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| Glenbrooks | 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AL | Judge: Lauren Woodall 1ac- hospitals |
| Glenbrooks | 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Peyton Reeves 1ac- incarcerated workers |
| Glenbrooks | 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale KS | Judge: Chris Castillo 1ac- alienation |
| Heart of Texas | 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JH | Judge: Elijah Smith 1ac - covid |
| Heart of Texas | 4 | Opponent: Harker KB | Judge: Annabelle Long 1ac - |
| Jack Howe | 1 | Opponent: Fairmont Prep AS | Judge: Brianna Lozano 1ac - us covax |
| Jack Howe | 3 | Opponent: Sammamish LW | Judge: Gabriela Gonzalez 1ac - trips |
| Jack Howe | 5 | Opponent: Marlborough AK | Judge: Joel Lemuel 1ac - covid |
| TFA State | 2 | Opponent: Coppell HA | Judge: Dylan Jones 1ac - qpess |
| TFA State | 3 | Opponent: Eastwood SG | Judge: Jay Conklin 1ac - ethical journalism |
| UT | 2 | Opponent: Bridgeland ZT | Judge: Colton Gilbert 1ac - Big tech |
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0 - contact infoTournament: Anya | Round: Finals | Opponent: Anya | Judge: Anya text is preferred | 12/6/21 |
MA - READ METournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Coppell HA | Judge: Dylan Jones | 3/11/22 |
extinction owsTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AL | Judge: Lauren Woodall 0Existential risks outweigha~ Low probability isn’t a reason to reject our impacts, but high magnitude impacts require precautionMark Jablonowski 10, Lecturer in Economics at the University of Hartford, "Implications of Fuzziness for the Practical Management of High-Stakes Risks," International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, Vol.3, No. 1 (April, 2010), 1-7, AND thresholds, this view allows a very workable approach to achieving safe progress. b~ Moral uncertainty proves extinction outweighs – if you aren’t 100 sure their arg is true, keep future generations alive to figure things outBostrom 12 ~Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority. 2012. www.existential-risk.org/concept.html~ AND of value. To do this, we must prevent any existential catastrophe. | 11/20/21 |
extinction ows v2Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Peyton Reeves Extinction outweighs.Pummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT AND be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters) | 11/21/21 |
nd - cp - ban lawsTournament: UT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bridgeland ZT | Judge: Colton Gilbert CP Text: States should ban the deployment of Lethal Autonomous Weapons.HRW ’20 ~Human Rights Watch, "Stopping Killer Robots", 08-10-2020, https://www.hrw.org/report/2020/08/10/stopping-killer-robots/country-positions-banning-fully-autonomous-weapons-and~~//pranav AND is an ethical imperative, a legal necessity, and a moral obligation. | 12/4/21 |
nd - cp - minimum wageTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Peyton Reeves 2====CP: The United States Federal Government should provide a $7.25 minimum wage for incarcerated workers.==== AND to reduce mass incarceration and move the country back toward valuing free labor. Own ev agrees – westwood inserts green1ac Eisen 20Lauren-Brooke Eisen ~director of the Brennan Center’s Justice Program where she leads the organization’s work to end mass incarceration~, 20 - ("Covid-19 Highlights the Need for Prison Labor Reform," Brennan Center for Justice, 4-17-2020, accessed 11-4-2021, https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/covid-19-highlights-need-prison-labor-reform)//ML AND of slave labor that was ostensibly abandoned a century and a half ago. 1ac Fulcher 15Patrice A. Fulcher ~Associate Professor at The John Marshall Law School~, 15 - ("," Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development, Winter 2015, accessed 10-28-2021, https://scholarship.law.stjohns.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1759andcontext=jcred)//ML AND subminimum wages for their work and about inadequate medical and living conditions. 140 | 11/21/21 |
nd - cp - nlrb justifiable strikesTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale KS | Judge: Chris Castillo 3CP Text: A just government ought to recognize the right of workers to strike if:The reason for a strike must be justifiable and lawful under the National Labor Relations BoardAn impasse must be reached before a strike is commencedNational Labor Relations Board, No date, "The Right to Strike," https://www.nlrb.gov/strikes AND notice in writing to the institution and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Aff specifically defends unconditional strikesMerriam Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unconditional)//ww pbj not conditional or limited | 11/21/21 |
nd - cp - policeTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale KS | Judge: Chris Castillo CP Text: A just government should recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike with the exception of police officers.Police strikes are the blue flu and allow for power grabbing through fearmongering and public pressure – that shores up police authority and legitimizes police brutalityGrim 20 Andrew Grim, 7-1-2020, Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is at work on a dissertation on anti-police brutality activism in post-WWII Newark. "Perspective," Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/01/what-is-blue-flu-how-has-it-increased-police-power/~~ ww dl AND wrest back control of the public debate on policing and reassert their independence. These strikes strengthen unions that contribute to increased violence, and protection of misconductSerwer 6/24 ~Serwer, Adam. "Bust the Police Unions." The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 24 June 2021, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/07/bust-the-police-unions/619006/~ recut ww dl AND officers always report serious criminal violations involving abuse of authority by fellow officers." That leads to endless amounts of racist violence and the bolstering of the prison industrial complex.Chaney and Ray 13, Cassandra (Has a PhD and is a professor at LSU. Also has a strong focus in the structure of Black families) , and Ray V. Robertson (Also has a PhD and is a criminal justice professor at LSU). "Racism and police brutality in America." Journal of African American Studies 17.4 (2013): 480-505. SMdo I really need a card for this AND shape both intergroup dynamics and support for criminal justice policy (Leverentz 2012). | 11/21/21 |
nd - da - ai innovationTournament: UT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bridgeland ZT | Judge: Colton Gilbert Global tech innovation high now.Mercury News et al 6/4 ~Mercury News and East Bay Times Editorial Boards, June 4, 2021, "Editorial: How America can Win the Global Tech War" https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/04/editorial-why-silicon-valley-needs-endless-frontier-bill/ gord0~ AND investments in research and development that will spark the next wave of innovation. Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector.Hanasoge 16 ~Chaithra; Senior Research Analyst, Market Researcher, Consumer Insights, Strategy Consulting; "The Union Strikes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Supply Wisdom; April/June 2016 (Doesn’t specifically say but this is the most recent event is cites); https://www.supplywisdom.com/resources/the-union-strikes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/~~//SJWen AND in a city like Kolkata, which carries a strong trade union culture. Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector.Vynck et al 21 ~Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; "Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech," The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/~~//SJWen AND as the PRO Act, to recognize gig worker collectives as real unions. Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs.Matthews 18 Dylan. 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 AND far future, then effective altruism just becomes plain ol’ do-goodery. | 12/4/21 |
nd - da - ptxTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AL | Judge: Lauren Woodall 2Reconciliation passes now – it’s in the senate, but Manchin and Sinema are tentative about the legislation that passed the House.Snell 11/19 ~Kelsey, Congressional correspondent for NPR, "The House passes a $2 trillion spending bill, but braces for changes in the Senate", 11-19-2021, https://www.npr.org/2021/11/19/1056833510/the-house-passes-a-2-trillion-spending-bill-but-braces-for-changes-in-the-senate~~//pranav AND series of unlimited amendment votes known as a vote-a-rama. Biden PC is key to getting democratic skeptics on board, but it’s tentativeCochrane and Weisman 11/05 ~Emily Cochrane - correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure, Jonathan Weisman - congressional correspondent, veteran Washington journalist and author of the novel "No. 4 Imperial Lane" and the nonfiction book "(((Semitism))): Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump." His career in journalism stretches back 30 years, "Live Updates: House Democrats Push Toward Votes on Biden’s Agenda", 11-05-2021, https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/05/us/biden-spending-infrastructure-bill~~//pranav AND supply their votes for it until there is agreement on the other bill. Business lobbying backlash ensures Sinema flips – empirics prove she doesn’t like similar billsDuda ’21 ~Jeremy, Prior to joining the Arizona Mirror, he worked at the Arizona Capitol Times, where he spent eight years covering the Governor's Office and two years as editor of the Yellow Sheet Report, "Business groups urge Kelly, Sinema to oppose pro-union PRO Act", 08-30-2021, https://www.azmirror.com/2021/08/30/business-groups-urge-kelly-sinema-to-oppose-pro-union-pro-act/~~//pranav AND so unless and until it comes up for a vote in the Senate. They lash out against Reconciliation – it will includes similar provisionsFURCHTGOTT-ROTH 10/09 ~Diana, former acting assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is adjunct professor of economics at George Washington University, "Democrats can't pass the PRO Act, so it's buried in the reconciliation bill", 10-09-2021, https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/575992-dems-cant-pass-the-pro-act-so-its-buried-in-the-reconciliation-bill~~//pranav AND union provisions of the PRO Act by arguing they are actually revenue raisers. Reconciliation is k2 stopping existential climate change – warming is incremental and every change in temperature is vitalHiggins 8/16 ~Trevor, Senior Director, Domestic Climate and Energy, "Budget Reconciliation Is the Key to Stopping Climate Change", 08-16-2021, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2021/08/16/502681/budget-reconciliation-key-stopping-climate-change/~~//pranav AND no time to lose in the work of building a clean energy future. | 11/20/21 |
nd - t - uncondoTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 2 | Opponent: Peninsula AL | Judge: Lauren Woodall 1Interpretation: Unconditional means not conditional or limited. – to clarify, the affirmative must defend the right of all workers to strike at any time.Merriam Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unconditional)//ww pbjnot conditional or limited Violation: they don’tStandards:~1~ Limits – allows an aff infinite permutations of arbitrary conditions like no striking for medical workers, not if it causes harm, or only for a certain duration. Explosion of aff ground makes neg prep burden impossible, either killing neg ground or forcing the neg to read generics that barely link, always letting aff win. Force the 1AR to read a definition card with a clear list of when its okay to put conditions and what they are – otherwise, its arbitrary and you should vote neg since they can’t put a clear limit on the topic. Our interp solves – it establishes a clear bright-line for that gives the neg a chance to predict and prepare for every aff ahead of time.~2~ Precision – not defending the text of the resolution justifies the affirmative doing away with random words in the resolution which a~ means they’re not within the topic which is a voter for jurisdiction since you can only vote affirmative on the resolution and this debate never should have happened, b~ they’re unpredictable and impossible to engage in so we always lose~3~ Ground – kills neg ground since they can pre-empt all neg strategy which makes all condition PICs not competitive and kills all links to the DA since they’ll just condition it like the Health Workers DA, destroys engagement and advocacy skillsDrop the Debater –~1~ sets a precedent that debaters wont be abusive~2~ DTA is the same since you drop the affVoters:~1~ Fairness – constitutive to the judge to decide the better debater, only fairness is in your jurisdiction because it skews decision making~2~ Education – the only portable education from debate that we care aboutCompeting Interps:~1~ reasonability on t is incoherent: you’re either topical or you’re not – it’s impossible to be 77 topical, links to all limits offense~2~ functionally the same as reasonability – we debate over a specified briteline which is a counter interp~3~ judge intervention – judge has to intervene on what’s reasonable, creates a race to the bottom where debaters exploit judge tolerance for questionable argumentation.No RVIs~1~ illogical for you to get offense just for being fair – it’s the 1ac’s burden~2~ baiting - rvi’s incentivize debaters to read abusive positions to win off theory~3~ discourages checking abuse since debaters will be afraid to lose on theory | 11/20/21 |
nd - t - workersTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough ML | Judge: Peyton Reeves 1Interpretation: Workers are people 16 years or older who did at least one hour of paid work and excludes active-duty military personnel, institutionalized individuals, agricultural workers, and federal government employees.Investopedia (Clay Halton is an Associate Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than three years. He largely writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on LGBTQ+ finance, Investopedia, Updated May 06, 2021, Civilian Labor Force, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/civilian-labor-force.asp)//ww pbj AND an injury, or illness are considered to be outside the labor force. Institutionalized individuals specifically do not hold labor rightsZatz 8 (Noah D. Zatz, Professor of Law at UCLA who received an A.B. and M.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Yale, awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at the National Employment Law Project (NELP) in New York City 4/2008, Vanderbilt Law Review, https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1509andcontext=vlr) AND prison, inmates could not be employees, bearers of labor rights. 9 Violation: they spec incarcertaed workersStandards:~1~ Topic Lit – it’s the Bureau of Labor Statistics which is the most commonly used definitional bank for economic literature and the most explicit – that makes it easiest to engage in and creates the best possible clash since all cards will be cut from the context of the inter esp since the topic is about strikes which don’t occur in the exceptions: topic lit o/w — anything else creates an unfair division of ground where the neg is left with nothing. Key to education because limited negs means no engagement or reading of topic lit, which kills topic education and clash. Also key to fairness—no neg ground means aff is always ahead since they get generics.~2~ Precision – not defending the text of the resolution justifies the affirmative doing away with random words in the resolution which a~ means they’re not within the topic which is a voter for jurisdiction since you can only vote affirmative on the resolution and this debate never should have happened, b~ they’re unpredictable and impossible to engage in so we always loseDrop the Debater –~1~ sets a precedent that debaters wont be abusive~2~ DTA is the same since you drop the affVoters:~1~ Fairness – constitutive to the judge to decide the better debater, only fairness is in your jurisdiction because it skews decision making~2~ Education – the only portable education from debate that we care aboutCompeting Interps:~1~ reasonability on t is incoherent: you’re either topical or you’re not – it’s impossible to be 77 topical, links to all limits offense~2~ functionally the same as reasonability – we debate over a specified briteline which is a counter interp~3~ judge intervention – judge has to intervene on what’s reasonable, creates a race to the bottom where debaters exploit judge tolerance for questionable argumentation.No RVIs~1~ illogical for you to get offense just for being fair – it’s the 1ac’s burden~2~ baiting - rvi’s incentivize debaters to read abusive positions to win off theory~3~ discourages checking abuse since debaters will be afraid to lose on theory | 11/21/21 |
so - cp - compulsory licensingTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fairmont Prep AS | Judge: Brianna Lozano CP: The United States of America should declare covid a national emergency and issue compulsory licenses for COVID-19 vaccines. Member nations should offer regulatory and legal assistance to nations filing a compulsory license.Compulsory licensing solves access- empirics and past precedentZhuang 2017 (Wei, PhD from the University of Geneva, is currently an associate in the Geneva Office of Van Bael and Bellis. She assists governments in WTO dispute settlement proceedings and advises companies and governments in trade remedy investigations. Prior to joining Van Bael and Bellis, Wei worked in the Legal Affairs Division of the WTO as part of a Secretariat Team on a trade remedy dispute from beginning to end. In addition, she assisted the WTO Secretariat Team in an IP-related dispute, including by contributing to the preliminary rulings. Wei has also gained practical experience as a legal consultant at the United Nations (2010 – 2011), as a legal intern at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (2009) and as an associate judicial officer at the Commission for Discipline Inspection (Muchuan Branch) in China. Wei was also a Marie Curie Fellow with the DISSETTLE (Dispute Settlement in Trade: Training in Law and Economics) Programme; a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for IP and Competition Law. Interpreting Patent-Related Flexibilities in the TRIIPS Agreement for Facilitating Innovation and Transfer of ESTs, chapter 6 of Intellectual Property Rights and Climate Change Cambridge University Press Pg. 298-304)DR 21 AND of compulsory licences as leverage in drug price negotiations with pharmaceutical companies.298 It’s goldilocks - protects patents while allowing urgent access – the perm or the aff shatters IP protections which crushes innovation while the CP strikes an accepted balanceBacchus 2020 (James, Adjunct Fellow, Cato Institute, former U.S. Representative (D-FL), and former Chairman, World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body. "An Unnecessary Proposal: A WTO Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights for COVID-19 Vaccines," Cato https://www.cato.org/free-trade-bulletin/unnecessary-proposal-wto-waiver-intellectual-property-rights-covid-19-vaccines~~#balancing-ip-rights-access-medicines-not-new-wto December 16, 2020)DR 21 AND balance in these rules between upholding IP rights and fulfilling immediate domestic needs. | 9/18/21 |
so - cp - distributionTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JH | Judge: Elijah Smith The United States should:- substantially increase production and global distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccine- cooperate with allies to achieve increased production and global distribution of the COVID-19 Vaccine.That solves better – IP rights don’t hinder vaccine cooperation, but manufacturing capacity is the current constraint.Hans Sauer 6-17 ~(Deputy General Counsel, Biotechnology Industry Organization.) "Web event — Confronting Joe Biden’s proposed TRIPS waiver for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments" https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/210617-Confronting-Joe-Bidens-proposed-TRIPS-waiver.pdf?x91208andx91208~~ TDI AND governments to stop export controls and to dedicate themselves to more global equity. | 10/17/21 |
so - da - hegTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JH | Judge: Elijah Smith America’s maintaining hegemony and countering China’s rise through "counter-punching" strategies, but sustained innovation and private sector investment are key – reject "US declining now" args – the US has historically punched over its weight whenever it’s challengedHarr 8/3 ~Scott, Army Special Forces Officer and Ph.D. Candidate at the Helms School of Government, Liberty University. He holds an undergraduate degree in Arabic Language Studies from West Point and a Master’s degree in Middle Eastern Affairs from Liberty University. A trained Arabic and Farsi speaker with over four years of cumulative deployment time in the Middle East, his work has been featured in The Diplomat, RealClearDefense, The Strategy Bridge, Modern War Institute, Military Review, The National Interest, and Joint Force Quarterly among other national security-focused venues, "By Avoiding Arms Races, America Can Counter China’s Rise", 08-03-2021, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/avoiding-arms-races-america-can-counter-chinaE28099s-rise-191094~~//pranav AND these historical impulses to remain a superpower in the twenty-first century. The 1AC’s reduction of IPP for ~COVID vaccines~ is America "handing over its crown jewels" to competing nations by disincentivizing record setting innovation that causes spillover to other fields and destroys American hegemony.Iancu 8/11 ~Andrei, American-Romanian engineer and intellectual property attorney, who served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 2017 to 2021, "Biden is trying to undermine America's world-leading IP protections", https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/aug/11/biden-is-trying-to-undermine-americas-world-leadin/~~//pranav AND envy of the world. Waiving intellectual property rights could forfeit it all. Only U.S. hegemony prevents global instability—-alternatives can't maintain peaceHaass, 17 - President of the Council on Foreign Relations (Richard, "Who Will Fill America’s Shoes?," Project Syndicate, 6-24-2017, https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/global-leadership-successor-to-america-by-richard-n—haass-2017-06) AND , a consensus on what needs doing and who needs to do it. Goes nuclear—-extinctionThomas H. Henricksen 17, emeritus senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, 3/23/17, "Post-American World Order," http://www.hoover.org/research/post-american-world-order AND problems which could entail a collapse, as happened to the Soviet Union. | 10/17/21 |
so - da - infrastructureTournament: Heart of Texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JH | Judge: Elijah Smith Reconciliation passes now – Biden PC and tight timetables makes the margin for error literally ZEROElliott, 9-16 (Philip Elliott is a Washington Correspondent for TIME. Before joining TIME in early 2015, he spent almost a decade at The Associated Press, where he covered politics, campaign finance, education and the White House. He is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, September 16, 2021, accessed on 9-17-2021, Time, "Democrats Face a Grueling Two Weeks as Infighting Erupts Over Infrastructure", https://time.com/6098810/house-democrats-reconciliation/)//babcii AND rivals the spending the United States unleashed to close out World War II. Plan requires significant PC which Biden can’t afford to spend– Pharma, GOP, allies, and long negotiations.Bhadrakumar ’21 ~M.K., Retired Ambassador; Columnist for Hindu and Deccan Herald Indian newspapers, Rediff.com, Asia Times and Strategic Culture Foundation, Moscow Previous positions: career diplomat for 30 years in the Indian Foreign Service: served in the Indian Embassy in Moscow (1975-1977; 1987-1998); Under Secretary (1977-1979), Joint Secretary (1992-1995), Director (1989-1991), Iran-Pakistan-Afghanistan Division and Kashmir Unit, Foreign Ministry; held posts in the Indian Missions in Bonn, Colombo, Seoul; Charge d’Affaires, Indian embassies in Kuwait and Kabul; Acting/Deputy High Commissioner in Islamabad; Ambassador to Turkey and Uzbekistan., "Biden’s Decision on TRIPS Waiver is Political Theatre", 05-08-2021, https://www.newsclick.in/biden-decision-TRIPS-waiver-political-theatre~~//pranav AND , the European Union and the US, who all opposed the idea. PC key to pass reconciliation – and it’s fragile now.Kapur 8/22 (Sahil, national political reporter for NBC News, "Honeymoon over? Afghanistan chaos comes at a critical moment for Biden's agenda," 8-22-2021, NBC, URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/honeymoon-over-afghanistan-chaos-comes-critical-moment-biden-s-agenda-n1277338, RN) AND this is, they’re going to have to start calling in some chits." Infra’s k2 stopping existential climate change – warming is incremental and every change in temperature is vitalHiggins 8/16 ~Trevor, Senior Director, Domestic Climate and Energy, "Budget Reconciliation Is the Key to Stopping Climate Change", 08-16-2021, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/news/2021/08/16/502681/budget-reconciliation-key-stopping-climate-change/~~//pranav AND no time to lose in the work of building a clean energy future. | 10/17/21 |
so - da - innovationTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fairmont Prep AS | Judge: Brianna Lozano Biopharma RandD is surging, but it’s shaky because of productivity levels – now is not a time to let upAdams 5/19 ~Ben Adams, Ben Adams is a business, science and healthcare journalist, 5-19-2021, "Biopharma RandD 'surged' in 2020, but trial productivity levels a mixed bag: report," FierceBiotech, https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/biopharma-r-d-surged-2020-but-trial-productivity-levels-a-mixed-bag-report~~ WW LD AND meet and even exceed expectations for new and better lifesaving therapies and vaccines." Patents foster innovationGrabowski et al 15 ~Henry G. Grabowski, Joseph A. DiMasi, and Genia Long, February 2015, "The Roles Of Patents And Research And Development Incentives In Biopharmaceutical Innovation," https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1047~~ WW DL AND rights on behalf of the federal government; none has been granted. 16 Biotech relies on innovation from pharmaCooper 6 ~Garth JS Cooper, independent medical scientist at the University of Auckland, "Fates Intertwined," March 2006, https://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/file/cogem/cogem't4505194e'001.pdf~~ recut WW LD AND these industries will be transformed and the world of human therapeutics will flourish. Biotech is key to solving food insecurityDoyle 08 ~Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent, 6-3-2008, "Biotechnology seen as a key to solving food crisis," U.S., https://www.reuters.com/article/us-food-summit-biotech/biotechnology-seen-as-a-key-to-solving-food-crisis-idUSL0356693120080603~~ WW LD AND to Bangladesh’s agriculture ministry. "It shows the vulnerability of Bangladesh. " Food insecurity causes extreme hardshipsCribb ‘10 ~Julian, principal of JCA, fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences, "The Coming Famine: The¶ Global Food Crisis and What We Can Do to Avoid It", pg 10~ recut WW LD/WWVL AND changes, because of the synergetic character of the things that power it. | 9/18/21 |
so - da - wto collapseTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fairmont Prep AS | Judge: Brianna Lozano Congress doesn’t have the support to pull out from the WTO now, but more agreements that perceptually favor China changes thatJohnson ’20 ~Keith, senior staff writer for Foreign Policy, "U.S. Effort to Depart WTO Gathers Momentum", 05-27-2020, https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/27/world-trade-organization-united-states-departure-china/~~//pranav AND rise at the expense of countries like the United States, he said. There’s bipartisan Congressional hatred for the plan – they view it as a giveaway of American tech to China.Lopez 5/19 ~Ian, Senior Reporter @ Bloomberg Law, "China Will Steal U.S. Vaccine IP Via Waiver, GOP Senators Say", 05-19-2021, Bloomberg Law, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/china-will-steal-u-s-vaccine-ip-via-waiver-gop-senators-say~~//pranav AND waiver puts America’s interests last and China’s interests first," the senators said. Withdrawal collapses global tradeHopewell and Horton 08-03 ~Kristen Hopewell is the Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Global Policy at the University of British Columbia, and Ben Horton is the Communications Manager; Project Lead, Common Futures Conversations, "Lessons from Trump’s assault on the World Trade Organization," 08-03-2021, https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/08/lessons-trumps-assault-world-trade-organization~~//pranav AND WTO’s future look like under new director-general Dr Okonjo-Iweala? | 9/18/21 |
so - t - medicinesTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 3 | Opponent: Sammamish LW | Judge: Gabriela Gonzalez A. Interpretation: medicine refers to treatments and cures only. Affirmatives must not reduce other medical IP protections.B. Violation: vaccines are medical interventions, not medicinesElbe 10 ~Stefan Elbe, director of the Centre for Global Health Policy and a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. "Security and Global Health," ISBN 0745643744, accessed 8-10-2021, https://www.wiley.com/en-ee/Security+and+Global+Health-p-9780745643731~~ HWIC AND security to be practised through the introduction of new medical interventions in society. Vaccines are different from medicines in the context of intellectual propertyGarrison 04 ~Christopher Garrison, Consultant Legal Advisor to WHO. "Intellectual Property Rights and Vaccines in Developing countries," 04-13-2004, accessed 9-2-2021, https://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/events/en/Background'paper.pdf?ua=1~~ HWIC AND and outlines the impact of some of the differences between vaccines and medicines. C. Reasons to prefer1. Limits — allowing any patented medical intervention includes testing and screening methods, surgery, contact tracing software etc. which takes away generics like innovation bc that applies to pharmaceutical development not distribution of preventative measures which explodes neg prep burden2. Precision — we cite the WHO which proves common usage — they add a whole new caselist based on social medicine which kills predictability — that's k2 pre-tournament prep and deep clash around the core topic controversy. Reject counter-interps without a positive vision of the topic — otherwise they can always shift the goalposts | 9/18/21 |
utilTournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale KS | Judge: Chris Castillo 1~1~ Personal identity reductionism is true – if the hemispheres of my brain were transplanted into 2 different people, neither would be me.Parfit 84. Derek Parfit 1984, "Reasons and Persons", Oxford Paperbacks AND standing there behind the net, is in fact another part of myself. ~2~ Justifies util.Gruzalski 86. Bart Gruzalski 86 ~UChicago~, "Parfit's Impact on Utilitarianism", Ethics, Vol. 96, No. 4, July 1986. AND becomes significantly more plausible than any of its person-centered theoretical competitors. ~3~ Rationality fails as an objective starting point for ethics – through drugs like alcohol individuals can temporarily cease to be agents yet can still make decisions. Irrationalism resolves this contradiction of identity – individuals take action based on subconscious emotive responses to pain and pleasure.Schlimme 04 (Jann Schlimme is a professor of psychiatry and philosophy. "Philosophy and Psychiatry: Towards a Philosophical Anthropology of Addiction." Walter de Gruyter. January 1, 2004. Page 271-273.) WW JA 2/15/18 AND in a more general way via changes of the equilibrium (Tsouyopoulos 1984). ~4~ States must use util.Goodin 90. Robert Goodin 90, ~professor of philosophy at the Australian National University college of arts and social sciences~, "The Utilitarian Response," pgs 141-142 RS AND want to use it at all – to choose general rules or conduct. ~5~ Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. All frameworks are functionally topicality interpretations of the word ought so they must theoretically justified. Prefer – ground – both debaters are guaranteed access to ground – Aff gets plans and advantages, while Neg gets disads and counterplans. Additionally, anything can function as an impact as long as an external benefit is articulated, so all your offense applies. B~ topic lit – most debate education comes from debating the topic, o/w phil edu – we can learn about phil in books but clash is unqiue to debate~6~ Util is a lexical pre-requisite to any other framework-threats to bodily security and life preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively utilize and act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibit the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose – so, util comes first and my offense outweighs theirs under their own framework.~7~ No intent-foresight distinction — if we foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of our deliberation which makes it intrinsic to our action since we intend it to happen.~8~ 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.~9~ Science proves non util ethics are impossible.Greene 10 – Joshua, Associate Professor of Social science in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University AND religion, they don't really explain what's distinctive about the philosophy in question. | 11/21/21 |
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