Cambridge Rindge Sussman Neg
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| apple valley | 2 | millard north gb | louie kollar |
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| apple valley | 4 | lakeville north ng | michael ipposito |
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| apple valley | 5 | lake highland aa | carlos taylor |
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| apple valley | Doubles | strake jh | hock, powell, you |
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| bronx | 6 | walt whitman xr | rahul gossain |
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| bronx | Quarters | harrison rp | gossain, hu, legried |
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| bronx rr | 1 | harrison rp | rashed, evnen |
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| bronx rr | 6 | lake highland aa | rosero, nebel |
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| yale | 1 | ridge vt | cameron cohen |
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| yale | 3 | edgemont yl | christian tarsney |
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| yale | Doubles | whitman xr | lau, hu, li |
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| yale | Finals | success academy sc | cook, coyne, zhang |
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| yale | 5 | Opponent: valley tg | Judge: richard shmikler Gewirth aff |
| yale | Finals | Opponent: success academy sc | Judge: cook, coyne, zhang Whole rez aff about racialized impact of nuclear power |
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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. Interpretation: Affirmatives may only read cases that have been disclosed at least 15 minutes before the round as the case that they will read. | 9/20/16 |
0 - email and round reports noteTournament: all | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all Email: ollieqs@gmail.com | 9/20/16 |
1 - broken interpsTournament: all | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all If the aff says “No link to implementation args cause I’ll defend those – they aren’t relevant to affirming/negating the burden” in the 1AC, they can’t tell me during my prep that they won’t grant me links to disads. Debaters may not represent two different passages from a scholarly source as one continuous card. | 9/20/16 |
1 - frameworkTournament: bronx rr | Round: 6 | Opponent: lake highland aa | Judge: rosero, nebel Interpretation: the aff should ONLY defend enactment of a topical plan—that means a state policy actionVote neg –1. Preparation and clash—changing the topic post facto manipulates balance of prep, which structurally favors the aff because they speak last and permute alternatives—strategic fairness is key to engaging a well-prepared opponent – they monopolize strategy and subvert any meaningful neg roleRyan Galloway 7, Samford Comm prof, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007 2. Only maintaining a limited topic of discussion and a clear stasis for both teams provides the necessary and requisite foundation for decision-making and advocacy skills and ensures clash within debates – even if they are contestable, that is different from being valuably debatable, which link turns education argumentsSteinberg and Freeley '8 *Austin J. Freeley is a Boston based attorney who focuses on criminal, personal injury and civil rights law, AND David L. Steinberg , Lecturer of Communication Studies @ U Miami, Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making pp45- Topicality is a call for engagement – contestation and deliberation allows for testing of the affs ideas which allows us to defend ourselves against the best version of your opponent which bolsters advocacy and allows us to actualize the politics of the 1AC. Having a devil's advocate is critical to avoid sliding to dogmatism and groupthinkTalisse, 5 Vanderbilt philosophy professor Robert, "Deliberativist responses to activist challenges", Philosophy and Social Criticism, 31.4, project muse | 10/14/16 |
1 - framework v2Tournament: apple valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: millard north gb | Judge: louie kollar The aff can't defend a limitation on qualified immunity only as a state of affairs—they have to defend it as a policy action."United States ought to" means the debate is solely about a policy established by governmental meansEricson '03 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater's Guide, Third Edition, p. 4) First — Deliberation Skills. Topicality facilitates a process of successive debates that develops important skills and fosters appreciation for multiple perspectives. Abandoning the topic forecloses the educational and democratic benefits of debate.Lundberg 10 — Christian O. Lundberg, Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, 2010 ("The Allred Initiative and Debate Across the Curriculum: Reinventing the Tradition of Debate at North Carolina," Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century, Edited by Allan D. Louden, Published by the International Debate Education Association, ISBN 9781617700293, p. 299) Second — Constructive Constraints. Absolute affirmative flexibility leaves the negative without meaningful ground to advance well-developed counter-arguments. Establishing boundaries is important because they spur imagination and innovation, improving the quality of debates.Thomas and Brown 11 — Douglas Thomas, Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, founding member of the Critical and Cultural Studies division of the National Communication Association, holds a Ph. D. in Communication from the University of Minnesota, and John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar and Adviser to the Provost at the University of Southern California, independent cochairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, former Chief Scientist and Director of the Palo Alto Research Center at Xerox, holds a Ph.D. in Computer and Communication Sciences from the University of Michigan, 2011 ("A Tale of Two Cultures," A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change, Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, ISBN 1456458884, p. 35) Debaters quit—if the aff is a valuable discussion at all then quitting is even worse since debate is a valuable forumSpiece '03 (Speice and Lyle Patrick Speice, Debater at Wake Forest University, and Jim Lyle, Director of Debate at Clarion University, 2003, "Traditional Policy Debate: Now More Than Ever," Debater's Research Guide, Available Online at http://groups.wfu.edu/debate/ MiscSites/DRGArticles/SpeiceLyle2003htm.htm, Accessed 09-11-2005) Engaging the state goodCoverstone 5 ~MBA (Alan, Acting on Activism) | 11/5/16 |
2 - ballot kTournament: apple valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: millard north gb | Judge: louie kollar Their call for a ballot is bad—tying the 1AC to a desire for recognition by an external social authority facilitates dependence on authority which turns caseMcGowan 13 ~Todd, Prof @ U of VT, "Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis", p. 87-90, Project MUSE~ The ballot is a form of interest convergence between the judge and the aff – this pacifying inclusive gesture replicates academic domination through liberal appropriation whilst perpetuating stasis through guilt assuasionChow – Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities @ Brown - 1993 The alternative is to vote neg to vote aff. | 11/5/16 |
2 - tuck and yangTournament: yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: ridge vt | Judge: cameron cohen Ethnology is coloniality remade. The academy only grants visibility to the subaltern when they express narratives of pain—the aff's ventriloquist, damage-centered research feeds into a cycle of commodification that replicates colonialismTuck and Yang '14 ~Eve and K. Wayne, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, SUNY New Paltz and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies @ UC San Diego, "R-Words: Refusing Research," Humanizing Research, p. 223-226, (https://faculty.newpaltz.edu/evetuck/files/2013/12/Tuck-and-Yang-R-Words_Refusing-Research.pdf)~~ PO language modified The alternative is to refuse the affirmative's damage-focused research in favor of desire-focused research—this is not subtractive, but generativeTuck and Yang '14 ~Eve and K. Wayne, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, SUNY New Paltz and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego, "R-Words: Refusing Research," Humanizing Research, p. 237-242, (https://faculty.newpaltz.edu/evetuck/files/2013/12/Tuck-and-Yang-R-Words_Refusing-Research.pdf)~~ PO brackets for grammar only Desired-centered research does not deny tragedy nor erase memory of pain; rather, it embraces the complexity of lived experience to allow bodies to write their own historyTuck and Yang '14 ~Eve and K. Wayne, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations @ SUNY New Paltz and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies @ UC San Diego, "R-Words: Refusing Research," Humanizing Research, 2014 (https://faculty.newpaltz.edu/evetuck/files/2013/12/Tuck-and-Yang-R-Words_Refusing-Research.pdf)~~ PO | 9/17/16 |
2 - util fwTournament: apple valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: lakeville north ng | Judge: michael ipposito Moral 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 | 11/5/16 |
nd - da - court clogTournament: apple valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: lakeville north ng | Judge: michael ipposito Judiciary is intact now but we're on the brink—courts are clogged at historic levels.Bannon '13 (Alicia Bannon serves as counsel for the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, where her work focuses on judicial selection and promoting fair and impartial courts. Ms. Bannon also previously served as a Liman Fellow and Counsel in the Brennan Center's Justice Program. J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where she was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal. "Testimony: More Judges Needed in Federal Courts," Brennan Center, 9/13, http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/testimony-federal-courts-need-more-judges) OS Qualified immunity is key to solve overburdened federal courts.Putnam and Ferris '92 (Charles T., Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire and another Charles T., JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center, "Defending a Maligned Defense: The Policy Bases of the Qualified Immunity Defense in Actions Under 42 USC 1983," Bridgeport Law Review, Vol. 12, 1992) OS Federal court clog causes collapses the federal judiciary – overburdens dockets, expansion can't keep pace.Oakley '96 (John B. Oakley, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus US Davis School of Law, 1996 The Myth of Cost-Free Jurisdictional Reallocation) Separation of power solves unaccountable decisions to go to war – causes extinction.Adler '96 (David, professor of political science at Idaho State, The Constitution and Conduct of American Foreign Policy, p. 23-25) | 11/5/16 |
nd - da - crimeTournament: apple valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: lakeville north ng | Judge: michael ipposito Lack of immunity would open police up to a flood of litigation that hamgstrings law enforcement.King 16 Decline of active and engaged policing is driving a record spike in crime, caused by police fear of backlashHofstetter 16 Violent crime creates self-reinforcing cycles that doom youth.Reich et al. '02: (Kathleen Reich, M.P.P., Patti L. Culross, M.D., M.P.H., and Richard E. Behrman, M.D. "Children, Youth, and Gun Violence: Analysis and Recommendations." The Future of Children. Children, Youth, and Gun Violence. Volume 12 – Number 2 Summer/Fall 2002FT) Gun violence kills – in 2010 it was 6,000.Pew Research '13: (Pew Research. "Blacks Suffer Disproportionate Share of Firearm Homicide Deaths." MAY 21, 2013FT) | 11/5/16 |
nd - nc - logical consequenceTournament: apple valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: lake highland aa | Judge: carlos taylor Ought is "used to express logical consequence" as defined by Merriam-Webster (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ought) so the neg burden is to prove that limitations on qualified immunity won't logically happen in the status quo, and the aff burden is to prove that they will. Prefer my interp:~A~ Reciprocity~B~ Neg ground~C~ Resolvability—A~ analytic, B~ moral framework debate is impossible.Joyce 02 Joyce, Richard. Myth of Morality. Port Chester, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 2002. p 45-47. ~D~ Aff ground—moral knowledge is inaccessible, so they'll always lose under their interp.Wittgenstein Ludwig, "Lecture on Ethics" Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches pg, 67 ~E~ Education~F~ TextI contend that limiting qualified immunity won't happen.The trend is going the other way—SCOTUS is expanding qualified immunity.Kinports '16 (Kit, Penn State Law, "The Supreme Court's Quiet Expansion of Qualified Immunity," Minnesota Law Review, 2016) OS | 11/5/16 |
nd - theory - liability specTournament: apple valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: lake highland aa | Judge: carlos taylor Interpretation: The aff must specify who pays for damages resulting from successful lawsuits in a world of limited qualified immunity.Bernick '15 clarifies 3 different methods (Evan is the Assistant Director of the Center for Judicial Engagement at the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm. "To Hold Police Accountable, Don't Give Them Immunity," 5/6, FEE, https://fee.org/articles/to-hold-police-accountable-dont-give-them-immunity/) OS Violation: they don'tStandards:~1~ Stable ground~2~ Depth | 11/5/16 |
nd - theory - limit specTournament: apple valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: lake highland aa | Judge: carlos taylor Interp: Aff must specify a particular method through which they limit qualified immunity. To clarify, they need to specify that they limit a particular feature of QI, an aspect of the legal procedure of QI, or the scope of QI.Violation:~1~ Stable advocacy~2~ Legal education | 11/5/16 |
so - cp - enviro justice adv cpTournament: bronx rr | Round: 1 | Opponent: harrison rp | Judge: rashed, evnen Counterplan text: Countries ought to require a consent-based siting process for nuclear power development, and ban uranium mining on indigenous lands.Consent solvesOrr 15 ~Franklin (Lynn) Orr 15, Under Secretary for Science and Energy, 12-21-2015, "Finding Long-Term Solutions for Nuclear Waste," Energy.gov, http://www.energy.gov/articles/finding-long-term-solutions-nuclear-waste~~ AG Mining ban solvesLaDuke 05 | 10/14/16 |
so - cp - lftrTournament: yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: whitman xr | Judge: lau, hu, li Counterplan text: The Republic of Singapore ought to acquire nuclear power only from Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors.LFTRs solve your offenseCooper 15 ~Ryan Cooper 15, 6-18-2015, "Why the U.S. should invest a lot more in nuclear research," The Week, http://theweek.com/articles/561192/why-should-invest-lot-more-nuclear-research~~ AG | 9/19/16 |
so - cp - secrecyTournament: bronx | Round: 6 | Opponent: walt whitman xr | Judge: rahul gossain | 10/16/16 |
so - da - coalTournament: bronx rr | Round: 1 | Opponent: harrison rp | Judge: rashed, evnen Coal is declining globallyBuckley 5/16 ~Tim Buckley, Director of Energy Finance Studies, Australasia, Tim Buckley has 25 years of financial markets experience, specializing in equity valuation, including as a top-rated analyst and as co-founder and managing director of Arkx Investment Management, 5-16-2016, "Coal Decline Steepens in 2016 in India, China, U.S.," Institute for Energy Economics andamp; Financial Analysis, http://ieefa.org/coal-decline-steepens-2016-2/~~ AG Plan causes shift to fossil fuelsRoston 15 ~Eric Roston, writer for Bloomberg, "Why Nuclear Power Is All but Dead in the U.S." Bloomberg News, April 15, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/soon-it-may-be-easier-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran-than-in-the-u-s-~~ JW Germany proves coal shiftNEI 14 ~Nuclear Energy Institute, "Cuts in Nuclear Energy Mean Higher Electricity Costs, More Carbon Emissions," February 5, 2014, http://www.nei.org/News-Media/News/News-Archives/Cuts-in-Nuclear-Energy-Mean-Higher-Electricity-Cos~~ JW Coal politics creates cycles of poverty – turning both the environment and humans into sacrifice zones – the aff creates more colonialismHedges 12 Chris, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. 7-20, http://billmoyers.com/segment/chris-hedges-on-capitalismE28099s-E28098sacrifice-zonesE28099/ Radiation from coal plants is greater than radiation from nuclear plantsHvistendahl 07 ~Mara Hvistendahl, 12-13-2007, "Coal Ash Is More Radioactive Than Nuclear Waste," Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/~~ AG Coal mining disasters disproportionately affect developing nationsClark 14 ~Meagan Clark, 5-14-2014, "Poor Working Conditions Continue To Plague Coal-Producing Developing Countries," International Business Times, http://www.ibtimes.com/poor-working-conditions-continue-plague-coal-producing-developing-countries-1584359~~ AG | 10/14/16 |
so - da - general desalTournament: bronx rr | Round: 1 | Opponent: harrison rp | Judge: rashed, evnen Nuke power means large-scale desalination can come now but the plan reverses that—causes devastating shortages.IAEA 15 ~— widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015~ Water crises cause escalating global conflict.Rasmussen 11 ~(Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) "Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars" HuffPo 4/12~ | 10/14/16 |
so - da - singapore desalinationTournament: yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: whitman xr | Judge: lau, hu, li Desalination is key in SingaporeWong '15 (Kristine Wong is a regular contributor to TakePart and a multimedia journalist who reports on energy, the environment, sustainable business, and food. "Singapore Has No Natural Water Supply, but the Country Isn't Going Thirsty," 11/5, http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/11/05/singapores-solution-water-crisis) OS Nuke power means large-scale desalination can come now but the plan reverses that—causes devastating shortages.IAEA 15 ~— widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series, 2015~ Water crises cause escalating global conflict.Rasmussen 11 ~(Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) "Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars" HuffPo 4/12~ | 9/19/16 |
so - da - warmingTournament: yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: ridge vt | Judge: cameron cohen U.S. emissions low nowMcMahon 6/23 ~Jeff McMahon, contributor at Forbes, "U.S. On Track To Achieve 2030 Emissions Goals In 2016," Forbes Magazine, June 23, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/06/23/u-s-on-track-to-achieve-2030-emissions-goals-in-2016/~~#fa3d9fa42c8e~~ JW Nuclear is the best solution to climate change—every alternative fails—future tech solves squo shortcomingsCohen 2012 DA turns case—Native Americans are especially vulnerable to climate changeHalpert 12 ~Julie Halpert, author at Yale Climate Connections, "Native Americans and a Changing Climate," Yale Climate Connections, June 21, 2012, http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2012/06/native-americans-and-a-changing-climate/~~ JW The counter role of the ballot is to vote for the best policy option -- key to political activismCoverstone 5 ~MBA (Alan, Acting on Activism) | 9/17/16 |
so - da - warming v2Tournament: yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: edgemont yl | Judge: christian tarsney Worldwide emissions are declining due to decreased fossil fuel consumption but we're on the brinkVaughan '15 (Adam, The Guardian, "Global emissions to fall for first time during a period of economic growth," 12/7, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/07/global-emissions-to-fall-for-first-time-during-a-period-of-economic-growth) OS Nuclear is the best solution to climate change—every alternative fails—future tech solves squo shortcomingsCohen 2012 Warming causes extinctionMazo '10 (Jeffrey Mazo – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122) | 9/17/16 |
so - da - warming v3Tournament: yale | Round: Finals | Opponent: success academy sc | Judge: cook, coyne, zhang Worldwide emissions are declining due to decreased fossil fuel consumption but we're on the brinkVaughan '15 (Adam, The Guardian, "Global emissions to fall for first time during a period of economic growth," 12/7, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/07/global-emissions-to-fall-for-first-time-during-a-period-of-economic-growth) OS Japan proves – nuclear substitutes will increase emissionsKorosec 11 Nuclear is the best solution to climate change—every alternative fails—future tech solves squo shortcomingsCohen 2012 Coal destroys the poor working class in AmericaFox 5 Julia Fox ~University of Oregon~"Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone" Leslie King, Deborah McCarthy, 2005. Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action http://books.google.com/books?id=ol2b0nmgGwECanddq Climate change disproportionately harms people of color – status quo regulations are racist and failBurkett, 8 Maxine, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Law School, J.D., University of California, Berkeley, "Just Solutions to Climate Change: A Climate Justice Proposal for a Domestic Clean Development Mechanism," Buffalo Law Review Vol. 56, ALB | 9/20/16 |
so - k - fear of deathTournament: bronx rr | Round: 6 | Opponent: lake highland aa | Judge: rosero, nebel Their politicization and fear of nuclear power is a conscious or unconscious refusal to confront death.Pahner '76 (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS This fear is symbolic displacement—it's a palliative scapegoat that allows us to transfer our fears of nuclear war onto separate objects.Pahner '76 (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS Our fear of the chaotic unknown is self-blackmail, internalized securitization. We have encased ourselves in plastic cellophane to prolong our shelf lives, reducing the body to no more than a diseased object to preserve—what value is there in living if we just do so to maximize survival?Baudrillard 2 ~Jean, v smaht person, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp. 177-180, Sage Publications~ CRLS PO The alt is to sacrifice the 1AC to endorse symbolic exchange—embrace death as the only way to destroy the system.Robinson 12 ~Andrew, "The Rise of Capitalism and Exclusion of Death", 2012, http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2~~ CRLS PO
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so - nc - hobbesTournament: yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: valley tg | Judge: richard shmikler Constructivism is true—moral facts aren't "out there" to be found but linguistic categories created by humans for humans.Parrish 04 There is no higher moral purpose for the state—rather, it's a product of contractual necessityKoch 04 That means absolute sovereignty—it's incoherent for the sovereign to be subject to laws because then it wouldn't be sovereign.Hobbes 68 Thus, the standard is consistency with the Hobbesian social contract. This means we must respect sovereign authority.Additionally:====~1~ Absolute power is key to avoid the problem of private judgment. Widespread ethical disagreement creates disarray – everyone has a different conception of how political systems should be built and what policies should be passed. Only submission to an absolute sovereign solves, ==== ~2~ Prefer political philosophy because it grounds our theories in reality and the political convictions we already hold. That guarantees a starting point and avoids regressLloyd 14 I content prohibiting nuke power production is inconsistent with sovereign authority.Sovereign can do whatever it wants, so the aff is at best permissible.Hobbes 68 Nuclear is key to state power.MacKenzie and Wajcman 99 ~Donald MacKenzie and Judy Wajcman, 1999, Open University Press, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/28638/1/Introductory20essay2028LSERO29.pdf~~ AG | 9/20/16 |
so - nc - libertarianismTournament: yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: edgemont yl | Judge: christian tarsney The existence of extrinsic goodness requires unconditional human worth—that means we must treat others as ends in themselvesKorsgaard '83 (Christine M., "Two Distinctions in Goodness," The Philosophical Review Vol. 92, No. 2 (Apr., 1983), pp. 169-195, JSTOR) OS Thus, the standard is respecting freedom.Vote neg—the government cannot coercively restrict the rights of private companies to seek the end of nuclear power generation. One can never restrict the ends a subject can set as their means, because to be human is to autonomously set the ends. To treat humanity as an end requires one to respect the legislative right of agents to use their means as they see fit free of domination.Arthur Ripstein 09 ~Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy~, "Force and Freedom", Harvard University Press, pgs 34-35, 2009 Impact calc:There's an intent-foresight distinctionHegel (George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, 1820) Thus the counterplan: The European Union ought not to prohibit the production of nuclear power, and ought to end public subsidies for nuclear power by adopting the Libertarian Party Platform energy policy.Libertarian Party n.d. ("Energy," http://www.dehnbase.org/lpus/library/platform/ene.html) OS | 9/17/16 |
so - nc - pragmatismTournament: bronx | Round: Quarters | Opponent: harrison rp | Judge: gossain, hu, legried All inquiry starts with a purpose - the ultimate end of thought is the production of belief and the satisfaction of doubt. Ethics is thus aimed at practical ends.C. S. Peirce. "How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878)." The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings. Volume 1 (1867-1893. Edited by Nathan Houser and Christian Kloesel. Indian University Press. 124-142 All fields of knowledge, including moral knowledge, are still constrained by the general procedure of pragmatic inquiry.John Dewey 1. "The Problem of Logical Subject Matter." 1938 ~From Logic: The Theory of Inquiry~. The Essential Dewey: Ethics, Logic, Psychology. Volume 2. Edited by Hickman and Alexander. Indian University Press. 157-169. Current philosophical methods fail – we must find a scientific methodology that allows us to arrive at truthPierce. The Fixation of Belief, by Charles S. Peirce. (Charles Sanders Peirce was an American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist who is sometimes known as "the father of pragmatism".) Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15. NP 8/24/16. Thus, the standard is consistency with the methodological constraints of social inquiry.Understanding nuclear energy from the standpoint of social experimentation is inconsistent with the logic of a 'ban.' The very notion of banning the technology miss-frames the debate in a way incompatible with pragmatic social experimentation.Van de Poel 15. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era. Ibo van de Poel. (Ibo van de Poel is Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on new technologies as social experiments, values in engineering design, moral responsibility, responsible innovation, engineering ethics, risk ethics, and the ethics of newly emerging technologies like nanotechnology. He is co-editor of theHandbook of Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences (Elsevier, 2009), Philosophy and Engineering (Springer, 2010), Moral Responsibility. Beyond Free Will And Determinism (Springer, 2011) and co-author of Ethics, Engineering and Technology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He is also a co-editor of the Springer book series in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. And this experimental attitude is necessary to reconcile with the philosophical tradition of pragmatism. The changing landscape around energy renders absolutist solutions, such as a ban, this early in our technological understanding utterly misplaced as a form of social decision making methodology.Van de Poel 15. The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era. Ibo van de Poel. (Ibo van de Poel is Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on new technologies as social experiments, values in engineering design, moral responsibility, responsible innovation, engineering ethics, risk ethics, and the ethics of newly emerging technologies like nanotechnology. He is co-editor of theHandbook of Philosophy of Technology and the Engineering Sciences (Elsevier, 2009), Philosophy and Engineering (Springer, 2010), Moral Responsibility. Beyond Free Will And Determinism (Springer, 2011) and co-author of Ethics, Engineering and Technology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011). He is also a co-editor of the Springer book series in the Philosophy of Engineering and Technology. | 10/16/16 |
so - t - countriesTournament: yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: ridge vt | Judge: cameron cohen ===="Countries" is a generic bare plural, just like "just governments."==== Violation:Standards:~1~ Precision—three impactsA~ PredictabilityB~ Topicality rule—precision independently outweighsNebel '15 (Jake, "The Priority of Resolutional Semantics," 2/20/15, http://vbriefly.com/2015/02/20/the-priority-of-resolutional-semantics-by-jake-nebel/) C~ Jurisdiction~2~ LimitsAdvocacy skills | 9/17/16 |
so - t - future productionTournament: yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: whitman xr | Judge: lau, hu, li "Resolved" implies immediacy—it means we're firmly determined.Google Dictionary n.d. (https://www.google.com/search?q=resolved+definitionandoq=resolved+definitionandaqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2647j0j4andsourceid=chromeandie=UTF-8) OS And, you can't prohibit something if it doesn't exist—it's assumed I'm ending a practice.Violation:Standards:~1~ Limits~2~ GroundFairness | 9/19/16 |
so - theory - country specTournament: bronx | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all | 10/16/16 |
so - theory - decommissioning specTournament: yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: valley tg | Judge: richard shmikler Interpretation: aff must specify a method of decommissioning nuclear power plants.There are 3 different methods, and they're really differentIEA 15 ~"Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy." IEA Technology Roadmaps (n.d.): n. pag. 2015. Web. 8 Aug. 2016~ bracketed for grammar Violation: they don'tStandards:~1~ Ground~2~ Education—decommissioning processes are increasingly relevant in the nuclear power debate but no one knows about them.IEA 15 ("Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy." IEA Technology Roadmaps (n.d.): n. pag. 2015.) Fairness, education | 9/20/16 |
so - theory - general principle v every countryTournament: bronx | Round: Quarters | Opponent: harrison rp | Judge: gossain, hu, legried Interp – If the aff reads the resolution as their advocacy, they must specify whether they defend the resolution as a general principle or as every country prohibiting the production of nuclear power.VioPre-round prepShift | 10/16/16 |
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