Tournament: ND 1NC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Johns dad | Judge: Mitski
Framework
Our value for today is social order because
Social order is intrinsic to humankind.
John Stuart Mill (Philosopher), in ON LIBERTY, James Fitzjames Stephen, LIBERTY, EQUALITY, ANDFRATERNITY, 1967, 223.
"The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so
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and more as mankind are further removed from the state of savage independence."
Our Criterion for today should be
Rousseau's Theory of the Social Contract and Individuals Obligations to Government
MJSS 2018
http://archive.sciendo.com/MJSS/mjss.2018.9.issue-5/mjss-2018-0135/mjss-2018-0135.pdf
Next comes Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778). Rousseau believes that there
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of Social Contract in Locke's philosophy is quite closer to the Rousseau's mentality.
Social Contract violations control every Internal link it's a conflict starter and escalator
Prioritizing upholding the social contract is the best model for debate. Making an inclusive debate space supports fairness and education. We can't have debate about lives without first understanding what makes life important
Ld is distinctly a philosophical debate and constitutes moral reasoning
The reduction of the social contract is a violation of it entirely
The topic proposes a just government, and since in reality a just government cannot exist, we must default to a philosophical government that is just.
C1: The social contract is always in the best interests of citizens.
Government policies reflect the general will of the people.
Grimsley 83
Ronald Grimsley (Emeritus Prof., French, U. of Bristol), JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, 1983, 107.
"With the establishment of a law consistent with the requirements of sovereignty and general
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speaking, 'the voice of the people is the voice of God.'
The general will is always just.
Grimsley 2
Ronald Grimsley (Emeritus Prof, French, U. Bristol), JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, 1983, 105-8.
"The general will lifts the individual above selfish petty interests and enables him to
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and that the voice of the people is indeed the voice of God."
Just Governments do not harm their citizens.
Grimsley 3
Ronald Grimsley (Emeritus Prof., French, U. Bristol), JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, 1983, 105.
"According to Rousseau 'it is impossible that the body should wish to harm all its members.' By the sole fact that it is, the sovereign is always everything it should be.'
C2: An unconditional right to strike violates the social contract
A: Military
Military unions wreck civilian military relations and US hegemony
Caforio 18 Giuseppe Caforio, Brigadier General with degrees in law, political science, and strategic studies (FYI, the author died 2015, but this was republished in 2018 in an anthology book), 5-20-2018, "Unionisation of the Military: Representation of the Interests of Military Personnel," SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-71602-2_19~~/Kankee
THE OPPOSITION TO UNIONIZATION OF THE ARMED FORCES But if a convergence between the military
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ANALYSIS OF HISTORICAL EXPERIENCES THROUGH THE THOUGHT OF VARIOUS AUTHORS
B: Police
Police Strikes are used to combat racial progress and attempts to limit police power. Making them legal and easier only make progress much harder.
Andrew Grim 2020 What is the 'blue flu' and how has it increased police power? https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/01/what-is-blue-flu-how-has-it-increased-police-power/
But the result of such protests matter deeply as we consider police reform today.
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public debate on policing and reassert their independence.
C: Health Workers
Nurse strikes increase the percentage of patient mortality and destroy hospital finances – empirics.
Masterson 17 Les Masterson. Managing editor at HCPro. "Nursing strikes can cause harm well beyond labor relations". 8-15-2017. Healthcare Dive. https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/nursing-strikes-can-cause-harm-well-beyond-labor-relations/447627/.~~ SJVM
When officials at Tufts Medical Center in Boston refused to allow nurses just off of
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hospitals. They also canceled procedures and appointments in preparation of a strike.