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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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| apple valley | Finals | greenhill sk | taylor, you, zhou |
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| bronx | 6 | walt whitman xr | rahul gossain |
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| bronx | 1 | all | all |
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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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| gbx | 1 | presentation as | tim alderete |
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| gbx | 2 | lake highland rs | leah shapiro |
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| gbx | 5 | lake highland mk | dan alessandro |
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| gbx | 6 | westwood rm | michael okrent |
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| gbx | Doubles | harker sp | hunt, legried, okrent |
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| harvard | 2 | loyola blakefield cg | evan dugery |
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| harvard | 4 | lex vv | jeremy dang |
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| harvard | 6 | strake jh | andrew perez |
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| harvard | Triples | dulles mk | smith, song, fickess |
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| harvard | Semis | hunter np | zhou, mandel, caldera |
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| harvard rr | 1 | american heritage dm | castillo, patwardhan |
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| harvard rr | Finals | scarsdale gz | cohen, debois, caldera |
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| kandi king | 2 | greenhill sk | fife, hertzig |
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| lex | 1 | american heritage dm | amos jeng |
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| lex | 3 | whitman ix | jon sahlman |
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| lex | 5 | phillips andover tc | paul zhou |
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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 | 5 | valley tg | richard shmikler |
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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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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. The aff must read a solvency advocate that explicitly advocates all planks of the plan. The aff must read a solvency advocate, i.e. a piece of evidence from the topic literature, that advocates—and only advocates—for every plank of a topical plan. If the aff reads a standard of “upholding the procedures of justice,” they must define what procedures of justice are. Aff may not say "The role of the judge and ballot is to vote for the debater who best stops alienation." If the aff reads a normatively justified framework, they cannot read reasons why philosophical education is bad in the 1AR. The aff may not read a determinism trigger. To clarify, they may not argue that “If individuals did not have the ability to will ends, then determinism is true,” which would mean “We can’t make moral claims about the resolution and there are no obligations to restrict, in which case you affirm on face.” The aff needs a standard, value criterion, or role of the ballot text. | 1/16/17 |
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 |
1 - framework v3Tournament: harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: lex vv | Judge: jeremy dang Framework interpretation: The aff should win only by proving the desirability of their post-fiat advocacy, or the truth of the resolution; the ballot should not endorse a debater's pre-fiat speech act.Violation:Prefer:1. Constructive engagement2. Policy debates over racial issues are productive and important. Meaningful dialogue about what actions the government should take overcomes the conversational impasse and paves the way for material change. Disavowing the policy consequences of one's ideological positions makes things worse, not better.Bracey 6 — Christopher A. Bracey, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, holds a B.S. from the University of North Carolina and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, 2006 ("The Cul De Sac of Race Preference Discourse," Southern California Law Review (79 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1231), September, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via Lexis-Nexis) | 2/19/17 |
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 - black nihilism kTournament: apple valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: strake jh | Judge: hock, powell, you The American Dream is a dream of black suffering. The Political sustains a false narrative of progress—anti-black violence is only increasing.Warren '15 (Calvin, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, pp. 215-248, PMuse) OS This narrative is sustained through a politics of hope—cruel optimism forces black bodies into an unending pursuit of the source of their own annihilation. The Political shields itself from criticism through continuous futural temporality and the terror of "no alternative."Warren '15 (Calvin, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, pp. 215-248, PMuse) OS The alternative is political apostasy. Self-ex-communicate yourself from the Political—it is constitutively unethical.Warren '15 (Calvin, Assistant Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, "Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope," CR: The New Centennial Review, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2015, pp. 215-248, PMuse) OS | 11/5/16 |
2 - conscientization cap kTournament: harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: lex vv | Judge: jeremy dang The politics of identity entrenches neoliberal individualism that is a modern divide and conquer tactic of the elite. We should stop focusing on the symptoms and start focusing on the root cause of exclusion, which is capitalismFelipe, 13 Alex, "Cough Syrup Politics: Fighting Symptoms, Ignoring Root Causes," http://alexfelipe.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/cough-syrup-politics-fighting-symptoms-ignoring-root-causes/, Vitz Stereotypes of Asians are social technologies deployed to stabilize labor relations—the stigmas they describe are just an extension of underlying ideologies of ascriptive differences. Marxist analysis is key to demystify the role of identity within class conflict—voting aff just makes neoliberalism more efficient by embracing difference as such.Reed 2013 – professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. He has taught at Yale, Northwestern and the New School for Social Research. An expert on racial and economic inequality, he is a founding member of the Labor Party and a frequent contributor to The Nation (Adolph, New Labor Forum 22.1, "Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism") You have an a priori ethical obligation to reject capitalism because it makes its victims anonymous.Zizek and Daly 04 The alternative is class analysis firstMollow 4 Anna Mollow, "IDENTITY POLITICS ANDDISABILITY STUDIES:A CRITIQUE OF RECENT THEORY" University of Michigan Quarterly Review, 2004 quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0043.218;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mqrg | 2/19/17 |
2 - decadence daTournament: harvard | Round: 4 | Opponent: lex vv | Judge: jeremy dang They ask us to simply trust their identity. Such moves discount evidence and reduce epistemology to the value we are demanded to place in our sympathies with the authority of the person. When "performing evidence" substitutes for evidence, the appearance of legitimacy dooms the pursuit of knowledge and propagates decadence.Lewis Gordon '06—professor at philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at University of Connecticut Storrs—2006 (Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times, p 28-29) Decadence allows the colonization of methods, thinking, and destroys the possibility of a decolonized ethics of the oppressed to overturn.Lewis Gordon 14—professor of philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at the University of Connecticut—2014 ("Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge," Africa Development 39.1: 81-92, 88). | 2/19/17 |
2 - poetry pikTournament: gbx | Round: 1 | Opponent: presentation as | Judge: tim alderete I affirm the 1AC without the use of poetryPoetry is inaccessible to certain bodies—it may have some great personal value, but we should not force students to engage with it, especially as a survival strategy—it is those expectations that drive individuals with learning disabilities out of communitiesPhilip Schultz '11 ~a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who struggles with dyslexia~.. "Words Failed, Then Saved Me." Sunday Review, NYTimes. September 3rd 2011. These linguistic considerations matterLydia Brown '14 ~I am autistic, disabled, and proud! I have a variety of experience in grassroots organizing, public policy advocacy, and outreach on disability rights issues. Policy Analyst for ASAN. "Violence in Language: Circling Back to Linguistic Ableism." 2/11/2014. AutisticHOYA. http://www.autistichoya.com/2014/02/violence-linguistic-ableism.html Ableism is a tactic of oppression that permeates all forms of discrimination - categorization based on normative biological standards justifies every form of discrimination and violenceSiebers 10 (Tobin, professor of English, University of Michigan, Disability Aesthetics, pgs 23-28) | 11/19/16 |
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 - undercommons kTournament: gbx | Round: 1 | Opponent: presentation as | Judge: tim alderete Academia is a pollution of the affirmative project—an inoculation and re-scripting of the very terms of contestation such that nothing is left but the continued propagation of social deathOccupied UC Berkeley '9 ("The Necrosocial – Civic Life, Social Death, and the University of California," November 2009, Craccum Magazine – University of Auckland Student Magazine. Iss. 4, 2012. http://craccum.ausa.auckland.ac.nz/?p=286) ~m leap~ The alternative is a politics of stealing away – we must abuse the university's openness to give power back to the undercommonsMoten and Harney '13 (Stefano Harney, Professor of Strategic Management Education at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University and a co-founder of the School for Study and Fred Moten, Helen L. Bevington Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke, "The University and the Undercommons," The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study, pg. 26-28) The role of the judge is to simply refuse a politics of recognition—refuse to speak truth to power as the they do and refuse to accept their demand for recognition—this is the only way out of the academyHalberstam '13 (Jack Halberstam, professor of English and Director of the Center for Feminist Research at USC, 2013, "The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study," pp 5-9) | 11/19/16 |
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 |
2 - util fw v2Tournament: lex | Round: 3 | Opponent: whitman ix | Judge: jon sahlman 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.Impact framing —- moral uncertainty necessitates minimizing existential riskBostrom '05 (Nick, professor of philosophy at Oxford~, July 2005, "On our Biggest Problems" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/44) PO | 1/14/17 |
2 - util fw v3Tournament: harvard rr | Round: Finals | Opponent: scarsdale gz | Judge: cohen, debois, caldera 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 We have no unified consciousness.Parfit '84 (Derek, Reasons and Persons) brackets for gender | 2/18/17 |
jf - cp - guns arent virtuous or pragmaticTournament: harvard | Round: Semis | Opponent: hunter np | Judge: zhou, mandel, caldera Moral evaluations are characterized by a split between the deontic and the aretaic. Deontic theories ascribe moral descriptions to actions, while aretaic theories ascribe moral descriptions to agents. The deontic can be deduced from the aretaic, but not vice versa—that means the aretaic is conceptually prior.Gryz '11 (Jarek, Prof in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University, "On the Relationship Between the Aretaic and the Deontic," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2011, 14:493–501, Springer) OS The result is a virtue paradigm: ethics is a developmental social phenomenon that is established via inculcation. This does not presuppose descriptive normative claims.Reader 2k (Reader, Soren. ~Late Professor of Philosophy, Durham University~ "New Directions in Ethics: Naturalism, Reasons, and Virtue." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4, Dec. 2000.) ====Next, virtues are characteristics and habits that assist agents in fulfilling their purposes. For the state, that means inculcating civic virtues—the perfection of the state requires civic virtue.==== ====The actor is the state—public colleges and universities are founded and operated by the state.==== Thus, the standard is promoting civic virtue.Counterplan text: Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for symbolic speech protections for carrying guns.KGC n.d.: Gun ownership creates a cynical worldview that promotes intellectual and social vices, causes racism, kills compassion, and inhibits communal bonds that are key to flourishingTrivigno '13 (Franco, philosophy professor at Marquette University, "Guns and Virtue: The Virtue Ethical Case against Gun Carrying," Public Affairs Quarterly Vol. No. 4 October 2013, https://www.academia.edu/4778227/Guns_and_Virtue_The_Virtue_Ethical_Case_against_Gun_Carrying_Public_Affairs_Quarterly_2013_) OS The mere existence of privately owned guns is a means of shutting down democratic deliberation.FIRMIN DEBRABANDER 12 ~associate professor of philosophy at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore and the author of "Spinoza and the Stoics"~, "The Freedom of an Armed Society", NY Times, 16 Dec 2012, BE | 2/21/17 |
jf - cp - guns virtue v2Tournament: kandi king | Round: 2 | Opponent: greenhill sk | Judge: fife, hertzig Moral evaluations must be character-based, not action-based.Gryz '11 (Jarek, Prof in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University, "On the Relationship Between the Aretaic and the Deontic," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 2011, 14:493–501, Springer) OS The result is a virtue paradigm: ethics is a developmental social phenomenon that is established via inculcation.Reader 2k (Reader, Soren. ~Late Professor of Philosophy, Durham University~ "New Directions in Ethics: Naturalism, Reasons, and Virtue." Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4, Dec. 2000.) ====Because all action must contain an aim that seeks to achieve the ultimate good, the fulfillment of said purpose is Eudaimonia, or human flourishing, the constitutive function of an agent. ==== ====The actor is the state—public colleges and universities are founded and operated by the state.==== Thus the standard is promoting virtue. Because states are legal fictions created by individuals to ensure proper conditions, they have the obligation to promote a virtuous society.====Counterplan text: Resolved: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for symbolic speech protections for carrying guns.==== It's mutually exclusive—open carry is constitutionally protected symbolic speech.Blanchfield '14 ====Gun ownership creates a cynical worldview that promotes intellectual and social vices, causes racism, kills compassion, and inhibits communal bonds that are key to flourishing==== ====Guns inhibit social trust, which is a necessary virtue, and harms relationships that are key to flourishing—I control uniqueness==== Independent of the CP, restricting speech in academic setting supports civic virtues.Byrne 91 ~J. Peter Byrne, Georgetown University Law, 1991, "Racial Insults and Free Speech Within the University", The Georgetown Law Journal, http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2592andcontext=facpub~~ AG CP turns case:~a~ The mere presence of guns on campus undermines effective free discussion.PHW 14: (public Health Watch Keeping an Eye on the Public Impact of Modern Politics "Point Blank: Guns Don't Belong On College Campuses – Here's Why" March 2014) ~b~ Gun violence is deadly and racializedPeniel '15 (Joseph Peniel, Reporter for Newsweek, "Guns Have Been the Most Dramatic Weapon Used Against African-Americans, but Not the Most Effective," Newsweek, 6/23, http://www.newsweek.com/guns-have-been-most-dramatic-weapon-used-against-african- americans-not-most-346101) | 3/25/17 |
jf - cp - kant graffittiTournament: harvard | Round: Triples | Opponent: dulles mk | Judge: smith, song, fickess Counterplan text: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict constitutionally protected free speech performed through tagging spaces with graffiti, except that which is performed on property that is not owned by the graffiti artist.The 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 the rational will.Practical reason solves regress—it's impossible to deny reason's authority.Velleman (David, "Self To Self", Cambridge University Press, 2006, pg 18-19) 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 Other frameworks collapse—they contain conditional obligations which derive their authority from the categorical imperative.Korsgaard 2 ~CHRISTINE M. KORSGAARD, greatest philosopher alive, 1998, "Introduction", Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals~ AG brackets for conciseness Analytic contention | 2/20/17 |
jf - cp - throwbackTournament: harvard rr | Round: Finals | Opponent: scarsdale gz | Judge: cohen, debois, caldera Counterplan text: Public colleges and universities in the United States ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for symbolic speech protections for carrying guns.KGC n.d.: About Us "Gun Lobby Threatens Safety of
America's Colleges and Universities" by The Campaign to Keep Guns Off Campus http://keepgunsoffcampus.org/about/ DD It's mutually exclusiveBlanchfield '14 Turns the affThe presence of handguns on colleges undermines agonistic discourse. They incite aggression and exclude students from engaging in dialogue out of fear.PHW 14 That negates- aggression destroys the ability for agents to freely engage in agonistic discourse.Kinsella 96 | 2/18/17 |
jf - cp - wisconsin modelTournament: harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: loyola blakefield cg | Judge: evan dugery Counterplan text: Resolved: Public colleges and universities ought to adopt the 1989 University of Wisconsin System speech rule.U.S. District Court E.D. Wisconsin 91 clarifies ~United States District Court E.D. Wisconsin, a bunch of judges—probably pretty qualified, 10-11-1991, "UWM Post v. Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin", http://cdn.publicinterestnetwork.org/assets/mdGVXR4xIIPFiNRwRkQzyg/SPEECH-CODES-UWM-POST-V-REGENTS.pdf~~ AG Mutually exclusive—the rule's unconstitutional.FIRE n.d. ~FIRE, no date, "State of the Law: Speech Codes", FIRE, https://www.thefire.org/in-court/state-of-the-law-speech-codes/~~ AG brackets in original | 2/19/17 |
jf - da - endowmentsTournament: lex | Round: 3 | Opponent: whitman ix | Judge: jon sahlman Endowments fine now but donations drop if all speech is allowed.MacDonald 05 Endowments are key to innovation and US competitiveness.Leigh '14 (Steven, dean of CU-Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, "Endowments and the future of higher education," CU-Boulder, March) OS Loss of U.S. tech leadership causes great power warTaylor 04 ~Mark, Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions", 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor~~ | 1/14/17 |
jf - da - ilawTournament: harvard rr | Round: 1 | Opponent: american heritage dm | Judge: castillo, patwardhan US is actually pretty compliant with ILaw now, but violations undermine the entire system.The Economist '14 (M.S., Democracy in America blog, "Why the sheriff should follow the law," 5/23, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/05/america-and-international-law) OS Plan violates ILaw—hate speech should be banned.Tsesis 10 Nuclear war.Pickering '14 —- MA international relations, Melbourne School of Government ~Heath, "Why Do States Mostly Obey International Law?"http://www.e-ir.info/2014/02/04/why-do-states-mostly-obey-international-law/x~~//Mnush | 2/16/17 |
jf - da - ilaw v2Tournament: kandi king | Round: 2 | Opponent: greenhill sk | Judge: fife, hertzig US is actually pretty compliant with ILaw now, but violations undermine the entire system.The Economist '14 (M.S., Democracy in America blog, "Why the sheriff should follow the law," 5/23, http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2014/05/america-and-international-law) OS Aff egregiously violates international human rights law.Cohen '15 (Tanya, "It's Time To Bring The Hammer Down On Hate Speech In The U.S.," Thought Catalog, 5/1, http://thoughtcatalog.com/tanya-cohen/2015/05/hammer-down-on-hate-speech/) OS ILaw solves nuclear war.Pickering '14 —- MA international relations, Melbourne School of Government ~Heath, "Why Do States Mostly Obey International Law?"http://www.e-ir.info/2014/02/04/why-do-states-mostly-obey-international-law/x~~//Mnush Human rights cred solves nuclear war.William W. Burke-White 4, Lecturer in Public and International Affairs and Senior Special Assistant to the Dean, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, Spring 2004, Harvard Human Rights Journal, 17 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 249, p. 279-280 | 3/25/17 |
jf - da - warmingTournament: harvard rr | Round: 1 | Opponent: american heritage dm | Judge: castillo, patwardhan Academia is suppressing climate denial now—spills over to government—plan reverses that.Williamson 16 Campuses are restricting climate denial—Colorado proves.Williams 16 Climate skepticism is set to decline despite Trump but greater public skepticism means less political action—Trump cabinet means brink is now.Foran '16 (CLARE FORAN is an associate editor at The Atlantic. "Donald Trump and the Triumph of Climate-Change Denial," The Atlantic, 12/25, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/donald-trump-climate-change-skeptic-denial/510359/) OS ====Warming causes extinction.==== | 2/16/17 |
jf - k - neolibTournament: lex | Round: 3 | Opponent: whitman ix | Judge: jon sahlman Moral suasion alone has never solved anything—the aff ignores that structures of oppression require direct action. Their faith in the "free exchange of ideas" re-entrenches neoliberalism.Tillett-Saks 13 Andrew Tillett-Saks (Labor organizer and critical activist author for Truth-Out and Counterpunch), Neoliberal Myths, Counterpunch, 11/7/13, http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/11/07/neoliberal-myths Neoliberalism causes the globalization of violence itself—it exploits the world's poor and propels us toward collapse.Santos '03 ("Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra. Sousa Santos has taught in various universities including Yale, Wisconsin-Madison Law School and University of Warwick",April 2003, Collective Suicide http://prince.org/msg/105/54743?pr, SD) Vote neg to re-politicize the critique of neoliberalism – challenging the limits of neoliberalism in public spaces is key create alternative strategies.Sheppard and Leitner 9 (Eric Sheppard, PhD, geographer and Regents Professor of Economic geography at the University of Minnesota, Helga Leitner " Quo vadis neoliberalism? The remaking of global capitalist governance after the Washington Consensus," http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/geog/downloads/7235/496.pdf) Questioning neolib is a prior question—their scholarship is epistemologically suspect.Joanne Swaffield 12, Professor of Economics at The University of York, 2012, "Can 'climate champions' save the planet? A critical reflection on neoliberal social change," Environmental Politics, Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 248-267 | 1/14/17 |
jf - nc - good samaritanTournament: harvard | Round: Semis | Opponent: hunter np | Judge: zhou, mandel, caldera Affirming negates because of the Good Samaritan paradox.Paraphrasing McNamara:(Paul, SEP, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-deontic/) OS | 2/21/17 |
jf - nc - hobbesTournament: lex | Round: 5 | Opponent: phillips andover tc | Judge: paul zhou Constructivism is true—moral facts aren't "out there" to be found but linguistic categories created by humans for humans.Parrish Parrish, Rick. "Derrida's Economy of Violence in Hobbes' Social Contract" Theory and Event 7:4 | © 2004 There is no higher moral purpose for the state—rather, it's a product of contractual necessityKoch Andrew M. Koch, "Dionysian Politics: The Anarchist Implications of Nietzsche's Critique of Western Epistemology" I am not Man, I am Dynamite!: Fredriech Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition, ed. John Moore That means absolute sovereignty—it's incoherent for the sovereign to be subject to laws because then it wouldn't be sovereign.Hobbes Thomas — philosopher, historian, ethicist, geometrician, squarer of the circle — Leviathan, selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668, ed. w/ intro by Edwin Curley, Hackett. p. 213 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 solvesRenzo MASSIMO RENZO STATE LEGITIMACY AND SELF-DEFENCE (Accepted 4 May 2011) ~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 SA Lloyd, moral/political/legal philosopher and Hobbesian expert, "Learning from the History of Political Philosophy" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118328460.ch30/summary I contend free speech is inconsistent with sovereign authority.We have no right to free speech—the Sovereign should tell us what we can and can't say.Parkin '12 (Jon, University of York, "Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Self-Censorship," History of European Ideas) OS | 1/15/17 |
jf - nc - omnilateral willTournament: lex | Round: 1 | Opponent: american heritage dm | Judge: amos jeng ====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.==== ====The actor is the state—public colleges and universities are founded and operated by the state.==== Thus, the standard is maintaining a system of equal outer freedom.Contention:~1~ The state should regulate hate speech to promote equal freedom.Varden 10 ~Helga Varden, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies @ U of Illinois, 5-22-2010, Academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/2006079/A_Kantian_Conception_of_Free_Speech~~ AG Hate speech is constitutionally protected.Volokh 15 (Eugene, reporter @ the Washington Post, "No, there's no "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment," May 7, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.779cdacd2341/ LADI) ~2~ Seditious speech amounts to having a right to end the omnilateral will, which makes freedom impossible.Varden 10 ~Helga Varden, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies @ U of Illinois, 5-22-2010, Academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/2006079/A_Kantian_Conception_of_Free_Speech~~ AG Seditious speech is constitutionally protected.Justia n.d. ~Justia, "Seditious Speech and Seditious Libel", http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/41-seditious-speech.html~~ AG | 1/14/17 |
jf - t - anyTournament: harvard | Round: Triples | Opponent: dulles mk | Judge: smith, song, fickess Interpretation: Aff can’t defend that public colleges and universities ought not restrict a particular type or types of constitutionally protected speech.In negative forms, "any" is indefinite—it doesn't allow for exceptionsCambridge Dictionary ~Cambridge Dictionary, "Any," http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/quantifiers/any.~~ AG
Violation:~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/) ~2~ Limits~3~ Ground—their interp justifies unbeatable affs.Eckert 16 ~Eckert, Bennett. "Topic Analysis by Bennett Eckert." Champion Briefs: Jan/Feb 2017. 2016~ AG | 2/20/17 |
jf - t - hate speech cx specification if thingTournament: harvard | Round: Semis | Opponent: hunter np | Judge: zhou, mandel, caldera Strat skew | 2/21/17 |
jf - t - spec conpro speechTournament: harvard | Round: 6 | Opponent: strake jh | Judge: andrew perez Strat skew Fairness | 2/19/17 |
nd - cp - abolishTournament: apple valley | Round: Finals | Opponent: greenhill sk | Judge: taylor, you, zhou Counterplan: The United States ought to abolish qualified immunity for police officers.Solves caseNewman 16 ~Newman, Jon O. (senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit). "Opinion: Here's a better way to punish the police: Sue them for money." The Washington Post. 23 June 2016. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-a-better-way-to-punish-the-police-sue-them-for-money/2016/06/23/c0608ad4-3959-11e6-9ccd-d6005beac8b3_story.html?utm_term=.c54c7a2362fa WWXR~ | 11/6/16 |
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 - da - electionsTournament: apple valley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: strake jh | Judge: hock, powell, you Trump could win if there's one more disruption—Clinton's map is volatile and she's being unstrategic.Silver 11/1 (Nate, acclaimed statistician who correctly predicted all 50 states and DC in the 2012 election, "Election Update: Yes, Donald Trump Has A Path To Victory," 538, http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-yes-donald-trump-has-a-path-to-victory/) OS Liberal SCOTUS rulings become crucial Trump rallying points and sway uneasy Republicans—aff action and immigration prove.Caldwell 6/23 (Leigh Ann, NBC, "Supreme Court a Rare GOP Rallying Point on Trump," 2016, http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/some-conservatives-use-supreme-court-sole-reason-back-trump-n597841) OS Police brutality reforms like the plan will trigger right-wing backlash and get Trump supporters to the polls.Yokley 7/12 (Eli, Morning Consult, Fortune, "Poll: Voters Are More Worried by Violence Against Police Than Police Brutality," 2016, http://fortune.com/2016/07/12/police-violence-brutality-poll-voters/) OS Trump sucks—he's racist and connected to the KKK, and turns policing, Islamophobia, poverty, overseas oppression, and security dangers.Rubin 8/21 (Jennifer, Jennifer Rubin writes the Right Turn blog for The Post, offering reported opinion from a conservative perspective. "Here's what African Americans have to lose if Trump is elected," Washington Post, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/08/21/heres-what-african-americans-have-to-lose-if-trump-is-elected/) OS bracketed for efficiency | 11/5/16 |
nd - da- court clog v2Tournament: gbx | Round: Doubles | Opponent: harker sp | Judge: hunt, legried, okrent 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 Link outweighs—QI limits are transsubstantive – limiting in one limits in allCoenen 14 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) Extinction first—moral uncertainty necessitates minimizing existential riskBostrom '05 (Nick, professor of philosophy at Oxford~, July 2005, "On our Biggest Problems" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/44) PO Death controls the internal link to every moral value and impactJonas '96 (Hans, Former Alvin Johnson Prof. Phil. – New School for Social Research and Former Eric Voegelin Visiting Prof. – U. Munich, "Morality and Mortality: A Search for the Good After Auschwitz", p. 111-112) Magnitude first—we must calculate future descendantsMatheny '7 (Jason, Department of Health Policy and Management, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, "Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction," Risk Analysis, Vol 27, No 5) | 11/21/16 |
nd - k - capTournament: gbx | Round: Doubles | Opponent: harker sp | Judge: hunt, legried, okrent Disability is an outgrowth of labor relations- the social/minority model places the problem in terms of inter-personal relations which diverts attention from the true causeKaye, 12 Bradley, Ph.D. in philosophy from Binghamton University, "Politics, An Illusion We Have Forgotten Is Such," http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/9_1/kaye9_1.html Civil litigation is capitalist—justice goes to whoever can buy it.Higdon '10 (Woodrow L., investigative photo journalist and former police officer, "Public Corruption Cover Up Through Civil Litigation," GTI, March) OS You have an a priori ethical obligation to reject capitalism because it makes its victims anonymous.Zizek and Daly 04 Capitalism's preoccupation with endless accumulation will result in total ecological destruction and extinctionFoster 11,~John Bellamy ~ Dec. 2011, Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe, Monthly Review, Vol. 63 Issue 07, http://monthlyreview.org/2011/12/01/capitalism-and-the-accumulation-of-catastrophe (Aug 2012) The alternative is class analysis firstMollow 4 Anna Mollow, "IDENTITY POLITICS ANDDISABILITY STUDIES:A CRITIQUE OF RECENT THEORY" University of Michigan Quarterly Review, 2004 quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0043.218;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mqrg | 11/21/16 |
nd - nc - burdenTournament: gbx | Round: 5 | Opponent: lake highland mk | Judge: dan alessandro The neg burden is to prove police officers can't be legally culpable for damages unless they knowingly violated a clearly established right. The aff burden is to prove they can.My burden is the core of legal disputes on the topic.Hassel '99 summarizes SCOTUS (Diana, Associate Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law. B.A. 1979, Mount Holyoke College; J.D. 1985, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Newark. Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, 1988-93. "Living a Lie: The Cost of Qualified Immunity," Missouri Law Review Vol. 64 I. 1 Winter 1999 Article 9, http://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3402andcontext=mlr) OS Outweighs—the good is functional. A good legal doctrine is one that is justified within the context of jurisprudence.Geach '56 (Peter T Geach, philosopher, "Good and Evil," http://fair-use.org/peter-t-geach/good-and-evil) Legal education comes first—debaters become lawyers.Crotty (Do Debaters Make Better Lawyers? 10/03/2013 James Marshall Crotty) Offense:First, it's not a question of whether police officers can be held accountable for bad actions. The court doesn't just punish people for not cohering with the moral good, otherwise we'd be sued for being mean to people. The point of civil court is to uphold constitutional rights. That negates—even if police could know they were doing something wrong, they couldn't know they were doing something unconstitutional unless that's clearly established. Outweighs—laws in this context are fuzzy.Hanaford '14 (Robert H., "Major Crime Assistance Team Seminar, Police Liability and Defenses Under State and Federal Law," 2/20) OS Second, even if it's a question of general moral wrong and not constitutionality, split-second decisions means QI is key.McGuinness '02 (J. Michael, "Law Enforcement Use of Force: The Objective Reasonableness Standards under North Carolina and Federal Law," 24 Campbell L. Rev. 201 (2002), http://scholarship.law.campbell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1387andcontext=clr) OS | 11/20/16 |
nd - nc - hobbesTournament: gbx | Round: 2 | Opponent: lake highland rs | Judge: leah shapiro Constructivism is true—moral facts aren't "out there" to be found but linguistic categories created by humans for humans.Parrish Parrish, Rick. "Derrida's Economy of Violence in Hobbes' Social Contract" Theory and Event 7:4 | © 2004 There is no higher moral purpose for the state—rather, it's a product of contractual necessityKoch Andrew M. Koch, "Dionysian Politics: The Anarchist Implications of Nietzsche's Critique of Western Epistemology" I am not Man, I am Dynamite!: Fredriech Nietzsche and the Anarchist Tradition, ed. John Moore That means absolute sovereignty—it's incoherent for the sovereign to be subject to laws because then it wouldn't be sovereign.Hobbes Thomas — philosopher, historian, ethicist, geometrician, squarer of the circle — Leviathan, selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668, ed. w/ intro by Edwin Curley, Hackett. p. 213 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 SA Lloyd, moral/political/legal philosopher and Hobbesian expert, "Learning from the History of Political Philosophy" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118328460.ch30/summary I contend limiting QI is inconsistent with sovereign authority.Sovereign can do whatever it wants, so the aff is at best permissible.Hobbes 68 Thomas — philosopher, historian, ethicist, geometrician, squarer of the circle — Leviathan, selected variants from the Latin edition of 1668, ed. w/ intro by Edwin Curley, Hackett. p. 133 Only enforcement solves for the state of nature created by crimeOJP 16 Office of Justice Programs (Agency of the Department of Justice). "Five Things About Deterrence." National Institute of Justice. 6 June 2016. http://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx ~Premier~ Litigation hamstrings the policeKing 16 Andrew King (Assistant Prosecuting Attorney). "Keep Qualified Immunity… For Now." Mimesis Law. 1 July 2016. http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/keep-qualified-immunity-for-now/11010 ~Premier~ | 11/19/16 |
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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