Cambridge Rindge Sussman Aff
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| apple valley | 1 | strake jh | ben holguin |
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| yale | 2 | stuyvesant kf | carolyn lau |
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| yale | 6 | syosset jw | paul zhou |
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| yale | Quarters | collegiate ew | lawrence, traber, zhou |
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| yale | Semis | lake highland aa | gorthey, lawrence, zhang |
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| yale | 4 | Opponent: scarsdale ml | Judge: wesley hu Levinas NC and offensive spikes must have full voters and stuff |
| yale | Quarters | Opponent: collegiate ew | Judge: lawrence, traber, zhou Non-verifiable theory bad and black nihilism |
| yale | Semis | Opponent: lake highland aa | Judge: gorthey, lawrence, zhang Deleuze static identity K and burden NC where I had to prove that governments can instill absolute prohibitions |
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0 - disclosure theoryTournament: all | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all Interpretation: Debaters must disclose previously run constructive positions – all cases, off cases and theory arguments – at least 30 minutes before the round on the NDCA wiki or when asked. This means providing proper citations for all evidence including first three and last three words and tags as well as advocacy, standard, and interpretation texts. | 11/5/16 |
0 - email and round reports noteTournament: all | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all Email: ollieqs@gmail.com | 11/5/16 |
1 - broken interpsTournament: all | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all If the neg reads a counterplan, they must read carded evidence that explicitly advocates all planks of it. If debaters argue that the role of the ballot is to endorse the best method for black-empowerment, they must specify whether we use an ends-based or means-based decision metric. If debaters justify competing interpretations, they must specify what their conception of competing interps means, specifically whether we use a norm-setting model or in-round abuse model, whether I need an explicit competitive counter-interp, and whether I can beat their shell on defense alone. A very long conjunctive interp against a NIB-y 1nc i dont remember it ask Gillian Zipursky The neg can’t read 7 reasons why the resolution is impossible. If the neg defines terms of the resolution, they must have a cite for the definition in the speech doc, which must include at least a URL. The neg can't read a plan-inclusive counterplan. The neg can't reserve the right to trigger presumption in the 2NR. If the neg reads a kritik of Kant, they must read an explicit advocacy text in the 1NC. | 11/5/16 |
nd - 1ac - qANTified immANUELityTournament: apple valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: strake jh | Judge: ben holguin FrameworkThe existence of extrinsic goodness requires unconditional human worth—that means we must treat others as ends in themselves.Korsgaard '83 (Christine M., "Two Distinctions in Goodness," The Philosophical Review Vol. 92, No. 2 (Apr., 1983), pp. 169-195, JSTOR) OS The standard is consistency with universal law.Practical reason solves regress—it's impossible to deny reason's authority.Velleman (David, "Self To Self", Cambridge University Press, 2006, pg 18-19) ~2~ Only the categorical imperative allows for an autonomous will—my framework is self-imposed by the structure of the will, so the will can be the cause of itself.Korsgaard (Christine, Morality as Freedom, http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~~korsgaar/CMK.Morality.as.Freedom.pdf) OS All claims to freedom are provisional until brought under the public right. It is a contradiction to will a world in which one's will can be denied—this necessitates an omnilateral will.Kant (Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 1781) *bracketed for gendered language* AdvocacyI defend the resolution as a general principle. Specific type of limiting is irrelevant—it's a question of the general maxim behind QI. You can link disads to any type of QI limitation.Contention 1 is Tort LawQI stops tort litigation.Chen 06 That's a violation of universal law—both positive and negative duties obligate us to always pay damages.Ripstein 04 Contention 2 is the ConstitutionAnd, QI means we never clearly define constitutional rights, which causes infinite violations over time.Beerman 9 Contention 3 is PoliceLawsuits solve rights violations.Gilles '01 (Mirriam, Assistant Professor, Cardozo Law School, "In Defense of making Government Pay: The Deterrent Effect of Constitutional Tort Remedies," Georgia Law Review, Vol. 35, 2001.) OS bracketed for gender UnderviewAbstraction is great.Farr '02 The Kantian subject is the embodied subject.Farr '02 | 11/5/16 |
nd - 1ac - qANTified immANUELity v2Tournament: apple valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: stuyvesant py | Judge: terrance lonam UnderviewAbstraction is great.Farr '02 This outweighs—problems with ethical theories stem from the nature of us, not moral phil.Wood ~Kantian Ethics ALLEN W. WOOD Stanford University~ Ideal theory provides a fixed goal.Swift '12: (Adam Swift, British Poliicla Philosopher, Oxford University "Ideal and Nonideal Theory" Oxford Handbooks Online. June 2012. FT) Ideal theory is in no way incompatible with a radical agenda—broad principles can inspire broad sweeping change and allow previously-excluded groups to claim political agency.Holmstrom ~Holmstrom, Nancy ~Prof. Emeritus @ Rutgers~. "Response to Charles Mills's." Radical Philosophy Review 15.2 (2012): 325-330.~ Try or die for meta-ethics debate—it solves extinction of the entire galaxy.Muehlhauser 11 | 11/5/16 |
so - 1ac - nuclear priesthoodTournament: yale | Round: 2 | Opponent: stuyvesant kf | Judge: carolyn lau 1ACPart 1 is Framework====Critical analysis of modern energy systems must examine social context – understanding nuclear power and its effects in the democratic setting is key to disrupting technological optimism.==== Part 1 is the Nuclear StateInevitable switch to plutonium recycling causes centralization, securitization, and civil liberty violations.Winner 86 (Langdon Winner, 1986, "The Whale and the Reactor," University of Chicago Press, https://www.ratical.org/ratville/AoS/WhaleAndReactor.pdf)** MBB ====Atomic energy systems have weaved politics and science into a sociotechnical culture where democracy is exchanged for profit. Nuclear energy prioritizes securitization in an increasingly militarized society.==== The nuclear state empowers a minority elite and exacerbates a culture of violence with suppression and imperialism.Jungk 79 (Robert Jungk, trans. by Christopher Trump 1979, "The New Tyranny: How Nuclear Power Enslaves Us," Grosset and Dunlap) MBB ====A technocratic government relegates all of our decision-making to faith in a warped "expertocracy" – secrecy and classification have crowded out debate on the critical analysis of nuclear power as an embodiment of a techno-political regime at war with freethinking. The roll of the ballot is to embrace heresy in the face of a nuclear priesthood by dismantling the atomic state at its political roots. Divorcing ourselves from the technocratic elite is the only way to reassert democratic debate in nuclear policymaking.==== Part 2 is Solvency====Nuclear energy stratifies all levels of society propping up patriarchy, intellectual division of labor, and capitalism at the profit of elites and the expense of the marginalized – dismantling the atomic energy system is synonymous with unwrapping these divisive systems. ==== Thus the plan. Resolved: Countries should prohibit the production of nuclear power.Renewable growth is HUGE – shift will be to renewables not fossil fuelsSchneider et al 11 ====Nuclear power requires authoritative control – renewables function more democratically.==== UnderviewDebating about government policies is a valuable heuristic — we can learn about the state without being it. Their radical framework eliminates the potential for political agency and oversimplifies complex, contingent relationships. Instead of rejecting government policies in general, we should analyze particular policies.Zanotti 13 — Laura Zanotti, Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University, 2013 ("Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 38, Issue 4, November, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via SAGE Publications Online, p. 299-300) | 9/17/16 |
so - 1ac - omnilateral willTournament: yale | Round: 4 | Opponent: scarsdale ml | Judge: wesley hu fw====There must be a right to set ends, otherwise ethics is incoherent since it assumes subjects deliberate between multiple possible courses of action. However, to prevent this right from becoming contingent, we must have a conception of property.==== ====Next, property requires the existence of the general will—rights in the state of nature are provisional, and disputes could only be resolved through unilateral coercion. That means the state is legitimate in coercively enforcing rights claims.==== This outweighs:~A~ Property rights must be determined a priori, as possession is abstracted from empirical circumstance.Kant (Immanuel, The Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy 2nd edition, edited by Mary Gregor, 1996, 1797) OS And, that means the coercive general will is key—unilateral wills cannot make conclusive rights claims since they are bound contingently rather than a priori.Kant (Immanuel, The Metaphysics of Morals, Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy 2nd edition, edited by Mary Gregor, 1996, 1797) OS Thus, the standard is maintaining a system of equal outer freedom.advocacyI defend the resolution as a general principle. If they wish, I'm willing to specify any country or set of countries that currently has nuclear power. I can also specify either immediate decommissioning or a 10-year phase-out.contentionFirst is environmental justice:~A~ Even standard nuclear power production causes health problems.Perrow 13 ~Charles Perrow, emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University and visiting professor at Stanford University, "Nuclear denial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2013~ bracketed for grammar ====~B~ Nuclear production requires racism. ==== ====~C~ Uranium mining is harmful and disproportionately affects oppressed communities.==== ~2~ Nuclear power amounts to deriving personal benefit at the cost of future generations. This treats individuals as mere means.Routley and Routley '78 (Richard and Val, Plumwood Mountain, "Nuclear energy and obligations to the future," Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 21:1-4, 133-179, TandF) OS ~3~ The nature of property rights is such that consuming finite, non-renewable resources like uranium is self-contradictory. This is a violation of freedom for which coercive restriction is a legitimate response.Ataner '12 (KANT ON FREEDOM, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. ATTILA ATANER, B.A., J.D. McMaster University MASTER OF ARTS (2012) Hamilton, Ontario (Philosophy). https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/12678/1/fulltext.pdf) OS ~4~ Nuclear power requires government subsidies—that subjects individuals' means to the ends of the state.Schneider et al 11 | 9/20/16 |
so - 1ac - omnilateral will v2Tournament: yale | Round: Quarters | Opponent: collegiate ew | Judge: lawrence, traber, zhou 1ac shortfw====There must be a right to set ends, otherwise ethics is incoherent since it assumes subjects deliberate between multiple possible courses of action. However, to prevent this right from becoming contingent, we must have a conception of property.==== ====Next, property requires the existence of the general will—rights in the state of nature are provisional, and disputes could only be resolved through unilateral coercion. That means the state is legitimate in coercively enforcing rights claims.==== Thus, the standard is maintaining a system of equal outer freedom.advocacyI defend the resolution as a general principle. If they wish, I'm willing to specify any country or set of countries that currently has nuclear power. I can also specify either immediate decommissioning or a 10-year phase-out.contentionFirst is environmental justice:~A~ Even standard nuclear power production causes health problems.Perrow 13 ~Charles Perrow, emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University and visiting professor at Stanford University, "Nuclear denial: From Hiroshima to Fukushima," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 2013~ bracketed for grammar ====~B~ Nuclear production requires racism. ==== ====~C~ Uranium mining is harmful and disproportionately affects oppressed communities.==== ~2~ Nuclear power amounts to deriving personal benefit at the cost of future generations. This treats individuals as mere means.Routley and Routley '78 (Richard and Val, Plumwood Mountain, "Nuclear energy and obligations to the future," Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 21:1-4, 133-179, TandF) OS ~3~ The nature of property rights is such that consuming finite, non-renewable resources like uranium is self-contradictory. This is a violation of freedom for which coercive restriction is a legitimate response.Ataner '12 (KANT ON FREEDOM, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION. ATTILA ATANER, B.A., J.D. McMaster University MASTER OF ARTS (2012) Hamilton, Ontario (Philosophy). https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/bitstream/11375/12678/1/fulltext.pdf) OS ~4~ Nuclear power requires government subsidies—that subjects individuals' means to the ends of the state.Schneider et al 11 underview 1A~ Interpretation: Debaters may only read positions that are disclosed before the debate on their NDCA wiki page under their own name with full citations, tags, and first three/last three words.B~ Violation:C~ Prefer—1~ Quality engagement2~ Reciprocity3~ Academic EthicsD~ Voters—Fairness, educationunderview 2Kant Ks don't link to the framework—they only relate to the anthropology he applied to practical reason and moral philosophy. Not only is his political philosophy distinct, it compelled him to revise his racist views.Kleingeld 7 (Pauline Kleingeld, Professor at the University of Groningen, "KANT'S SECOND THOUGHTS ON RACE," Philosophical Quarterly, 2007, http://www.rug.nl/staff/pauline.kleingeld/kleingeld-kant-on-race-pq.pdf) Abstraction is great.Farr '02 | 9/20/16 |
so - 1ac - ordo amorisTournament: yale | Round: Semis | Opponent: lake highland aa | Judge: gorthey, lawrence, zhang FrameworkHumans possess a tripartite soul—the will must act as an intermediary between reason and desire, or else moral decision-making and culpability could not be possible, nor could we explain any weakness of the will.Davidson '70 (Donald, "How is Weakness of the Will is Possible?," Essays on Actions and Events, pp. 21-43) OS bracketed for gender Next, objects inherently merit certain responses—our passions are not arbitrary. Ethics consists of getting those responses right. Otherwise A~ we could not connect reason to desire, and B~ we could not even explain why truth merits a certain response, namely belief, which would render reasoning impossible.CS Lewis '43 (The Abolition of Man, https://archive.org/stream/TheAbolitionOfMan_229/C.s.Lewis-TheAbolitionOfMan_djvu.txt) OS bracketed for gender Every object contains some good—even pain helps us move around safely. But responses cannot be appropriate or inappropriate unconditionally—taking pleasure in another's suffering is morally deplorable. The solution is determining proper degrees of love.Augustine of Hippo 426 A.D. (The City of God vol. 2, chapters 5 and 22, http://st-takla.org/books/en/ecf/102/index.html) OS Thus, the standard is consistency with the Ordo Amoris, or affording objects appropriate degrees of love. This is not aggregative—for example, even if I love cake, I ought not love 10 cakes more than I love my parents. Moreover, the quantity of love is irrelevant—it's a relational question. I can have ridiculous love for myself and still not be selfish if I love others even more.Additionally:~1~ Prefer the AC's virtue-ethical nature—other theories fail to holistically account for how we ought to live. That also means motivations alone are relevant, independent of solvency.
~2~ Reject demands for perfect articulation of reasons for our order of valuation. No matter how many reasons I give you for why I love my parents, I can never fully express this love to you, but that does not mean this love is unjustified. Philosophy places too much emphasis on this articulacy.Ebels-Duggan '15 (Kyla, "More than Words Can Say: On Inarticulacy and Normative Commitment," Pea Soup, 6/24, http://peasoup.typepad.com/peasoup/2015/06/more-than-words-can-say-on-inarticulacy-and-normative-commitment-by-kyla-ebels-duggan.html) OS AdvocacyI defend the resolution as a general principle. If they wish, I'm willing to specify any country or set of countries that currently has nuclear power. I can also specify either immediate decommissioning or a 10-year phase-out.Contention 1 is technologyFirst is humanity: pro-nuclear beliefs value technological progress over people. They stratify society by placing power into the hands of the few, and inhibit virtue by causing us to underestimate our own moral and cognitive limitations. This sustains the dominant viewpoint that technological development is synonymous with human growth.
Misinterpreting cognitive limitations means we can never properly order our values, so I control the internal link to other offense. The state must promote starting points for virtue.Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics, translated by CDC Reeve in 2014) OS Second is nature: nuclear power requires an anthropocentric outlook that reduces the natural world to its mere instrumental utility. This denies the intrinsic worth inherent in all being and prioritizes fleeting ends over the wellbeing of the earth.Pope Francis '15 ("ENCYCLICAL LETTER LAUDATO SI' OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS: ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME." 5/24, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html) OS Contention 2 is authoritarianismNuclear power forces the reconstruction of social relationships in a way that necessitates authoritarianism—that values state dominance and security over unconditional moral worth and personal liberty.Lawrence 7/1 (Andrew Lawrence, 16, 7-1-2016, "Nuclear energy and path dependence in Europe's 'Energy union': coherence or continued divergence?: Climate Policy: Vol 16, No 5," Taylor andamp; Francis, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14693062.2016.1179616) MBB | 9/20/16 |
so - 1ac - us utilTournament: yale | Round: 6 | Opponent: syosset jw | Judge: paul zhou FWMoral disagreement means epistemic reliability must be the starting point for ethics.Neil Sinhababu '13 The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Nietzsche, National University of Singapore That means util—phenomenal introspection is most epistemically reliable.Neil Sinhababu '13 The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Nietzsche, National University of Singapore Thus, the standard is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. Additionally:Moral substitutability is true and only consequentialism explains it.Walter Sinnott-Armstrong '92 Dartmouth College Philosophical Perspectives, 6, Ethics, AN ARGUMENT FOR CONSEQUENTIALISM Metaphysics:A~ Language cannot describe reality, which means a priori knowledge fails.Conard '07 (Mark T, prof @ Marmount Manhattan, "Chaos, Order and Morality: Nietzsche's Influence on Full Metal Jacket," The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick edited by Jerold J. Abrams) B~ We have no unified consciousness.Parfit '84 (Derek, Reasons and Persons) brackets for gender Role of the BallotDebates about policy consequences are key to political activism.Coverstone 5 ~MBA (Alan, Acting on Activism) Adv 1 is ProlifNuke power causes nuclear prolifShrader-Frechette 8 ~Kristin; teaches biological sciences and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame; "Five Myths About Nuclear Energy"; American Magazine, 6/23; http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10884~~ Bad security and transferring intel leads to weaponizationPedraza 12 Proliferation risks extinctionDavid Wolfe (Director, Oppenheimer Institute for Science and International Co-operation), 11/13/2011 (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/13/pragmatic-approaches-to-nuclear-proliferation, Accessed 8/3/2014, rwg) Nuclear terrorism causes nuclear warAyson, '10 Adv 2 is Natural Gas PricesNuclear power drives down natural gas pricesAdams 9 ~Chief Contributor for Atomic Energy Insights and small nuclear plant operator/designer; "Nuclear Energy Growth Might Turn Promises of Low Natural Gas Prices Into a Reality"; atomicinsights.com/2009/11/nuclear-energy-growth-might-turn-promises-of-low-natural-gas-prices-into-a-reality.html~ US gas exports collapse the Russian economyMead 12 ~Professor of Foreign Affairs at Bard; "North American Shale Gas Gives Russia Serious Headache"; blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/04/25/north-american-shale-gas-gives-russia-serious-headache/~ ExtinctionFilger 9 ~Columnist and founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com; "Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction"; www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html; JLB (8/8/2016)~ Adv 3 is Animals====Nuclear cooling systems kill lots of sea animals.==== ====Regulations don't solve—they're not enforced.==== Fish feel pain.Griffiths '14 (Sarah, Daily Mail, "Fish have feelings too: Expert claims creatures experience pain in the same way humans do - and should be treated better," 6/19, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2662297/Fish-feelings-Expert-claims-creatures-experience-pain-way-humans-better-treated.html) OS Animal suffering matters—if they say humans outweigh that's a voting issue and justifies racism.Singer 02 (Peter Singer is the author of Writings on an Ethical Life, Practical Ethics; and Rethinking Life arid Death; among many others. Re is currently the Ira W. De Camp Professor of Bio ethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values Animal Liberation 2002. Pg. 8-9.) This is a D-rule—rejecting anthro is key in educational spaces.Pederson 04: SolvencyThus the plan: The United States ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.====Disads are non-unique—nuclear will become unprofitable soon.==== Nuke ban accelerates renewables breakthroughs – Germany provesKorosec 11 UnderviewNebel T is racist.Niemi '15 (Rebar, "Mr. Nebel's neighborhood, OR Nebel Tea – I sip it.," 9/22, http://premierdebatetoday.com/2015/09/22/nebel-t-i-sip-it/) OS | 9/18/16 |
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