Tournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Homewood Flossmore TS | Judge: Jim Broomfield

The university has transitioned into nothing but a skeleton of power. Deprived of knowledge, the university is a rotting carcass of education upon which democratic meaning is constantly reinjected to make up for the total lack of meaningful discourse. The only other option is to turn this rotting into a violent implosion, onto which we can inflict real harm.

Baudrillard, 81(“Simulacra and Simulation” P.149-152—Jean Baudrillard was professor of sociology at the University of Paris, widely regarded as one of the most significant contemporary thinkers and cultural theorists, has written and published multiple philosophy books)ED
The university is in ruins: nonfunctional in the social arenas of the market and employment,
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rules the social order, behind which grows the absent, illegible, terror of control, the terror of a definitive code, of which we are the minuscule terminals.

My opponent’s liberal quest for speech on public campuses actively reproduces the university as an empty institution of democratic violence. Because the university valorizes all forms of speech and critical thinking, change through this rhetoric is impossible and actively contributes to its structure of power.

Baudrillard, 81(“Simulacra and Simulation” P.155-157—Jean Baudrillard was professor of sociology at the University of Paris, widely regarded as one of the most significant contemporary thinkers and cultural theorists, has written and published multiple philosophy books)ED
A strike has exactly the opposite effect. It regenerates the ideal of a possible university: the
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teacher, equivocal complicity on the part of the student - it is based on this phantom scenario of pedagogy that things continue and this time can last indefinitely. 

The university is the cemetery of social expression: the mass grave of Western culture. The university’s exclusion of death from the social and its valorization of all things it perceives as socially alive is ironically the thing that engenders the death of all sociality.

Anonymous UC Berkeley Student, 10(“The University, Social Death, and the Inside Joke,” http://anarchistnews.org/content/university-social-death-and-inside-joke)
Universities may serve as progressive sites of inquiry in some cases, yet this does not detract
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and every connotation, no longer denoting anyone or anything.56

The alternative is an affirmation of objecthood to cause the symbolic collapse of the university. The university’s current logic is to maximize speech and critical thinking in order to simulate the existence of a democracy of knowledge; thus, the only possible resistance is the rejection of speech.

 
Baudrillard, 81(“Simulacra and Simulation” P.84-86—Jean Baudrillard was professor of sociology at the University of Paris, widely regarded as one of the most significant contemporary thinkers and cultural theorists, has written and published multiple philosophy books)ED
With one caution. We are face to face with this system in a double situation and insoluble double bind –
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is precisely the overproduction and regeneration of meaning and of speech.

Tournament: Blake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lakeville South AL | Judge: Jason Smith

My value is morality. Prefer my value because it asks the broadest question of right and wrong

My value criterion is the avoidance of extinction

My value criterion surpasses all others because extinction causes the death of currently living people and an incomprehensible amount of future generations

Bostrom, 11(“Existential Risk Prevention as The Most Important Task for Humanity”--Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at the University of Oxford, has published several books on the morality of existential risk prevention and inflation, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.229.3109andrep=rep1andtype=pdf)
Even if we use the most conservative of these estimates, which entirely ignores the possibility of space colonization and software
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percentage point is worth a hundred billion times as much as a billion human lives.

Morality can never be achieved in the status quo because humans haven’t reached a consensus on what morality is. Competing ethical theories prevent any definitive moral theories from surfacing.

 
Ord, 13(“Moral Uncertainty”--Toby Ord works at: Oxford University's Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics + Future of Humanity Institute, http://www.amirrorclear.net/academic/research-topics/ethics/moral-uncertainty.html)
There are many competing theories in normative ethics. Some people say the right thing to do is what would
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not know what to do. What you still need to know are the moral facts of the matter. Perhaps the philosophical community will eventually work out what these are: normative ethics will be settled once and for all. But what are you to do now, when you need to act?

Cultural evolution suggests that we will learn how to define morality in the far future; therefore, the only moral path possible is to prolong the existence of the human race.

Wright, 9(“The Evolution of God”--Robert Wright, Professor at Princeton University, Journalist, author of several books on the philosophy of morality, http://evolutionofgod.net/excerpts_afterword)
We spelled out some of those patterns in chapter 18: as natural selection ground along, creating more and more intelligent
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of a unified global civilization; and, if we make it over that final threshold, we’ll have gotten closer still to moral truth in the bargain. So to quit thinking about God now would be to abandon a path that has been successful on its own terms—not a path of scientific inquiry that has brought scientific progress, but a path of moral inquiry that has brought moral progress.

My contention is that free speech in universities is the key to US innovation and therefore global innovation

Free speech is necessary to make the university an innovative think space

Hirshman, 14 (Dr. Elliot Hirshman, PhD in cognitive psychology, president of San Diego State University, former chair of psychology at George Washington University and University of Colorado at Denver, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elliot-hirshman/freedom-of-speech-on-camp_1_b_6069908.html)
The freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment has emerged as an extraordinarily contentious issue on many university campuses. Last spring, several speakers at commencements across the nation (e.g., former
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continue our powerful tradition of free expression — one that we must protect and nurture so our academic communities can continue their important work.

Innovation in universities is key to US innovation

Mitra, 9 (Sramana Mitra, writer for Forbes, president and founder of one million by one million which is a global virtual accelerator that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in annual revenue and beyond, founder of several other companies, MIT graduate, http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/02/universities-innovation-government-technology-enterprise-tech-universities.html)
In an ideal world, a capitalist framework would facilitate all the economic progress essential to civilization. Unfortunately, we don’t exist in an ideal world. Innovation, however, is among the areas where capitalism as we know it–private, free market, borderless and without government intervention–fails. And as it turns out, innovation happens to be the need of the hour. The Internet, one of the greatest innovations of the 20th century, came out of the U.S. government’s Defense
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by the wayside. It needs to be recreated. The world that emerges from the ashes of this financial crisis needs to recognize that innovation is a central priority. And in doing so, beefing up the government-industry-academia collaboration is critical.

Increased innovation is needed to save the dying US economy

Asbury, 13(Neal Asbury, Writer for Newsmax, chief executive of The Legacy Companies, As a reflection of his political and business acumen, he is a sought-after guest on national network television news shows that include FOX, CNBC, ABC and BBC. He is frequently quoted in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and other well-known print media, http://www.newsmax.com/Finance/NealAsbury/Detroit-innovation-economy-Depression/2013/10/03/id/529041/)
The Business Roundtable recently proposed that the United States is the world's innovation leader because of a commitment to basic research, a world-class workforce and a climate that rewards innovation. This sense of pride has been eclipsed by a feeling of economic pessimism
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Henry Ford once wrote: "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself."

The global economy is heavily dependent on the US economy

 
Mead, 4(Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations Walter Russell, “America's STICKY Power,” Foreign Policy, Mar/Apr, Proquest
Similarly, in the last 60 years, as foreigners have acquired a greater value in the United States-government and private bonds, direct and portfolio private investments-more and more of them have acquired an interest in maintaining the strength of the U.S.-led system.
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 collapsing U.S. economy would inflict enormous, unacceptable damage on the rest of the world. That is sticky power with a vengeance. 

Continued global economic decline will cause WWIII

Mead, 9(Walter Russell Mead, U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, 2/4/2009, The New Republic, “Only Makes You Stronger,” http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=571cbbb9-2887-4d81-8542-92e83915f5f8andp=2)
So far, such half-hearted experiments not only have failed to work; they have left the societies that have tried them in a progressively worse position, farther behind the front-runners as time goes by. Argentina has lost ground to Chile; Russian development has fallen farther behind that of the Baltic states and Central Europe. Frequently, the crisis has weakened the power of the merchants, industrialists, financiers, and professionals who
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born? The United States may not, yet, decline, but, if we can't get the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight.

A global war will inevitably go nuclear and causes extinction

Hellman 8 (Martin E. Hellman, emeritus prof of engineering @ Stanford, “Risk Analysis of Nuclear Deterrence” SPRING 2008 THE BENT OF TAU BETA PI, http://www.nuclearrisk.org/paper.pdf)
The threat of nuclear terrorism looms much larger in the public’s mind than the threat of a full-scale nuclear war, yet this article focuses primarily on the latter. An explanation is
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of smoke that would be generated by fires in modern megacities. While it is uncertain how destructive World War III would be, prudence dictates that we apply the same engineering conservatism that saved the Golden Gate Bridge from collapsing on its 50th anniversary and assume that preventing World War