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| Apple Valley | 4 | Mission San Jose SR | Derek Ying |
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| Apple Valley | 2 | Durham SA | Phoenix Pittman |
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| Apple Valley | 6 | OA Independent VM | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Apple Valley | Semis | Evergreen Valley SS | Wu, Zhou, Ying |
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| Blue Key | 5 | Durham SA | Matt Berhe |
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| Blue Key | 3 | Pine View EL | Raunak Dua |
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| Blue Key | Octas | Southlake Carroll SD | Tej, Berhe, Sehgal |
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| Churchill | 2 | Westlake AC | Phoenix |
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| Churchill | 3 | Basis Shavano ZR | Patrick Fox |
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| Churchill | 5 | Westwood PM | Nelson |
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| Churchill | Quarters | Sandra Day WW | Patrick Fox, Dylan Jones, Davina Le |
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| Emory | 1 | Cary CP | Parth Misra |
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| Emory | 3 | Sequoia AS | Rishi Mukherjee |
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| Emory | 5 | Scarsdale OL | Nathan Frenkel |
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| Emory | Octas | Lex AK | Jenn Melin, Samantha McLoughlin, Bennett Dombcik |
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| Emory | Quarters | Sage MP | Phoenix Pittman, Jenn Melin, Derek Ying |
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| Grapevine | 2 | Lexington JB | Samantha McLoughlin |
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| Grapevine | Doubles | Westwood PM | Choi, Melin, Paramo |
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| Grapevine | Triples | Westwood AG | Margaret Strong |
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| Grapevine | 3 | Westlake AC | Allison Aldridge |
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| Kandi King Round Robin | 2 | Dulles TY | David Kilpatrick, Asher Towner |
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| Kandi King Round Robin | 3 | Immaculate Heart BC | Quentin Clark, Jonathan Jeong |
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| Kandi King Round Robin | Quarters | Northland Christian LB | Truman Le, Tyler Gamble, Abbey Chapman |
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| Longhorn Classic | 2 | Barbers EG | Devin Hernandez |
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| Longhorn Classic | 4 | American Heritage SS | Truman Le |
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| Longhorn Classic | Octas | Greenhill KD | Tej, Jugal, Sophie |
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| Longhorn Classic | 5 | Immaculate Heart JL | Nevin Gera |
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| Loyola | 2 | Stockdale RP | Holden Bukowsky |
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| Loyola | 3 | Lynbrook SM | Ishan Rereddy |
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| Loyola | 6 | Peninsula RM | Tej Gedela |
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| NDCA | 1 | Marlborough ML | Vishan Chaudhary |
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| NDCA | 4 | Harrison TB | Brianna Aaron |
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| NDCA | 5 | Lexington AM | Holden Bukowsky |
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| Palm Classic | 2 | Basis Silicon JK | Yoyo Lei |
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| Palm Classic | 3 | Immaculate Heart AW | Joseph Barquin |
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| Palm Classic | 5 | Northland Christian LB | Harrison Hall |
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| Palm Classic | Doubles | Monta Vista KR | Lindsay Van Luvanee, David Dosch, Lena Mizrahi |
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| St Marks | 1 | Harvard Westlake NL | Annabelle Long |
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| St Marks | 4 | Marlborough ML | Ari Davidson |
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| St Marks | 6 | Lex AK | Holden Bukowsky |
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| TFA State | 3 | Dulles JL | Ishan Rereddy |
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| TFA State | 6 | Clear Lake IM | Brandon Molina |
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| TFA State | 2 | Lovejoy JV | Adrian Sendejas |
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| TFA State | Doubles | Southlake Carroll SD | Jack Quisenberry, Christopher Stearns, Alexandra Myers |
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| TFA State | Octas | Northland Christian LB | Adrian Sendejas, Brandon Molina, Holden Bukowsky |
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| TFA State | Quarters | Memorial BD | Alexander Yoakum, Phoenix Pittman, Holden Bukowsky |
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| TOC | 2 | Diamond Bar NC | Stephen Scopa |
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| TOC | 4 | Harker RM | Brianna Aaron |
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| UH | 1 | Woodlands PA | Demarcus Powell |
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| UH | 4 | Newman Smith SJ | Alexander Yoakum |
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| UH | Doubles | Greenhill EN | Chao, Yoakum, Goemmer |
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| Valley | Doubles | Ayala AM | Jasani, Morbeck, Chen |
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| Valley | 3 | DTHS HV | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Valley | 5 | BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Lukas Krause |
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| Valley | 2 | American Heritage Broward JA | Faizaan Dossani |
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| Yale | 1 | Lexington AR | Calvin Tyler |
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| Yale | 5 | Memorial BD | Cyprian Dumas |
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| Yale | 3 | Dulles TY | Keshav Dandu |
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| Yale | Doubles | Byram Hills SH | Smith, Jiang, Chen |
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| Any | 2 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any Contact Info |
| Apple Valley | 4 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SR | Judge: Derek Ying 1AC - Nietzsche |
| Apple Valley | 2 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Phoenix Pittman 1AC - India |
| Apple Valley | 6 | Opponent: OA Independent VM | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Ag Workers |
| Apple Valley | Semis | Opponent: Evergreen Valley SS | Judge: Wu, Zhou, Ying 1AC - Afropess |
| Blue Key | 5 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Matt Berhe 1AC - India |
| Blue Key | 3 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Raunak Dua 1AC - Teachers |
| Blue Key | Octas | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Tej, Berhe, Sehgal 1AC - Teachers |
| Churchill | 2 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Phoenix 1AC - Hauntology |
| Churchill | 3 | Opponent: Basis Shavano ZR | Judge: Patrick Fox 1AC - OST |
| Churchill | 5 | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Nelson 1AC - Space Settlers |
| Churchill | Quarters | Opponent: Sandra Day WW | Judge: Patrick Fox, Dylan Jones, Davina Le 1AC - Aliens |
| Emory | 1 | Opponent: Cary CP | Judge: Parth Misra 1AC - Space Wars |
| Emory | 3 | Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: Rishi Mukherjee 1AC - Megaconstellations |
| Emory | 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Nathan Frenkel 1AC - Kant |
| Emory | Octas | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Jenn Melin, Samantha McLoughlin, Bennett Dombcik 1AC - Kant |
| Emory | Quarters | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: Phoenix Pittman, Jenn Melin, Derek Ying 1AC - Megaconstellations |
| Grapevine | 2 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1ac - korsgaard |
| Grapevine | Doubles | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Choi, Melin, Paramo 1AC - biocolonialism |
| Grapevine | Triples | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Margaret Strong 1AC - Evergreening |
| Grapevine | 3 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Allison Aldridge 1AC - vaccine imperialism |
| Kandi King Round Robin | 2 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: David Kilpatrick, Asher Towner 1AC - Prag |
| Kandi King Round Robin | 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Quentin Clark, Jonathan Jeong 1AC - VNSAs |
| Kandi King Round Robin | Quarters | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Truman Le, Tyler Gamble, Abbey Chapman 1AC - China |
| Longhorn Classic | 2 | Opponent: Barbers EG | Judge: Devin Hernandez 1AC - Econ |
| Longhorn Classic | 4 | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Truman Le 1AC - China |
| Longhorn Classic | Octas | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: Tej, Jugal, Sophie 1AC - Germany |
| Longhorn Classic | 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Nevin Gera 1AC - Brazil |
| Loyola | 2 | Opponent: Stockdale RP | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC - TRIPs waiver |
| Loyola | 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook SM | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1AC - Opioids |
| Loyola | 6 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Tej Gedela 1AC - Vaccine Imperialism |
| NDCA | 1 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary 1AC - Global Commons |
| NDCA | 4 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Brianna Aaron 1AC - Dispo |
| NDCA | 5 | Opponent: Lexington AM | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Mining |
| Palm Classic | 2 | Opponent: Basis Silicon JK | Judge: Yoyo Lei 1AC - Lay |
| Palm Classic | 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin 1AC - China |
| Palm Classic | 5 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Harrison Hall 1AC - China |
| Palm Classic | Doubles | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: Lindsay Van Luvanee, David Dosch, Lena Mizrahi 1AC - Mining |
| St Marks | 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Annabelle Long 1AC - COVID |
| St Marks | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Ari Davidson 1AC - COVID |
| St Marks | 6 | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Kant |
| TFA State | 3 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1AC - Stock |
| TFA State | 6 | Opponent: Clear Lake IM | Judge: Brandon Molina 1AC - Islamaphobia |
| TFA State | 2 | Opponent: Lovejoy JV | Judge: Adrian Sendejas 1AC - Whole rez |
| TFA State | Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Jack Quisenberry, Christopher Stearns, Alexandra Myers 1AC - Vaccines |
| TFA State | Octas | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Adrian Sendejas, Brandon Molina, Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Rawls |
| TFA State | Quarters | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Alexander Yoakum, Phoenix Pittman, Holden Bukowsky 1AC - Contracts |
| TOC | 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Stephen Scopa 1AC - Antitrust |
| TOC | 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Brianna Aaron 1AC - Setcol Fem |
| UH | 1 | Opponent: Woodlands PA | Judge: Demarcus Powell 1AC - OST |
| UH | 4 | Opponent: Newman Smith SJ | Judge: Alexander Yoakum 1AC - Edelman |
| UH | Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill EN | Judge: Chao, Yoakum, Goemmer 1AC - Stock |
| Valley | Doubles | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Jasani, Morbeck, Chen 1AC - Evergreening |
| Valley | 3 | Opponent: DTHS HV | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Cybernetics |
| Valley | 5 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Lukas Krause 1AC - Prag Evergreening |
| Valley | 2 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward JA | Judge: Faizaan Dossani 1AC - Deleuze |
| Yale | 1 | Opponent: Lexington AR | Judge: Calvin Tyler 1AC - Disability |
| Yale | 5 | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Cyprian Dumas Ev Ethics |
| Yale | 3 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Keshav Dandu Ev Ethics |
| Yale | Doubles | Opponent: Byram Hills SH | Judge: Smith, Jiang, Chen 1AC - Asian Poetry |
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Cites
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Any | Round: 2 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any Here's my contact info: Here is tournament navigation: St. Marks: Heart of Texas | 11/7/21 |
1 - Th - BracketsTournament: TFA State | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Alexander Yoakum, Phoenix Pittman, Holden Bukowsky 1NC – TheoryInterpretation – Debaters may not bracket cards, insert any of their own words into a piece of evidence written by another author in brackets, or omit words unless doing so is necessary to avoid using offensive language.Violation- Dictionary.com1~ They omit "existence, evidence, or truth"https://www.dictionary.com/browse/negate 2~ They bracket in ~is to~Misappropriation of evidence – brackets represent their words as if they were written by the authors or omit words. Judges don't have access to your speech doc and don't know what you bracketed, so they perceive your words as your authors'.Even if it's subtle modification, this changes perception of the arguments since it is taken as the author's words instead of the debaters. That kills fairness – it allows them to represent their own words as the authors, increasing the validity of their own arguments inaccurately.Vote neg on substance – I couldn't engage in the aff in the first placeDTD – a~ deters future abuse b~ my strat has already been skewed so it's the only way to rectify the abuseCompeting interps – a~ reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation b~ reasonability collapses since brightlines operate on an offense-defense paradigmNorming outweighs – a~ constitutivism – it's the intrinsic purpose of theory b~ magnitude – it's the only out of round impact which link turns their arguments because they assume a good model of debateNo RVIs – a~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, b~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and c~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for not being abusive.No cross-apps, overviews, or aff meta theory – it's how tricky debaters get away with abuse, force them to justify a CI.DTA on 1AR shells/IVIs – they can blow up blippy shells in the 2AR but I split time and can't preempt the 2AR causing intervention making it irresolvable so don't drop meReasonability on 1AR shells/IVIs – 1AR theory is aff-biased because the 2AR gets to line-by-line with new answersRVIs on 1AR theory/IVIs – 2AR being able to win on a 15 second shell forces at least 2:30 in the 2NR so RVIs check time skew | 3/16/22 |
1 - Th - Combo Shell 1Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook SM | Judge: Ishan Rereddy | 9/5/21 |
1 - Th - Combo Shell 2Tournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Lukas Krause | 9/30/21 |
1 - Th - Combo Shell 3Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SR | Judge: Derek Ying | 11/6/21 |
1 - Th - Combo Shell 4Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Truman Le | 12/5/21 |
1 - Th - Combo Shell 5Tournament: TFA State | Round: Octas | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Adrian Sendejas, Brandon Molina, Holden Bukowsky Vote neg on substance – I couldn't engage in the aff in the first placeDTD – a~ deters future abuse b~ my strat has already been skewed so it's the only way to rectify the abuseCompeting interps – a~ reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation b~ reasonability collapses since brightlines operate on an offense-defense paradigmNorming outweighs – a~ constitutivism – it's the intrinsic purpose of theory b~ magnitude – it's the only out of round impact which link turns their arguments because they assume a good model of debateNo RVIs – a~ Forces the 1NC to go all-in on Theory which kills substance education, b~ Encourages Baiting since the 1AC will purposely be abusive, and c~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for not being abusive.No cross-apps, overviews, or aff meta theory – it's how tricky debaters get away with abuse, force them to justify a CI.Answering the spike doesn't solve – it's a matter of norming so possible in round responses doesn't disprove the shellDTA on 1AR shells/IVIs – they can blow up blippy shells in the 2AR but I split time and can't preempt the 2AR causing intervention making it irresolvable so don't drop meReasonability on 1AR shells/IVIs – 1AR theory is aff-biased because the 2AR gets to line-by-line with new answersRVIs on 1AR theory – 2AR being able to win on a 15 second shell forces at least 2:30 in the 2NR so RVIs check time skew | 3/12/22 |
1 - Th - Combo Shell 6Tournament: TOC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Stephen Scopa | 4/23/22 |
1 - Th - Contact DisclosureTournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lovejoy JV | Judge: Adrian Sendejas | 3/12/22 |
1 - Th - DisclosureTournament: Emory | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cary CP | Judge: Parth Misra Interpretation: Debaters must disclose all previously read positions before the debate on their NDCA wiki page under their own name open source with round reports.Violation: You didn't – you got to the BID ROUND at a bid tournament and have disclosed nothingStandards:1. Evidence Quality – Disclosure generates an information database that encourages debaters to find the best evidence on the topic.Nails 13 ~(Jacob, NDT Policy Debater at Georgia State University), "A Defense of Disclosure (Including Third Party Disclosure)",NSDUpdate,10/10/2013EM~ 2. Quality engagement —- disclosure allows in-depth preparation before the round which checks back against unpredictable positions and allows debaters to effectively write case negs and blocks. Quality engagement is an independent voter because the constitutive reason we debate is to engage and clash otherwise we would just be doing oratory. Independent voter for on inclusion since debaters of lower skill level can have a chance to engage with better debaters which makes debate less centered towards those with larger coaching staffs.3. Academic Ethics —- disclosure deters mis-cutting, power-tagging, abuse of brackets and ellipses, and plagiarism. This is an independent reason to vote you down because it promotes better norms about academic engagement—-debate is an academic environment and must ensure that we become fair scholars. | 1/30/22 |
1 - Th - Disclosure v2Tournament: TFA State | Round: 6 | Opponent: Clear Lake IM | Judge: Brandon Molina Interpretation: At all TOC bid distributing tournaments and TFA State, debaters must disclose all constructive speech docs open source with highlighting on the NDCA LD wiki within an hour after debating.Violation – you didn't, I have screenshots.
1~ Debate resource inequities—you'll say people will steal cards, but that's good—it's the only way to truly level the playing field for students such as novices in under-privileged programs.2~ Evidence ethics—open source is the only way to verify that cards aren't miscut—otherwise you could have highlighted unethically. That's a voter—maintaining ethical ev practices is key to being good academics and we should be able to verify you didn't cheat3~ Depth of clash—open source allows debaters to come up with more nuanced researched objections to their opponents evidence before the round at a much faster rate, which leads to the highest quality evidence comparison instead of guessing what was highlightedDrop the debater to deter future abuse.Competing interps—reasonability is arbitrary and justifies judge interventionNo RVI—a~ chilling effect—people will be scared to call out abuse since it would be prepped out b~ it forces us to go for theory c~ illogical—you shouldn't win just cuz your fair. | 3/12/22 |
1 - Th - MisdisclosureTournament: Emory | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Jenn Melin, Samantha McLoughlin, Bennett Dombcik | 2/12/22 |
1 - Th - Must Have Plan TextTournament: NDCA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AM | Judge: Holden Bukowsky 3 | 4/23/22 |
1 - Th - New AffsTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Truman Le | 12/5/21 |
1 - Th - New Affs v2Tournament: Emory | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cary CP | Judge: Parth Misra Interpretation: Debaters must disclose affirmative frameworks, advocacy texts, and advantage areas thirty minutes before round if they haven't read the affirmative beforeViolation: They didn'tStandards:1~ Clash- Not disclosing incentivizes surprise tactics and poorly refined positions that rely on artificial and vague negative engagement to win debates. Their interpretation discourages third- and fourth-line testing by limiting the amount of time we have to prepare and forcing us to enter the debate with zero idea of what the affirmative is. Negatives are forced to rely on generics instead of smart contextual strategies destroying nuanced argumentation.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. That means even if we could read generics or find prep, they'd just find ways to recontextualize their obscure advocacy in the 1ar. | 1/30/22 |
1 - Th - New Affs v3Tournament: TFA State | Round: 6 | Opponent: Clear Lake IM | Judge: Brandon Molina Interpretation: Debaters must disclose affirmative frameworks, advocacy texts, and advantage areas thirty minutes before roundViolation: They didn't
Standards:1~ Clash- Not disclosing incentivizes surprise tactics and poorly refined positions that rely on artificial and vague negative engagement to win debates. Their interpretation discourages third- and fourth-line testing by limiting the amount of time we have to prepare and forcing us to enter the debate with zero idea of what the affirmative is. Negatives are forced to rely on generics instead of smart contextual strategies destroying nuanced argumentation.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. That means even if we could read generics or find prep, they'd just find ways to recontextualize their obscure advocacy in the 1ar.The shell is offense under their ROTB- Breaking this aff new without disclosing parts of it means they intentionally want to bracket engagement against their strategy and it means their movement is only accessible to them. It also means we can't robustly test their strategy so we don't know if their method is a good idea. | 3/12/22 |
1 - Th - New Affs v4Tournament: Churchill | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Sandra Day WW | Judge: Patrick Fox, Dylan Jones, Davina Le ThInterpretation: Debaters must disclose affirmative frameworks, advocacy texts, and advantage areas thirty minutes before round if they haven't read the affirmative beforeViolation: They didn't.Standards:1~ Clash- Not disclosing incentivizes surprise tactics and poorly refined positions that rely on artificial and vague negative engagement to win debates. Their interpretation discourages third- and fourth-line testing by limiting the amount of time we have to prepare and forcing us to enter the debate with zero idea of what the affirmative is. Negatives are forced to rely on generics instead of smart contextual strategies destroying nuanced argumentation.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. That means even if we could read generics or find prep, they'd just find ways to recontextualize their obscure advocacy in the 1ar.The shell is offense under their ROTB- Breaking this aff new without disclosing parts of it means they intentionally want to bracket engagement against their strategy and it means their movement is only accessible to them. It also means we can't robustly test their strategy so we don't know if their method is a good idea.No RVIs/Impact turns- A~ Illogical- you don't win for being fair B~ Encourages baiting theory which proliferates abuse C~ Chills checking theory for fear of the RVI D~ Exclusions inevitable- neg has burden of rejoinder which means we inevitably have to exclude the aff. | 3/16/22 |
1 - Th - New Affs v5Tournament: TOC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: Brianna Aaron Interpretation: Debaters must disclose affirmative frameworks, advocacy texts, and advantage areas thirty minutes before round if they haven't read the affirmative beforeViolation: They didn'tStandards:1~ Clash- Not disclosing incentivizes surprise tactics and poorly refined positions that rely on artificial and vague negative engagement to win debates. Their interpretation discourages third- and fourth-line testing by limiting the amount of time we have to prepare and forcing us to enter the debate with zero idea of what the affirmative is. Negatives are forced to rely on generics instead of smart contextual strategies destroying nuanced argumentation.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. That means even if we could read generics or find prep, they'd just find ways to recontextualize their obscure advocacy in the 1ar.The shell is offense under their ROTB- Breaking this aff new without disclosing parts of it means they intentionally want to bracket engagement against their strategy and it means their movement is only accessible to them. It also means we can't robustly test their strategy so we don't know if their method is a good idea.Drop the debater to deter future abuseCompeting interps – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention which outweighs since it takes the debate out of the debaters handsNo RVI- A~ Illogical B~ Exclusions are inevitable- | 4/24/22 |
1 - Th - Paraphrasing BadTournament: Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: DTHS HV | Judge: Tajaih Robinson | 9/30/21 |
1 - Th - TFWTournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington AR | Judge: Calvin Tyler | 9/19/21 |
1 - Th - TFW v2Tournament: Yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Byram Hills SH | Judge: Smith, Jiang, Chen | 1/19/22 |
1 - Th - TFW v3Tournament: Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: DTHS HV | Judge: Tajaih Robinson | 9/30/21 |
1 - Th - TFW v4Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: Semis | Opponent: Evergreen Valley SS | Judge: Wu, Zhou, Ying | 11/8/21 |
1 - Th - TFW v5Tournament: Churchill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Phoenix TFWInterp: The affirmative may only garner offense from the hypothetical implementation that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust and may not garner offense external to that.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 The appropriation of outer space is permanent control.TIMOTHY JUSTIN TRAPP, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, '13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW ~Vol. 2013 No. 4~ Violation: ~insert~. At best they're extra topical which is a voter for exploding limits and inflating aff solvency or effects topical which is worse, since any small aff can spill up to the resolution.Vote neg for competitive equity and clash: changing the topic favors the aff because it destroys the only stasis point and makes prep impossible because any ground is self-serving, concessionary, and from distorted literature bases. Their model allows someone to specialize for 4 years giving them an edge over people who switch every 2 months. Filter this through debate's nature of being a game where both teams want to win, which becomes meaningless without constraints.Impacts:1~ Procedural fairness outweighs—a) intrinsicness—debate is a game and equity is necessary to sustain the activity b) probability—debate can't alter subjectivity, but it can rectify skews c) metaconstraint—all your arguments concede fairness since you assume they will be evaluated fairly d) application—your model only indicts how fairness has been applied not that it's intrinsically bad—their model would justify exclusion.2~ Switch Side Debate—they can read it as a K against affirmatives—forces debaters to consider issues from multiple perspectives. Non-topical affs allow individuals to establish their own metrics for what they want to debate leading to dogmatism.3~ TVA – defend an affirmative that defends the topic – their whole aff is about how private entities exploration of space is bad\ | 1/8/22 |
1 - Th - TFW v6Tournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Newman Smith SJ | Judge: Alexander Yoakum TInterp: The affirmative may only garner offense from the hypothetical implementation that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust and may not garner offense external to that.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 Violation: cross was explicit that they garner offense external to the resolution.Vote neg for competitive equity and clash: offense external to the topic favors the aff because it destroys the only stasis point and makes prep impossible because any ground is self-serving, concessionary, and from distorted literature bases. Their model allows someone to specialize for 4 years giving them an edge over people who switch every 2 months.Impacts:1~ Procedural fairness outweighs—a) intrinsicness—debate is a game and equity is necessary to sustain the activity b) probability—debate can't alter subjectivity, but it can rectify skews c) metaconstraint—all your arguments concede fairness since you assume they will be evaluated fairly2~ Switch Side Debate—they can read it as a K against affirmatives—forces debaters to consider issues from multiple perspectives. Non-topical affs allow individuals to establish their own metrics for what they want to debate leading to dogmatism.3~ TVA – defend an affirmative that defends the topic – their whole aff is about how private entities exploration of space is bad | 1/19/22 |
1 - Th - TFW v7Tournament: TFA State | Round: 6 | Opponent: Clear Lake IM | Judge: Brandon Molina Interpretation – Debaters must only garner offense based on affirming the statement that "In a democracy, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy". To clarify, the topic should define the division of affirmative and negative ground.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 Violation – cross was super explicitFirst, competitive equity –1~ Ground: they get to pick the topic ex post facto which incentivizes vague argumentation that's not grounded in a consistent, stable mechanism – they're playing dodgeball with hand grenades – caselists are concessionary, unpredictable, beaten by perms, and don't justify their model.2~ Limits: their model has no resolutional bound and creates the possibility for infinite 1ACs. Cutting negs to every possible aff is a commitment even large squads can't handle. Counter-interpretations are arbitrary, unpredictable, and don't solve the world of neg prep because there's no grounding in the resolution. Non topical affs establish their own barometer "I think x is good for me" that aren't negateable.3~ Fairness is an impact:A~ It's an intrinsic good – some level of competitive equity is necessary to sustain the activityB~ Probability – your ballot can't solve their impacts but it can solve mine – debate can't alter subjectivity, but can rectify skewsC~ Internal link turns every impact – a limited topic promotes in-depth research and engagementD~ Can't weigh case and outweighs – deciding any other argument in this debate cannot be disentangled from our inability to prepare for it.The reason debate is a unique process is because it demands rigorous testing of advocacy skills through not getting to pick and choose what to defend – it's the only plausible explanation for the form of the activity – it also solves their offense.Poscher 16 Ralf Poscher, Diat the Institute for Staatswissenschaft and Philosophy of Law at the University of Freiburg "Why We Argue About the Law: An Agonistic Account of Legal Disagreement", Metaphilosophy of Law, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki/Adam Dyrda/Pawel Banas (eds.), Hart Publishing. 2016. Vote negative—a~ this procedurally evaluates whether their model is good, which is a prior question b~ exclusions inevitable—no different than a cap K that says non topicality is bad | 3/12/22 |
2 - FW - Monism vs DeleuzeTournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward JA | Judge: Faizaan Dossani | 1/19/22 |
2 - FW - Paradox vs CyberneticsTournament: Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: DTHS HV | Judge: Tajaih Robinson | 9/30/21 |
2 - FW - Truth TestingTournament: Emory | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cary CP | Judge: Parth Misra The ROB is to determine the truth of falsity of the resolution –1~ Textuality – five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true.That OW –a~ Jurisdiction – judges are constrained through their constitutive purpose and proves it's a side constraint on what arguments they can vote on.b~ Predictability – people base prep off the pregiven terms in the resolution.2~ Isomorphism – alternative ROBs aren't binary truth/false because of topic lit biases which increases intervention and takes the debate out of the hands of debaters.3~ Inclusion – any offense functions under it as long as debaters implicate their positions to prove the truth or falsity of the resolution which maximizes substantive clash through ground and is a sequencing question for engaging in debate.4~ Logic – any statement relies on a conception of truth to function – for example, I'm hungry is the same as its true that I'm hungry – logic is a litmus test for any argument and proves your ROB collapse since it relies on truth.I negate –1~ the is "denoting a disease or affliction" but appropriation isn't a disease2~ of is to "expressing an age" but the rez doesn't delineate a length of time3~ private describes "belonging to or for the use of one particular person or group of people only" and an entity is "independent, separate, or self-contained existence"They don't exist – circumvention.Martinez 21 ~Katherine Latimer Martinez (Seattle University School of Law). "Lost in Space: An Exploration of the Current Gaps in Space Law". Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental and Innovation Law: Vol. 11 : Iss. 2 , Article 4. 5-7-2021. Accessed 12/18/21. https://digitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022andcontext=sjteil Xu~ | 1/30/22 |
2 - FW - UtilTournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin | 9/11/21 |
2 - FW - Util v10Tournament: TFA State | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Alexander Yoakum, Phoenix Pittman, Holden Bukowsky Permissibility and presumption negate1~ Falsity- Statements are more often false than true because proving one part of the statement false disproves the entire statement. Presuming all statements are true creates contradictions which would be ethically bankrupt.3~ Trichotomy Triple- there is a trichotomy between obligation, prohibition and permissibility. Proving one disproves the other two because they are three intertwined moral terms which coexist within each other. Outweighs because it interacts with each term/obligation.Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.Blum et al. 18 The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing or hedonistic act util1~ Actor spec – the free press should be consequentialist —takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.Pitcher 18 George Pitcher (advises Dow Jones, publisher of the Wall Street Journal, on ethics and the future of journalism and is a Visiting Fellow at LSE. He formerly held senior editorial positions at The Observer and the Daily Telegraph). 10/8/2018, The New Media Ethics: Lessons from how the BBC failed to consider the consequences of its Cliff Richard story, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2018/10/08/the-new-media-ethics-how-the-bbcs-failed-to-consider-the-consequences-of-its-cliff-richard-story/ 2~ Death is bad and outweighs – a~ agents can't act if they fear for their bodily security which constrains every ethical theory b~ it destroys the subject itself – kills any ability to achieve value in ethics since life is a prerequisite which means it's a side constraint since we can't reach the end goal of ethics without life3~ Extinction outweighsMacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ 4~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive.Outweighs- A~ Parsimony- metaphysics relies on long chains of questionable claims that make conclusions less likely. B~ Hijacks- intuitions are inevitable since even every framework must take some unjustified assumption as a starting point.5~ Calc indicts fail: A~ Ethics- it would indict everything since they use events to understand how their ethics have worked B~ Reciprocity- they are NIBs that create a 2:1 skew where I have to answer them to access offense while they only have to win one C~ Internalism- asking why we value pain and pleasure is nonsensical cuz the answer is intrinsic since we just do, which means we still prefer hedonism despite shortcomings. | 3/16/22 |
2 - FW - Util v11Tournament: Kandi King Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: David Kilpatrick, Asher Towner 1NCSpeaks
1NC – NCPermissibility and presumption negate1~ Falsity- Statements are more often false than true because proving one part of the statement false disproves the entire statement. Presuming all statements are true creates contradictions which would be ethically bankrupt.2~ Negation Theory- negate means to deny the truth of. The resolution indicates the affirmative has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation.Negate: to deny the existence or truth of 3~ Trichotomy Triple- there is a trichotomy between obligation, prohibition and permissibility. Proving one disproves the other two because they are three intertwined moral terms which coexist within each other. Outweighs because it interacts with each term/obligation.The meta-ethic is moral naturalism. Non-natural moral facts are epistemically inaccessiblePapineau 7 ~David, Academic philosopher. He works as Professor of Philosophy of Science at King's College London, having previously taught for several years at Cambridge University and been a fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, "Naturalism". http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/naturalism/~~ Thus, the standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.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. Prefer:1~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don't have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations—takes out calc indicts since they are empirically denied.2~ No intent-foresight distinction for states.Enoch 07 Enoch, D ~The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew Unviersity, Mount Scopus Campus, Jersusalem~. (2007). INTENDING, FORESEEING, AND THE STATE. Legal Theory, 13(02). doi:10.1017/s1352325207070048 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/intending-foreseeing-and-the-state/76B18896B94D5490ED0512D8E8DC54B2 3~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to not kill. Only consequences explain why which is intuitive. Outweighs—a) parsimony—metaphysics relies on long chains of questionable claims that make conclusions less likely b) hijacks—intuitions are inevitable since every framework must take some starting point.Impact calc –1~ Extinction outweighs:A~ Structural violence- death causes suffering because people can't get access to resources and basic necessitiesB~ Mathematically outweighs.MacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ 2~ Calc indicts fail: A~ Ethics- it would indict everything cuz they use events to understand how ethics have worked B~ Reciprocity- they are NIBs that create a 2:1 skew where I have to answer them to access offense while they only have to win one C~ Internalism- asking why we value life is nonsensical since it's intrinsic and we just do.3~ Value fluctuates.Bernstein 02 (Richard J., Vera List Prof. Phil. – New School for Social Research, "Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation", p. 188-192) 1NC – DAThe plan is perceived as a claim to sovereignty that violates international space law – scares Russia – their evidence.1AC Fessl 19 – Sophie Fessl, PhD King's College London, BA Oxford, 7/10/19 ~JSTOR Daily, "Should the Moon Landing Site Be a National Historic Landmark?" https://daily.jstor.org/should-the-moon-landing-site-be-a-national-historic-landmark/~~ Justin Putin has banked his prestige off of appropriation of the moon – the plan's unilateral claim to sovereignty is a shock to dreams of hegemony.Whittington 20 – Mark, Published a political study of space exploration entitled Why is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? as well as The Moon, Mars and Beyond. He blogs at Curmudgeons Corner. He is published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Hill, USA Today, the LA Times, and the Washington Post, among other venues, 9/6/20 ~The Hill, "Russia makes bid to become a space power with Luna-25 mission to the moon," https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/515117-russia-makes-bid-to-become-a-space-power-with-luna-25-mission-to-the-moon~~ Justin That triggers lashout – extinction.Gressel 16 ~Gustav Acting Director and a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations' Berlin office, European Council on Foreign Relations, "The dangerous decade: Russia-NATO relations 2014 to 2024", July 2016, https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_the_dangerous_decade_russia_nato_relations_2014_to_2024~~ 1NC – Case1NC – Top-levelPublic sector thumps and so does contracting.1AC Sample 19 – Ian, Science Editor, PhD at Queens Mary College, 7/19/19 ~The Guardian, "Apollo 11 site should be granted heritage status, says space agency boss" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/19/apollo-11-site-heritage-status-space-agency-moon~~ Justin There's no way to regulate it – what counts as "lunar heritage" is too ambiguous and no enforcement body.1AC Sample 19 – Ian, Science Editor, PhD at Queens Mary College, 7/19/19 ~The Guardian, "Apollo 11 site should be granted heritage status, says space agency boss" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jul/19/apollo-11-site-heritage-status-space-agency-moon~~ Justin 1NC – FrameworkWe get new 2nr responses to the fw—a lot of them aren't warranted and have infinite implications we can't predict so 2nr recourse is keyOff the meta-ethic:1~ Not actor-specific—individuals may be pluralistic but the only way for the government to recognize different viewpoints is to help the most amount of people2~ Util solves pluralism—even if there are disagreements about morality everyone thinks pleasure is good and pain is bad3~ Begs the question when we stop deliberating – regressive deliberation means we never come to actual conclusions and everything is procedural rather than normative.4~ Extinction outweighs—it's a sequencing question because it precludes the ability to deliberate in the futureTemporality and Epistemology- we should maintain a future to debate which means extinction outweighs Serra 11~ Santa Claus Objection—pragmatism justifies belief in obviously false things that are useful to believe Impact Calc –Begs the question of an external framework to define good forms of deliberation or when to stop TJFs –1~ Util hijacks – best for topic education and predictability which is best ofr inclusion and literature. 1NC – AFCI meet- our answers proves it isn't binding, normatively true, or prescriptive 1NC – Contention
They can't solve – their ev is private entities bad which isn't specific to appropriation – even they say that non-approrpiative communal approaches like "global commons" are bad – inserted below in blueStockwell 20 ~Samuel Stockwell (Research Project Manager, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University). "Legal 'Black Holes' in Outer Space: The Regulation of Private Space Companies". E-International Relations. Jul 20 2020. Accessed 12/7/21. https://www.e-ir.info/2020/07/20/legal-black-holes-in-outer-space-the-regulation-of-private-space-companies/ Xu~ Lexico assumes there was an original owner of space would be definitionally appropriation which means that we are a form of negative appropriation.1NC – AdvantageEven if they're right that an accidental war is possible, vote neg. The framing question is not whether there is a risk prolif breaks down —- it's whether a world of prolif is net-more peaceful —- default neg on the historical record.Sechser 5 (Todd, Assistant Prof. Politics specializing in International Security—Stanford U., "How Organizational Pathologies Could Make Nuclear Proliferation Safer", Presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 4-7, *I had to ILL this. I don't think it's available online) Proliferation dampens conflict —- only our evidence does a statistical, controlled study.Akisato Suzuki, June 2015. Akisato, Researcher at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, MA in Violence, Terrorism and Security at Queen's University, "Is more better or worse? New empirics on nuclear proliferation and interstate conflict by Random Forests," Research and Politics, SagePub Limiting prolif raises the transaction costs and causes a de-fact shift to CBWs.Neil Narang, 4/6/2016. Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. "All Together Now? Questioning WMDs as a Useful Analytical Unit for Understanding Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation," The Nonproliferation Review. Volume 22. Issue 3-4. pp. 457-468. Taylor and Francis. Extinction- Outweighs nuclear war.Clifford Singer, Spring 2001. Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. "Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?" The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/research/SandPs/2001-Sp/SandP_XIII/Singer.htm | 3/26/22 |
2 - FW - Util v12Tournament: NDCA | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Brianna Aaron FWFramework – the role of the judge and ballot is to determine whether the plan is a good idea through evaluation of consequences.A~ Don't let them weigh the sum total of their impact—they only get to weigh the amount solved by the affirmative. Filter the debate through solvency—there's no impact if they don't solve itB~ No performative offense, only offense from the plan—it explodes predictable limits, spiking out of neg ground making any discussion qualitatively worseThe standard is maximizing expected well-being.1~ Extinction outweighs.MacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ 2~ It's the only static category – even if life is bad now.Tännsjö 11 (Torbjörn, the Kristian Claëson Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, "Shalt Thou Sometimes Murder? On the Ethics of Killing," http://people.su.se/~~jolso/HS-texter/shaltthou.pdf) BS 1-27-2018 3~ Existential risks are non-linear and irreversible – peer-reviewed science proves they're probable – psychological and social biases skew calculus to threat deflation.Pamlin and Armstrong 15 (Dennis, Executive Project Manager of Global Risks @ Global Challenges Foundation, and Stuart, James Martin Research Fellow @ Oxford, "Global Challenges: 12 Risks that threaten human civilization: The case for a new risk category," https://api.globalchallenges.org/static/wp-content/uploads/12-Risks-with-infinite-impact.pdf) BS 4-1-2018 ~brackets for~ ableist language | 4/10/22 |
2 - FW - Util v2Tournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward JA | Judge: Faizaan Dossani | 1/19/22 |
2 - FW - Util v3Tournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Lukas Krause | 9/30/21 |
2 - FW - Util v4Tournament: St Marks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Ari Davidson | 10/18/21 |
2 - FW - Util v5Tournament: St Marks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Holden Bukowsky | 10/18/21 |
2 - FW - Util v6Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SR | Judge: Derek Ying | 11/6/21 |
2 - FW - Util v7Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Barbers EG | Judge: Devin Hernandez | 12/5/21 |
2 - FW - Util v8Tournament: Emory | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Nathan Frenkel | 2/12/22 |
2 - FW - Util v9Tournament: Emory | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Jenn Melin, Samantha McLoughlin, Bennett Dombcik | 2/12/22 |
3 - K - Fellow YellowTournament: Yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Byram Hills SH | Judge: Smith, Jiang, Chen | 1/19/22 |
3 - K - Guerilla LinguisticsTournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Allison Aldridge | 1/19/22 |
3 - K - HegemonyTournament: Churchill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Nelson | 1/9/22 |
3 - K - KantTournament: Emory | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Nathan Frenkel | 2/12/22 |
3 - K - Logistical TransparencyTournament: Apple Valley | Round: Semis | Opponent: Evergreen Valley SS | Judge: Wu, Zhou, Ying | 11/8/21 |
3 - K - Logistical Transparency v2Tournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Newman Smith SJ | Judge: Alexander Yoakum KThe 1AC is a misdiagnosis of the university – their techniques are enfolded within logistical transparency in which the worlds visibility and mappability is taken as ontological presumption to be achieved by techniques of resistance. The aff's praxis of resistance is articulated through a grammar of concrete planning utilized by state governance and the neoliberal university that reproduces logistics as the terrain of the political – only a refusal of the aesthetics of planning, logistics, and transparency can facilitate fugitivityMoten and Harney 9 – Fred Moten, professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, and Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University, 2009 ("Policy and Planning" Social Text 100 • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Fall 2009 Pages 182-186) Their investment into the university is a tool of speed-elitism. The move for more transparent discussions about revolutionary praxis mystifies the reliance on the highly exclusive and unethical technologies of the university. By figuring those technics as the metrics for liberatory strategization, that expands debate's state of exploitation.Hoofd 10 – Ingrid M. Hoofd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, ("The Accelerated University: Activist-Academic Alliances and the Simulation of Thought." Ephemera: Theory and politics in organisation, Vol. 10, No.1 (September 2010), http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/accelerated-university-activist-academic-alliances-and-simulation-thought) KB + TR Recut Justin ====The conditioning of debate as a sight for liberal discussions about our orientations towards revolution merely engenders a semiotic fantasy of radicalism that paves over very real conditions of pain and death that make this space possible. Its try or die for a semiotic insurrection.==== The alternative isVoting neg is a withdrawal from the instrumental game of call-and-response into an aesthetic under-commons of redaction, opacity, and fugitive resonance. The refusal of demands for transparent or professionalized alternative frustrates the professional logistics of academia. Redaction is an aesthetic embodiment of indecision, a critical strategy of resistance that cannot be captured on a wiretap because it's always on the tip of the tongue.Moten and Harney 13 – Fred Moten, professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, and Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University, 2013 (Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pgs. 28-32) | 1/19/22 |
3 - K - Logistical Transparency v3Tournament: TFA State | Round: 6 | Opponent: Clear Lake IM | Judge: Brandon Molina The 1AC is a misdiagnosis of the university – their techniques are enfolded within logistical transparency in which the worlds visibility and mappability is taken as ontological presumption to be achieved by techniques of resistance. The aff's praxis of resistance is articulated through a grammar of concrete planning utilized by state governance and the neoliberal university that reproduces logistics as the terrain of the political – only a refusal of the aesthetics of planning, logistics, and transparency can facilitate fugitivityMoten and Harney 9 – Fred Moten, professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, and Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University, 2009 ("Policy and Planning" Social Text 100 • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Fall 2009 Pages 182-186) Their investment into the university is a tool of speed-elitism. The move for more transparent discussions about revolutionary praxis mystifies the reliance on the highly exclusive and unethical technologies of the university. By figuring those technics as the metrics for liberatory strategization, that expands debate's state of exploitation.Hoofd 10 – Ingrid M. Hoofd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, ("The Accelerated University: Activist-Academic Alliances and the Simulation of Thought." Ephemera: Theory and politics in organisation, Vol. 10, No.1 (September 2010), http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/accelerated-university-activist-academic-alliances-and-simulation-thought) KB + TR Recut Justin ====The conditioning of debate as a sight for liberal discussions about our orientations towards revolution merely engenders a semiotic fantasy of radicalism that paves over very real conditions of pain and death that make this space possible. Its try or die for a semiotic insurrection.==== The alternative isVoting neg is a withdrawal from the instrumental game of call-and-response into an aesthetic under-commons of redaction, opacity, and fugitive resonance. The refusal of demands for transparent or professionalized alternative frustrates the professional logistics of academia. Redaction is an aesthetic embodiment of indecision, a critical strategy of resistance that cannot be captured on a wiretap because it's always on the tip of the tongue.Moten and Harney 13 – Fred Moten, professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, and Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University, 2013 (Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pgs. 28-32) | 3/12/22 |
3 - K - Logistical Transparency v4Tournament: NDCA | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Brianna Aaron KThe 1AC is a misdiagnosis of the university – their techniques are enfolded within logistical transparency in which the worlds visibility and mappability is taken as ontological presumption to be achieved by techniques of resistance. The aff's praxis of resistance is articulated through a grammar of concrete planning utilized by state governance and the neoliberal university that reproduces logistics as the terrain of the political – only a refusal of the aesthetics of planning, logistics, and transparency can facilitate fugitivityMoten and Harney 9 – Fred Moten, professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, and Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University, 2009 ("Policy and Planning" Social Text 100 • Vol. 27, No. 3 • Fall 2009 Pages 182-186) Their investment into the university is a tool of speed-elitism. The move for more transparent discussions about revolutionary praxis mystifies the reliance on the highly exclusive and unethical technologies of the university. By figuring those technics as the metrics for liberatory strategization, that expands debate's state of exploitation.Hoofd 10 – Ingrid M. Hoofd is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore, ("The Accelerated University: Activist-Academic Alliances and the Simulation of Thought." Ephemera: Theory and politics in organisation, Vol. 10, No.1 (September 2010), http://www.ephemerajournal.org/contribution/accelerated-university-activist-academic-alliances-and-simulation-thought) KB + TR Recut Justin ====The conditioning of debate as a sight for liberal discussions about our orientations towards revolution merely engenders a semiotic fantasy of radicalism that paves over very real conditions of pain and death that make this space possible. Its try or die for a semiotic insurrection.==== The alternative isVoting neg is a withdrawal from the instrumental game of call-and-response into an aesthetic under-commons of redaction, opacity, and fugitive resonance. The refusal of demands for transparent or professionalized alternative frustrates the professional logistics of academia. Redaction is an aesthetic embodiment of indecision, a critical strategy of resistance that cannot be captured on a wiretap because it's always on the tip of the tongue.Moten and Harney 13 – Fred Moten, professor of Performance Studies at New York University and has taught previously at University of California, Riverside, Duke University, Brown University, and the University of Iowa, and Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at Singapore Management University, 2013 (Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pgs. 28-32) | 4/10/22 |
3 - K - NietzscheTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SR | Judge: Derek Ying | 11/6/21 |
3 - K - Non-Black PessTournament: Apple Valley | Round: Semis | Opponent: Evergreen Valley SS | Judge: Wu, Zhou, Ying | 11/8/21 |
3 - K - S-SlurTournament: Churchill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Nelson | 1/9/22 |
JanFeb - CP - China MiningTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin CP Text: The People's Republic of China should—-ban private actor appropriation except for Asteroid Mining.—-de-militarize its space industry.—-eliminate ASAT weapons and nuclear arsenals—-end cooperation with Russia.China's key for asteroid mining and solves warming.Cohen 21 – Ariel Cohen 10-26-2021 "China's Space Mining Industry Is Prepping For Launch – But What About The US?" https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/10/26/chinas-space-mining-industry-is-prepping-for-launch—but-what-about-the-us/?sh=6b8bea862ae0 (I am a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and the Founding Principal of International Market Analysis, a Washington, D.C.-based global risk advisory boutique)Elmer Extinction.Dr. Peter Kareiva 18 – Ph.D. in Ecology and Applied Mathematics from Cornell University, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al., September 2018, "Existential Risk Due To Ecosystem Collapse: Nature Strikes Back", Futures, Volume 102, p. 39-50 | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - CP - Global Constitutional ConventionTournament: Churchill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Phoenix CPStates ought to call a global constitutional convention and establish a constitution reflecting intergenerational concern with exclusive authority to ban appropriation of outer space by private entities and bind participating bodies to its resultThat solves the aff – it addresses shared anxieties while building political consensusGardiner 14 1 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ It spills over to foster broader intergenerational representation, but independence is keyGardiner 14 2 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ Proactive measures mitigate a laundry list of emerging catastrophic risks – extinctionBeckstead et al. 14 ~Nick Beckstead, Nick Bostrom, Niel Bowerman, Owen Cotton-Barratt, William MacAskill, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Toby Ord, * Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, * Global Priorities Project, Centre for Effective Altruism; Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Global Priorities Project, Centre for Effective Altruism; Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, * Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, * Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, "Policy Brief: Unprecedented Technological Risks," 2014, The Global Priorities Project, The Future of Humanity Institute, The Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, and The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Unprecedented-Technological-Risks.pdf, Accessed: 03/13/21, EA~ Maintaining sustainable use of outer space is key to future generationsIslam 18 ~Mohammad Saiful Islam, Mohammad works for the Institute of Advanced Judicial Studies and the Beijing Institute of Technology. 4-27-2018, "The Sustainable Use of Outer Space: Complications and Legal Challenges to the Peaceful Uses and Benefit of Humankind," Beijing Law Review, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=85201 accessed 12/12/21~ Adam | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - CP - Global Constitutional Convention v2Tournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Newman Smith SJ | Judge: Alexander Yoakum CPCP Text: States ought to call a global constitutional convention and establish a constitution reflecting intergenerational concern with exclusive authority to end private appropriation of outer space by ruling that it violates the non-appropriations clause of the OST and bind participating bodies to its result.The CP applies intergenerational equity to future generations – that's better than trying to decide now whether the plan is beneficial across deep time – every country would say yes.Tan 2k ~David Tan, LL.M., Harvard Law School; LL.B. (Hons), B.Com., University of Melbourne. Former Tutor in Law, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, "Towards a New Regime for the Protection of Outer Space as the "Province of All Mankind"," 2000, The Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 25, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1114andcontext=yjil~~ That solves the aff – it addresses shared anxieties while building political consensus.Gardiner 14 1 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ It spills over to foster broader intergenerational representation, but independence is keyGardiner 14 2 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ Discounting future generations causes extinction – only formalizing a mechanism to weight their concerns solvesJones et al 18 ~Natalie Jones, Mark O'Brien, and Thomas Ryan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Representation of future generations in United Kingdom policy-making. Futures Volume 102, September 2018, Pages 153-163. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717301179~~#sec0005~~ Mathematical equations confirm our impacts outweigh.MacAskill 14 ~William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014~ Anything else ontologically destroys the subject.Paterson 1 – Department of Philosophy, Providence College, Rhode Island. (Craig, "A Life Not Worth Living?", Studies in Christian Ethics, http://sce.sagepub.com) It's the only static category – even if life is bad now.Tännsjö 11 (Torbjörn, the Kristian Claëson Professor of Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University, "Shalt Thou Sometimes Murder? On the Ethics of Killing," http://people.su.se/~~jolso/HS-texter/shaltthou.pdf) BS 1-27-2018 | 1/19/22 |
JanFeb - CP - Global Constitutional Convention v3Tournament: Emory | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Jenn Melin, Samantha McLoughlin, Bennett Dombcik | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - CP - Global Constitutional Convention v4Tournament: Churchill | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Sandra Day WW | Judge: Patrick Fox, Dylan Jones, Davina Le CP Text: States ought to call a global constitutional convention and establish a constitution reflecting intergenerational concern with exclusive authority to make the appropriation of outer space unjust as a method of embracing alien temporalities and imagining alternative futures and bind participating bodies to its result.The CP applies intergenerational equity to future generations – that's better than trying to decide now whether the plan is beneficial across deep time – every country would say yes.Tan 2k ~David Tan, LL.M., Harvard Law School; LL.B. (Hons), B.Com., University of Melbourne. Former Tutor in Law, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, "Towards a New Regime for the Protection of Outer Space as the "Province of All Mankind"," 2000, The Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 25, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1114andcontext=yjil~~ That solves the aff – it addresses shared anxieties while building political consensus.Gardiner 14 1 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ It spills over to foster broader intergenerational representation, but independence is keyGardiner 14 2 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ Proactive measures mitigate a laundry list of emerging catastrophic risks – extinction.Beckstead 14 ~Nick Beckstead, Nick Bostrom, Niel Bowerman, Owen Cotton-Barratt, William MacAskill, Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh, Toby Ord, * Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, * Global Priorities Project, Centre for Effective Altruism; Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Global Priorities Project, Centre for Effective Altruism; Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, * Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; Future of Humanity Institute, University of Oxford, * Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, "Policy Brief: Unprecedented Technological Risks," 2014, The Global Priorities Project, The Future of Humanity Institute, The Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, and The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Unprecedented-Technological-Risks.pdf, Accessed: 03/13/21, EA~ | 3/16/22 |
JanFeb - CP - Global Constitutional Convention v5Tournament: NDCA | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harrison TB | Judge: Brianna Aaron CPCP Text: States ought to call a global constitutional convention and establish a constitution reflecting intergenerational concern with exclusive authority to end private appropriation of outer space by ruling that it violates the non-appropriations clause of the OST and bind participating bodies to its result.Normal means has the plan implemented through the Committee on the Peaceful use of Outer Space.Halstead 10—(B.S., Psychology, The University of Alabama; J.D., The University of Alabama School of Law; LL.M., Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University; Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General's Corps). C. Brandon Halstead. 2010. "Prometheus Unbound - Proposal for a New Legal Paradigm for Air Law and Space Law: Orbit Law," Journal of Space Law 36, no. 1, 143-206 The CP applies intergenerational equity to future generations – that's better than trying to decide now whether the plan is beneficial across deep time – every country would say yes.Tan 2k ~David Tan, LL.M., Harvard Law School; LL.B. (Hons), B.Com., University of Melbourne. Former Tutor in Law, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, "Towards a New Regime for the Protection of Outer Space as the "Province of All Mankind"," 2000, The Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 25, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1114andcontext=yjil~~ That solves the aff – it addresses shared anxieties while building political consensus.Gardiner 14 1 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ It spills over to foster broader intergenerational representation, but independence is keyGardiner 14 2 ~Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, "A Call for a Global Constitutional Convention Focused on Future Generations," 2014, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 28, Issue 3, pp. 299-315, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679414000379, EA~ Discounting future generations causes extinction – only formalizing a mechanism to weight their concerns solvesJones et al 18 ~Natalie Jones, Mark O'Brien, and Thomas Ryan, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Representation of future generations in United Kingdom policy-making. Futures Volume 102, September 2018, Pages 153-163. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016328717301179~~#sec0005~~ | 4/10/22 |
JanFeb - CP - Space ElevatorTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Basis Silicon JK | Judge: Yoyo Lei | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - CP - US-China Co-opTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin CP Text: The People's Republic of China shouldincrease and encourage private and civil space cooperation with the United States over appropriation of outer space.de-militarize its space industry.dismantle and remove ASAT weapons.The United States Federal Government should repeal the Wolf Amendment.The Counterplan competes – it re-directs China's commercial space industry to productive cooperation with the United States. The 1AC said that China's government is reliant on private action meaning the Plan collapses all of the space sector meaning meaningful cooperation with the US becomes impossible.Cooperation de-escalates the Space Race, solves Sino-Russian axis, and spills-over to broader US-China relationsMarshall and Hadfield 21 Will Marshall and Chris Hadfield 4-15-2021 "Why the U.S. and China Should Collaborate in Space" https://time.com/5954941/u-s-china-should-collaborate-in-space/ (CEO of Planet which operates 200 satellites that image the entire Earth landmass on a daily basis, and he formerly worked at NASA on lunar missions and space debris. Colonel Chris Hadfield was Commander of the International Space Station and flew both the U.S. Space Shuttle and Russian Soyuz vehicles. Prior to that he served as a fighter/test pilot with the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force.)Elmer US-China Relations key to prevent escalation – current US course turns status quo cold war hot.Nye 21 Joseph Nye 3-3-2021 "The factors that could lead to war between the US and China" https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-factors-that-could-lead-to-war-between-the-us-and-china/ (professor at Harvard University and author)Elmer US-China War goes Nuclear.Brands and Beckley 21 Hal Brands and Michael Beckley 12-16-2021 "Washington Is Preparing for the Wrong War With China" https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2021-12-16/washington-preparing-wrong-war-china (Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science at Tufts University, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute)Elmer US-China Relations solves laundry list of existential threats.Paulson 15, H. M. "Dealing with China: An insider unmasks the new economic superpower. Hachette Book Group." Inc.: All Books (2015). (Former US Treasury Secretary)Elmer | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - DA - Asteroid MiningTournament: Emory | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale OL | Judge: Nathan Frenkel | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - DA - PLATournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Basis Silicon JK | Judge: Yoyo Lei | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - DA - PLA v2Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin 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 The commercial space sector is the PLAs central goal – the plan is a 180.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 That triggers backlash – they don't support restrictions and convince leaders not to do the plan – triggers circumvention.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~~ 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~~ 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 | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - DA - Putin LashoutTournament: Kandi King Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: David Kilpatrick, Asher Towner The plan is perceived as a claim to sovereignty that violates international space law – scares Russia – their evidence.1AC Fessl 19 – Sophie Fessl, PhD King's College London, BA Oxford, 7/10/19 ~JSTOR Daily, "Should the Moon Landing Site Be a National Historic Landmark?" https://daily.jstor.org/should-the-moon-landing-site-be-a-national-historic-landmark/~~ Justin Putin has banked his prestige off of appropriation of the moon – the plan's unilateral claim to sovereignty is a shock to dreams of hegemony.Whittington 20 – Mark, Published a political study of space exploration entitled Why is It So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? as well as The Moon, Mars and Beyond. He blogs at Curmudgeons Corner. He is published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The Hill, USA Today, the LA Times, and the Washington Post, among other venues, 9/6/20 ~The Hill, "Russia makes bid to become a space power with Luna-25 mission to the moon," https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/515117-russia-makes-bid-to-become-a-space-power-with-luna-25-mission-to-the-moon~~ Justin That triggers lashout – extinction.Gressel 16 ~Gustav Acting Director and a senior policy fellow with the Wider Europe Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations' Berlin office, European Council on Foreign Relations, "The dangerous decade: Russia-NATO relations 2014 to 2024", July 2016, https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_the_dangerous_decade_russia_nato_relations_2014_to_2024~~ | 3/26/22 |
JanFeb - DA - Weather MegaconstellationsTournament: Emory | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Jenn Melin, Samantha McLoughlin, Bennett Dombcik | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - DeDevTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Basis Silicon JK | Judge: Yoyo Lei | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Proliferation GoodTournament: Kandi King Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: David Kilpatrick, Asher Towner Even if they're right that an accidental war is possible, vote neg. The framing question is not whether there is a risk prolif breaks down —- it's whether a world of prolif is net-more peaceful —- default neg on the historical record.Sechser 5 (Todd, Assistant Prof. Politics specializing in International Security—Stanford U., "How Organizational Pathologies Could Make Nuclear Proliferation Safer", Presented at the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, 4-7, *I had to ILL this. I don't think it's available online) Proliferation dampens conflict —- only our evidence does a statistical, controlled study.Akisato Suzuki, June 2015. Akisato, Researcher at the Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, MA in Violence, Terrorism and Security at Queen's University, "Is more better or worse? New empirics on nuclear proliferation and interstate conflict by Random Forests," Research and Politics, SagePub Limiting prolif raises the transaction costs and causes a de-fact shift to CBWs.Neil Narang, 4/6/2016. Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. "All Together Now? Questioning WMDs as a Useful Analytical Unit for Understanding Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation," The Nonproliferation Review. Volume 22. Issue 3-4. pp. 457-468. Taylor and Francis. Extinction- Outweighs nuclear war.Clifford Singer, Spring 2001. Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. "Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?" The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://www.acdis.uiuc.edu/research/SandPs/2001-Sp/SandP_XIII/Singer.htm | 3/26/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Russia-China Co-op GoodTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin China-Russia cooperation is feasible and solves nuclear war.Artyom Lukin 20 ~{Artyom Lukin is Deputy Director for Research at the School of Regional and International Studies, Far Eastern Federal University. He is also Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations. 6-13-2020. "The Russia–China entente and its future." https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41311-020-00251-7~~}JM Specifically, sustains the Russian economy.Alexander Gabuev and Umarov 20, Temur ~{Gabuev is a senior fellow and the chair of the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. Temur Umarov is an expert on China and Central Asia, and a consultant at Carnegie Moscow Center. 7-8-2020. "Will the Pandemic Increase Russia's Economic Dependence on China?" https://carnegie.ru/2020/07/08/will-pandemic-increase-russia-s-economic-dependence-on-china-pub-81893~~}JM Escalates – goes nuclear.Dr. Benjamin Ståhl 15, CEO of the Blue Institute, PhD in Business Studies and Economics from Uppsala University, MA in International Relations from the University of Kent, and Johan Wiktorin, Founder and CEO of the Intelligence Company Brqthrough, Licensed Master of Competitive Intelligence and Former Member of the Swedish Armed Forces, "What's At Stake?: A Geopolitical Perspective on the Swedish Economic Exposure in Northeast Europe", Swedish Growth Barometer, 7/1/2015, https://blueinst.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/whats-at-stake_geopolitical-perspective.pdf Solves Malaccan Trade Disputes.Dmitriy Frolovskiy 20 ~{Dmitriy Frolovskiy is a political analyst and independent journalist. He is a consultant on policy and strategy, and has written about Russia's foreign policy. 8-25-2020. "Why China-Russia economic ties will emerge from the coronavirus pandemic stronger than ever." https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3098639/why-china-russia-economic-ties-will-emerge-coronavirus-pandemic~~}JM Global food shortage.WEF 17 – Based in Cologny-Geneva, Switzerland, is an NGO, founded in 1971. The WEF's mission is cited as 'committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas', 11/27/17 (World Economic Forum, "How trade chokepoints pose a growing threat to global food security", https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/how-trade-chokepoints-pose-a-growing-threat-to-global-food-security/)//GA Escalates every hotspot.Sinéad Lehane 17, research manager for Future Directions International's Global Food and Water Crises Research program. Her current research projects include Australia's food system and water security in the Tibetan Plateau region. Shaping Conflict in the 21st Century—The Future of Food and Water Security. February 2, 2017. www.hidropolitikakademi.org/shaping-conflict-in-the-21st-century-the-future-of-food-and-water-security.html | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Satellites BadTournament: Churchill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Basis Shavano ZR | Judge: Patrick Fox | 1/9/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Satellites Bad v2Tournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Woodlands PA | Judge: Demarcus Powell 1NC – Satellites Bad1NC – MiningLoss of satellites will shut down terrestrial miningLes Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 105 Antarctic mining causes nuclear war.David W. Floren 1, J.D. from the University of Oregon, "Antarctic Mining Regimes: An Appreciation of the Attainable", Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Fall, Volume 16, Number 2, 467-513 1NC – DronesLoss of satellites shuts down dronesDaniel Ventre 11, Engineer for CNRS and Researcher for CESDIP, Cyberwar and Information Warfare, p. 198-199 Drones escalate every hotspot.Zenko and Kreps 14 Micah - Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, PhD in political science from Brandeis University; *Sarah - Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, assistant professor in the department of government and an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, BA from Harvard University, MSc from Oxford University, and PhD from Georgetown University; "Limiting Armed Drone Proliferation," Council on Foreign Relations, June 2014, http://aspheramedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Limiting_Armed_Drone_Proliferation_CSR69.pdf 1NC – 5G5G is coming online globally via satellites—-extinction.Dr. Lauraine Margaret Helen Vivian 18, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, PhD in Anthropology and Psychiatry. Girish Kumar, PhD, Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Don Maisch, PhD, Independent researcher, author of "The Procrustean Approach", Lindisfarne, Australia. Alfonso Balmori, BSc, Master in Environmental Education, Biologist. Klaus Buchner, Dr. Rer. Nat., Professor, MEP – Member of the European Parliament. Daniel Favre, Dr. Phil. Nat., Biologist, Association Romande Alerte aux Ondes Electromagnétique. Annie Sasco – MD, DrPH, SM, HDR, Former Chief of Research Unit of Epidemiology for Cancer Prevention at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon; Former Acting Chief, Programme for Cancer Control of the World Health Organization (WHO); former Director of Research at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM). Martin Pall – Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University. Kate B. Showers, PhD, Soil Science, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK, Carlos Sosa, MD, University of Antioquia, "International Appeal: Stop 5G on Earth and in Space", 9/17/2018, https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-appeal 1NC – AgricultureSatellites are crucial for large, industrial megafarmsLes Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Sodety and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 106 Extinction.Alice Friedemann 17, Systems Architect and Engineer For Over 25 Years, Science, Energy, and Agriculture Writer, Investigative Journalist and Energy Expert, Founder of Energy Skeptic, Author of When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation, "Chemical Industrial Agriculture is Unsustainable. Here's Why", Resilience, 5-27, http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-03-27/chemical-industrial-farming-unsustainable-heres/ 1NC – Latin AmericaSatellite data ratchets up drug eradication effortsKieron Monks 14, Writer for CNN, The Guardian, and Prospect Magazine, BA from the University of Nottingham, "Spy Satellites Fighting Crime From Space", CNN, 8/12/2014, https://www.cnn.com/2014/08/11/tech/innovation/spy-satellites-fighting-crime-from-space/index.html That backfires, destabilizing Latin AmericaBarney Lerten 19, Reporter for KTVZ News, "Computer Model: Big Cocaine Busts Backfire Big-Time", KTVZ News 21, 4/3/2019, https://www.ktvz.com/news/osu-computer-model-big-cocaine-busts-backfire-big-time/1065357402 Nuclear warDr. Andrew F. Krepinevich 14, Jr., President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, M.P.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and Eric Lindsey, Analyst at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, M.A. in Strategic Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), "Hemispheric Defense in the 21st Century", 1/9/2014, https://csbaonline.org/research/publications/hemispheric-defense-in-the-21st-century | 1/19/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Satellites Bad v3Tournament: UH | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill EN | Judge: Chao, Yoakum, Goemmer 1NC – Satellites Bad1NC – MiningLoss of satellites will shut down terrestrial miningLes Johnson 13, Deputy Manager for NASA's Advanced Concepts Office at the Marshall Space Flight Center, Co-Investigator for the JAXA T-Rex Space Tether Experiment and PI of NASA's ProSEDS Experiment, Master's Degree in Physics from Vanderbilt University, Popular Science Writer, and NASA Technologist, Frequent Contributor to the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society and Member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Space Society, the World Future Society, and MENSA, Sky Alert!: When Satellites Fail, p. 105 Antarctic mining causes nuclear war.David W. Floren 1, J.D. from the University of Oregon, "Antarctic Mining Regimes: An Appreciation of the Attainable", Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation, Fall, Volume 16, Number 2, 467-513 1NC – DronesLoss of satellites shuts down dronesDaniel Ventre 11, Engineer for CNRS and Researcher for CESDIP, Cyberwar and Information Warfare, p. 198-199 Drones escalate every hotspot.Zenko and Kreps 14 Micah - Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations, PhD in political science from Brandeis University; *Sarah - Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, assistant professor in the department of government and an adjunct professor at Cornell Law School, BA from Harvard University, MSc from Oxford University, and PhD from Georgetown University; "Limiting Armed Drone Proliferation," Council on Foreign Relations, June 2014, http://aspheramedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Limiting_Armed_Drone_Proliferation_CSR69.pdf 1NC – 5G5G is coming online globally via satellites—-extinction.Dr. Lauraine Margaret Helen Vivian 18, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen, PhD in Anthropology and Psychiatry. Girish Kumar, PhD, Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. Don Maisch, PhD, Independent researcher, author of "The Procrustean Approach", Lindisfarne, Australia. Alfonso Balmori, BSc, Master in Environmental Education, Biologist. Klaus Buchner, Dr. Rer. Nat., Professor, MEP – Member of the European Parliament. Daniel Favre, Dr. Phil. Nat., Biologist, Association Romande Alerte aux Ondes Electromagnétique. Annie Sasco – MD, DrPH, SM, HDR, Former Chief of Research Unit of Epidemiology for Cancer Prevention at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon; Former Acting Chief, Programme for Cancer Control of the World Health Organization (WHO); former Director of Research at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM). Martin Pall – Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Basic Medical Sciences, Washington State University. Kate B. Showers, PhD, Soil Science, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK, Carlos Sosa, MD, University of Antioquia, "International Appeal: Stop 5G on Earth and in Space", 9/17/2018, https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/the-appeal | 1/19/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Space Exploration GoodTournament: Churchill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Phoenix NC – Space Exploration GoodPrivate sector is key to mining and overcomes all extinction scenarios.Pelton 17—Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown.. Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. Water wars escalate.Klare 20 — Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. (Michael; Published: 2020; "Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and the Potential for Interstate Conflict in South Asia"; Journal of Strategic Security 13, No. 4, Pages 109-122; https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.13.4.1826 Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol13/iss4/8)//CYang So do resource wars.Klare 13 – Michael T., professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC, " How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion", The Nation, 4/22/2013, https://www.thenation.com/article/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/ JHW Exploration key to prevent terrestrial mining and solve warming.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Extinction—contrary models are incorrect.Specktor 19 ~Brandon; 6/4/19; 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; "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 | 1/8/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Space Exploration Good v2Tournament: Churchill | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Nelson | 1/9/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Space Exploration Good v3Tournament: Churchill | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Sandra Day WW | Judge: Patrick Fox, Dylan Jones, Davina Le Private sector is key to mining and overcomes all extinction scenarios.Pelton 17—Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown.. Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. Water wars escalate.Klare 20 — Five College professor emeritus of peace and world security studies, and director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies (PAWSS), holds a B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute. (Michael; Published: 2020; "Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and the Potential for Interstate Conflict in South Asia"; Journal of Strategic Security 13, No. 4, Pages 109-122; https://doi.org/10.5038/1944-0472.13.4.1826 Available at: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/jss/vol13/iss4/8)//CYang 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 Exploration key to prevent terrestrial mining and solve warming.MacWhorter 16 ~Kevin; J.D. Candidate, William and Mary Law School, "Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of Environmentalism", William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review, Vol 40, Issue 2, Article 11, https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://www.google.com/andhttpsredir=1andarticle=1653andcontext=wmelpr~~ brett Extinction—contrary models are incorrect.Specktor 19 ~Brandon; 6/4/19; 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; "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 | 3/16/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - SparkTournament: Emory | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cary CP | Judge: Parth Misra | 1/30/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Spark v2Tournament: Emory | Round: 3 | Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: Rishi Mukherjee | 1/30/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Spark v3Tournament: Emory | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: Phoenix Pittman, Jenn Melin, Derek Ying | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Spark v4Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Harrison Hall 1NC – Nuke War GoodNuclear war now spurs political will for disarmament without causing extinction.Deudney 18 ~Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. 03/15/2018. "The Great Debate." The Oxford Handbook of International Security. www.oxfordhandbooks.com, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.22~ Recut Justin Can't rebuild industrial civilization.John Jacobi 17. ~Leads an environmentalist research institute and collective, citing Fred Hoyle, British astronomer, formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, coined the term "big bang," recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University. 05-27-17. "Industrial Civilization Could Not Be Rebuilt." The Wild Will Project. https://www.wildwill.net/blog/2017/05/27/industrial-civilization-not-rebuilt/~~ Recut Justin That's good – war later is worse.Turchin and Denkenberger 18 ~Alexey Turchin and David Denkenberger. Turchin is a researcher at the Science for Life Extension Foundation; Denkenberger is with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) @ Tennessee State University, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). 09/2018. "Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks Communication Scale." Futures, vol. 102, pp. 27–38.~ Empirics and worse disasters disprove their impact.Eken 17 ~Mattias Eken – PhD student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews. "The understandable fear of nuclear weapons doesn't match reality". 3/14/17. https://theconversation.com/the-understandable-fear-of-nuclear-weapons-doesnt-match-reality-73563~~ Recut Justin Err negative on impact weighing – their evidence is unwarranted pessimism – updated models.Rodriguez 20 ~Luisa Rodriguez is research fellow at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. Previously, she researched nuclear war at Rethink Priorities and as a visiting researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute, "What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)? - EA Forum", 24th Dec 2020, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GsjmufaebreiaivF7/what-is-the-likelihood-that-civilizational-collapse-would~~#Concrete_example__A_large_nuclear_war_that_causes_a_nuclear_winter//imp~~ Isolated island populations repopulate.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin They solve any impact from the aff but not ours – empirics.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin French Kerguelen Islands have unique characteristics conducive to repopulation.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin No nuclear winter – conservative models prove rainout.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Volcano activities prove.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Particle accelerators destroy the universe – which outweighs.Joe Packer 7 – MA in Communication from Wake Forest University, PhD in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Communication at Central Michigan University, Alien Life in Search of Acknowledgment, p. 62-63 Recut Justin Tech advancements make time travel certainElmi 18 Awes Faghi ~Contributing Writer at n'world Publications, BS in Forensic Science from London South Bank University, Extended Diploma in Physics with Distinction from Leyton Sixth Form College, Futurist, "Technological Progress Might Make Possible Time Travel And Teleportation", Medium, 8-13, https://medium.com/nworld-publications/technological-progress-might-make-possible-time-travel-and-teleportation-45176c3c89bc~~ Recut Justin Collapses the universe.Bowers 16 Steve – ~Control Officer in the United Kingdom, Executive Editor and Moderator of the Orion's Arm Universe Project, Contributing Author for the Orion's Arm Novella Collection, "WHY NO TIME TRAVEL IN OA", 1-1, https://orionsarm.com/page/77~~ Recut Justin Super lasers are coming and cause universe destruction.Cartlidge 18 – Edwin Cartlidge, MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, MPhy in Physics from Manchester University, News Editor of Physics World and Freelance Science Writer, "Physicists Are Planning To Build Lasers So Powerful They Could Rip Apart Empty Space", Science Magazine, 1-24, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space The military is developing isomer bombs – testing destroys the universe.Gary S. Bekkum 4, Founder of Spacetime Threat Assessment Report Research, Founder of STARstream Research, Futurist, "American Military is Pursuing New Types of Exotic Weapons", Pravda, 8-30, https://www.pravdareport.com/science/5527-weapons/ | 2/19/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Spark v5Tournament: Palm Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: Lindsay Van Luvanee, David Dosch, Lena Mizrahi Case1NC – Nuke War GoodNuclear war now spurs political will for disarmament without causing extinction.Deudney 18 ~Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. 03/15/2018. "The Great Debate." The Oxford Handbook of International Security. www.oxfordhandbooks.com, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.22~ Recut Justin Can't rebuild industrial civilization.John Jacobi 17. ~Leads an environmentalist research institute and collective, citing Fred Hoyle, British astronomer, formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, coined the term "big bang," recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University. 05-27-17. "Industrial Civilization Could Not Be Rebuilt." The Wild Will Project. https://www.wildwill.net/blog/2017/05/27/industrial-civilization-not-rebuilt/~~ Recut Justin That's good – war later is worse.Turchin and Denkenberger 18 ~Alexey Turchin and David Denkenberger. Turchin is a researcher at the Science for Life Extension Foundation; Denkenberger is with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) @ Tennessee State University, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). 09/2018. "Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks Communication Scale." Futures, vol. 102, pp. 27–38.~ Empirics and worse disasters disprove their impact.Eken 17 ~Mattias Eken – PhD student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews. "The understandable fear of nuclear weapons doesn't match reality". 3/14/17. https://theconversation.com/the-understandable-fear-of-nuclear-weapons-doesnt-match-reality-73563~~ Recut Justin Err negative on impact weighing – their evidence is unwarranted pessimism – updated models.Rodriguez 20 ~Luisa Rodriguez is research fellow at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. Previously, she researched nuclear war at Rethink Priorities and as a visiting researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute, "What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)? - EA Forum", 24th Dec 2020, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GsjmufaebreiaivF7/what-is-the-likelihood-that-civilizational-collapse-would~~#Concrete_example__A_large_nuclear_war_that_causes_a_nuclear_winter//imp~~ Isolated island populations repopulate.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin They solve any impact from the aff but not ours – empirics.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin French Kerguelen Islands have unique characteristics conducive to repopulation.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin No nuclear winter – conservative models prove rainout.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Volcano activities prove.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Particle accelerators destroy the universe – which outweighs.Joe Packer 7 – MA in Communication from Wake Forest University, PhD in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Communication at Central Michigan University, Alien Life in Search of Acknowledgment, p. 62-63 Recut Justin Tech advancements make time travel certainElmi 18 Awes Faghi ~Contributing Writer at n'world Publications, BS in Forensic Science from London South Bank University, Extended Diploma in Physics with Distinction from Leyton Sixth Form College, Futurist, "Technological Progress Might Make Possible Time Travel And Teleportation", Medium, 8-13, https://medium.com/nworld-publications/technological-progress-might-make-possible-time-travel-and-teleportation-45176c3c89bc~~ Recut Justin Collapses the universe.Bowers 16 Steve – ~Control Officer in the United Kingdom, Executive Editor and Moderator of the Orion's Arm Universe Project, Contributing Author for the Orion's Arm Novella Collection, "WHY NO TIME TRAVEL IN OA", 1-1, https://orionsarm.com/page/77~~ Recut Justin Super lasers are coming and cause universe destruction.Cartlidge 18 – Edwin Cartlidge, MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, MPhy in Physics from Manchester University, News Editor of Physics World and Freelance Science Writer, "Physicists Are Planning To Build Lasers So Powerful They Could Rip Apart Empty Space", Science Magazine, 1-24, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space The military is developing isomer bombs – testing destroys the universe.Gary S. Bekkum 4, Founder of Spacetime Threat Assessment Report Research, Founder of STARstream Research, Futurist, "American Military is Pursuing New Types of Exotic Weapons", Pravda, 8-30, https://www.pravdareport.com/science/5527-weapons/ 1NC – OverviewHave a high threshold for 1AR extrapolations for impacts. Their card is under warranted and causally asserts claims without delineated warrants—don't fill in gaps for them. Reject new 1ar extinction evidence—we based our 1nc strategy off of bad impact evidence. Study indicts and answers to our impacts/transition solves but discourages sandbagging good ev until after the 1nc.We don't have to win much – 100 can repopulate civilization.Corey S. Powell 18, 8-13-2018, "How many humans would it take to keep our species alive? One scientist's surprising answer," NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-many-humans-would-it-take-keep-our-species-alive-ncna900151 1NC – Robock and ToonTheir models are inaccurate representations.Walker 18 – Robert Walker, M.Hum in Philosophy from York University, BA in Mathematics from York University, Software Developer, March 6, 2018, ~"Debunked: Nuclear Winter and Radioactive Fallout myths," Debunking Doomsday~ Recut Justin They just assume the smoke ends up the atmosphere.Seitz 6 – Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Center of International Affairs (Russell, "The 'Nuclear Winter' Meltdown" http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2006/12/preherein_honor.html) Recut Justin They conduct their study in a continent where it doesn't rain.Robock and Toon (Alan, professor of cliatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University and the associate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction and Owen, "Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering" Scientific American, Vol. 302, Issue 1 pg 74-81) Robock et al causally assert the famine impact without running any tests.Robock and Toon (Alan, professor of cliatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University and the associate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction and Owen, "Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering" Scientific American, Jan, Vol. 302, Issue 1 pg 74-81) Robock et al. changed their models – cut updates.Hamill 19 ~Jasper Hamill, Rutgers doctoral student and numerous atmospheric scientists, "Life after an apocalyptic nuclear war might not be quite as grim as expected, scientists say," 08/09/19, Metro, https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/09/life-apocalyptic-nuclear-war-might-not-quite-grim-expected-scientists-say-10545690/~~ Justin Their physicist flows neg – no extinction but yes transition.Haberman 16 – Clyde, 4/4/16, ~"Global Warming Gives Science Behind Nuclear Winter a New Purpose," New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/us/global-warming-gives-science-behind-nuclear-winter-a-new-purpose.html~~ Justin Robock agrees too.Robock 10. ~You know who they are, "Nuclear Winter" https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.45~~ Justin How more explicit do they have to say it??Brasch 20 – Sam Brasch covers climate and the environment for CPR News. Sam came to CPR in 2015 as the recipient of the organization's first news fellowship, ~"A Colorado Professor Is Warning The World Of Nuclear Winter — Again," CPR News, https://www.cpr.org/2020/01/09/a-colorado-professor-is-warning-the-world-of-nuclear-winter-again/~~ Justin —-AT: StarrThe studies they cite are all from Robock et al.Starr '17 (Steven; director of the University of Missouri's Clinical Laboratory Science Program, senior scientist at the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Associate member of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, expert in the environmental consequences of nuclear war; 1/9/17; "Turning a Blind Eye Towards Armageddon — U.S. Leaders Reject Nuclear Winter Studies"; https://fas.org/2017/01/turning-a-blind-eye-towards-armageddon-u-s-leaders-reject-nuclear-winter-studies/; Federation of American Scientists; accessed 11/24/18; TV) —-AT: Snydera and RuyleCounterforce targeting massively limits fallout – won't trigger a winter.Lieber and Press 13 (Keir, Professor @ Georgetown, Daryl, Professor @ Dartmouth, "The New Era of Nuclear Weapons, Deterrence, and Conflict," 7(1), https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/162442/spring_2013.pdf) Same deal as Starr.Snydera and Ruyle 17 (Brian F.Snydera and Leslie E. Ruyle, 12-15-2017, ~Brian F. Snyder. Department of Environmental Science, Louisiana State University, United States. Leslie E. Ruyle. Center on Conflict and Development, Texas AandM University, United States~"The abolition of war as a goal of environmental policy," No Publication, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717316431?via3Dihub)//SLC PK 1NC – FamineOdd food sources solve.David Denkenberger et al. 17 International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute. 1-5-2017. "Feeding Everyone if the Sun is Obscured and Industry is Disabled ~Shut Down~." https://www-sciencedirect-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/science/article/pii/S22124209163054537d Read their studies skeptically – most say famines kill billions and some assert everyone dies but that's not warranted.David S. Stevenson 17. Professor of planetary science at Caltech. 2017. "Agents of Mass Destruction." The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive, Springer, Cham, pp. 273–340. link.springer.com, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52911-0_7. 1NC – OzoneOzone impacts are out of the question – only actual study.Kearney 87. ~Cresson. In 1961 he took a position doing civil defense research with the Hudson Institute. In 1964 he joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory civil defense project. During the Vietnam War, Kearny served as a civilian advisor to the U.S. Army, making several trips to the theater of operations.~9~ Much of the supporting research that went into his most famous work, Nuclear War Survival Skills (NWSS), was conducted during the 1970s. Including a study on how the US might be affected by a potential nuclear war from the Sino-Soviet split, specifically focusing on the question; what would be the severity and how might the US deal with contamination of CONUS milk supplies that might result from the "trans-pacific" nuclear fallout that would originate over China.~10~ Along with other more long-term survival publications such as "Maintaining nutritional adequacy during a prolonged food crisis ~Basic foods for post-nuclear attack use~".~11~ "Nuclear War Survival Skills Updated and Expanded". http://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p904.htm~~ Justin Rigorous tests disprove the impacts.Frankel et al. 15 – Senior scientist at Penn State University's Applied Research Laboratory, where he focuses on nuclear treaty verification technologies, is one of the nation's leading experts on the effects of nuclear weapons, executive director of the Congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack, led development of fifteen-year global nuclear threat technology projections and infrastructure vulnerability assessments; Dr. James Scouras is a national security studies fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the former chief scientist of DTRA's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office; Dr. George W. Ullrich is chief technology officer at Schafer Corporation and formerly senior vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), currently serves as a special advisor to the USSTRATCOM Strategic Advisory Group's Science and Technology Panel and is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 4/15/15 ~"The Uncertain Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Use," The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, DTIC, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a618999.pdf~~ Justin | 2/19/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Spark v6Tournament: Kandi King Round Robin | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Truman Le, Tyler Gamble, Abbey Chapman 1NC – Nuke War GoodNuclear war now spurs political will for disarmament without causing extinction.Deudney 18 ~Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. 03/15/2018. "The Great Debate." The Oxford Handbook of International Security. www.oxfordhandbooks.com, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.22~ Recut Justin Can't rebuild industrial civilization.John Jacobi 17. ~Leads an environmentalist research institute and collective, citing Fred Hoyle, British astronomer, formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, coined the term "big bang," recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University. 05-27-17. "Industrial Civilization Could Not Be Rebuilt." The Wild Will Project. https://www.wildwill.net/blog/2017/05/27/industrial-civilization-not-rebuilt/~~ Recut Justin That's good – war later is worse.Turchin and Denkenberger 18 ~Alexey Turchin and David Denkenberger. Turchin is a researcher at the Science for Life Extension Foundation; Denkenberger is with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) @ Tennessee State University, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). 09/2018. "Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks Communication Scale." Futures, vol. 102, pp. 27–38.~ Empirics and worse disasters disprove their impact.Eken 17 ~Mattias Eken – PhD student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews. "The understandable fear of nuclear weapons doesn't match reality". 3/14/17. https://theconversation.com/the-understandable-fear-of-nuclear-weapons-doesnt-match-reality-73563~~ Recut Justin Err negative on impact weighing – their evidence is unwarranted pessimism – updated models.Rodriguez 20 ~Luisa Rodriguez is research fellow at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. Previously, she researched nuclear war at Rethink Priorities and as a visiting researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute, "What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)? - EA Forum", 24th Dec 2020, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GsjmufaebreiaivF7/what-is-the-likelihood-that-civilizational-collapse-would~~#Concrete_example__A_large_nuclear_war_that_causes_a_nuclear_winter//imp~~ Isolated island populations repopulate.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin They solve any impact from the aff but not ours – empirics.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin French Kerguelen Islands have unique characteristics conducive to repopulation.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin No nuclear winter – conservative models prove rainout.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Volcano activities prove.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Particle accelerators destroy the universe – which outweighs.Joe Packer 7 – MA in Communication from Wake Forest University, PhD in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Communication at Central Michigan University, Alien Life in Search of Acknowledgment, p. 62-63 Recut Justin Tech advancements make time travel certainElmi 18 Awes Faghi ~Contributing Writer at n'world Publications, BS in Forensic Science from London South Bank University, Extended Diploma in Physics with Distinction from Leyton Sixth Form College, Futurist, "Technological Progress Might Make Possible Time Travel And Teleportation", Medium, 8-13, https://medium.com/nworld-publications/technological-progress-might-make-possible-time-travel-and-teleportation-45176c3c89bc~~ Recut Justin Collapses the universe.Bowers 16 Steve – ~Control Officer in the United Kingdom, Executive Editor and Moderator of the Orion's Arm Universe Project, Contributing Author for the Orion's Arm Novella Collection, "WHY NO TIME TRAVEL IN OA", 1-1, https://orionsarm.com/page/77~~ Recut Justin Super lasers are coming and cause universe destruction.Cartlidge 18 – Edwin Cartlidge, MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, MPhy in Physics from Manchester University, News Editor of Physics World and Freelance Science Writer, "Physicists Are Planning To Build Lasers So Powerful They Could Rip Apart Empty Space", Science Magazine, 1-24, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space The military is developing isomer bombs – testing destroys the universe.Gary S. Bekkum 4, Founder of Spacetime Threat Assessment Report Research, Founder of STARstream Research, Futurist, "American Military is Pursuing New Types of Exotic Weapons", Pravda, 8-30, https://www.pravdareport.com/science/5527-weapons/ 1NC – OverviewHave a high threshold for 1AR extrapolations for impacts. Their card is under warranted and causally asserts claims without delineated warrants—don't fill in gaps for them. Reject new 1ar extinction evidence—we based our 1nc strategy off of bad impact evidence. Study indicts and answers to our impacts/transition solves but discourages sandbagging good ev until after the 1nc.We don't have to win much – 100 can repopulate civilization.Corey S. Powell 18, 8-13-2018, "How many humans would it take to keep our species alive? One scientist's surprising answer," NBC News, https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-many-humans-would-it-take-keep-our-species-alive-ncna900151 1NC – Robock and ToonTheir models are inaccurate representations.Walker 18 – Robert Walker, M.Hum in Philosophy from York University, BA in Mathematics from York University, Software Developer, March 6, 2018, ~"Debunked: Nuclear Winter and Radioactive Fallout myths," Debunking Doomsday~ Recut Justin They just assume the smoke ends up the atmosphere.Seitz 6 – Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Center of International Affairs (Russell, "The 'Nuclear Winter' Meltdown" http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2006/12/preherein_honor.html) Recut Justin They conduct their study in a continent where it doesn't rain.Robock and Toon (Alan, professor of cliatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University and the associate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction and Owen, "Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering" Scientific American, Vol. 302, Issue 1 pg 74-81) Robock et al causally assert the famine impact without running any tests.Robock and Toon (Alan, professor of cliatology in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University and the associate director of the Center for Environmental Prediction and Owen, "Local Nuclear War, Global Suffering" Scientific American, Jan, Vol. 302, Issue 1 pg 74-81) Robock et al. changed their models – cut updates.Hamill 19 ~Jasper Hamill, Rutgers doctoral student and numerous atmospheric scientists, "Life after an apocalyptic nuclear war might not be quite as grim as expected, scientists say," 08/09/19, Metro, https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/09/life-apocalyptic-nuclear-war-might-not-quite-grim-expected-scientists-say-10545690/~~ Justin Their physicist flows neg – no extinction but yes transition.Haberman 16 – Clyde, 4/4/16, ~"Global Warming Gives Science Behind Nuclear Winter a New Purpose," New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/us/global-warming-gives-science-behind-nuclear-winter-a-new-purpose.html~~ Justin Robock agrees too.Robock 10. ~You know who they are, "Nuclear Winter" https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.45~~ Justin —-AT: PNDReject PND:1~ Same old flawed studies—inserted below in green.PND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock's 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans' International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer Before you talk about other studies PND cites—double-check who those studies cite—hint, it's Robock and Toon. Independently, PND was written by the scientists of the Robock and Toon study.2~ Non-definitive and concludes it destroys industrial civilization—inserted yellow.PND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock's 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans' International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf 3~ Counterforce targeting massively limits fallout – won't trigger a winter.Lieber and Press 13 (Keir, Professor @ Georgetown, Daryl, Professor @ Dartmouth, "The New Era of Nuclear Weapons, Deterrence, and Conflict," 7(1), https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/162442/spring_2013.pdf) 1NC – FamineRead their studies skeptically – most say famines kill billions and some assert everyone dies but that's not warranted.David S. Stevenson 17. Professor of planetary science at Caltech. 2017. "Agents of Mass Destruction." The Nature of Life and Its Potential to Survive, Springer, Cham, pp. 273–340. link.springer.com, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52911-0_7. 1NC – OzoneOzone impacts are out of the question – only actual study.Kearney 87. ~Cresson. In 1961 he took a position doing civil defense research with the Hudson Institute. In 1964 he joined the Oak Ridge National Laboratory civil defense project. During the Vietnam War, Kearny served as a civilian advisor to the U.S. Army, making several trips to the theater of operations.~9~ Much of the supporting research that went into his most famous work, Nuclear War Survival Skills (NWSS), was conducted during the 1970s. Including a study on how the US might be affected by a potential nuclear war from the Sino-Soviet split, specifically focusing on the question; what would be the severity and how might the US deal with contamination of CONUS milk supplies that might result from the "trans-pacific" nuclear fallout that would originate over China.~10~ Along with other more long-term survival publications such as "Maintaining nutritional adequacy during a prolonged food crisis ~Basic foods for post-nuclear attack use~".~11~ "Nuclear War Survival Skills Updated and Expanded". http://www.oism.org/nwss/s73p904.htm~~ Justin Rigorous tests disprove the impacts.Frankel et al. 15 – Senior scientist at Penn State University's Applied Research Laboratory, where he focuses on nuclear treaty verification technologies, is one of the nation's leading experts on the effects of nuclear weapons, executive director of the Congressional Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse Attack, led development of fifteen-year global nuclear threat technology projections and infrastructure vulnerability assessments; Dr. James Scouras is a national security studies fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the former chief scientist of DTRA's Advanced Systems and Concepts Office; Dr. George W. Ullrich is chief technology officer at Schafer Corporation and formerly senior vice president at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), currently serves as a special advisor to the USSTRATCOM Strategic Advisory Group's Science and Technology Panel and is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 4/15/15 ~"The Uncertain Consequences of Nuclear Weapons Use," The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, DTIC, https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a618999.pdf~~ Justin | 3/26/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Spark v7Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary 1NC—-Nuclear WarNuclear war now spurs political will for disarmament without causing extinction.Deudney 18 ~Associate Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. 03/15/2018. "The Great Debate." The Oxford Handbook of International Security. www.oxfordhandbooks.com, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198777854.013.22~ Recut Justin That's good – war later is worse.Turchin and Denkenberger 18 ~Alexey Turchin and David Denkenberger. Turchin is a researcher at the Science for Life Extension Foundation; Denkenberger is with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) @ Tennessee State University, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). 09/2018. "Global Catastrophic and Existential Risks Communication Scale." Futures, vol. 102, pp. 27–38.~ Evil AI causes infinite tortureTurchin and Denkenberger 18 ~{Turchin is a researcher at the Science for Life Extension Foundation; Denkenberger is with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) @ Tennessee State University, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). 5-3-2018. "Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence."~}JM Can't rebuild industrial civilization.John Jacobi 17. ~Leads an environmentalist research institute and collective, citing Fred Hoyle, British astronomer, formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis, coined the term "big bang," recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, professor at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University. 05-27-17. "Industrial Civilization Could Not Be Rebuilt." The Wild Will Project. https://www.wildwill.net/blog/2017/05/27/industrial-civilization-not-rebuilt/~~ Recut Justin Empirics and worse disasters disprove their impact.Eken 17 ~Mattias Eken – PhD student in Modern History at the University of St Andrews. "The understandable fear of nuclear weapons doesn't match reality". 3/14/17. https://theconversation.com/the-understandable-fear-of-nuclear-weapons-doesnt-match-reality-73563~~ Recut Justin Err negative on impact weighing – their evidence is unwarranted pessimism – updated models.Rodriguez 20 ~Luisa Rodriguez is research fellow at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research. Previously, she researched nuclear war at Rethink Priorities and as a visiting researcher at the Future of Humanity Institute, "What is the likelihood that civilizational collapse would directly lead to human extinction (within decades)? - EA Forum", 24th Dec 2020, https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/GsjmufaebreiaivF7/what-is-the-likelihood-that-civilizational-collapse-would~~#Concrete_example__A_large_nuclear_war_that_causes_a_nuclear_winter//imp~~ Isolated island populations repopulate.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin They solve any impact from the aff but not ours – empirics.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin French Kerguelen Islands have unique characteristics conducive to repopulation.Turchin and Green 18 ~Alexey Turchin – Scientist for the Foundation Science for Life Extension in Moscow, Russia, Founder of Digital Immortality Now, author of several books and articles on the topics of existential risks and life extension. Brian Patrick Green – Director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, teaches AI ethics in the Graduate School of Engineering at Santa Clara University. MKIM "Islands as refuges for surviving global catastrophes". September 2018. DOA: 7/20/19. https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/FS-04-2018-0031/full/html?fullSc=1andmbSc=1andfullSc=1~~ Recut Justin No nuclear winter – conservative models prove rainout.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Volcano activities prove.Reisner et al. 18 ~Jon, Atmospheric researcher at LANL Climate and Atmospheric Sciences; Gennaro D'Angelo, UKAFF Fellow and member of the Astrophysics Group at the School of Physics of the University of Exeter, Research Scientist with the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute, currently works for the Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division; Eunmo Koo, scientist in the Computational Earth Science Group at LANL, recipient of the NNSA Defense Program Stockpile Stewardship Program award of excellence; Wesley Even, RandD Scientist at CCS-2, LANL, specialist in computational physics and astrophysics; Matthew Hecht is a member of the Computational Physics and Methods Group in the Climate, Ocean and Sea Ice Modelling program (COSIM) at LANL, who works on modeling high-latitude atmospheric effects in climate models as part of the HiLAT project; Elizabeth Hunke, Lead developer for the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model, Deputy Group Leader of the T-3 Fluid Dynamics and Solid Mechanics Group at LANL; Darin Comeau, Scientist at the CCS-2 COSIM program, specializes in high dimensional data analysis, statistical and predictive modeling, and uncertainty quantification, with particular applications to climate science; Randall Bos is a research scientist at LANL specializing in urban EMP simulations; James Cooley is a Group Leader within CCS-2. 3/16/18 "Climate Impact of a Regional Nuclear Weapons Exchange: An Improved Assessment Based On Detailed Source Calculations." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, vol. 123, no. 5~ Recut Justin Tech risks destroy the universe – which outweighs.Joe Packer 7 – MA in Communication from Wake Forest University, PhD in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Communication at Central Michigan University, Alien Life in Search of Acknowledgment, p. 62-63 Recut Justin 420 billion alien civilizations in the universe—-pessimistic interpretations.Lichfield 16 – Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-Chief of MIT Technology Review, Senior Editor at Quartz, Fellow at the Data and Society Research Institute, MSc in the Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science, BSc in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Bristol, Former Adjunct Professor in the Global Journalism Program at New York University, "There Have Probably Been Trillions Of Alien Civilizations, And Yet We May Still Never See One", Quartz, 6-11, https://qz.com/704687/there-have-probably-been-trillions-of-alien-civilizations-and-yet-we-may-still-never-see-one/ Tech advancements make time travel certainElmi 18 Awes Faghi Contributing Writer at n'world Publications, BS in Forensic Science from London South Bank University, Extended Diploma in Physics with Distinction from Leyton Sixth Form College, Futurist, "Technological Progress Might Make Possible Time Travel And Teleportation", Medium, 8-13, https://medium.com/nworld-publications/technological-progress-might-make-possible-time-travel-and-teleportation-45176c3c89bc Recut Justin Collapses the universe.Bowers 16 Steve Control Officer in the United Kingdom, Executive Editor and Moderator of the Orion's Arm Universe Project, Contributing Author for the Orion's Arm Novella Collection, "WHY NO TIME TRAVEL IN OA", 1-1, https://orionsarm.com/page/77 Recut Justin Super lasers are coming and cause universe destruction.Cartlidge 18 – Edwin Cartlidge, MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London, MPhy in Physics from Manchester University, News Editor of Physics World and Freelance Science Writer, "Physicists Are Planning To Build Lasers So Powerful They Could Rip Apart Empty Space", Science Magazine, 1-24, https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/01/physicists-are-planning-build-lasers-so-powerful-they-could-rip-apart-empty-space Quantum vacuum mining destroys the universe by breaking the vacuum – it's feasible and inevitableFolger 8 – Tim Folger, Contributing Editor at Discover Magazine, Writer for National Geographic, MA in Journalism from New York University, BA in Physics from UC Santa Cruz, "Nothingness of Space Could Illuminate the Theory of Everything", Discover Magazine, 7-18, http://discovermagazine.com/2008/aug/18-nothingness-of-space-theory-of-everything The military is developing isomer bombs – testing destroys the universe.Gary S. Bekkum 4, Founder of Spacetime Threat Assessment Report Research, Founder of STARstream Research, Futurist, "American Military is Pursuing New Types of Exotic Weapons", Pravda, 8-30, https://www.pravdareport.com/science/5527-weapons/ | 4/9/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Taiwan Invasion GoodTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin Taiwan invasion triggers political backlash – induces a democratic transition.Wang Mouzhou 17 – Pen name of a former NSA intelligence officer, 3-24-2017, ("What Happens After China Invades Taiwan?" The Diplomat, https://thediplomat.com/2017/03/what-happens-after-china-invades-taiwan/) Recut Justin Democratic landing would be peaceful – but public buy-in is key.Pei 13 – Minxin, Tom and Margot Pritzker '72 Professor of Government and director of the Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College, ("5 Ways China Could Become a Democracy", http://thediplomat.com/2013/02/5-ways-china-could-become-a-democracy/1/) Recut Justin China stays conventional.Natasha Kassam 20, Research Fellow in the Diplomacy and Public Opinion Program at the Lowy Institute, Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) and a Bachelor of International Studies from the University of Sydney, and Richard McGregor, Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute, Former Fellow at the Wilson Center and Visiting Scholar at the Sigur Center at George Washington University, "Taiwan's 2020 Elections", Lowy Institute Report, 1/7/2020, https://www.lowyinstitute.org/publications/taiwan-s-2020-elections US won't use nukes over it.Roger Jiang, 17, "To protect Taiwan, would the United States go to war with China if China were determined to take it back?," Quora, https://www.quora.com/To-protect-Taiwan-would-the-United-States-go-to-war-with-China-if-China-were-determined-to-take-it-back)SEM If the US uses nukes, it's purely damage control.David J. Lonsdale 19 ~{David Lonsdale is the Director of the Centre for Security Studies at the University of Hull, UK. 5/17/2019. "The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review: A return to nuclear warfighting?" https://www-tandfonline-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/doi/full/10.1080/01495933.2019.1573074~~}JM Democratized China increases cooperation and solves security hotspots.Aaron Friedberg 11, PhD in Government from Harvard, professor of politics and international affairs @ Princeton University, "Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics," http://users.clas.ufl.edu/zselden/coursereading2011/friedberg.pdf Recut Justin | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Warming GoodTournament: UH | Round: 1 | Opponent: Woodlands PA | Judge: Demarcus Powell 1NC – Satellites Warming1NC – WarmingNo Extinction from Warming – new studies prove over-hype and tech solves.Extinction Tipping Point is implausible – we're on track for 3 degrees, not 4-5 degrees Aff studies about CO2 impact are exaggeratedpeer-reviewed journal shows IPCC exaggeration AND Variations natural and CO2 effects are overstated.10,000 years prove natural range of warming CO2 is key to agriculture – stops extinctionFerrera 14 Peter Ferrera 2-24-2014 "The Period Of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming" http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2014/02/24/the-period-of-no-global-warming-will-soon-be-longer-than-the-period-of-actual-global-warming/~~#42cc9ebf8bf0 (J.D. Harvard Law, contributor to Forbes on climate and public policy, Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, Senior Advisor for Entitlement Reform and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation, General Counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush)Elmer Best studies proveBallonoff 14, Paul. "A fresh look at climate change." Cato J. 34 (2014): 113. (consultant, international energy development)Elmer Extinction.Cribb 19 ~Julian; Author, journalist, editor and science communicator. He is principal of Julian Cribb and Associates who provide specialist consultancy in the communication of science, agriculture, food, mining, energy and the environment. His career includes appointments as newspaper editor, scientific editor for director of national awareness for Australia's science agency CSIRO, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 8000 articles, 3000 media releases and eight books. He has received 32 awards for journalism. His internationally-acclaimed book, The Coming Famine explores the question of whether we can feed humanity through the mid-century peak in numbers and food demand; "6 - Food as an Existential Risk," Cambridge; August 2019; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/food-or-war/food-as-an-existential-risk/8C45279588CD572FE805B7E240DE7368~~ Recut Justin | 1/19/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - Warming Good v2Tournament: UH | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Greenhill EN | Judge: Chao, Yoakum, Goemmer 1NC – Warming GoodNo Extinction from Warming – new studies prove over-hype and tech solves.Extinction Tipping Point is implausible – we're on track for 3 degrees, not 4-5 degrees ~Aff~ studies about CO2 impact are exaggeratedpeer-reviewed journal shows IPCC exaggeration AND Variations natural and CO2 effects are overstated.10,000 years prove natural range of warming Their models are wrong – adaptations solvepeer-reviewed journal shows IPCC exaggeration Extinction from warming requires 12 degrees, far greater than their internal link, and intervening actors will solve before thenSebastian Farquhar 17, master's degree in Physics from the University of Oxford, leads the Global Priorities Project (GPP) at the Centre for Effective Altruism, et al., 2017, "Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance," https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf CO2 is key to agriculture – stops extinctionFerrera 14 Peter Ferrera 2-24-2014 "The Period Of No Global Warming Will Soon Be Longer Than the Period of Actual Global Warming" http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2014/02/24/the-period-of-no-global-warming-will-soon-be-longer-than-the-period-of-actual-global-warming/~~#42cc9ebf8bf0 (J.D. Harvard Law, contributor to Forbes on climate and public policy, Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy for the Heartland Institute, Senior Advisor for Entitlement Reform and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation, General Counsel for the American Civil Rights Union, and Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush)Elmer Best studies proveBallonoff 14, Paul. "A fresh look at climate change." Cato J. 34 (2014): 113. (consultant, international energy development)Elmer Extinction.Cribb 19 ~Julian; Author, journalist, editor and science communicator. He is principal of Julian Cribb and Associates who provide specialist consultancy in the communication of science, agriculture, food, mining, energy and the environment. His career includes appointments as newspaper editor, scientific editor for director of national awareness for Australia's science agency CSIRO, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 8000 articles, 3000 media releases and eight books. He has received 32 awards for journalism. His internationally-acclaimed book, The Coming Famine explores the question of whether we can feed humanity through the mid-century peak in numbers and food demand; "6 - Food as an Existential Risk," Cambridge; August 2019; https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/food-or-war/food-as-an-existential-risk/8C45279588CD572FE805B7E240DE7368~~ Recut Justin Ag Solves – Plants act as carbon sinks which offsets WarmingHarris and Gibbs 21 Nancy Harris and David Gibbs 1-21-2021 "Forests Absorb Twice As Much Carbon As They Emit Each Year" https://www.wri.org/insights/forests-absorb-twice-much-carbon-they-emit-each-year (Nancy is Research Manager for Global Forest Watch (GFW) within the Food, Forests and Water program. GFW is an international initiative originated by WRI to provide improved data and information about the world's forests by merging the latest technology with on-the-ground partnerships. Nancy works to identify thematic and geographic research priorities for GFW and leads the acquisition and generation of new data and analytical content. She also supports in-country capacity building efforts and collaborates with GFW staff and partners to produce and communicate original, policy-relevant research that further advances global understanding of critical drivers and dynamics of forest change. Prior to joining WRI, Nancy worked as a Carbon and Land Use Specialist in the Ecosystem Services unit of Winrock International, where she managed Winrock's spatial analysis team, published several peer-reviewed papers on forest carbon cycling and spatial modeling of land cover change, and provided technical guidance to multiple stakeholders on climate change mitigation options in the land sector.)Elmer Co2 solves ice age – extinctionMarsh 12 Gerald Marsh 2012 "The Coming of a New Ice Age" http://www.winningreen.com/site/epage/59549_621.htm (Retired Physicist from the Argonne National Laboratory and a former consultant to the Department of Defense on strategic nuclear technology and policy in the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Administration)Re-cut by Elmer Yes impending Ice Age – best studies about solar variabilityRohrabacher 12 Dana Rohrabacher 2-1-2012 "Forget Global Warming – It's Cycle 25 We Need to Worry About" (US Representative)Elmer | 1/19/22 |
JanFeb - Impact Turn - WipeoutTournament: NDCA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AM | Judge: Holden Bukowsky Extinction is good—-suffering outweighs the benefits of human existenceJoshua Rothman 17 ~{Joshua Rothman, the ideas editor of the New Yorker citing David Benatar, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Cape Town and author of Better To Never Have Been. 11-27-2017. "The Case for Not Being Born." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/persons-of-interest/the-case-for-not-being-born~~}JM Host of tech risks destroy the universe – which outweighs.Joe Packer 7 – MA in Communication from Wake Forest University, PhD in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh and Professor of Communication at Central Michigan University, Alien Life in Search of Acknowledgment, p. 62-63 Recut Justin Humans will create evil AI—-causes infinite tortureTurchin and Denkenberger 18 ~{Turchin is a researcher at the Science for Life Extension Foundation; Denkenberger is with the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI) @ Tennessee State University, Alliance to Feed the Earth in Disasters (ALLFED). 5-3-2018. "Classification of Global Catastrophic Risks Connected with Artificial Intelligence."~}JM "Extinction" is a decision rule — it solves future generations of nonhuman suffering.Sittler-Adamczewski 16 Thomas M. Sittler-Adamczewski (University of Oxford). "Consistent Vegetarianism and the Suffering of Wild Animals." Journal of Practical Ethics. OXFORD UEHIRO PRIZE IN PRACTICAL ETHICS 2015-16. December 2016. JDN. http://www.jpe.ox.ac.uk/papers/consistent-vegetarianism-and-the-suffering-of-wild-animals/ Non-human suffering is the largest impact — in quantity and severity – r-selection guarantees itMoen 16 Ole Martin Moen (University of Oslo, Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature). "The ethics of wild animal suffering." Etikk i praksis. Nord J Appl Ethics (2016), 91–104. JDN. http://www.olemartinmoen.com/wp-content/uploads/TheEthicsofWildAnimalSuffering.pdf Species-neutral valuations are the most ethical — prioritizing humans is arbitrary, clearly self-interested, and the same logic as racism and sexism.Harris 99 – Dr. John Harris, Ph.D., Sir David Alliance Professor of Bioethics and Research Director at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy and Director of the Institute of Medicine Law and Bioethics at the University of Manchester, "The Concept of the Person and the Value of Life", Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Volume 9, Number 4, December, Project Muse | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - K - CosmobiopoliticsTournament: NDCA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AM | Judge: Holden Bukowsky Cosmobiopolitics constitutes the governance of space as a shared resource to further human progress. The affirmatives managerial approach at space sustains space as a common good for "joint usage" to further exploitation – the impact is endless war.Damjanov 15 Katarina. "The matter of media in outer space: Technologies of cosmobiopolitics." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 33.5 (2015): 889-906. (Faculty of Arts, University of Western Australia)Elmer The aff draws a line at private sector operations, camouflaging public sector militarism.Sheehan 7 Michael. The international politics of space. Routledge, 2007. (Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Assistant Professor)Elmer Their managerial approach to space within a cost-benefit framework leads to environmental destruction, racial violence, and nuclear conflict – their decision to focus on large-scale geopolitical impacts reproduces otherized sites as exploitable and fungible.Klinger 19, Julie Michelle. "Environmental geopolitics and outer space." Geopolitics 26.3 (2021): 666-703. (PhD, specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective)Elmer Thus, we affirm Worldism – the refusal of international relations in favor of an epistemological intervention.Agathangelou and Ling 09 Anna M. Agathangelou is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Women's Studies at York University, Canada and co-director of the Global Change Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus, L.H.M. Ling is an Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Inter- national Affairs at The New School, New York, USA., Transforming World Politics: From empire to multiple worlds, The New International Relations Series, 2009. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - NC - KantTournament: TOC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Stephen Scopa The meta-ethic is procedural moral realism.This entails that moral facts stem from procedures while substantive realism holds that moral truths exist independently of that in the empirical world. Prefer procedural realism –~1~ Collapses – the only way to verify whether something is a moral fact is by using procedures to warrant it.~2~ 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.~3~ Is/Ought Gap – we can only perceive what is, not what ought to be. It's impossible to derive an ought statement from descriptive facts about the world, necessitating a priori premises.Practical Reason is that procedure. To ask for why we should be reasoners concedes its authority since it uses reason – anything else is nonbinding and arbitrary. That hijacks their framework since you need reason to evaluate any relevant consequences.Moral law must be universal—our judgements can't only apply to ourselves any more than 2+24 can be true only for me – any non-universalizable norm justifies someone's ability to impede on your ends. Reject Extinction outweighs- aggregation is nonsensical since a~ it impedes on one persons ends for another and b~ assumes everyone values the same thing. ==== Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.No new 1AR framework justifications – Anything else kills 1NC strategy since I premised my engagement off a lack of it in the 1AC – It also justifies overloading the 2NR with new arguments.NegateAcquisition of property can never be unjust – rights violations presupposes somethings appropriation by another entity.Feser 1, (Edward Feser, 1-1-2005, accessed on 12-15-2021, Cambridge University Press, "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AN UNJUST INITIAL ACQUISITION | Social Philosophy and Policy | Cambridge Core", Edward C. Feser is an American philosopher. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/abs/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-unjust-initial-acquisition/5C744D6D5C525E711EC75F75BF7109D1)~~brackets for gen lang~phs st 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.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. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - NC - SkepTournament: TOC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Stephen Scopa The role of the ballot is to determine whether the resolution is a true or false statement – anything else moots 7 minutes of the nc – their framing collapses since you must say it is true that a world is better than another before you adopt it.They justify substantive skews since there will always be a more correct side of the issue but we compensate for flaws in the lit.Scalar methods like comparison increases intervention – the persuasion of certain DA or advantages sway decisions – T/F binary is descriptive and technical.a priori's 1st – even worlds framing requires ethics that begin from a priori principles like reason or pleasure so we control the internal link to functional debates.The ballot says vote aff or neg based on a topic – five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true which means it's constitutive and jurisdictional. I denied the truth of the resolution by disagreeing with the aff which means I've met my burden.Permissibility is irrelevant on this topic since there is no action to be obligated to. Presumption negates – A~ If we deny the truth of the aff then you negate – textuality B~ resolved in the resolution denotes certainty which means if they aren't determined and uncertain then you can't affirm1~ Obligations- the resolution indicates the affirmative has to prove an obligation, and permissibility would deny the existence of an obligation2~ Falsity- Statements are more often false than true because proving one part of the statement false disproves the entire statement. Presuming all statements are true creates contradictions which would be ethically bankrupt.3~ Negating is harder – A~ Aff gets first and last speech which control the direction of the debate B~ Affirmatives can strategically uplayer in the 1ar giving them a 7-6 time skew advantage, splitting the 2nr C~ They get infinite prep time1~ Decision Making Paradox- We need a decision-making procedure to enact the aff, but to choose a procedure requires another meta level decision-making procedure and so forth leading to infinite regress.2~ The Place Paradox- if everything exists in a place, that place must have a place that it exists in and so forth. Therefore, identifying ought statements is impossible since it assumes the space-time continuum.3~ Grain Paradox- One grain falling makes no sound, but a thousand grains make a sound. A thousand nothings cannot make something which means the physical world is paradoxical.4~ Arrows Paradox- If time is divided into 0-duration slices, no motion is happening in each of them, so taking them all as a whole, motion is impossible.5~ Bonini's Paradox- As a model of a complex system becomes more complete, it becomes less understandable and vice versa; therefore, no model can be useful. | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - T - Appropriation SovereigntyTournament: Palm Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: Lindsay Van Luvanee, David Dosch, Lena Mizrahi 1NC – TInterpretation: Appropriation refers to sovereign claims of land.Melissa J. Durkee 19, J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia, "Interstitial Space Law," Washington University Law Review 97, no. 2 423-482 Violation: they only defend asteroid mining which is extraction – those are distinct – prefer rigorous legal analysis.Wrench 19 – John grew up outside of Ithaca, New York, and received his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2019. During law school, he served as editor in chief of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law and was a member of the Federalist Society. John interned in his law school's First Amendment Litigation Clinic and was a judicial extern to the Honorable Paul E. Davison in the Southern District of New York. John graduated from Pace University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies. 2019. ~Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, " Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil~~ Justin Standards:1~ Precision outweighs – non-topical affs violate tournament rules so the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote on them and it controls the internal to pragmatic offense in a question of models because it decks predictable stasis.2~ Limits – allowing extraction to equate to sovereign claims explodes limits by shifting the debate away from sovereign claims to celestial bodies to permutations of parts of celestial bodies that companies could extract – leads to unbeatable affs that ban extraction of one resource which the neg can't ever predict. Forcing the aff to defend sovereign claims to celestial bodies is net better.3~ TVA – defend an aff that bans sovereign claims to celestial bodies – solves your offense since you still get property rights fight offense.Drop the debater to deter future abuse.CI- Reasonability is arbitrary and we don't know the brightline while prepping. Collapses since it uses an offense/defense paradigm to win it.No RVIs- A~ Illogical- you don't win for being fair B~ Encourages baiting theory which proliferates abuse C~ Chills checking abuse for fear of the RVI | 2/19/22 |
JanFeb - T - Appropriation Sovereignty v2Tournament: NDCA | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AM | Judge: Holden Bukowsky Interpretation: Appropriation refers to sovereign claims of land.Melissa J. Durkee 19, J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law, University of Georgia, "Interstitial Space Law," Washington University Law Review 97, no. 2 423-482 Violation: they only defend asteroid mining which is extraction – those are distinct – prefer rigorous legal analysis.Wrench 19 – John grew up outside of Ithaca, New York, and received his law degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2019. During law school, he served as editor in chief of the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law and was a member of the Federalist Society. John interned in his law school's First Amendment Litigation Clinic and was a judicial extern to the Honorable Paul E. Davison in the Southern District of New York. John graduated from Pace University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies. 2019. ~Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, " Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil~~ Justin Standards:1~ Precision outweighs – non-topical affs violate tournament rules so the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote on them and it controls the internal to pragmatic offense in a question of models because it decks predictable stasis.2~ Limits – allowing extraction to equate to sovereign claims explodes limits by shifting the debate away from sovereign claims to celestial bodies to permutations of parts of celestial bodies that companies could extract – leads to unbeatable affs that just ban extraction of one resource which the neg can't ever predict. Forcing the affirmative to defend sovereign claims to celestial bodies is net better.3~ TVA – defend an aff that bans sovereign claims to celestial bodies – solves your offense since you still get property rights fight offense.Drop the debater | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - T - ImplementationTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin Interpretation: Affirmatives must not defend the implementation of an action.Resolved in context of the resolution is a statement of value.UPitt n.d. – University Of Pittsburgh Communications Services Webteam, copyright 2015-21, "Basic Definitions," Department of Communication , https://www.comm.pitt.edu/basic-definitions CHO "Is" is a linking verb – no implementation since it's a description.GM n.d. – "Linking Verbs," Grammar Monster, https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/linking_verbs.htm CHO Violation: they defend a ban.Negate for limits and ground – justifies infinite unpredictable advantages which overstretches research spiking generics. Precision outweighs – non-topical affs violate tournament rules so the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote on them and it controls the internal to pragmatic offense in a question of models.TVA – read a whole res phil aff – creates better ethics and critical thinking and outweighs on uniqueness – switching to policy solves your offense.Drop the debater to deter future abuse.CI- Reasonability is arbitrary and we don't know the brightline while prepping. Collapses since it uses an offense/defense paradigm to win it.No RVIs- A~ Illogical- you don't win for being fair B~ Encourages baiting theory which proliferates abuse C~ Chills checking abuse for fear of the RVIDTA on 1AR shells – they can blow up blippy shells in the 2AR but I split time and can't preempt the 2AR causing intervention making it irresolvable so don't drop meReasonability on 1AR shells – 1AR theory is aff-biased because the 2AR gets to line-by-line with new answers | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - T - Implementation v2Tournament: TOC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Stephen Scopa Interpretation: Affirmatives must not defend the implementation of an action.Resolved in context of the resolution is a statement of value.UPitt n.d. – University Of Pittsburgh Communications Services Webteam, copyright 2015-21, "Basic Definitions," Department of Communication , https://www.comm.pitt.edu/basic-definitions CHO "Is" is a linking verb – no implementation since it's a description.GM n.d. – "Linking Verbs," Grammar Monster, https://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/linking_verbs.htm CHO Violation: They cannot defend hypothetical implementation and use the state – or they are Extra-TVoter for limits and ground – imprecisely includes thousands of affs that expand appropriation and deprives us of the public regs counterplan – makes it impossible to be negGrammar – very idea of a topic rests on the assumption that words have stable meanings and relationships – precision internal link turns every piece of aff offense and judges don't have the jurisdiction to vote on an aff that violates pre tournament rules.Phil Ed – creates better ethical subjectivity and critical thinking that o/ws on uniqueness to LD. Switch to policy and read the PTD aff on the water topic – solves all your offenseTVA: Read a phil aff that affirms that private appropriation is unjust | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - T - Must Not Spec ActorTournament: Palm Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart AW | Judge: Joseph Barquin 1NC – OFFT Interpretation: debaters must not defend a specific actor that bans appropriation of outer space by private entitiesViolation: they defend ChinaNegate for limits – infinite unpredictable actors like China, SpaceX, Boeing, Ukraine, etc decks negative engagement since they spike out of generics and explodes prep burdens. Encourages process/word PICs since we don't have specific prep.TVA – defend whole res | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - T - NebelTournament: Kandi King Round Robin | Round: 3 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart BC | Judge: Quentin Clark, Jonathan Jeong Interpretation: "private entities" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend a specific subset of private entities' appropriation of outer space is unjust.Nebel 19. ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO_avWCNzi14 TG It applies to "private entities" – 1~ upward entailment test – "private entities" doesn't entail "everyone" because there can be people that aren't private entities 2~ adverb test – adding "always" doesn't change its meaning because the resolution is a value statement.Violation: They only defend non-state actorsStandards:1~ limits—their model allows affs to defend anything from boeing to spacex to virgin galactic— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and political implications like funding or type of appropriation—that explodes neg prep and takes out ground. | 3/26/22 |
JanFeb - T - Nebel v2Tournament: Kandi King Round Robin | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Truman Le, Tyler Gamble, Abbey Chapman Interpretation: "private entities" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not defend a specific subset of private entities' appropriation of outer space is unjust.Nebel 19. ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO_avWCNzi14 TG It applies to "private entities" – 1~ upward entailment test – "private entities" doesn't entail "everyone" because there can be people that aren't private entities 2~ adverb test – adding "always" doesn't substantially change its meaning because the resolution is a value statement.Violation: They only defend a subset of private entities in ChinaStandards:1~ precision outweighs—non-topical affs violate tournament rules so the judge doesn't have the jurisdiction to vote on them and it controls the internal to pragmatic offense in a question of models.2~ limits and ground—their model allows affs to defend anything from boeing to spacex to virgin galactic— there's no universal DA since each has different functions and political implications like funding or type of appropriation—that explodes neg prep and takes out ground.3~ tva solves—read your advantage under a whole resolution affFairness is a voter and outweighs—debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness—that's the only intrinsic part of debate.Drop the debater to deter future abuse and set better norms for debate.Competing interps—reasonability is arbitrary and encourages judge intervention AND creates a race to the top for the best norms.No RVIs – a~ illogical—you don't win for being fair which outweighs since it's a prerequisite for arguing b~ baiting—rvis incentivize baiting theory which leads to maximal abuse c~ chills checking abuse for fear of the RVI d~ norming | 3/26/22 |
JanFeb - T - Permanent AppropriationTournament: Emory | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Jenn Melin, Samantha McLoughlin, Bennett Dombcik | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - T - Permanent Appropriation v2Tournament: Emory | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: Phoenix Pittman, Jenn Melin, Derek Ying | 2/12/22 |
JanFeb - T - Private EntitiesTournament: UH | Round: 4 | Opponent: Newman Smith SJ | Judge: Alexander Yoakum TInterpretation: debaters must only defend that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. To clarify, they must only defend private entities.Private entities excludes governments and nations.Upcounsel ~UpCounsel is an interactive online service that makes it faster and easier for businesses to find and hire legal help solely based on their preferences. "Private Entity: Everything You Need to Know." https://www.upcounsel.com/private-entity~~ Justin Private entities are non-governmental.Dunk 11 – Frans G. von der Dunk, 2011, ~"The Origins of Authorisation: Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty and International Space Law," University of Nebraska~ Justin Violation – they don't defend private entities – at best they also defend public entities.Gorove 1969 ~Stephen Gorove, jurist and Professor Emeritus at University of Mississippi, "Interpreting Article II of the Outer Space Treaty", 37 Fordham L. Rev. 349, 1969, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1966andcontext=flr~~ neth Recut Justin Plan text in a vacuum is a useless guideline since words are contextually defined based on function – the only basis should be if the implementation of the plan as per their 1AC solvency evidence follows the topic's intent – anything else allows the 1AR to recontextualize what they defend forcing the 1NC to predict infinite spin since they're not tied to their evidence.Standards1~ Precision—they justify doing away with random words because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution which decks predictability. Independent voter for jurisdiction—the judge can't vote aff if there wasn't a legitimate aff.2~ Limits—tangentially related affs are unpredictable and infinite because there's no stasis to the resolution—exacerbated by 195 governments and permutations.Two impacts:A~ Kills neg prep and ground because they can spike out of links by defending governments and create infinite prep burdens of unpredictable affs—exacerbated by infinite preround prep.B~ They inflate aff solvency by allowing a laundry list of external actions that private entities can't do like government mission, NASA operations, testing ASATs, and more because private entities are qualitatively different. That impossible to negate because generics are beaten by overpowered affs.3~ TVA – defend only private entities – solves your offense.Drop the debater to deter future abuse.CI- A~ Reasonability is arbitrary since we don't know your BS meter until the 1AR which invites judge intervention B~ Collapses since it uses an offense/defense paradigm to win itNo RVIs/Impact turns- A~ Illogical- you don't win for being fair B~ Baiting- encourages baiting theory which proliferates abuse C~ Chilling effect- chills checking abuse for fear of the RVI D~ Exclusions inevitable- neg has burden of rejoinder which means we inevitably have to exclude parts of the aff. | 1/19/22 |
JanFeb - T - Private Entities v2Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary TInterpretation: debaters must only defend that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. To clarify, they must only defend private entities.Private entities are non-governmental.Dunk 11 – Frans G. von der Dunk, 2011, ~"The Origins of Authorisation: Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty and International Space Law," University of Nebraska~ Justin That excludes governments and nations.Upcounsel ~UpCounsel is an interactive online service that makes it faster and easier for businesses to find and hire legal help solely based on their preferences. "Private Entity: Everything You Need to Know." https://www.upcounsel.com/private-entity~~ Justin Violation—they advocate for "the commons" in which no individual, including governments, own property in outer space.This bans appropriation by countries, which aren't private entities.Babcock 19 ~H., 2019. THE PUBLIC TRUST DOCTRINE, OUTER SPACE, AND THE GLOBAL COMMONS: TIME TO CALL HOME ET. ~online~ Lawreview.syr.edu. Available at: https://lawreview.syr.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/H-Babcock-Article-Final-Document-v2.pdf~~#page=67 ~Accessed 15 December 2021~ Professor Babcock served as general counsel to the National Audubon Society from 1987-91 and as deputy general counsel and Director of Audubon's Public Lands and Water Program from 1981-87. Previously, she was a partner with Blum, Nash and Railsback, where she focused on energy and environmental issues, and an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby and MacRae where she represented utilities in the nuclear licensing process. From 1977-79, she served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy and Minerals in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Professor Babcock has taught environmental and natural resources law as a visiting professor at Pace University Law School and as an adjunct at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Catholic University, and Antioch law schools. Professor Babcock was a member of the Standing Committee on Environmental Law of the American Bar Association, and served on the Clinton-Gore Transition Team~ Justin Don't let them shift out of the violation – inserted lines below.1AC Vollmer- Therefore, anyone utilizing or benefitting from the utilization of the geospace commons has an equitable duty to ensure its sustainability We'll pre-empt plan text in a vacuum – 1~ Anything else lets the 1ar recontextualize their advocacy in infinite different ways not grounded by their 1ac to moot neg offense 2~ 1AC offense is based off of the implementation and effects of the advantage which even if they win it, vote neg on presumption cuz they can't solve anythingStandards1~ Precision—they justify doing away with random words because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution which decks predictability. Independent voter for jurisdiction—the judge can't vote aff if there wasn't a legitimate aff.2~ Limits—tangentially related affs are unpredictable and infinite because there's no stasis to the resolution—exacerbated by 195 governments and permutations.Two impacts:A~ Kills neg prep and ground because they can spike out of links by defending governments and create infinite prep burdens of unpredictable affs—exacerbated by infinite preround prep.B~ They inflate aff solvency by allowing a laundry list of external actions that private entities can't do like government mission, NASA operations, testing ASATs, and more because private entities are qualitatively different. That impossible to negate because generics are beaten by overpowered affs.DTD to deter future abuse | 4/9/22 |
JanFeb - T - Spec ReductionTournament: TOC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Diamond Bar NC | Judge: Stephen Scopa Interpretation: The affirmative must define what constitutes a reduction of appropriation of outer space by private entities in a delineated next in the 1ACViolation: They didn't1~ Stable advocacy - Reduce can mean anything and there is no normal means – from removing one satellite or paying a fine or being prohibited from appropriating at all – 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, every single DA, case turn, process CP is dependent on banning appropriation by a significant amount and the 1AR can easily stand up and no link.This shell is not regressive or beyond the resolution – you added reduce to your plan text, its your onus to define it.Fairness is a voter debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluationNeg theory is DTD - 1ARs control the direction of the debate because it determines what the 2NR has to go for – DTD allows us some leeway in the round by having some control in the directionCompeting interps – Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation – it also collapses since brightlines operate on an offense-defense paradigmNo RVIs – A – Going all in on theory kills substance education which outweighs on timeframe B - Discourages checking real abuse which outweighs on norm-setting C – Encourages theory baiting – outweighs because if the shell is frivolous, they can beat it quickly D – its illogical for you to win for proving you were fair – outweighs since logic is a litmus test for other arguments E - Kills norm setting since debaters can never admit they're wrong – outweighs since norm setting is the constitutive purpose of theoryDTA on 1AR shells | 4/23/22 |
JanFeb - Th - OSPECTournament: Emory | Round: 1 | Opponent: Cary CP | Judge: Parth Misra Interp: 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 consensus and makes the round irresolvable since the judge doesn't know how to compare between types of offense and o/w since it's a side constraint on decision making – independently turns judicial application.Leepuengtham 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 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 – triggers presumption since the aff wasn't subject to well researched scrutiny. 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. CX can't resolve this and is independently bad- A~ Not flowed B~ Skews prep during the 1AC C~ They can lie and no way to check D~ Debaters can be shady.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.OSspec isn't regressive or arbitrary – its core topic lit for what happens when the aff is implemented and cannot be discounted from policies that require enforcement to function.Fairness – it's a prereq to judge evaluationEducation – it's the only portable impactCI – a) brightlines are arbitrary and self-serving which doesn't set good norms b) it collapses since weighing between brightlines rely on offense defenseDTD – its key to deter future abuseNo RVI's- a) chilling effect – people will be too scared to read theory because RVI's encourage baiting theory b) clash – people go all in on theory which decks substance engagement c) illogical – you don't win for being fair – outweighs since it constrains argumentation d) baiting – encourages being abusive to bait theory and go fo the rvi1NC theory first – 1~ abuse was self inflcuetd 2~ I have more time to develop args which o/w cuz we have better norms and is a seqeucing to theoryNeg abuse outweighs Aff abuse – 1~ Infinite prep time before round to frontline 2~ 2AR judge psychology and 1st and last speech 3~ Infinite perms and uplayering in the 1AR.No new 1ar theory paradigm issues- A~ the 1NC has already occurred with current paradigm issues in mind so new 1ar paradigms moot any theoretical offense B~ introducing them in the aff allows for them to be more rigorously tested which o/w's on time frame since we can set higher quality norms.Reasonability on 1AR shells – 1AR theory is aff-biased because the 2AR gets to line-by-line every 2NR standard with new answers that don't get responded toDTA on 1AR shells – they can blow up blippy shells in the 2AR but I have to split time and can't preempt the 2AR which causes intervention and makes it irresolvable so don't stake the round on itRVIs on 1AR theory – 1AR being able to spend 20 seconds on a shell and still win forces at least 2:30 on the shell so RVIs check time skew | 1/30/22 |
MarApr - Impact Turn - Democracy BadTournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lovejoy JV | Judge: Adrian Sendejas Backsliding solves great power nuclear war.Muller 15 ~Director of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, professor of International Relations at Goethe University, 15, Harald, Democracy, Peace, and Security, Lexington Books pp. 44-49~ Yes war – Fractured states, Intervention, and Terrorism.Michael Neiberg 18, Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College, 06-19-18, ("Predicting War," Lawfare, https://www.lawfareblog.com/predicting-war) Justin Pursuit unsustainable – Russia backlash leads to extinction.Babayan 15 (Nelli Babayan is a senior researcher at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universita¨t Berlin. "The return of the empire? Russia's counteraction to transatlantic democracy promotion in its near abroad" Democratization, 2015 Vol. 22, No. 3, 438 – 45) CCP backlashes as well – they are successful.Chen and Kinzelbach '15 (Dingding Chen- assistant professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau, Katrin Kinzelbach- associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, March 2015, "Democracy promotion and China: blocker or bystander?" http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2014.999322) The transition solves everything – group constraints.Rosato 11 PhD, Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. The Handbookon the Political Economy of War By Christopher J. Coyne, Rachel L. Mathers Risk-aversion.Rosato 11 PhD, Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. The Handbookon the Political Economy of War By Christopher J. Coyne, Rachel L. Mathers Autocratic transition is net better than democratic transition.Mansfield and Snyder 2 ~Edward Mansfield- Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics @ Upenn, Jack Snyder- Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations @ Columbia University, "Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War," International Organization Journal, vol 56, issue 2~ —-AT: DPTReject democratic peace theory –A. Strategic rivalry – stats.Sambuddha Ghatak 17 – Department of PoliSci, Univeristy of Tennessee, Aaron Gold, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee and Brandon C. Prins, Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee ("External Threat and the Limits of Democratic Pacifism," CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND PEACE SCIENCE v. 34 n. 2, 2017, p. 151-154) Justin B. Sample size, historic examples, and nationalism.Dr. Daniel Larison 12, Senior editor, ("Democratic Peace Theory Is False," AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, 4—17—12, www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/democratic-peace-theory-is-false/) Justin C. Democratization doesn't lead to peace.Stephen M. Walt, 17 – Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (June 2, 2017, Retrieved Apr. 14, 2019, from https://bigthink.com/design-for-good/why-promoting-human-rights-may-not-be-the-way-to-a-better-world) Justin | 3/12/22 |
MarApr - Impact Turn - Democracy Bad v2Tournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy Backsliding solves great power nuclear war.Muller 15 ~Director of the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt, professor of International Relations at Goethe University, 15, Harald, Democracy, Peace, and Security, Lexington Books pp. 44-49~ Yes war – Fractured states, Intervention, and Terrorism.Michael Neiberg 18, Chair of War Studies in the Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States Army War College, 06-19-18, ("Predicting War," Lawfare, https://www.lawfareblog.com/predicting-war) Justin Pursuit unsustainable – Russia backlash leads to extinction.Babayan 15 (Nelli Babayan is a senior researcher at the Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy at the Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universita¨t Berlin. "The return of the empire? Russia's counteraction to transatlantic democracy promotion in its near abroad" Democratization, 2015 Vol. 22, No. 3, 438 – 45) CCP backlashes as well – they are successful.Chen and Kinzelbach '15 (Dingding Chen- assistant professor of Government and Public Administration at the University of Macau, Katrin Kinzelbach- associate director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) in Berlin, March 2015, "Democracy promotion and China: blocker or bystander?" http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13510347.2014.999322) The transition solves everything – group constraints.Rosato 11 PhD, Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. The Handbookon the Political Economy of War By Christopher J. Coyne, Rachel L. Mathers Risk-aversion.Rosato 11 PhD, Department of Political Science, The University of Chicago, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. The Handbookon the Political Economy of War By Christopher J. Coyne, Rachel L. Mathers Autocratic transition is net better than democratic transition.Mansfield and Snyder 2 ~Edward Mansfield- Hum Rosen Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics @ Upenn, Jack Snyder- Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Relations @ Columbia University, "Democratic Transitions, Institutional Strength, and War," International Organization Journal, vol 56, issue 2~ Reject democratic peace theory –A. Strategic rivalry – stats.Sambuddha Ghatak 17 – Department of PoliSci, Univeristy of Tennessee, Aaron Gold, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee and Brandon C. Prins, Howard Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee ("External Threat and the Limits of Democratic Pacifism," CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AND PEACE SCIENCE v. 34 n. 2, 2017, p. 151-154) Justin B. Sample size, historic examples, and nationalism.Dr. Daniel Larison 12, Senior editor, ("Democratic Peace Theory Is False," AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE, 4—17—12, www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/democratic-peace-theory-is-false/) Justin C. Democratization doesn't lead to peace.Stephen M. Walt, 17 – Professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (June 2, 2017, Retrieved Apr. 14, 2019, from https://bigthink.com/design-for-good/why-promoting-human-rights-may-not-be-the-way-to-a-better-world) Justin | 3/10/22 |
MarApr - Impact Turn - Pandemics GoodTournament: TFA State | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Jack Quisenberry, Christopher Stearns, Alexandra Myers 1NC – PandemicsDisease doesn't cause extinctionAdalja 16 ~Amesh Adalja is an infectious-disease physician at the University of Pittsburgh. Why Hasn't Disease Wiped out the Human Race? June 17, 2016. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/06/infectious-diseases-extinction/487514/~~ No extinction from pandemicsOrd 20 Ord, Toby. Toby David Godfrey Ord (born 18 July 1979) is an Australian philosopher. He founded Giving What We Can, an international society whose members pledge to donate at least 10 of their income to effective charities and is a key figure in the effective altruism movement, which promotes using reason and evidence to help the lives of others as much as possible.~3~ He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, where his work is focused on existential risk. BA in Phil and Comp Sci from Melbourne, BPhil in Phil from Oxford, PhD in Phil from Oxford. The precipice: existential risk and the future of humanity. Hachette Books, 2020. Their impact starts at 4Cotton-Barratt 17 ~Owen Cotton-Barratt, PhD in Pure Mathematics, Oxford, Lecturer in Mathematics at Oxford, Research Associate at the Future of Humanity Institute, 2/3/2017, Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance, https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf~~ Biological weapon attacks are too complex —- terrorists will choose not to pursue or will fail—-at: anthrax No bioweaponsFilippa Lentzos 17. Senior research fellow jointly appointed in the Departments of War Studies and of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London. 07-03-17. "Ignore Bill Gates: Where bioweapons focus really belongs." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. http://thebulletin.org/ignore-bill-gates-where-bioweapons-focus-really-belongs10876 Technical barriers prevent synthetic pathogens.—"select agents" are dangerous infectious agents Won't get close to extinctionFarquhar et al. 17 – *director of the Global Priorities Project, M.A in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford, Global Priorities Project, *Research Associate in the FHI at the University of Oxford, Lecturer in Mathematics at St. Hugh's College, PhD in philosophy, Researcher at the Centre for Effective Altruism, *Academic Project Manager, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Director of Research at FHI ~Sebastian Farquhar*, John Halstead, Owen Cotton-Barratt*, Stefan Schubert, Haydn Belfield*, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, 2017, Global Priorities Project 2017, "Existential Risk Diplomacy and Governance", https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf~~ AMarb Can't store, scale up, disseminate, OR overcome countermeasuresFilippa Lentzos 14, PhD from London School of Economics and Social Science, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College London, Catherine Jefferson, researcher in the Department of Social Science, Health, and Medicine at King's College London, DPhil from the University of Sussex, former senior policy advisor for international security at the Royal Society, and Dr. Claire Marris, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine at King's College London, "The myths (and realities) of synthetic bioweapons," 9/18/2014, http://thebulletin.org/myths-and-realities-synthetic-bioweapons7626 Pandemics solve climate change – COVID was responsible for the largest drop in emissions everAlexander 20 ~(Kurtis, a general assignment reporter for The San Francisco Chronicle, frequently writing about water, wildfire, climate and the American West. His recent work has focused on the impacts of drought, the widening rural-urban divide and state and federal environmental policy. Before joining the Chronicle, Alexander worked as a freelance writer and as a staff reporter for several media organizations, including The Fresno Bee and Bay Area News Group, writing about government, politics and the environment.) "Coronavirus has altered the global warming trajectory. But for how long?" San Francisco Chronicle, 5/20/20, https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/Greenhouse-gas-emissions-on-track-for-record-drop-15279312.php~~ TDI Pandemics solve climate change – substantially reduce emissions, air and water pollution, directs attention to climateChow 20 ~(Denise, a reporter for NBC News Science focused on general science and climate change) "Coronavirus shutdowns have unintended climate benefits: cleaner air, clearer water," NBC News, 3/18/20, https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/coronavirus-shutdowns-have-unintended-climate-benefits-n1161921~~ DRD Climate change causes extinction.Dr. Peter Kareiva 18 – Ph.D. in Ecology and Applied Mathematics from Cornell University, Director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al., September 2018, "Existential Risk Due To Ecosystem Collapse: Nature Strikes Back", Futures, Volume 102, p. 39-50 Pandemics promote peace AND solve warSebastian Mallaby 20 (Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and the director of MIT's Security Studies Program, 4-23-2020, "Do Pandemics Promote Peace?", Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-04-23/do-pandemics-promote-peace, accessed: 9-25-2020)yeed Best studies show COVID decreases conflict – contrary evidence isn't correlative.Salemi 20 Colette Salemi 10-15-2020 "Does COVID-19 raise the risk of violent conflict? Not everywhere" https://archive.is/h591O~~#selection-309.0-312.0 (Colette Salemi is a PhD student in applied economics at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on conflict, forced displacement, environmental degradation and their intersections.)Elmer Cooperation and Solidarity Check.Ide 21, Tobias. "COVID-19 and armed conflict." World development 140 (2021): 105355. (School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia Institute of International Relations, Brunswick University of Technology)Elmer Actors turn inward NOT outward.Ide 21, Tobias. "COVID-19 and armed conflict." World development 140 (2021): 105355. (School of Geography, The University of Melbourne, 221 Bouverie St, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia Institute of International Relations, Brunswick University of Technology)Elmer No limited nuclear wars – extinction.Webber 19 – Dr Philip Webber has written widely on nuclear issues and is Chair of Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) – a membership organisation promoting responsible science and technology. We will all end up killing each other and one nuclear blast could do it. 5/18/19. ~METRO.UK "We will all end up killing each other and one nuclear blast could do it," https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/18/we-will-all-end-up-killing-each-other-and-one-nuclear-blast-could-do-it-9370115/~~ Recut Justin | 3/12/22 |
MarApr - K - MotenTournament: TFA State | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Jack Quisenberry, Christopher Stearns, Alexandra Myers The first commercial logistics began with the Atlantic slave trade necessitating a global paradigm of racism and eugenics.Moten and Harney 21 – Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies for the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, PhD in English from UC Berkeley, 2020 MacArthur Genius Fellow, Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management for the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University, PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, co-founder of Ground Provisions—a curatorial collective, founder of the School for Study—a nomadic study collective (2021, All Incomplete, pp 13-18) Justin Unread parts have some graphic descriptions of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Their unattainable politics culminates in racist categorization.Moten 03 – Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies for the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, PhD in English from UC Berkeley, 2020 MacArthur Genius Fellow (2003, "In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition," https://www.kit.ntnu.no/sites/www.kit.ntnu.no/files/Moten-Fred-Break-Aesthetics-Black-Radical-Tradition.pdf) Justin Modern intellectualism only legitimates a racist order founded upon white exceptionalism, casting deviant knowledge production as "non-objective". Thus, the alternative is Black Radical Tradition – forefronting black scholarship is an a priori issue that can form new forms of radical organization.Johnson and Lubin 18 – Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin. (August 2018, "Futures of Black Radicalism," https://rampages.us/goldstein/wp-content/uploads/sites/7807/2018/08/Johnson-and-Lubin-2017-Futures-of-Black-radicalism.pdf) Justin The impact of categorization and exceptionalism is genocide and ecological destruction culminating in extinction.Moten and Harney 21 – Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies for the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, PhD in English from UC Berkeley, 2020 MacArthur Genius Fellow, Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management for the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University, PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, co-founder of Ground Provisions—a curatorial collective, founder of the School for Study—a nomadic study collective (2021, All Incomplete, pp 13-18) Justin | 3/12/22 |
MarApr - K - Moten v2Tournament: TFA State | Round: Octas | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Adrian Sendejas, Brandon Molina, Holden Bukowsky The first commercial logistics began with the Atlantic slave trade necessitating a global paradigm of racism and eugenics. It's an a priori issue to challenge operations management within academia.Moten and Harney 21 – Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies for the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, PhD in English from UC Berkeley, 2020 MacArthur Genius Fellow, Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management for the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University, PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, co-founder of Ground Provisions—a curatorial collective, founder of the School for Study—a nomadic study collective (2021, All Incomplete, pp 13-18) Justin Unread parts have some graphic descriptions of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Their unattainable politics culminates in racist categorization.Moten 03 – Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies for the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, PhD in English from UC Berkeley, 2020 MacArthur Genius Fellow (2003, "In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition," https://www.kit.ntnu.no/sites/www.kit.ntnu.no/files/Moten-Fred-Break-Aesthetics-Black-Radical-Tradition.pdf) Justin Modern intellectualism only legitimates a racist order founded upon white exceptionalism, casting deviant knowledge production as "non-objective". The alternative is Black Radical Tradition – forefronting black scholarship is an a priori issue that can form new forms of radical organization.Johnson and Lubin 18 – Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin. (August 2018, "Futures of Black Radicalism," https://rampages.us/goldstein/wp-content/uploads/sites/7807/2018/08/Johnson-and-Lubin-2017-Futures-of-Black-radicalism.pdf) Justin The impact of categorization and exceptionalism is genocide and ecological destruction.Moten and Harney 21 – Fred Moten, Professor of Performance Studies for the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, PhD in English from UC Berkeley, 2020 MacArthur Genius Fellow, Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management for the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University, PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge, co-founder of Ground Provisions—a curatorial collective, founder of the School for Study—a nomadic study collective (2021, All Incomplete, pp 13-18) Justin | 3/12/22 |
MarApr - NC - KantTournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lovejoy JV | Judge: Adrian Sendejas 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~ Theory – Frameworks are topicality interps of the word ought so they should be theoretically justified. Prefer on resource disparities—a focus on evidence and statistics privileges debaters with the most preround prep which excludes lone-wolfs who lack huge evidence files. A debate under my framework can easily be won without any prep since huge evidence files aren't required.~3~ No 1AR Framework: It moots 7 minutes of the 1NC and exacerbates the AFF infinite prep time so I should be able to compensate by choosing. They justify substantive skews by shifting frame of offense.~4~ 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. 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. ~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 | 3/12/22 |
MarApr - PIC - UkraineTournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lovejoy JV | Judge: Adrian Sendejas PIC Text: In a democracy except Ukraine, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy. In Ukraine, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy except in Ukrainian propaganda against Russia's invasion.Ukraine war is optimistic, but maintaining outside support and low Russian morale's keyUkraine getting outside help from west 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 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/ 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 | 3/12/22 |
MarApr - PIC - Ukraine v2Tournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy PIC Text: In a democracy except Ukraine, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy. In Ukraine, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy except in Ukrainian propaganda against Russia's invasion.Ukraine war is optimistic, but maintaining outside support and low Russian morale's keyUkraine getting outside help from west 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 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/ 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 Case | 3/10/22 |
MarApr - PIC - Ukraine v3Tournament: TFA State | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Memorial BD | Judge: Alexander Yoakum, Phoenix Pittman, Holden Bukowsky PIC Text: In a democracy except Ukraine, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy. In Ukraine, a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacy except in Ukrainian propaganda against Russia's invasion.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 Offense under contracts: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 Nuclear detonations cause nuclear winter and extinction, and the rainout effect is wrong – self-lofting means soot goes above the cloudsStarr 15 Steven Starr, 10-14-2015, "Nuclear War, Nuclear Winter, and Human Extinction," Federation Of American Scientists, ~Steven Starr is the 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 been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Strategic Arms Reduction (STAR) website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.~, https://fas.org/pir-pubs/nuclear-war-nuclear-winter-and-human-extinction/, SJBE | 3/16/22 |
MarApr - T - ConditionTournament: TFA State | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Jack Quisenberry, Christopher Stearns, Alexandra Myers 1NC – TInterpretation: The affirmative may not specify a condition in which a free press ought to prioritize objectivity over advocacyViolation: they specify vaccinesStandards:1~ limit—there are infinite conditions that they could specify like vaccines, war reporting, climate change, peace journalism, literally every issue in existence—explodes limits since there are tons of affs plus infinite combinations with different advantages in different situations—there are no DAs that apply to every aff—advocacy offense needs to be contextualized to each condition because they have different political climates.2~ tva—just read your aff as an advantage under a whole res advocacy or one that specs a democracy—potential abuse doesn't permit 1AC abuse—allows you to be infinitely abusive—if the neg doesn't have specific prep, they'll resort to cheaty word PICs which are net worseFairness is a voter and outweighs – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation.Drop the debater to deter future abuse and 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 being fair which outweighs since it's a prerequisite for making arguments b~ RVIs incentivize baiting theory and prepping it out which leads to maximally abusive practices | 3/12/22 |
NovDec - CP - Air StrikesTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Barbers EG | Judge: Devin Hernandez | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - CP - Brazil TruckersTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Nevin Gera | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - CP - Germany Air StrikesTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: Tej, Jugal, Sophie | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - CP - ICJTournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Matt Berhe | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - CP - ICJ v2Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mission San Jose SR | Judge: Derek Ying | 11/6/21 |
NovDec - CP - Racist StrikesTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Barbers EG | Judge: Devin Hernandez | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - CP - SRMTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Nevin Gera | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - DA - BizConTournament: Apple Valley | Round: Semis | Opponent: Evergreen Valley SS | Judge: Wu, Zhou, Ying | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - DA - Brazil PoliticsTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Nevin Gera | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - DA - Germany InflationTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: Tej, Jugal, Sophie | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - Cap GoodTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: Tej, Jugal, Sophie | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - DeDevTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Nevin Gera | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - LIO BadTournament: Blue Key | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Raunak Dua | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - SparkTournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Matt Berhe | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - Spark v2Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Phoenix Pittman | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - Spark v3Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: OA Independent VM | Judge: Tajaih Robinson | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - Taiwan War GoodTournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Truman Le | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - Warming GoodTournament: Blue Key | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Raunak Dua | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - Impact Turn - Warming Good v2Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Nevin Gera | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - K - Anarcho-BlacknessTournament: Blue Key | Round: Octas | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Tej, Berhe, Sehgal | 10/31/21 |
NovDec - K - Anarcho-Blackness v2Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: OA Independent VM | Judge: Tajaih Robinson | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - K - Anarcho-Blackness v3Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage SS | Judge: Truman Le | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - K - PsychoTournament: Blue Key | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Raunak Dua | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - NC - ContractsTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Phoenix Pittman | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - NC - KantTournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Matt Berhe | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - NC - Logical ConsequencesTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: OA Independent VM | Judge: Tajaih Robinson | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - T - ATournament: Blue Key | Round: 5 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Matt Berhe | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - T - A v2Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Phoenix Pittman | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - T - A v3Tournament: Apple Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: OA Independent VM | Judge: Tajaih Robinson | 11/8/21 |
NovDec - T - A v4Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Nevin Gera | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - T - A v5Tournament: Longhorn Classic | Round: Octas | Opponent: Greenhill KD | Judge: Tej, Jugal, Sophie | 12/5/21 |
NovDec - T - NebelTournament: Blue Key | Round: 3 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Raunak Dua | 10/30/21 |
NovDec - T - Nebel v2Tournament: Blue Key | Round: Octas | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SD | Judge: Tej, Berhe, Sehgal | 10/31/21 |
SeptOct - CP - ConConTournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook SM | Judge: Ishan Rereddy | 9/5/21 |
SeptOct - CP - ConCon v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin | 9/11/21 |
SeptOct - CP - LoansTournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Annabelle Long | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Loans v2Tournament: St Marks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Ari Davidson | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - CP - RestrictionsTournament: Grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Margaret Strong | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Scientist v7Tournament: St Marks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Holden Bukowsky | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - CP - ScientistsTournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin | 9/11/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Scientists v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Margaret Strong | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Scientists v3Tournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward JA | Judge: Faizaan Dossani | 1/19/22 |
SeptOct - CP - Scientists v4Tournament: Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Jasani, Morbeck, Chen | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Scientists v4Tournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Lukas Krause | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Scientists v6Tournament: St Marks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Ari Davidson | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - AntitrustTournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook SM | Judge: Ishan Rereddy | 9/5/21 |
SeptOct - DA - ChinaTournament: St Marks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Ari Davidson | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Fishing SubsidiesTournament: Grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Margaret Strong | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Fishing Subsidies v2Tournament: Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Jasani, Morbeck, Chen | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Fishing Subsidies v3Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Annabelle Long | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Fishing Subsidies v4Tournament: St Marks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Ari Davidson | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Fishing Subsidies v5Tournament: St Marks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Holden Bukowsky | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - InfrastructureTournament: Grapevine | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin | 9/11/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Infrastructure v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Choi, Melin, Paramo | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Infrastructure v3Tournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: BASIS Independent Silicon Valley Independent SK | Judge: Lukas Krause | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - DA - InnovationTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stockdale RP | Judge: Holden Bukowsky | 9/4/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Innovation v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Allison Aldridge | 1/19/22 |
SeptOct - DA - Innovation v3Tournament: Grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Margaret Strong | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Innovation v4Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Annabelle Long | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Innovation v5Tournament: St Marks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Ari Davidson | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Innovation v6Tournament: St Marks | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lex AK | Judge: Holden Bukowsky | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - DA - LiquidityTournament: Grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Margaret Strong | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Liquidity v2Tournament: Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Jasani, Morbeck, Chen | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - DA - USICATournament: Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Jasani, Morbeck, Chen | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - Impact Turn - WTO BadTournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NL | Judge: Annabelle Long | 10/18/21 |
SeptOct - K - Black BuddhismTournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook SM | Judge: Ishan Rereddy | 9/5/21 |
SeptOct - K - GroveTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stockdale RP | Judge: Holden Bukowsky | 9/4/21 |
SeptOct - K - Grove v2Tournament: Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Jasani, Morbeck, Chen | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - K - PsychoTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Tej Gedela | 9/6/21 |
SeptOct - K - Psycho v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Allison Aldridge | 1/19/22 |
SeptOct - K - Psycho v3Tournament: Grapevine | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Choi, Melin, Paramo | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - NC - Logical ConsequencesTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Tej Gedela | 9/6/21 |
SeptOct - PIC - IndigenousTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Tej Gedela | 9/6/21 |
SeptOct - PIC - Indigenous v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Allison Aldridge | 1/19/22 |
SeptOct - PIC - Indigenous v3Tournament: Grapevine | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Westwood PM | Judge: Choi, Melin, Paramo | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - T - ReduceTournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Westlake AC | Judge: Allison Aldridge | 1/19/22 |
SeptOct - T - Reduce v2Tournament: Grapevine | Round: Triples | Opponent: Westwood AG | Judge: Margaret Strong | 9/14/21 |
SeptOct - T - Reduce v3Tournament: Valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Jasani, Morbeck, Chen | 9/30/21 |
SeptOct - Th - IPSpecTournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook SM | Judge: Ishan Rereddy | 9/5/21 |
SeptOct - Th - PSpecTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Stockdale RP | Judge: Holden Bukowsky | 9/4/21 |
SeptOct - Th - Solvency AdvocateTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Tej Gedela | 9/6/21 |
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