Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Brentwood EL | Judge: Shania Hunt
First, all obligations stem from our practical identities.
Mitchell 1 url: http://thespaceofreasons.blogspot.com/2012/03/korsgaards-kantian-moral-theory.html
"according to Christine Korsgaard... "stands behind" them."
Because we reason towards which practical identities to value, we must first value our human identity.
Mitchell 2:
but the fact... of human agency.
Analytics
Next, practical reasoning, how we deliberate whether or not to act under rationality, is the only sufficient moral obligation.
Velleman: Velleman, David. Self To Self. Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pg 18-19.
"As we have... reasons is required"
Analytics
Under universal law, Coercion and other acts that reduce the freedoms of others are morally contradictory
Engstrom: Engstrom. Universal Law as the Form of Practical Knowledge
"Now on the... that same freedom."
Standard is Respecting Freedoms
Ontologically, a person is one who can set and pursue ends. The only political association we could agree to would start there.
Ripstein ONE: Ripstein, Arthur. Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009. Print.
"this right to ... some other end."
Other political systems aren’t just normatively inadequate; those contracts literally can’t exist.
Ripstein TWO:
"This argument for ... to transfer rights."
I affirm
Prohibiting actions that entail harm, but do not wrong is ITSELF a wrong.
Ripstein THREE:
"each person's entitlement... my own powers."
Speech can’t restrict the freedom of others – it only changes the context in which they view the world.
Ripstein FOUR:
"the right to... they already have."