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| Apple Valley | 1 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Sarah Botsch-McGuinn 1ac - empire |
| Harvard Westlake | 1 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Elmer Yang 1ac - constellations |
| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Opponent: San Mateo ZS | Judge: Vontrez White 1ac - constellations |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Academy Of Classical Christian Studies JM | Judge: Abhinav Sinha 1ac was covid 1n was ncm util bad skep 1ar was reps util skep 2n was shell util 2ar was reps |
| Loyola | 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook MD | Judge: Jonah Gentlemen 1ac - legitimacy covid |
| Loyola | 6 | Opponent: Bergen County AK | Judge: Zac Clough 1ac was trips |
| St Marks | 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit DA | Judge: Sam Larson 1ac - trips |
| St Marks | 5 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Javier Navarrete 1ac - product hopping |
| Strake Jesuit | 3 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Maximilian Tran 1ac - constellations |
| Strake Jesuit | 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Patrick Fox 1ac - constellations |
| Strake Jesuit | 5 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Issac Chao 1ac - constellations |
| UT | 1 | Opponent: Anderson AS | Judge: James Hartline 1ac - empire disclosure |
| UT | 4 | Opponent: Cypress Woods CT | Judge: Michelle Hix 1ac - lay |
| UT | 5 | Opponent: Cypress Woods AZ | Judge: Tej Gedela 1ac - china |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: You | Judge: All Email: kelvinmeng07@gmailcom | 10/4/21 |
0 - Disclosure NoteTournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: You | Judge: All | 10/4/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: You | Judge: All | 9/4/21 |
1 - CondoTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bergen County AK | Judge: Zac Clough Also only drop the debater is coherent on condo theory - abuse story is that dropping the argument is precisely what’s unfair | 10/4/21 |
1 - osourceTournament: UT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anderson AS | Judge: James Hartline | 12/3/21 |
JF - 1AC - ConstellationsTournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep AB | Judge: Patrick Fox | 12/18/21 |
JF - 1AC - Constellations v2Tournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep PS | Judge: Maximilian Tran | 12/18/21 |
JF - 1AC - Constellations v3Tournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles JL | Judge: Issac Chao | 1/15/22 |
JF - 1AC - Constellations v4Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Peninsula RM | Judge: Elmer Yang | 1/15/22 |
JF - 1AC - Constellations v5Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: San Mateo ZS | Judge: Vontrez White | 1/16/22 |
ND - 1AC - ChinaTournament: UT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Cypress Woods AZ | Judge: Tej Gedela | 12/4/21 |
ND - 1AC - EmpireTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Sarah Botsch-McGuinn 1AC - EmpireRevolution is closer than ever – but the masses require a recognition.Basanta ‘20 AND the emancipation of the entire oppressed people in America, including the blacks. Global capitalism has shifted production from the terrain of the centralized power to the a form of domination to which there is no outside – welcome to Empire, a new imperial regime of biopolitics and war.Connell ‘12 AND on other forms of labor and society itself" ~ibidem, 109~. In the age of Empire, just governance has eroded. Labor movements under capital have their demands of capital and state reduced to mechanisms of maintaining equilibrium.Connell 2 AND have this baroque monster of provocation and devastation" ~ibidem, 259~ This has produced a system of exhaustion: accumulating crises build as humanity sits in apathy.Bifo ‘19 AND may prove enormously expensive. Panic and cynicism prevail in the terminal psychosphere. This is unsustainable and causes extinction – multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die – we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman ‘17 AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4). Only the refusal of the extraction of capitalist value coupled with the swift and destructive power of the proletariat has the potential to tackle Empire.Hardt and Negri ‘17 (Michael, professor of literature @ Duke, and Antonio, professor of political philosophy @ University of Padua, "Assembly," p. 235-239) BS sosa 4-4-2018 ~brackets for~ abeist language AND continually reproduced in the common. Around this entrepreneurship everything can be recomposed. Thus, the plan: Tactical Leaders ought to recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike.The masses already have the potential for a strike against Empire- it’s up to tactical leadership to recognize it.Hardt and Negri ’17 ~Michael Hardt, professor of literature at Duke, and Antonio Negri, professor of political philosophy at the University of Padua. 2017. "Assembly."~ ask me for the PDF. sosa AND which "spontaneity" arises and reveal what those social bodies can do. We offer a plan for action and resistance — the revolutionary general strike is a festive event that brings out the power of the masses.Gordienko ‘12 /Andrey, Ph.D., PhD Film and TV @ UCLA "The Politics of Eros: The Philosophy of Georges Bataille and Japanese New Wave Cinema" UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/48f92067 brett AND all power and in that sense 'impossible,' characterizes the people."68 To the state, which is the taboo on "illegitimate" means of violence, the right to strike is always "conditional" — only a strike that exists outside the limits of the law can be truly unconditional.Marc Crépon and Micol Bez 19; Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. Micol Bez @ CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence". Critical Times 1 August 2019; 2 (2): 252–260. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/2/2/252/141479/The-Right-to-Strike-and-Legal-War-in-Walter brett AND from this dichotomous alternative that inevitably reproduces and perpetuates the violence of domination. You should understand this a project of counter-hegemony – every debate and argument is a testing ground to strengthen our strike– voting affirmative is an investment in the war of position.Carrol ‘6 AND existing relationships of domination" (Brand and Hirsch, 2004: 377). The Role of the Ballot is to affirm radical propaganda.Studies prove debate is inevitably implicated in the context of propaganda – voting aff aligns with a model predicated on communist base-building.Greene and Hicks ‘6 AND Baird believed to be evident in ‘the majority of students’ was unstable. | 11/6/21 |
ND - 1AC - LayTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lakevillie South KK | Judge: Kenan Anderson | 12/3/21 |
ND - 1AC - Lay v2Tournament: UT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Cypress Woods CT | Judge: Michelle Hix | 12/4/21 |
SO - 1AC - COVIDTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Academy Of Classical Christian Studies JM | Judge: Abhinav Sinha 1ACADV – COVIDThe time to expand vaccination on a global level is now—-highly contagious mutations facilitate continued spread.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, EH and brett AND such barrier that prevents vaccine production in LMICs and hence its equitable distribution. That renders current vaccines ineffectiveDransfield 21 Sarah Dransfield, 3-30-2021, "Two-thirds of epidemiologists warn mutations could render current COVID vaccines ineffective in a year or less", https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/two-thirds-epidemiologists-warn-mutations-could-render-current-covid-vaccines, accessed 7/23/2021 EH and brett AND and new variants somewhere on the planet mean none of us are safe." Waiving IP protections is essential to expand manufacturing and global exports. A litany of countries possess capacity but lack know-how — the plan is key.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, brett AND not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Boosting manufacturing capacity is critical to a timely response to COVID AND ensures preparedness for future pandemics.Jecker and Atuire 21, Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine. Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Gauteng, South Africa. Caesar A Atuire, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Accra, Ghana. All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Journal of Medical Ethics 2021;47:595-598. "What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines." https://jme.bmj.com/content/47/9/595 brett AND will be African—continue to import 99 of its vaccine?’18 COVID escalates every hotspot—-extinction.RECNA et al. 21, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), and the Nautilus Institute. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Volume 4, 2021. "Pandemic Futures and Nuclear Weapon Risks: The Nagasaki 75th Anniversary pandemic-nuclear nexus scenarios final report" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2021.1890867 brett AND by nuclear threat, with cascading effects on the risk of nuclear war. SolvencyPlan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines related to the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.Enforcement is done through waiving TRIPS protections and modifying relevant domestic law to ensure patent protections are reduced—-spec is delineated in the card.Jones et al. 21, Mike Jones, J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School, 2014. Sean McConnell, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 2002. Lauren Giambalvo, University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2019; Georgia Law Review. Emily Harmon, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J.D., 2020. Ipwatchdog, August 9, 2021. "What is a ‘Patent Waiver’ Anyway? Zooming Out on the TRIPS COVID IP Waiver Debate" https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/08/09/patent-waiver-anyway-zooming-trips-covid-ipwaiver-debate/id=136381/ brett AND enforce their U.S. patent rights in the U.S. FramingThe standard is maximizing expected well-being, or hedonistic act utilitarianism.1~ Neuroscience- pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses.Blum et al. 18 ~Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/~~ R.S. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2~ 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.3~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive. That 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.4~ Use epistemic modesty for clash – disincentives debaters going all in for framework meaning we get the ideal balance between normative and applied philosophy5~ 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 AND against the intending-foreseeing distinction when applied to state action than elsewhere. 6~ TJFs – Utilitarianism should be used in the context of debates about public health—-this framework avoids abuses while ensuring just outcomes at the tail end of disease risks.K. Kirkwood 9. School of Health Studies, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Western Ontario. 06/01/2009. "In the Name of the Greater Good?" Emerging Health Threats Journal, vol. 2, no. 0. CrossRef, doi:10.3402/ehtj.v2i0.7092. AND expectation that those same HCWs will have preferential access to vaccines and treatments. Outweighs – Most articles about pandemics are written through util – means other frameworks can never engage with core questions of the lit and decks predictability.7~ Reject calc indicts and util triggers permissibility arguments:A~ Theory — they’re functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable educationB~ Morally abhorrent — it would say we have no obligation to prevent genocide and that slavery was permissible which is morally abhorrent and makes debate unsafe8~ Impact calc — Extinction is categorically prior:A~ Magnitude — trillions of future lives are lost that are just as valuable as current ones – anything else says some lives are worth less than others which is a slippery slope to genocide.B~ Reversibility — extinction forecloses future improvement; prefer — if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true, we should preserve it to figure things out.Underview1~ 1AR theory is legit – anything else means infinite abuse – drop the debater – 1AR is too short to make up for the time trade-off – no RVIs – 6 min 2NR means they can brute force me every time – competing interps – otherwise the 2NR could drown the aff in arguments while playing defense2~ Reasonability on NC shells – the 1AR is too short to line by line every argument, make a counter interpretation, and go for substance – key to check arbitrary interps.3~ Dictionary.com defines Ought:
4~ The role of the ballot is to determine the desirability of the plan – vote aff if the plan is a good ideaThat’s key to portable skills - AND of various policy proposals helps debaters to strengthen their own stance on issues. | 9/4/21 |
SO - 1AC - Product HoppingTournament: St Marks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westlake MR | Judge: Javier Navarrete | 11/5/21 |
SO - 1AC - TRIPSTournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lynbrook MD | Judge: Jonah Gentlemen 1ACADV – COVIDThe time to expand vaccination on a global level is now—-highly contagious mutations facilitate continued spread.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, EH and brett AND such barrier that prevents vaccine production in LMICs and hence its equitable distribution. That renders current vaccines ineffectiveDransfield 21 Sarah Dransfield, 3-30-2021, "Two-thirds of epidemiologists warn mutations could render current COVID vaccines ineffective in a year or less", https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/two-thirds-epidemiologists-warn-mutations-could-render-current-covid-vaccines, accessed 7/23/2021 EH and brett AND and new variants somewhere on the planet mean none of us are safe." Waiving IP protections is essential to expand manufacturing and global exports. A litany of countries possess capacity but lack know-how — the plan is key.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, brett AND not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Boosting manufacturing capacity is critical to a timely response to COVID AND ensures preparedness for future pandemics.Jecker and Atuire 21, Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine. Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Gauteng, South Africa. Caesar A Atuire, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Accra, Ghana. All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Journal of Medical Ethics 2021;47:595-598. "What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines." https://jme.bmj.com/content/47/9/595 brett AND will be African—continue to import 99 of its vaccine?’18 COVID escalates every hotspot—-extinction.RECNA et al. 21, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), and the Nautilus Institute. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Volume 4, 2021. "Pandemic Futures and Nuclear Weapon Risks: The Nagasaki 75th Anniversary pandemic-nuclear nexus scenarios final report" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2021.1890867 brett AND by nuclear threat, with cascading effects on the risk of nuclear war. ADV – LegitimacyThe WTO is on the brink — the TRIPS waiver is the critical factor determining the survival of multilateral trade AND creates momentum for structural reformsMeyer 6-18 David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett AND what are still daunting structural problems." Those problems are legion. HIV/AIDS prove legitimacy damage from patent controversy—-every bit of delay saps credibility—-now is keyBacchus 20 James Bacchus ~member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the chairman—the chief judge—of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. ~, 12-16-2020, "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines accessed 7/20/2021 EH AND take precedence over providing affordable medicines for people afflicted by a lethal disease. Perception alone solves, regardless of success, issuing the waiver is a sign of goodwill that shores up legitimacyWinslett 5-27, Gary Winslett is an associate fellow for finance and trade at the R Street Institute. He is also an assistant professor of political science at Middlebury College. May 27, 2021. National Interest, "The Political Significance of the TRIPS Waiver" https://nationalinterest.org/feature/political-significance-trips-waiver-186246 brett AND than a threat versus only 44 percent of Republicans who say the same. Restoring credibility de-escalates every conflict.GEORGIA L. Hamann 9, associate in Lewis, Roca, Rothberger’s Litigation Practice Group, J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. May 2009, "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System", http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/manage/wp-content/uploads/hamann-cr'final'final.pdf brett AND keenly aware of the responsibility they have to uphold the organization’s credibility.108 SolvencyPlan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines related to the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.Enforcement is done through waiving TRIPS protections and modifying relevant domestic law to ensure patent protections are reduced—-spec is delineated in the card.Jones et al. 21, Mike Jones, J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School, 2014. Sean McConnell, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 2002. Lauren Giambalvo, University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2019; Georgia Law Review. Emily Harmon, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J.D., 2020. Ipwatchdog, August 9, 2021. "What is a ‘Patent Waiver’ Anyway? Zooming Out on the TRIPS COVID IP Waiver Debate" https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/08/09/patent-waiver-anyway-zooming-trips-covid-ipwaiver-debate/id=136381/ brett AND enforce their U.S. patent rights in the U.S. FramingThe standard is maximizing expected well-being, or hedonistic act utilitarianism.1~ Neuroscience- pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses.Blum et al. 18 ~Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/~~ R.S. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2~ 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.3~ Impact calc — Extinction is categorically prior:A~ Magnitude — trillions of future lives are lost that are just as valuable as current ones – anything else says some lives are worth less than others which is a slippery slope to genocide.B~ Reversibility — extinction forecloses future improvement; prefer — if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true, we should preserve it to figure things out.Underview1~ 1AR theory is legit – anything else means infinite abuse – drop the debater – 1AR is too short to make up for the time trade-off – no RVIs – 6 min 2NR means they can brute force me every time – competing interps – otherwise the 2NR could drown the aff in arguments while playing defense2~ Reasonability on NC shells – the 1AR is too short to line by line every argument, make a counter interpretation, and go for substance – key to check arbitrary interps. | 9/4/21 |
SO - 1AC - TRIPS v2Tournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Bergen County AK | Judge: Zac Clough ADV – COVIDThe time to expand vaccination on a global level is now—-highly contagious mutations facilitate continued spread.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, EH and brett AND such barrier that prevents vaccine production in LMICs and hence its equitable distribution. That renders current vaccines ineffectiveDransfield 21 Sarah Dransfield, 3-30-2021, "Two-thirds of epidemiologists warn mutations could render current COVID vaccines ineffective in a year or less", https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/two-thirds-epidemiologists-warn-mutations-could-render-current-covid-vaccines, accessed 7/23/2021 EH and brett AND and new variants somewhere on the planet mean none of us are safe." Waiving IP protections is essential to expand manufacturing and global exports. A litany of countries possess capacity but lack know-how — the plan is key.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, brett AND not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Boosting manufacturing capacity is critical to a timely response to COVID AND ensures preparedness for future pandemics.Jecker and Atuire 21, Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine. Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Gauteng, South Africa. Caesar A Atuire, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Accra, Ghana. All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Journal of Medical Ethics 2021;47:595-598. "What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines." https://jme.bmj.com/content/47/9/595 brett AND will be African—continue to import 99 of its vaccine?’18 COVID escalates every hotspot—-extinction.RECNA et al. 21, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), and the Nautilus Institute. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Volume 4, 2021. "Pandemic Futures and Nuclear Weapon Risks: The Nagasaki 75th Anniversary pandemic-nuclear nexus scenarios final report" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2021.1890867 brett AND by nuclear threat, with cascading effects on the risk of nuclear war. Neocolonial dynamics limit COVID vaccines to the Global North—-that results in debt imperialism and undermines the right to health.Sharifah Sekalala 21 et al., Warwick Law School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK. Lisa Forman, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Timothy Hodgson, International Commission of Jurists, Johannesburg, South Africa. Moses Mulumba, Center for Health, Human Rights and Development, Kampala, Uganda. Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Benjamin Mason Meier, Department of Public Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. BMJ Glob Health. 2021; 6(7): e006169. Published online 2021 Jul 12. "Decolonising human rights: how intellectual property laws result in unequal access to the COVID-19 vaccine" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277484/ brett AND depleted health systems, are forced to divert additional funds to servicing debt. ADV – LegitimacyThe WTO is on the brink — the TRIPS waiver is the critical factor determining the survival of multilateral trade AND creates momentum for structural reformsMeyer 6-18 David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett AND what are still daunting structural problems." Those problems are legion. HIV/AIDS prove legitimacy damage from patent controversy—-every bit of delay saps credibility—-now is keyBacchus 20 James Bacchus ~member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the chairman—the chief judge—of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. ~, 12-16-2020, "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines accessed 7/20/2021 EH AND take precedence over providing affordable medicines for people afflicted by a lethal disease. Perception alone solves, regardless of success, issuing the waiver is a sign of goodwill that shores up legitimacyWinslett 5-27, Gary Winslett is an associate fellow for finance and trade at the R Street Institute. He is also an assistant professor of political science at Middlebury College. May 27, 2021. National Interest, "The Political Significance of the TRIPS Waiver" https://nationalinterest.org/feature/political-significance-trips-waiver-186246 brett AND than a threat versus only 44 percent of Republicans who say the same. Restoring credibility de-escalates every conflict.GEORGIA L. Hamann 9, associate in Lewis, Roca, Rothberger’s Litigation Practice Group, J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. May 2009, "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System", http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/manage/wp-content/uploads/hamann-cr'final'final.pdf brett AND keenly aware of the responsibility they have to uphold the organization’s credibility.108 SolvencyPlan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines related to the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.Enforcement is done through waiving TRIPS protections and modifying relevant domestic law to ensure patent protections are reduced—-spec is delineated in the card.Jones et al. 21, Mike Jones, J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School, 2014. Sean McConnell, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 2002. Lauren Giambalvo, University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2019; Georgia Law Review. Emily Harmon, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J.D., 2020. Ipwatchdog, August 9, 2021. "What is a ‘Patent Waiver’ Anyway? Zooming Out on the TRIPS COVID IP Waiver Debate" https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/08/09/patent-waiver-anyway-zooming-trips-covid-ipwaiver-debate/id=136381/ brett AND enforce their U.S. patent rights in the U.S. 1AC – FramingThe standard is maximizing expected well-being, or hedonistic act utilitarianism.1~ Neuroscience- pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses.Blum et al. 18 ~Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, "Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies", U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/~~ R.S. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. 2~ 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.
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SO - 1AC - TRIPS v3Tournament: St Marks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit DA | Judge: Sam Larson 1AC — COVIDAdvantage 1: COVIDThe time to expand global vaccination is now—-otherwise mutations render current vaccines ineffective.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, EH and brett AND such barrier that prevents vaccine production in LMICs and hence its equitable distribution. Waiving IP protections is essential to expand manufacturing and global exports. A litany of countries possess capacity but lack know-how — the plan is key.Kumar 7-12 Rajeesh Kumar, Rajeesh Kumar is Associate Fellow at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi., 7-12-2021, "WTO TRIPS Waiver and COVID-19 Vaccine Equity," Manohar Paprikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, https://idsa.in/issuebrief/wto-trips-waiver-covid-vaccine-rkumar-120721, brett AND not expedient in a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. Boosting manufacturing capacity is critical to a timely responseJecker and Atuire 21, Dr Nancy S Jecker, Department of Bioethics and Humanities, University of Washington School of Medicine. Department of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park, Gauteng, South Africa. Caesar A Atuire, Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, Accra, Accra, Ghana. All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK. Journal of Medical Ethics 2021;47:595-598. "What’s yours is ours: waiving intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines." https://jme.bmj.com/content/47/9/595 brett AND will be African—continue to import 99 of its vaccine?’18 COVID escalates every hotspot—-extinction.RECNA et al. 21, Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Asia Pacific Leadership Network (APLN), and the Nautilus Institute. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament Volume 4, 2021. "Pandemic Futures and Nuclear Weapon Risks: The Nagasaki 75th Anniversary pandemic-nuclear nexus scenarios final report" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25751654.2021.1890867 brett AND by nuclear threat, with cascading effects on the risk of nuclear war. 1AC — LegitimacyAdvantage 2: LegitimacyThe WTO is on the brink — the TRIPS waiver is the critical factor determining the survival of multilateral trade AND creates momentum for structural reformsMeyer 6-18 David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett AND what are still daunting structural problems." Those problems are legion. HIV/AIDS prove legitimacy damage from patent controversy—-every bit of delay saps credibility—-now is keyBacchus 20 James Bacchus ~member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the chairman—the chief judge—of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.~, 12-16-2020, "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato Institute, https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines accessed 7/20/2021 EH AND take precedence over providing affordable medicines for people afflicted by a lethal disease. Perception alone solves, regardless of success, issuing the waiver is a sign of goodwill that shores up legitimacyWinslett 5-27, Gary Winslett is an associate fellow for finance and trade at the R Street Institute. He is also an assistant professor of political science at Middlebury College. May 27, 2021. National Interest, "The Political Significance of the TRIPS Waiver" https://nationalinterest.org/feature/political-significance-trips-waiver-186246 brett AND than a threat versus only 44 percent of Republicans who say the same. The new Director General is focusing on sustainable development — initiating a COVID response provides an early win that builds momentum before the next Ministerial Conference in 2 months.Ossa and Blange-Gubbay 21, Michael Blange-Gubbay, Senior Research Fellow at the Kühne Center for Sustainable Globalization at the University of Zurich. Ralph Ossa Director of the Kühne Center for Sustainable Globalization at the University of Zurich; Kühne Foundation Professor of International Trade. IMPACT SERIES: 02–21. "A New Hope for the WTO?" https://www.kuehnecenter.uzh.ch/impact'series/2021'03'17-02-21-a'new'hope'for'the'wto.html brett AND of the fact that the EU was a strong sup¬port¬er of her can¬di¬da¬cy. That’s key to offset the costs of globalization — getting the ball rolling on cooperation is key — independently solves extinction from warming.Sutton and Green 20, Trevor Sutton is a fellow for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress. Andy Green is managing director of Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress. Center for American Progress, July 29, 2020, 12:01 am. "WTO Reform Must Start at the Top" https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/news/2020/07/29/488261/wto-reform-must-start-top/ brett AND of separate international labor, environmental, currency, and other relevant standards. Unsustainable globalization causes rising inequality and right-wing populism—-locks in slow growth, polarization, and global warFlaherty and Rogowski 21 ~Thomas M. Flaherty is a PhD candidate and NSF Graduate Fellow at the University of California, San Diego. He can be reached at t1flaher@ucsd.edu. Ronald Rogowski is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Weatherhead Scholar at Harvard University (2019–2021). "Rising Inequality As a Threat to the Liberal International Order." https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/rising-inequality-as-a-threat-to-the-liberal-international-order/4CDE05DEB3AB076CE338E1AA4A9C8087~~ AND ), increased political polarization, and even a heightened risk of international conflict. WTO credibility de-escalates every conflict — loss of credibility tips every flashpoint.GEORGIA L. Hamann 9, associate in Lewis, Roca, Rothberger’s Litigation Practice Group, J.D. from Vanderbilt University Law School. May 2009, "Replacing Slingshots with Swords: Implications of the Antigua-Gambling 22.6 Panel Report for Developing Countries and the World Trading System", http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/manage/wp-content/uploads/hamann-cr'final'final.pdf brett AND keenly aware of the responsibility they have to uphold the organization’s credibility.108 1AC — SolvencyPlan: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines related to the prevention, containment, and treatment of COVID-19.Enforcement is done through waiving TRIPS protections and modifying relevant domestic law to ensure patent protections are reduced—-spec is delineated in the card.Jones et al. 21, Mike Jones, J.D., cum laude, Brooklyn Law School, 2014. Sean McConnell, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., 2002. Lauren Giambalvo, University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, 2019; Georgia Law Review. Emily Harmon, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, J.D., 2020. Ipwatchdog, August 9, 2021. "What is a ‘Patent Waiver’ Anyway? Zooming Out on the TRIPS COVID IP Waiver Debate" https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/08/09/patent-waiver-anyway-zooming-trips-covid-ipwaiver-debate/id=136381/ brett AND enforce their U.S. patent rights in the U.S. Public funding and massive pre-purchases are superior incentives to patents in a pandemic.Lindsey 21, Brink Lindsey, Vice President @ Niskanen Center "Why intellectual property and pandemics don’t mix," Brookings Institution, June 3, 2021. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/06/03/why-intellectual-property-and-pandemics-dont-mix/ brett AND compared to the staggering cost of this pandemic in lives and economic damage. 1AC — FramingThe standard is maximizing expected well-being, or hedonistic act utilitarianism.1~ Bindingness — if I put my hand on a hot stove I’d automatically pull it back before a signal is sent to my brain — proves Util is intrinsic to action2~ 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.3~ Extinction first:A~ Future lives — trillions of future lives are lost. They are just as valuable as current ones – anything else says some lives are worth less than others which is a slippery slope to genocide.B~ Reversibility — extinction forecloses future improvement; prefer — if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true, we should preserve it to figure things out.1AC — Underview1~ 1AR theory is legit – anything else means infinite abuse – drop the debater – 1AR is too short to make up for the time trade-off – no RVIs – 6 min 2NR can brute force me every time.2~ Use reasonability on the brightline of in-round abuse — Competing interps ensures endless theory debates — empirically proven by the overwhelming norm of competing interps and the strategic value it gives theory in LD. Reasonability is critical to ensure theory checks abusive practices that tangibly impact the debate rather than a strategic device to run from substance. | 10/17/21 |
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