movements who should be pooling limited resources and working together towards better futures | 1/9/22 |
2 - K - Kant HomophobicTournament: NSD | Round: 1 | Opponent: McGinnis-Gilbert RB | Judge: Matt Moorhead Kantian philosophy is anti-gay - this is not an ad hominem - this is a conclusion of his ethics and the formula of humanity. SOBLE quotes Kant:Kant immediately continues by completing his sparse inventory of three objectionable, sexually unnatural, practices ~quote begins here~ "A second crimen carnis contra naturam is intercourse between sexus homogenii, in which the object of sexual impulse is a human being but there is homogeneity instead of heterogeneity of sex. . . . This practice too is contrary to the ends of humanity; for the end of humanity in respect of sexuality is to preserve the species without debasing the person; but in this instance the species is not being preserved (as it can be by a crimen carnis secundum naturam), but the person is set aside, the self is degraded below the level of the animals, and humanity is dishonoured. The third crimen carnis contra naturam occurs when the object of the desire is in fact of the opposite sex but is not human. Such is sodomy, or intercourse with animals. This, too, is contrary to the ends of humanity and against our natural instinct. It degrades mankind below the level of animals, for no animal turns in this way from its own species.75 This is not "Kant believed some other bad thing." The argument follows from the necessity of avoiding contradiction in conception by willing the perpetuation of the species. Kant thought the homosexual maxim of sex without reproduction had no such function, so it constituted sacrificing your rational agency for the subordinate end of pleasure.Means that gay people cannot operate under the assumptions of the 1ac - you have made the round unsafe for them by deploying philosophy that openly condones homophobia and thus attempts to exclude them from the discussion. Discussions in a classroom have profound impacts in academic settings. SOBLE (2):What was it like to listen to the distinguished Kant lecture on sexual perversion, to sit in Kant's classroom in 1780, hearing his emotional, weakly-argued condemnation of masturbation and homosexuality, and copying it into a notebook?96 Did his students titter? Was tittering tolerated in the German classroom? Did they at least roll their eyes? Were they disgusted, along with Kant, at homosexuality, or were they disgusted by his disgust? (Are my students disgusted, along with me, by homophobia, or are they disgusted by my being disgusted?) And those in his classes who masturbated or were homosexual, how did they respond? Consider the pain of hearing oneself accused in the strongest terms of being lower than a beast, and being accused by no less an authority than Professor Kant. His diatribe against homosexuality is little more than intellectual gay-bashing. Thus I imagine the profound fear felt by his targets who attended his lectures. I wonder if I would have had the courage to confront Kant in class, if I would have had the manly balls of my rational autonomy to do what the lesbian sadomasochist Pat Califia does: If I am going to be called all those bad names anyway, I might as well be the first one to spread the good news. When you come out, you make yourself vulnerable to disapproval, criticism, and discrimination. But you also get to define your own terms. You get to go first and be the one to say who you are and what that means. And after you've already admitted in public that you're a hopelessly twisted slut, what are your detractors going to do?97 I don't know if I would have been able to confess my own 'pervy' sexuality in Kant's auditorium. Maybe it is only from the comfortable, far away position of the early 21st-century that I feel safe calling Kant's account of sexual perversion a clunker concocted by a kisöreg. | 7/7/21 |
2 - K - Psychoanalysis v Racial CapitalismTournament: UT | Round: 6 | Opponent: Memorial DX | Judge: Tej Gedela AND also experience our distance from the authority and our radical freedom as subjects. They are a fantasy constructed by planning at the expense of scapegoated identities as recognition from the Other in an attempt to fill the lack.Gunder 05 Michael Gunder, 2005, "The Production of Desirous Space: Mere Fantasies of the Utopian City?" Planning Theory 2005 4: 173, DOI: 10.1177/1473095205054604, all brackets were in the original text, SJBE AND and ourselves, that constitutes the social reality that is our lived space. Debate limits the aff to just what can fit inside the RFD on tab, creating a politics of recognition that exchanges their energizing into ballots of tokenization.McGowan 13 Todd McGowan, 2013, "Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis," University of Nebraska Press/Lincoln and London, SJBE AND insufficient and seek more. Unlike enjoyment, recognition is an infinite struggle. The repetition of drives makes life the enemy and causes extinctionThemi 08 (Tim, Prof @ Deakin U, "How Lacan’s Ethics Might Improve Our Understanding of Nietzsche’s Critique of Platonism: The Neurosis and Nihilism of a ‘Life’ Against Life," Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 4.1-2, 2008) SJBE, recut from Harvard BoSu AND -understood drive resurge of its own volition until it accidentally finishes us! ====Vote Negative to endorse politics that recognizes and embraces the lack. A method of embracing anxiety to later engage in a politics absent desire.==== AND the liberal’s toler- ance within the conservative’s encounter with the real other. Drives to fill the lack through signification of material objects explains the emergence of human longing for Capitalism.McGowan 16 ~Todd. Todd McGowan McGowan is professor of film studies at the University of Vermont. His previous Columbia University Press books are The Impossible David Lynch (2007), Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016; 304 pages. ISBN: 978-0231178723. pg. 22-26~ SJVM AND , and the com- modity provides an answer to this traumatic contingency. | 12/4/21 |
2 - K - Queer PessimismTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 6 | Opponent: McNeil YM | Judge: Kenneth Nelson Languages inabilities to fully communicate leave us fractured, that necessitates drives to seek wholeness which is captured within the future. Thus the role of the ballot is to resist the overkill.Edelman 1, Lee. No Future Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2007. Lee Edelman is Professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory and Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire. https://archive.org/stream/EdelmanNoFutureQueerTheoryAndTheDeathDrive/Edelman20-20No20Future20-20Queer20Theory20and20the20Death20Drive'djvu.txt (2-3) SJVM AND desire, for its translation into a narrative, for its teleological determination. That extends to the political where the Queer names the side of opposition, unable to contribute to the symbol of the future we prescribe into the Child.Edelman 2 Lee. No Future Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2007. Lee Edelman is Professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory and Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire. (2) SJVM AND of social organization, collective reality, and, inevitably, life itself. The alternative is to affirm death in life by embracing the death drive. Recognizing a liberatory space for queerness is not found in the political, but in the negativity of political apostasy.Edelman 3, Lee. No Future Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Duke University Press, 2007. Lee Edelman is Professor of English at Tufts University. He is the author of Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory and Transmemberment of Song: Hart Crane's Anatomies of Rhetoric and Desire. https://archive.org/stream/EdelmanNoFutureQueerTheoryAndTheDeathDrive/Edelman20-20No20Future20-20Queer20Theory20and20the20Death20Drive'djvu.txt (4) SJVM AND committed as they are, on every side, to futurism's unquestioned good. | 1/9/22 |
2 - K - Settler Colonialism DiscourseTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Westwood EG | Judge: Isaac Chao, Nathan Rothenbaum, Breigh Plat Their use of the s-slur is an independent voter and the highest layer:Use of the racial slur is violent and runs counter to the demands of indigenous educators.CBC 19 – 10/2/19, ~"'This word is our N-word': Indigenous teacher asks Urban Planet to drop racial slur," CBC News, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/offensive-term-remove-urban-planet-1.5305540~~ Justin Violent Language Struck Out AND that if it is an oversight, it's an oversight of serious proportion." The violation is 1AC Sammler and Belcourt—control-F the slur, it shows up dozens of times. No counterinterp offense—crossing out the word like we did, omitting the evidence, or just simply not saying the word in the evidence solves 100 of your offense and proves they didn’t care.That’s a voter—apologies and drop the argument don’t solve—if someone said the n-word in round you wouldn’t accept an apology and would drop them immediately. | 1/9/22 |
2 - K - Settler Colonialism v FeminismTournament: TFA State | Round: 5 | Opponent: Jordan FW | Judge: Alex Yoakum The land we stand on today once belonged to the Karankawa and Coheuiltecan who once occupied Portland, Texas. Eventually settlers arrived, and the tribes fought to protect teir ancestral land. But by 1891, these tribes were considered to be extinct and were forced to move west to Kansas by the 19th century with no traces left.The role of the ballot is to vote for who best centers indigenous scholarship and resistance— Any ethical commitment requires that the aff place themselves in the center of Native scholarship and demands.Carlson 16 (Elizabeth Carlson, PhD, is an Aamitigoozhi, Wemistigosi, and Wasicu (settler Canadian and American), whose Swedish, Saami, German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestors have settled on lands of the Anishinaabe and Omaha Nations which were unethically obtained by the US government. Elizabeth lives on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Nehiyawak, Dakota, Nakota, and Red River Metis peoples currently occupied by the city of Winnipeg, the province of Manitoba, (2016): Anti-colonial methodologies and practices for settler colonial studies, Settler Colonial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2016.1241213) recut SJ DL AND I believe our contributions to settler colonial studies are even more deeply problematic. Settler colonialism is not a one-off occurrence – it requires the combination of external and internal colonialism fused with the identity-making of the settler through the erasure of indigenous populations that rewrites ontological identity and relationships.Tuck and Yang 12 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, 2012, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society AND whereas the Indigenous inhabitant and the chattel slave are unnatural, even supernatural. Conceptions of objectivity fail into the guise of progress. The truth of Settler Colonialism must be publicly confronted from personal experience which settlers will always encroach upon.Brake 7/5 ~Justin; Justin Brake is an independent journalist from Ktaqmkuk (Newfoundland) who presently lives and works in unceded Algonquin territory. A settler with Mi’kmaq ancestry, much of Justin’s work focuses on Indigenous rights and liberation. He is a writer and editor with the Breach and a regular contributor to the Independent. "Built on a foundation of white supremacy"". 7-5-2021. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/built-on-a-foundation-of-white-supremacy.~~ SJVM AND their knowledge, and expertise within a wider web of relations and entanglements. The alternative is unforgetting – connecting structures of the past to the present, uncovering ignorance that sustains settler colonialism, and decolonization.Shotwell 16 Alexis Shotwell, 2016, "Against purity: living ethically in compromised times," University of Minnesota Press, Alexis Shotwell is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, and the Department of Philosophy, at Carleton University, SJBE AND will unpack shortly, understanding that mere reversal does not transform oppressive relations. | 4/22/22 |
2 - K - Settler Colonialism v PragmatismTournament: NSD | Round: 3 | Opponent: KruSel LR | Judge: Henry Eberhart The land we stand on today once belonged to the Karankawa, Atakapa, and Sana who once occupied Houston. Eventually settlers arrived, and the tribes fought to protect teir ancestral land. But by 1891, these tribes were considered to be extinct and were forced to move west to Kansas by the 19th century with no traces left.The role of the ballot is to vote for who best centers indigenous scholarship and resistance— Any ethical commitment requires that the aff place themselves in the center of Native scholarship and demands.Carlson 16 (Elizabeth Carlson, PhD, is an Aamitigoozhi, Wemistigosi, and Wasicu (settler Canadian and American), whose Swedish, Saami, German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestors have settled on lands of the Anishinaabe and Omaha Nations which were unethically obtained by the US government. Elizabeth lives on Treaty 1 territory, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe, Nehiyawak, Dakota, Nakota, and Red River Metis peoples currently occupied by the city of Winnipeg, the province of Manitoba, (2016): Anti-colonial methodologies and practices for settler colonial studies, Settler Colonial Studies, DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2016.1241213) recut SJ DL AND I believe our contributions to settler colonial studies are even more deeply problematic. Settler colonialism is not a one-off occurrence – it requires the combination of external and internal colonialism fused with the identity-making of the settler through the erasure of indigenous populations that rewrites ontological identity and relationships.Tuck and Yang 12 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, 2012, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society AND whereas the Indigenous inhabitant and the chattel slave are unnatural, even supernatural. Their claim to the ethical necessity and sufficiency of deliberation re-entrenches settler colonialism – it’s a form of inclusive recognition politics that obscures the settler colonial frameworks that undergird deliberation and opens space for settler reconciliation.Norris 18 HOW BEAR LOST HIS TAIL: AN INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVE ON INCLUSIVE DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRATIC THEORY AS APPLIED TO THE CANADIAN SOCIETAL CONTEXT by Matthew Norris B.A., The University of British Columbia (Political Science) August 2018 https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0371608 SM AND Gwaii in 2009. 47 Coulthard, 106. 17 4.3 Literature Settler workers are still settlers – the 1ac grounds their politics in a defense of indigenous dispossession and necessitates settler expansion.Englert 20 Sai Englert (lecturer @ Universiteit Leiden), 2020, "Settlers, Workers, and the Logic of Accumulation by Dispossession," Antipode, Vol. 0, No. 0, doi:10.1111/anti.12659 AND brief case studies demonstrating this process in the context of Zionism in Palestine. The alternative is one of decolonization – settlers need to enact an ethic of incommensurability to relinquish settler futurity.Tuck and Yang 12 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, 2012, "Decolonization is not a metaphor," Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, SJ DL AND - these are the unwritten possibilities made possible by an ethic of incommensurability. | 7/8/21 |
2 - K - UndercommonsTournament: UT | Round: Triples | Opponent: Claudia Taylor Johnson AP | Judge: Sreyaash Das, Austin Broussard, Alex Yoakum Anti-blackness is historically shaped but a method of shutting resistance in life decks survival.Kelley 17 Robin D.G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA, "Robin D.G. Kelley and Fred Moten In Conversation", YouTube, 1:57:36 – 2:02:56, 15 June 2017, accessed: 21 January 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP-2F9MXjRE, *most likely transcribed by Dustin Meyers Levi (dml), R.S. AND way I think about it. Maybe it’s not satisfactory, but yeah. Humanism that’s oriented "to praxis in this world" is good – it’s not "all lives matter" but necessary to cultivate black endurance.Pithouse 16 Richard PITHOUSE, senior researcher, programme coordinator and supervisor at the Unit for Humanities at Rhodes University, 16 ~"Frantz Fanon: Philosophy, Praxis, and the Occult Zone," Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Vol. XXIV, No 1, 2016, p. 116-138, http://www.jffp.org/ojs/index.php/jffp/article/viewFile/761/723~~ AND to retrieve life and ‘the human’ from a history of waste."97 Their politics based in ethnic-racialized identity drawing lines between practices and people results in color-checking and a new standard of "recognizable ethnicity".Gaztambide 14 Daniel, doctoral candidate at the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University. He currently serves as an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College Silberman School of Social Work, where he teaches courses on race, gender, class, and sexuality and psychoanalytic developmental theory. He is an APA Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) liaison to the APA Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs and a fellow in APA's Minority Fellowship Program. "I’m not black, I’m not white, what am I? The illusion of the color line." Macmillan Publishers Ltd. 1088-0763 Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society Vol. 19, 1, 89–97 97. AND or the signified of race, but is instead, its own cause. The alternative is to un-enlist – true undercommon communication requires absolute vulnerability and unconditionality as opposed to the aff’s line-drawing and redefining.Moten and Harney, 13 (Fred and Stefano, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, p.38 TAT) AND from whom the enlightenment-type charade has stolen everything for its game. | 12/5/21 |
2 - NC - Logical ConsequenceTournament: Blue Key | Round: 3 | Opponent: Coral Springs LV | Judge: Sam Cogen Presumption and permissibility negate – a~ more often false than true since I can prove something false in infinite ways which outweighs on probability b~ policies require positive justification before being adopted which outweighs real world c~ its safer to not do anything under skep since you could potentially justify bad things.Even under comparative worlds you negate since it requires proving the "the aff world is more desirable or probable than the neg world." I just need to win any arguments below since an incoherent sentence can’t prove an obligation.A~ Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) Massa B~ Oxford Dictionary defines ought as "used to indicate something that is probable."https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ought Massa Neg definition choice – the aff should have defined stuff in the 1ac because it was in the rez so it’s predictable, new ones moot 7 minutes and kills 1NC strategy since I engaged on a lack of your definition. Reject unread definitions – it justifies me having to respond to infinite unread cards since its still part of your advocacy.Negate:~1~ Inherency – either a) the aff is non-inherent and you vote neg on presumption or b) it is and it isn’t logically going to happen.~2~ To go anywhere, you must go halfway first, and then you must go half of the remaining distance ad infinitum – thus, motion is impossible because it necessitates traversing an infinite number of spaces in finite time. | 10/30/21 |
2 - NC - Logical ConsequenceTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker SY | Judge: Tarun Ratanasabapathy The neg burden is to prove that the aff won’t logically happen in the status quo, and the aff burden is to prove that it will.Top of Form Prefer:1~ Text –A~ Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) Massa B~ Oxford Dictionary defines ought as "used to indicate something that is probable."https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ought Massa 2~ Debatability – a) it focuses debates on empirics about squo trends rather than irresolvable abstract principles that’ve been argued for yearsLog con isn’t mutually exclusive with comparative worlds a) logic is a side constraint on desirability b) proves why it’s not desirable since taking impossible actions are net bad since they produce no benefits and only opportunity costs c) reinterprets to the more logical world rather than more desireable world.3~ Neg definition choice – the aff should have defined ought in the 1ac because it was in the rez so it’s predictable contestation, by not doing so they have forfeited their right to read a new definition – kills 1NC strategy since I premised my engagement on a lack of your definition.Now negate:Negate: 1~ Inherency – either a) the aff is non-inherent and you vote neg on presumption or b) it is and it isn’t going to happen. | 11/21/21 |
2 - NC - Undoubtable TruthTournament: UT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Jack Quisenberry Presumption and permissibility negate – a~ more often false than true since I can prove something false in infinite ways which outweighs on probability b~ policies require positive justification before being adopted which outweighs real world c~ Affirming requires unconditionally maintaining an obligationDictionary.com "affirm" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/affirm to state or assert positively; maintain as true:Even under comparative worlds you negate since it requires proving the "the aff world is more desirable or probable than the neg world." I just need to win any arguments below since an incoherent sentence can’t prove an obligation.A~ Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) Massa B~ Oxford Dictionary defines ought as "used to indicate something that is probable."https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/ought Massa Neg definition choice – the aff should have defined stuff in the 1ac because it was in the rez so it’s predictable, new ones moot 7 minutes and kills 1NC strategy since I engaged on a lack of your definition.Negate:~1~ Inherency – either a) the aff is non-inherent and you vote neg on presumption or b) it is and it isn’t logically going to happen.~2~ In order to say I want to fix x problem, you must say that you want x problem to exist, since it requires the problem exist to solve, which makes any moral attempt inherently immoral.~3~ you can’t be sure anything besides yourself exists – we could be deceived by a demon, dreaming, or in a simulation so the whole world could be nonexistent~4~ Merriam Websters defines right as "having the axis perpendicular to the base" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right But there is no base for strikes to be perpendicular to, so the rez does nothing | 12/4/21 |
2 - NC - UtilTournament: NSD | Round: 1 | Opponent: McGinnis-Gilbert RB | Judge: Matt Moorhead Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. The standard is maximizing expected well-being. Prefer:1~ Actor specificity: util is the best for governments, which is the actor in the rez – multiple warrants – a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action b~ No intent-foresight distinction – the actions we take are inevitably informed by predictions from certain mental states, meaning consequences are a collective part of the will c~ No act omission distinction – governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is an implicit authorization of action d~ Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they're empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.2~ 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 for ethics b~ winning hedonism proves we're the only one with impacts to it so a risk of offense is sufficient c~ they're blippy nibs that set us at a disadvantage since they only have to win one while we have to beat them all – kills fairness3~ Extinction outweighs under any frameworkPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT | 7/7/21 |
2 - NC - Util v2Tournament: NSD | Round: 6 | Opponent: AzbKal AS | Judge: Zach Siegel The meta-ethic is Naturalism. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. The standard is maximizing expected well-being. Prefer:~1~ Actor specificity: util is the best for governments, which is the actor in the rez – multiple warrants – a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action b~ No intent-foresight distinction – the actions we take are inevitably informed by predictions from certain mental states, meaning consequences are a collective part of the will c~ No act omission distinction – governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is an implicit authorization of action d~ Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they’re empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.~2~ 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 for ethics b~ winning hedonism proves we’re the only one with impacts to it so a risk of offense is sufficient c~ they’re blippy nibs that set us at a disadvantage since they only have to win one while we have to beat them all – kills fairness | 7/9/21 |
2 - NC - Util v3Tournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Animesh Joshi Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. The standard is maximizing expected well-being. Prefer:~1~ Actor spec: util is the best for governments, which is the actor in the rez – multiple warrants – a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action b~ No intent-foresight distinction – the actions we take are inevitably informed by predictions from certain mental states, meaning consequences are a collective part of the will c~ No act omission distinction – governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is an implicit authorization of action d~ Actor-spec comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they’re empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.~2~ 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 for ethics b~ they’re blippy nibs that set us at a disadvantage since they only have to win one while we have to beat them all – kills fairness c~ winning hedonism proves we’re the only one with impacts to it so a risk of offense is sufficient~3~ Extinction outweighs under any frameworkPummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) ~4~ Weighability – only consequentialism can explain the ethical difference in breaking a promise to take someone to the hospital and breaking a promise to take someone to lunch – there’s no way to weigh between competing offense under their fw which means their fw can’t guide action – it also proves their fw is counter intuitive | 9/18/21 |
2 - NC - Util v4Tournament: UH | Round: 3 | Opponent: Cooper City NR | Judge: Gabby Lea 1~ Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/, R.S. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. | 1/15/22 |
2 - NC - Util v5Tournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Grapevine FC | Judge: Avery Wilson The Standard is maximizing well being:~1~ Actor spec: util is the best for governments, which is the actor in the rez – multiple warrants – a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action b~ Actor-spec comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they’re empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.~2~ Extinction first:1~ Turns suffering – mass death causes suffering because people can’t get access to resources and basic necessities that makes violent acts inevitable.2~ Objectivity – body count is the most objective way to calculate impacts because comparing suffering is unethical3~ Moral uncertainty – it’s not regressive nor does it ignore current suffering. It frames that if we win a significant risk of a scenario err neg since arguments about ethics have spanned for centuries.4~ Forecloses value – we can never improve society because our impact is irreversible5~ Turns calc indicts – winning the scenario proves significant risk and loss of trillions of future lives outweighs on magnitude | 3/10/22 |
2 - ROB - Truth TestingTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Homestead SL | Judge: Tajaih Robinson The role of the ballot is vote for the debater who best proves the truth or falsity of the resolution.~1~ Constitutivism: The ballot says vote aff or neg based on a topic – five dictionaries define affirm as to prove true and negate as to deny the truth of which means it’s constitutive and jurisdictional – that’s a meta constraint on anything since the judge voting aff if they affirm better and neg the contrary proves that it’s an independent voter and means hack against them if they contest it. I denied the truth of the resolution by disagreeing with the aff which means I’ve met my burden. Answers collapse to truth testing since they require truth value. Also, if I’m textual I’m fair because the topic is the most predictable, so you could’ve engaged.~2~ Inclusivity: Other ROBs open the door for personal lives to factor into decisions to compare who is more oppressed causing violence where people go to escape and shuts out people without the technical skill or resources to prep for. Only we allow anything as long is it proves the res true or false. Specific role of the ballots exclude all offense besides those that follow from their framework and justifies permissibility since it only tells you what to do in face of one problem which means everything outside that instance isn’t condemned.~3~ Changing the structure of the activity can’t occur within the round i.e. in the middle of a chess match it’s nonsensical to bring up new rules unless discussed outside of the act of playing the game – out of round rule-setting solves 100 of your offense. Even if there is a higher purpose, it doesn’t change anything, you should just write whatever is important on the ballot and vote for me.Now:A~ Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) Massa Neg definition choice – the aff should have defined stuff in the 1ac because it was in the rez so it’s predictable, new ones moot 7 minutes and kills 1NC strategy since I engaged on a lack of your definition.Negate:~1~ Inherency – either a) the aff is non-inherent and you vote neg on presumption or b) it is and it isn’t logically going to happen.~2~ In order to say I want to fix x problem, you must say that you want x problem to exist, since it requires the problem exist to solve, which makes any moral attempt inherently immoral.~3~ To go anywhere, you must go halfway first, and then you must go half of the remaining distance ad infinitum – thus, motion is impossible because it necessitates traversing an infinite number of spaces in finite time.~4~ you can’t be sure anything besides yourself exists – we could be deceived by a demon, dreaming, or in a simulation so the whole world could be nonexistent~5~ Merriam Websters defines right as "having the axis perpendicular to the base" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/right But there is no base for strikes to be perpendicular to, so the rez does nothing~6~ To means "indicate movement" (Merriam Webster), but that means the resolution is incoherent because the word ought cannot move to the word provide. Means you negate on face because you can’t even know what the resolution looks like and an incoherent claim can’t have truth.~7~ Merriam websters defines Strike as "to delete something" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/strike Which proves the Aff can’t solve since it just deletes everything in the workspace. ~7~ Merriam Websters defines workers as "any of the sexually underdeveloped and usually sterile members of a colony of social ants, bees, wasps, or termites that perform most of the labor and protective duties of the colony" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/worker But governments don’t communicate to ants so they can’t solve. | 11/20/21 |
JANFEB - CP - EIATournament: UH | Round: 5 | Opponent: Coppell SK | Judge: Holden Bukowsky CP Text: States should submit an environmental impact assessment of the appropriation of outer space by private entities to the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs for public comment, modification, and approval. States should implement the approved version of the submitted proposal.Counterplan competes and creates the least environmentally damaging version of the aff.Kramer 14 ~William R. Kramer, PhD Polisci/Futures Studies @ U of H Manoa, Currently HDR Inc. Extraterrestrial Environmental Analyst, ’14, "Extraterrestrial environmental impact assessments A foreseeable prerequisite for wise decisions regarding outer space exploration, research and development" Space Policy 30 (2014) 215-222~ AND to document positive actions and research, not details of extraterrestrial environmental impacts. Extinction. EIA is key to preserve space resources, stop resource wars, and extra-terrestrial environmental damage.Kramer 17 ~William R. Kramer, Hawaii Research Center for Futures Studies @ University of Hawaii, '17, In dreams begin responsibilities – environmental impact assessment and outer space development, ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE, VOL. 19, NO. 3, 128–138~ AND know them do not take care of this problem (Mack, 2016)." | 1/15/22 |
JANFEB - CP - RegulationTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Vishan Chaudary The United States federal government should:negotiate a new multiple-link hotline system that communicates through text and receive-only modes linking the United States National Security Council directly to the Security Council of Russia and the People’s Liberation ArmyRedefine "aircraft" to include aerospace vehicles in the ICAO annexes.Space hotlines solves miscalcErwin 21 ~Sandra Erwin, 11-3-2021, "One way to help prevent wars in space? Military hotlines with Russia and China," SpaceNews, https://spacenews.com/one-way-to-help-prevent-wars-in-space-military-hotlines-with-russia-and-china/~~ Jet AND those independently, and there’s so much shared capacity that we could leverage." The CP puts aerospace regulations on par with earthly aircrafts – solves.Dempsey and Miniero 10 ~Paul Stephen Dempsey, Michael Mineiro, in Space Safety Regulations and Standards, 2010. . "Air Commerce". ScienceDirect. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/air-commerce.~~ AND the rules of safety and navigation for "aircraft" so redefined.160 No circumvention and it creates follow-on that solvesPaulina E.Sikorska1, December 2015, "The need for legal regulation of global emissions from the aviation industry in the context of emerging aerospace vehicles," No Publication, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235166741500013X~~#s0010 AND action to help alleviate problems while a longer-term solution is sought. | 4/23/22 |
JANFEB - DA - BizConTournament: TOC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Orange Lutheran AZ | Judge: Vishan Chaudary Business confidence high nowPTI 4-22, 4-22-2022, "Business confidence surges in Q4 of FY22; sunny days ahead: NCAER," https://www.cnbctv18.com/economy/business-confidence-improved-in-q4-of-fy22-sunny-days-ahead-ncaer-survey-13244242.htm/Karan AND .8 points in third quarter of 202122 to 150.1 points. Changing the legal standards of antitrust spills over to crush otherwise surging corporate growth.Thierer ’21 ~Adam; February 25; Senior Research Fellow with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; The Hill, "Open-ended antitrust is an innovation killer," https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/540391-open-ended-antitrust-is-an-innovation-killer~~ AND organically, not through the wrecking ball of heavy-handed antitrust regulation. It cascades across unrelated sectors AND the threat alone chills expenditures.Crews ’19 ~Clyde and Ryan; April 16; Vice President for Policy and Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute; Senior Fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, M.A. in Economics from George Mason University; CEI, "The Case against Antitrust Law," https://cei.org/studies/the-case-against-antitrust-law/~~ AND market outcomes—assuming that regulators are consistently capable of such a feat. Extinction.Skaperdas ’20 ~Stergios; June 16; Professor of Economics at the University of California Irvine, former Director of the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies; Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy, "The Decline of US Power and the Future of Conflict Management after Covid," vol. 26~ AND Latin America becoming battlegrounds for continual proxy conflicts between the superpowers is increasing. | 4/23/22 |
JANFEB - DA - InnovationTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 6 | Opponent: McNeil YM | Judge: Kenneth Nelson Space Commercialization drives Tech Innovation in the Status Quo – it provides a unique impetus.Hampson 17 Joshua Hampson 1-25-2017 "The Future of Space Commercialization" https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf (Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center)Elmer AND to global networks, and new opportunities could lead to wider economic growth. Strong Innovation solves Extinction.Matthews 18 Dylan Matthews 10-26-2018 "How to help people millions of years from now" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good (Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University)Re-cut by Elmer AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. | 1/9/22 |
JANFEB - DA - MiningTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Flower Mound DB | Judge: angela zhong | 1/9/22 |
JANFEB - DA - PLATournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 6 | Opponent: McNeil YM | Judge: Kenneth Nelson Xi is tightening control over the PLA but completing goals are critical.Krishnan 21 – Ananth, 11/18/21, ~‘Xi tightened control over the PLA’, TheHindu, https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/xi-tightened-control-over-the-pla/article37549460.ece~~ Justin AND have worked vigorously to govern the military with strict discipline in every respect." The commercial space sector is one of the PLAs central goals – the plan is a 180 and circumvents.Bartholomew and Cleveland 19 – Carolyn and Robin, 4/25/19, Chairmen and Vice Chairmen. Section is written from Michael A. McDevitt, US Congressperson, ~"HEARING ON CHINA IN SPACE: A STRATEGIC COMPETITION?," https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/transcripts/April20252C20201920Hearing20Transcript2028229.pdf~~ Justin AND and is prepared to use cyberattacks against U.S. space systems. That triggers backlash – they don’t support restrictions on the space sector and will do everything to convince leaders not to do the plan.Cheng 14 ~Dean Cheng, Senior Research Fellow in the Asia Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, Former Senior Analyst at the China Studies Division of the Center for Naval Analyses, Former Senior Analyst with Science Applications International Corporation, "Prospects for U.S.-China Space Cooperation", Testimony before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, 4/9/2014, https://www.heritage.org/testimony/prospects-us-china-space-cooperation~~ AND —with a real likelihood that the PLA would be one of them. An unhinged PLA triggers Himalayan war – goes globalChellaney 17 ~Dr. Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research and Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, PhD in International Studies from Jawaharlal Nehru University, "Why the Chinese Military’s Rising Clout Troubles Xi Jinping", The National, 9/9/2017, https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/why-the-chinese-military-s-rising-clout-troubles-xi-jinping-1.626815?videoId=5754807360001~~ AND as a praetorian state are real and carry major implications for international security. Extinction.Caldicott 17 – Helen, 2017, Founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility ~"The new nuclear danger: George W. Bush's military-industrial complex," The New Press~Elmer AND nuclear winter would ensue, meaning the end of most life on earth. | 1/9/22 |
JANFEB - NC - KantTournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Flower Mound DB | Judge: angela zhong Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness~A~ Uncertainty – evil demon could deceive us and inability to know others experience make empiricism an unreliable basis for universal ethics. Outweighs since it would be escapable since people could say they don’t experience the same.~B~ Unity – Practical reason is the only unescapable authority because to ask why I should be a reasoner concedes it’s authority since you’re actively reasoning. Meta-ethics outweigh because they determine how do derive ethics in the first place, their description of injustices only tells us what exists, not how to properly fix it or act with it which leaves all harms unresolved.Normativity outweighs: a~ Obligations – lack of it doesn’t generate stable ethics so it permits anything except the one thing it condemns b~ Collapses – injustices need universal ideal principles to ground them and explain why they are wrong which otherwise justifies skep since no external reason to follow a code that justifies badness in all instances.That justifies universality – a~ a priori principles like reason apply to everyone since they are independent of human experience and any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends b~ rational deliberation of educational concepts is necessary to interpret other arguments since it’s a prerequisite to interpreting epistemological concepts – outweighs since it’s the terminal impact of debate. c~ communication being bad isn’t instrinsic to agency which means they can’t weigh it against us.Additionally, even if the concept of dignity has been used to exclude marginalized groups, reframing it through universal reason applies principles that don’t exclude for arbitrary cause – that’s the best method for combatting oppression.Farr 02 Arnold Farr (prof of phil @ UKentucky, focusing on German idealism, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy). "Can a Philosophy of Race Afford to Abandon the Kantian Categorical Imperative?" JOURNAL of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2002, 17–32. AND choosing my maxims I attempt to include the perspective of other moral agents. Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.~1~ Consequences Fail: a~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can’t predict. b~ Future determination based on experience is unreliable since it relies on an assumption that human positionality will stay the same which is – 1~ only reached through observation of past events which is circular and – 2~ incorrect in believing subjectivity is stuck to particular desires c~ Every action is infinitely divisible, only intents unify because we commit the end point of an action – but consequences cannot determine what step of action is moralNegate:~1~ A model of freedom mandates a market-oriented approach to space—that negatesBroker 20 ~(Tyler, work has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review, the Albany Law Review and the University of Memphis Law Review.) "Space Law Can Only Be Libertarian Minded," Above the Law, 1-14-20, https://abovethelaw.com/2020/01/space-law-can-only-be-libertarian-minded/~~ TDI AND fidelity to a set of laws made possible, in such an existence. ~2~ Banning private space appropriation inhibits the sale and use of spacecraft and fuel- that’s a form of restricting the free economic choices of individualsRichman 12, Sheldon. "The free market doesn’t need government regulation." Reason, August 5, 2012. AHS RG AND really, it is just men and women acting rationally in the world. | 1/9/22 |
JANFEB - NC - Kant v2Tournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 4 | Opponent: William Walker | Judge: Patrick Fox Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness~A~ Uncertainty – evil demon could deceive us and inability to know others experience make empiricism an unreliable basis for universal ethics. Outweighs since it would be escapable since people could say they don’t experience the same.~B~ Unity – Practical reason is the only unescapable authority because to ask why I should be a reasoner concedes it’s authority since you’re actively reasoning. Meta-ethics outweigh because they determine how do derive ethics in the first place, their description of injustices only tells us what exists, not how to properly fix it or act with it which leaves all harms unresolved.Normativity outweighs: a~ Obligations – lack of it doesn’t generate stable ethics so it permits anything except the one thing it condemns b~ Collapses – injustices need universal ideal principles to ground them and explain why they are wrong which otherwise justifies skep since no external reason to follow a code that justifies badness in all instances.That justifies universality – a~ a priori principles like reason apply to everyone since they are independent of human experience and any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends b~ rational deliberation of educational concepts is necessary to interpret other arguments since it’s a prerequisite to interpreting epistemological concepts – outweighs since it’s the terminal impact of debate. c~ communication being bad isn’t instrinsic to agency which means they can’t weigh it against us.Additionally, even if the concept of dignity has been used to exclude marginalized groups, reframing it through universal reason applies principles that don’t exclude for arbitrary cause – that’s the best method for combatting oppression.Farr 02 Arnold Farr (prof of phil @ UKentucky, focusing on German idealism, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy). "Can a Philosophy of Race Afford to Abandon the Kantian Categorical Imperative?" JOURNAL of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2002, 17–32. AND choosing my maxims I attempt to include the perspective of other moral agents. Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.~1~ Consequences Fail: a~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can’t predict. b~ Future determination based on experience is unreliable since it relies on an assumption that human positionality will stay the same which is – 1~ only reached through observation of past events which is circular and – 2~ incorrect in believing subjectivity is stuck to particular desires c~ Every action is infinitely divisible, only intents unify because we commit the end point of an action – but consequences cannot determine what step of action is moralNegate:~1~ A model of freedom mandates a market-oriented approach to space—that negatesBroker 20 ~(Tyler, work has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review, the Albany Law Review and the University of Memphis Law Review.) "Space Law Can Only Be Libertarian Minded," Above the Law, 1-14-20, https://abovethelaw.com/2020/01/space-law-can-only-be-libertarian-minded/~~ TDI AND fidelity to a set of laws made possible, in such an existence. ~2~ Banning private space appropriation inhibits the sale and use of spacecraft and fuel- that’s a form of restricting the free economic choices of individualsRichman 12, Sheldon. "The free market doesn’t need government regulation." Reason, August 5, 2012. AHS RG AND really, it is just men and women acting rationally in the world. | 1/8/22 |
MARAPR - CP - Green InvestmentTournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Grapevine FC | Judge: Avery Wilson CP Text: Democracies ought to–- Eliminate the use of fossil fuels.- Eliminate their production subsidies for fossil fuels- Establish an incentive program for artificial tree carbon captureThat reduces foreign energy dependence and kickstarts a renewable revolution.Monasterolo 19 Irene Monasterolo ~Irene Monasterolo is a development economist with experience in policy monitoring and evaluation; institutional capacity building; governance of evidence-based sustainability policies; complex system thinking for modelling the resource-climate nexus; green fiscal and monetary policies for financing the green economy; and adaptation tools for building agricultural resilience to climate change, focusing on food risk and climate adaptation. She has worked as a scientist in academia, as an economist for consulting companies, as a consultant for the World Bank. She is currently Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business and a Visiting Scholar with Stanford Energy's Sustainable Finance Initiative. She holds a PhD in Agri-food economics and statistics from the University of Bologna (IT) and held a post-doc at the Global Sustainability Institute in Cambridge (UK) focused on modelling the impact of resource constraints on global growth and political instability.~ and Marco Raberto ~Associate Professor of Business and Management Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy~ (2019). The impact of phasing out fossil fuel subsidies on the low-carbon transition. Energy Policy, 124, 355–370. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2018.08.051 ash AND scenario to the real economy, green capital investments and the credit market. Super trees are sufficient to solve international warming.Vince 12 ~Gaia Vince, BBC News, 4 October 2012, Sucking CO2 from the Skies With Artificial Trees, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121004-fake-trees-to-clean-the-skies~~ TR AND produced in an American city can be removed in Oman," he says. | 3/10/22 |
MARAPR - CP - Investigative JournalismTournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Grapevine FC | Judge: Avery Wilson CP Text – In a Democracy, a Free Press ought to prioritize Objectivity over Advocacy, except for instances of Investigative Journalism.The CP competes – the tension between Objectivity and Advocacy lies in Objective Journalisms separation of opinion and personal bias from discussions.Reavy 13, Matthew. "Objectivity and advocacy in journalism." Media Ethics 25.1 (2013). (Communication Department Chairperson at University of Scranton)Elmer AND careers depend on delivering a news product that fits with the owner’s prejudices." Investigative Journalism is a form of Advocacy Journalism – it doesn’t violate the Truth BUT attaches it to a partial cause.Givens 20 Dana Givens 10-14-2020 "Opinion: When It Comes to Advocacy Journalism, the Truth Should Come Before Emotion" https://theclick.news/essay-when-it-comes-to-advocacy-journalism-the-truth-should-come-before-emotion/ (Sacred Heart University with a Bachelor's of Science in Marketing and Global Studies)Elmer AND to the event and what happened outside of what had previously been reported. Investigative Journalism solves Corruption that hurts democracy.Hrvolova and Katz 21 Martina Hrvolova and Jonathan D. Katz 11-29-2021 "The Anti-Corruption Role of Free Media and Investigative Journalism" https://www.gmfus.org/news/anti-corruption-role-free-media-and-investigative-journalism (Resident Fellow WASHINGTON, DC OFFICE)Elmer AND this funding often does not meet the requirements of the Paris agreement on aid | 3/10/22 |
MARAPR - DA - UkraineTournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Grapevine FC | Judge: Avery Wilson Ukraine war is optimistic, but maintaining outside support and low Russian morale’s keyUkraine getting outside help from west AND the other hand, that’s also how a Ukrainian army becomes more determined. Ukrainian propaganda is key to defeating Russia.Stuart A. Thompson 22 (reporter in the technology department covering misinformation and disinformation.) and Davey Alba (technology reporter covering disinformation. In 2019, she won a Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting and a Mirror Award) 3/3/2022, nytimes, Fact and Mythmaking Blend in Ukraine’s Information War, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/technology/ukraine-war-misinfo.html AND out those messages, which makes them combatants of a sort as well." Ukraine’s info war is key to defeating Russia.Sinan Aral 22 (director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of "The Hype Machine) 3/1/2022, Ukraine is winning the information war, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/03/01/information-war-zelensky-ukraine-putin-russia/ AND where the hearts and minds of the world will be won or lost. Russian win would lead to escalation in multiple forums – goes global.LIANA FIX 22 (Resident Fellow at the German Marshall Fund, in Washington, D.C). MICHAEL KIMMAGE (Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and a Visiting Fellow at the German Marshall Fund. )2/18/22, What If Russia Wins? A Kremlin-Controlled Ukraine Would Transform Europe, Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/ukraine/2022-02-18/what-if-russia-wins AND a rapprochement between Washington and Beijing, but it may initiate new conversations. | 3/10/22 |
MARAPR - NC - KantTournament: TFA State | Round: 1 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Ishan Rereddy Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness.~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don’t experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –~2~ Aspec: JOURNALISTS CAN’T USE UTIL, PREFER DUTY BASED ETHICSChristians 7 Christians, Clifford (Research Professor of Comunications, Professor of Journalism and Professor of Media Studies Emeritus at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Utilitarianism in media ethics and its discontents." Journal of Mass Media Ethics 22.2-3 (2007): 113-131. AND theoretically credible media ethics, the most promising direction is a deontological one. Negate:~1~ Objectivity censors’ journalists’ personal views and biases- that’s non universalizableGreven 21 Greven, Alec, "Speech and Sovereignty: A Kantian Defense of Freedom of Expression" (2021). Honors Theses. 1579. AND respect the unity of their agency and treat others with equal moral standing. ~2~ Journalists are required to respect those they report on, thus, advocacy journalism is required to alleviate sufferingLeshilo 18 Thabo Leshilo ~A research report submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Applied Ethics for Professionals.~ "Morality and Journalists: Objectivity versus Duty of Care" 13 July 2018, Johannesburg https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10539/26530/Morality20and20Journalists20(markup)'2.pdf?sequence=1 AND ordinarily expect another human being to help to alleviate his or her suffering. Interpretation: Affirmative teams must not read new offense in the 1AR related to a new FW, recontextualize or weigh aff arguments under a different FW, or turn the 1nc FW.Violation – preemeptive.1~ Phil Clash and Time Skew- anything else allows them to concede all our framework interactions and just go for 4 minutes of turns against our NC which o/w since phil is the only thing unique to LD Debate and time is the only quantifiable metric of abuse2~ Skew- They have an inherent advantage on the contention debate since they get 2ar spin so they can easily sway judge psychology in contention debates that don’t err towards one side.3~ Depth o/w Breadth- prevents the debate from being split over two issues i.e. the framework and substance which outweighs since in depth testing is necessary to refine ideas while vague debates result in inept clash.4~ Planks Solves- because if the topic doesn’t actually negate you can put defense on the contention level. | 3/10/22 |
NOVDEC - CP - ICJTournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AT | Judge: Sneh Chachra Counterplan text – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ought to—-enter a prior, binding, and genuine consultation with the International Court of Justice to issue a binding ruling to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike.—-pass a concurrent resolution that non-compliance with the International Court of Justice’s ruling constitutes an enforceable violation of Charter obligations.ICJ says yes and creates a culture of acculturation that socializes acceptance of international law – the aff shreds that.Brudney 21 ~James; 2/8/21; Joseph Crowley Chair in Labor and Employment Law, Fordham Law School; "The Right to Strike as Customary International Law," THE YALE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, Vol 46, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1710andcontext=yjil~~ Justin Brackets in original AND accept international standards and practices; and contemporary U.N. leadership. Ruling on the right to strike secures the legitimacy of the ICJ as an international mediation body.Hofmann and Schuster 16 ~Claudia and Norbert; February 2016; Dr. Claudia Hofmann works as a research associate at the Chair for Public Law and Policy at the University of Regensburg. She specializes in public international law (in particular the field of socio-economic human rights and equality-oriented policies), social law, constitutional and administrative law. Norbert Schuster works as a lawyer in Berlin and teaches at the University of Bremen. He specialises in labour law; "It ain’t over ‘til it’s over: the right to strike and the mandate of the ILO Committee of Experts revisited," https://global-labour-university.org/fileadmin/GLU'Working'Papers/GLU'WP'No.40.pdf~~ Justin AND Art 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT). UN Charter solves – empirics.Abiodun 18 ~Amuda-Kannike, and Sylvanus Abila. "A Critical Examination of the Enforcement of ICJ Decisions through the Organs of the United Nations." Journal of Law and Criminal Justice 6.1 (2018): 21-46. Faculty of Law at Poma University~ Elmer AND (one hundred thousand dollars) within 3 months of non-compliance. ICJ legitimacy is key to global multilateralism and crisis stability – it’s declining now.Kornelios Korneliou 18 ~Permanent Representative of Cyprus and Vice-President of the 73rd Session of the UN General assembly, "Report of the International Court of Justice," United Nations, 10-25-2018 https://www.un.org/pga/73/2018/10/25/report-of-the-international-court-of-justice/~~ Recut Justin AND international multilateral system, then adherence and respect for international law remains key. Multilateralism solves a bunch of impacts – even a tiny net benefit is enough to o/w the AFFEsther Brimmer 14 ~Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of International Organization Affairs at the United States Department of State from April 2009 to June 2013, "Smart Power" and Multilateral Diplomacy, June, http://transatlantic.sais-jhu.edu/publications/books/Smarter20Power/Chapter20420brimmer.pdf~~ Recut Justin AND aspects of a threat or challenge that simply cannot be addressed effectively alone. | 10/30/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - India FarmersTournament: Blue Key | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Durham BG | Judge: Rafael Li, Jaylin Talmadge, Will Clark Indian farmer strikes terminally hurt the economy.Krishnan 20 ~Murali. Journalist covering current and social affairs in South Asia for Deutsche Welle, RFI, RTHK, CBC andthe BBC. "How India's farmer protests could take a toll on the economy". 09-12-20. DW. https://www.dw.com/en/how-indias-farmer-protests-could-take-a-toll-on-the-economy/a-55885748.~~ SJVM AND the MSP is seen as an act of betrayal here," he added. Economic downturn leads to war.Liu 18 ~Qian. Qian Liu is a Managing Director, Greater China, the Economist Group. "The next economic crisis could cause a global conflict. Here's why". 11-13-2018. World Economic Forum. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-next-economic-crisis-could-cause-a-global-conflict-heres-why.~~ SJVM AND sensible and respectful global dialogue. The alternative may well be global conflagration. | 10/31/21 |
NOVDEC - DA - Stock MarketTournament: Blue Key | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity Prep JC | Judge: Rohith Sudhakar The stock market is trending upwards but it’s uncertain – blips aren’t enough to disprove the general trend and recent developments prove.Miao and Macheel 10/21 ~Tanaya and Hannah; 10/21/21; Reporter at CNBC, Associate Markets Reporter, graduated summa cum laude from Duke University with a degree in public policy; "SandP 500 slips from record, but heads for winning week on strong earnings," CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/21/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html~~ Justin AND foreign bondholders, staving off a default for the property developer. Best data proves union strike victories statistically cause stock market crash.Lee and Mas 12 ~David; Princeton University and National Bureau of Economic Research; Alexandre; Princeton University and National Bureau of Economic Research; "Long-Run Impacts of Unions on Firms: New Evidence from Financial Markets, 1961–1999," The Quarterly Journal Of Economics; February 2012; https://academic.oup.com/qje/article-abstract/127/1/333/1834007?redirectedFrom=fulltext~~ Justin AND returns for cases where the union won the election by a large margin. The next market crash causes economic collapse – conditions are ripe for failure.Vallejo 10/4 ~Justin; 10/4/21; Citing personal finance expert Robert Kiyosaki; "‘Biggest crash in world history’: Personal finance expert Robert Kiyosaki predicts economic crisis in October," Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-kiyosaki-market-crash-october-b1930754.html~~ Justin AND than $300bn in debt – the most indebted company in the world. Extinction.Liu '18 ~Qian; 11/13/18; Managing Director of Greater China for The Economist Group, previously director of the global economics unit and director of Access China for the Economist Intelligence Unit, PhD in economics from Uppsala University; "The next economic crisis could cause a global conflict. Here's why," https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/11/the-next-economic-crisis-could-cause-a-global-conflict-heres-why/~~ Justin AND sensible and respectful global dialogue. The alternative may well be global conflagration. | 10/29/21 |
NOVDEC - NC - KantTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Homestead SL | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Permissibility and presumption negate –a~ the plan indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because they are probably false.The meta-ethic is bindingness.Ethics must begin with a re-orientation towards the subject since modernity is created by persons. Ethics must make equal personhood, rights, and freedoms accessible for all.Prefer: ~A~ Uncertainty – an inability to know others experience and structural positionality makes empiricism an unreliable basis for universal ethics. Outweighs since it would be escapable since people could say they don’t experience the same. Takes out their whole fw since our communicative experience isn’t universal and is thus escapable unlike reason.~B~ Constitutivism – Morality faces regress where we can continue asking "why." Practical reason is the only unescapable and binding authority because to ask why I should be a reasoner concedes it’s authority since you’re actively reasoning.That justifies universality – a~ any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends b~ Only universalizable reason can effectively explain the perspectives of agents – that’s the best method for combatting oppression.Farr 02 Arnold Farr (prof of phil @ UKentucky, focusing on German idealism, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy). "Can a Philosophy of Race Afford to Abandon the Kantian Categorical Imperative?" JOURNAL of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2002, 17–32. AND choosing my maxims I attempt to include the perspective of other moral agents. Prefer:~1~ Normativity outweighs: a~ Obligations – lack of it doesn’t generate stable ethics so it permits anything except the one thing it condemns b~ Collapses – injustices need universal ideal principles to ground them and explain why they are wrong which otherwise justifies skep since no external reason to follow ethics c~ Necessity – every arg presupposes ability to set and pursue ends which collapses to my framework d~ Is/Ought Gap – description of injustices only tells us what exists, not how to properly fix it or act with it which leaves all harms unresolved.~2~ Consequences Fail: a~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can’t predict. b~ Induction is circular because it relies on the assumption that nature will hold uniform and we could only reach that conclusion through inductive reasoning based on observation of past events.Thus, the standard and counter-revolutionary strategy is consistency with the categorical imperative.Negate:1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin AND liberties nor the related laws that strikers violate when using certain coercive tactics. 2~ Means to an end: employees ignore their duty to help their patients in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end.3~ Not defending the topic is non-universalizable b/c if nobody defended the topic than a topic wouldn’t have even been created in the first place which is a contradiction in conception. That outweighs – their indicts are reliant on empiricism but that relies on some conception of coherence. | 11/20/21 |
NOVDEC - NC - Kant v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brophy JT | Judge: Gordon Krauss Permissibility and presumption negate –a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false c~ real world policies require proactive justification to be passed – outweighs since that determines portable impacts d~ Affirming requires unconditionally maintaining an obligationDictionary.com "affirm" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/affirm to state or assert positively; maintain as true:Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness.~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don’t experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –All other frameworks collapse—non-Kantian theories source obligations in extrinsically good objects, but that presupposes the goodness of the rational will.Negate:1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin AND liberties nor the related laws that strikers violate when using certain coercive tactics. 2~ Means to an end: employees ignore their duty to help their patients in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end.4~ Free-riding: strikes are a form of free-riding since those who don’t participate still reap the benefits.Dolsak and Prakash 19 ~Nives and Aseem; We write on environmental issues, climate politics and NGOs; "Climate Strikes: What They Accomplish And How They Could Have More Impact," 9/14/19; Forbes; https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2019/09/14/climate-strikes-what-they-accomplish-and-how-they-could-have-more-impact/?sh=2244a9bd5eed~~ Justin AND for evaluating pain or pleasure which means their framework can’t guide gov action. | 11/21/21 |
NOVDEC - NC - Kant v3Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harker SY | Judge: Tarun Ratanasabapathy Permissibility and presumption negate –a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b~ Statements are more often false than true because any part can be false. This means you negate if there is no offense because the resolution is probably false c~ real world policies require proactive justification to be passed – outweighs since that determines portable impacts d~ Affirming requires unconditionally maintaining an obligationDictionary.com "affirm" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/affirm to state or assert positively; maintain as true:Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness.~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don’t experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –~1~ All other frameworks collapse—non-Kantian theories source obligations in extrinsically good objects, but that presupposes the goodness of the rational will.~2~ Consequences Fail: a~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can’t predict. b~ Induction is circular because it relies on the assumption that nature will hold uniform and we could only reach that conclusion through inductive reasoning based on observation of past events.Negate:1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin AND liberties nor the related laws that strikers violate when using certain coercive tactics. 2~ Means to an end: employees ignore their duty to help their patients in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end.3~ Free-riding: strikes are a form of free-riding since those who don’t participate still reap the benefits.Dolsak and Prakash 19 ~Nives and Aseem; We write on environmental issues, climate politics and NGOs; "Climate Strikes: What They Accomplish And How They Could Have More Impact," 9/14/19; Forbes; https://www.forbes.com/sites/prakashdolsak/2019/09/14/climate-strikes-what-they-accomplish-and-how-they-could-have-more-impact/?sh=2244a9bd5eed~~ Justin AND framework since not following principles of freedom and agency would lead to that. | 11/21/21 |
NOVDEC - NC - Kant v4Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 7 | Opponent: Peninsula CS | Judge: Akshay Manglik Permissibility and presumption negate –a~ the resolution indicates the aff has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation b~ real world policies require proactive justification to be passed – outweighs since that determines portable impactsThe meta-ethic is bindingness.Morality faces the problem of regress – I can keep asking "why should I follow this." Regress collapses to skep since no one can generate obligations. Reason solves since asking "why reason?" uses itself. Reason must be universal – truth for one agent is truth for another. I can’t say 2+24 is true for me but not for you – that’s incoherent and a non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends i.e. if I want to eat, I must recognize that others may affect that pursuit.==== Thus, the standard is consistency with willing universal maxims.Prefer –Consequences Fail: a~ Every action has infinite stemming consequences, because every consequence can cause another consequence so we can’t predict. b~ Induction is circular because it relies on the assumption that nature will hold uniform and we could only reach that conclusion through inductive reasoning based on observation of past events.Negate:1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin AND liberties nor the related laws that strikers violate when using certain coercive tactics. 2~ Means to an end: employees ignore their duty to help their patients in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end. | 11/21/21 |
NOVDEC - NC - Kant v5Tournament: UT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Jack Quisenberry Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness.~1~ Uncertainty – our experiences are inaccessible to others which allows people to say they don’t experience the same, however a priori principles are universally applied to all agents.~2~ Bindingness – I can keep asking "why should I follow this" which results in skep since obligations are predicated on ignorantly accepting rules. Only reason solves since asking "why reason?" requires reason which is self-justified.That means we must universally will maxims— any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends.Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.Prefer –~1~ All other frameworks collapse—non-Kantian theories source obligations in extrinsically good objects, but that presupposes the goodness of the rational will.Negate:1~ Strikes violate individual autonomy by exercising coercion.Gourevitch 18 ~Alex; Brown University; "The Right to Strike: A Radical View," American Political Science Review; 2018; https://sci-hub.se/10.1017/s0003055418000321~~ Justin AND liberties nor the related laws that strikers violate when using certain coercive tactics. CaseUnderviewNo 1AR Theory, Independent Voters, or Perfcons – a~ Resolvability: Either you auto accept all responses to 2NR standards and they auto win since I can't respond, or you intervene to give 2AR credence b~ Structural skew: 7-6 time 2-1 speech skew for offense favors the Aff who speaks first and last and set the stage with a persuasive advantage c~ No infinite abuse: 1NC is 7 minutes and 1AC spikes check d~ Yes RVIs: deters them from reading multiple short shells 6 minutes can’t fully test but has to overallocate.Reasonability or drop the arg on 1AR shells since intervention is inevitable so you shouldn’t stake the round on it. If they do all their paradigm issues you should eval theory after the 2NR so we both get one speech on it.Resolvability outweighs infinite abuse – a~ Jurisdiction – if a judge can’t resolve from the flow they insert biases – that takes away from argumentation which is constitutive of all debate b~ Magnitude – we can always make a better argument but intervention means no argument is able to overcome the judges biases which makes infinite abuse inevitable. | 12/4/21 |
NOVDEC - PIC - PoliceTournament: Blue Key | Round: 1 | Opponent: Trinity Prep JC | Judge: Rohith Sudhakar CP Text: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of all workers except police to strike.Police Strikes are used to combat racial progress and attempts to limit police union power. Making them legal and easier only make progress much harder.Grim 2020 Andrew Grim What is the ‘blue flu’ and how has it increased police power? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/01/what-is-blue-flu-how-has-it-increased-police-power/SJKS AND wrest back control of the public debate on policing and reassert their independence. These strikes strengthen unions that contribute to increased violence, and protection of misconductSerwer 6/24 Serwer, Adam. "Bust the Police Unions." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 24 June 2021, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/bust-the-police-unions/619006/SJKS AND officers always report serious criminal violations involving abuse of authority by fellow officers." That leads to endless amounts of racist violence and the bolstering of the prison industrial complex.Chaney and Ray 13, Cassandra (Has a PhD and is a professor at LSU. Also has a strong focus in the structure of Black families) , and Ray V. Robertson (Also has a PhD and is a criminal justice professor at LSU). "Racism and police brutality in America." Journal of African American Studies 17.4 (2013): 480-505. SMdo I really need a card for this AND shape both intergroup dynamics and support for criminal justice policy (Leverentz 2012). | 10/29/21 |
NSD - DA - Infrastructure BillTournament: NSD | Round: 1 | Opponent: McGinnis-Gilbert RB | Judge: Matt Moorhead Biden has PC for infrastructure but it needs to maintained in the face of impatient democrats.Sullivan and Kane 6/11 ~Sean and Paul. Sean Sullivan covers national politics, with a focus on the 2020 presidential campaign. Paul Kane. Washington, D.C. Senior congressional correspondent and columnist. Education: University of Delaware, BA. "'Time is running out': Democrats split over Biden's relentless focus on infrastructure". 6-9-2021. . https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/democrats-split-biden-infrastructure/2021/06/10/f1f95a8e-c91f-11eb-afd0-9726f7ec0ba6_story.html.~~ SJVM Preserving comfortable union relations maintains PC.Kerrissey and Schofer 13 ~Kerrissey, Jasmine, and Evan Schofer. Jasmine Kerrissey Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine Evan Schofer Department of Sociology University of California, Irvine. "Union Membership and Political Participation in the United States." Social Forces, vol. 91, no. 3, 2013, pp. 895–928. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23361125~ SJVM Strikes divide the union.Israelstam 17 ~Ivan. Ivan Israelstam is the Chief Executive of Labour Law Management Consulting. "What is the impact of strikes for employers and employees?". 11-22-2017. Skills Portal. https://www.skillsportal.co.za/content/what-impact-strikes-employers-and-employees.~~ SJVM Infrastructure bill is necessary to tackle emission reduction goals.Newburger 3/29 ~Emma. Emma Newburger is a Climate policy reporter at @CNBC. @Cornell grad. "Here's how Biden's infrastructure package will likely tackle climate change". 1-27-2021. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/29/biden-infrastructure-bill-what-to-expect-on-climate-change.html.~~ SJVM ExtinctionSpecktor 19 ~Brandon writes about the science of everyday life for Live Science, and previously for Reader's Digest magazine, where he served as an editor for five years~ 6-4-2019, "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims," livescience, https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html Justin | 7/7/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - ScientistsTournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Animesh Joshi CP Text: A nation appointed international panel of scientists including National Academies and corresponding organizations should reduce intellectual property protections 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. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - Infrastructure DATournament: Yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Andrea Chow, Anand Rao, Alex Rivera Bipartisan infrastructure bill passing now but PC is needed – there is no margin for error.Kapur et al 9/8 ~Sahil, Frank Thorp, and Leigh Ann Caldwell; 9/8/21; Sahil Kapur is a national political reporter for NBC News, Frank Thorp V is a producer and off-air reporter covering Congress for NBC News, managing coverage of the Senate, Leigh Ann Caldwell is an NBC News correspondent; "Democrats plow 'full speed ahead' on sweeping Biden budget, despite tensions," https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/democrats-plow-full-speed-ahead-sweeping-biden-budget-despite-tensions-n1278722~~ Justin AND them could basically make a few cosmetic changes and throw in the towel." Aff doesn’t solve but requires negotiations that saps PC.Pooley 21 ~James; Former deputy director general of the United Nations’ World Intellectual Property Organization and a member of the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding; "Drawn-Out Negotiations Over Covid IP Will Blow Back on Biden," Barron’s; 5/26/21; https://www.barrons.com/articles/drawn-out-negotiations-over-covid-ip-will-blow-back-on-biden-51621973675~~ Justin AND helping export our surplus vaccine doses and vaccine ingredients to countries in need. Infrastructure secures the grid against worsening and increasing cyberattacks.Carney 21 ~Chris; 8/6/21; Senior policy advisor at Nossaman LLC, former US Representative, former professor of political science at Penn State University; "The US Senate Infrastructure Bill: Securing Our Electrical Grid Through P3s and Grants," JDSupra, https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/the-us-senate-infrastructure-bill-4989100/~~ Justin AND partnerships and grants, the nation can quickly secure its infrastructure from cyberattacks. Cyberattacks on the grid spiral to all-out nuclear conflict.Klare 19 ~Michael; November 2019; Professor emeritus of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College; "Cyber Battles, Nuclear Outcomes? Dangerous New Pathways to Escalation," Arms Control Association, https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-11/features/cyber-battles-nuclear-outcomes-dangerous-new-pathways-escalation~~ Justin AND such attacks "could lead to major conflict and possibly nuclear war."14 | 10/21/21 |
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