Tournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood JC | Judge: Gordon Krauss
Kenan 6-9, The Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise develops and promotes innovative, market-based solutions to vital economic issues. With the belief that private enterprise is the cornerstone of a prosperous and free society, the institute fosters the entrepreneurial spirit to stimulate economic prosperity and improve the lives of people in North Carolina, across the country and around the world. Kenan Institute, 6-9-21, "Turbocharging Healthcare Innovation" https://kenaninstitute.unc.edu/kenan-insight/turbocharging-healthcare-innovation/ brett
As COVID-19 began to spread around the globe, companies and entrepreneurs stepped
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worldwide that were applying mRNA technology to more than 20 disease classes.8
Tom Lee and Christopher Holt 5-10, Tom received a B.A. in Economics with a Statistics Minor from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2018. Christopher has a Master’s in Congressional and Presidential Studies from The Catholic University of America, and he studied political science as an undergraduate at Whitman College. American Action Forum, May 10, 2021. "Intellectual Property, COVID-19 Vaccines, and the Proposed TRIPS Waiver" https://www.americanactionforum.org/insight/intellectual-property-covid-19-vaccines-and-the-proposed-trips-waiver/ brett
Public posturing aside, the Biden Administration surely knows that a TRIPS waiver for COVID
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and long-term problems associated with waiving IP protections provided by TRIPS.
Innovation is an impact filter—-it encompasses AND outweighs every existential threat.
Dylan Matthews 18. Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University. 10-26-2018. "How to help people millions of years from now." Vox. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good brett
If you care about improving human lives, you should overwhelmingly care about those quadrillions
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far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery.*
Medical innovation is key to address future pandemics—-extinction.
Engelhardt 8 (H. Tristram, doctorate in philosophy (University of Texas at Austin), M.D. (Tulane University), professor of philosophy (Rice University), and professor emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine, "Innovation and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Critical Reflections on the Virtues of Profit," https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Pharmaceutical-Industry-Reflections-Conflicts/dp/0980209447) (Taiwan)
Many are suspicious of, or indeed jealous of, the good fortune of others
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profit in medicine and especially in the pharmaceutical and medical-device industries.