Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sugar Land SpiderSmart AH | Judge: Shelby Randolph
1AC - Space Cap
I affirm the resolution, “Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.”
The value for the round is clearly justice as whether or not the appropriation of outer space by private entities is or is not just is the question posed by the resolution. So only a value of justice will answer the question of the resolution. Random House Unabridged Dictionary defines justice to mean, “just treatment of all members of society with regard to a specified public issue, including equitable distribution of resources and participation in decision-making.” Prefer this definition as it recognizes the worth of all people in society. We should look to the text of the resolution whenever possible as doing so empowers us to actually resolve the debate. In other words, proving the appropriation of outer space by private entities is moral, leads to human flourishing, or enhances life would not resolve the topic unless those other values were demonstrably linked to justice. So unless my opponent upholds justice you can already prefer my framework on topical relevance and focus.
Roberts ’21, Spencer Roberts (a science writer, musician, ecologist, and rooftop solar engineer from Colorado), “We Need a Socialist Vision for Space Exploration,” Jacobin, September 8, 2021, https://jacobinmag.com/2021/09/socialist-space-exploration- publicly-funded-nasa-education-futurism
Finally, a socialist vision for space exploration could enable us to reach our full
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a flag, but seed a concept of what we can collectively achieve.
So the criterion is embracing a collectivized vision for space exploration. Prefer this as a collectivized vision for space exploration meets our definition of justice by
1) ensuring there is an equitable distribution of resources as they are discovered and utilized in our efforts in outer space and
2) ensuring participation in decision-making of all nations and peoples as space is explored and utilized in a cooperative manner.
So only a collectivized vision for space exploration achieves justice in the context of the resolution. If I prove that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is a rejection of this collectivized vision, we must affirm.
Levine ’15, Nick Levine (an MPhil candidate in history of science at the University of Cambridge), “Democratize the Universe,” Jacobin, March 21, 2015, https://jacobinmag.com/2015/03/space-industry-extraction-levine
As an alternative to the laissez-faire approach advocated by many private interests,
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attempted to protect space for the benefit and cooperative use of all people.
Levine ’15, Nick Levine (an MPhil candidate in history of science at the University of Cambridge), “Democratize the Universe,” Jacobin, March 21, 2015, https://jacobinmag.com/2015/03/space-industry-extraction-levine
Recent US plans for outer space development, shaped overwhelmingly by Silicon Valley’s intuitions
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forward, and it is uncertain exactly when and how this will happen.
The appropriation of outer space by private entities is a rejection of the collectivized vision of outer space by making space a safe space only for a few, private individuals who plan to extend the reach of capitalism to outer space to entrench greater inequality on earth.
Victor L. Shammas and Tomas B. Holen, Shammas is a professor of Criminology and Sociology of Law at the University of Oslo and Holen is an Independent Scholar, 2019, “One giant leap for capitalistkind: private enterprise in outer space”, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0218-9 (accessed: 07/08/21)
But how are we to understand NewSpace? In some ways, NewSpace signals the
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including Boeing and Lockheed Martin, in Cold War-era Space Age.
The appropriation of outer space by private entities will extend labor marginalization and exploitation into space.
Marx ’20, Paris Marx (a socialist writer and host of the Tech Won't Save Us podcast), “Yes to Space Exploration. No to Space Capitalism,” Jacobin, June 8, 2020, https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/spacex-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-capitalism
Musk tweeted a plan for Martian indentured servitude
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many of those trillion workers toiling for their space overlord and his descendants.
Marsh 95, Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, PhD from Northwestern University
(James, Critique Action and Liberation, p 277)
Ideally, nature, workers' own bodies, and the world around them, should
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in their wealth and think that it is the source of their value.
Levine ’15, Nick Levine (an MPhil candidate in history of science at the University of Cambridge), “Democratize the Universe,” Jacobin, March 21, 2015, https://jacobinmag.com/2015/03/space-industry-extraction-levine
The history of the Moon Treaty serves as a reminder that outer space is not
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entities as it is unjust and so we must affirm. Thank You.\
1 If I win one layer vote aff
a Time skew--neg has 7 minutes to uplayer and makes the round impossible to win
b It forces you to engage with the aff creating substantive discussion on something we both had time to prep for
2 The neg may only make one response to each argument in the aff and must answer them all
a Makes sure we have an equal number of arguments for reciprocity
b Solves flooding the 1ar since you choose the best answers
3 Neg must only defend the converse of the res
a Prep Skew--I disclosed the case but you didn’t disclose the counter advocacy text meaning you’ll always be more ready for the debate than me
b Strat Skew- the aff can only indict the squo, which means alternative advocacies moot all aff offense forcing a 1ar restart and creating a 13-7 skew