Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood SM | Judge: Travi Fife
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The AC is a denial of death. While attempting to provide proof that extinction is inevitable, they fail to see the underlying assumption of the aff. Voting aff does nothing to change nuclear policy; if their impacts are true, the end of humanity is now hurling at us and we stand powerless to stop it. Their hypothetical method of saving the world is a plea for help in the face of an inevitable death. But that suppression of fear just guarantees lashout to preserve our fragile fantasies in the form of genocide and xenophobia. Ligotti 12:

~~~Thomas Ligotti, contemporary American philosopher and horror author, THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE, p. 126-128, Evan~~~ *gender modified: note that I modified a modification to a quote … originally was ~~~Man~~~ literally drives himself into
Be that as it may, there is a school of psychology that has us
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of death.
The ROB = to vote for the debater who performs the best method of staring into the abyss of the AC’s impact scenario:
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This is especially key in American educational systems like debate, which make death a taboo subject. That's why they're able to argue that we're all going to die without us blinking an eye or even beginning to process what that really means. King-McKenzie 11:

~~~King-McKenzie, Ethel. "Death and Dying in the Curriculum of Public Schools: Is there a place?." Journal of Emerging Knowledge on Emerging Markets 3.1 (2011): 29.~~~
Over the past few decades, death has frequently visited our school campuses and nation
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our campuses as man take the lives of their fellowman without thinking twice.

I defend Noname's performance of living forever in a day. Two advantages:

First, it is key to situate specific political viewpoints within the apocalyptic narrative. Their totalizing apocalyptic rhetoric creates a post-political epistemology in which internal struggle and fluidity is impossible. Collard 13:
Rosemary-Claire, PhD in geography from University of British Columbia, post-
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may get flattened now and then, but life can't be stamped out.
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Second, this is the only metaphysically sound response to death. The present is a psychological construct and life is forever. Lanza 10:
(Robert Lanza is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Does Death Exist?: Life Is Forever, Says Theory" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-life-is_b_410306.html)
As discussed in Part I, the 'many-worlds'
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but life can't be stamped out.

Tournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Scarsdale GZ | Judge: Sigalow
Interp: Preemptory theoretical arguments in the AC must be explicitly labelled as still open to response after a clean extension in the 1AR. Thompson 15 clarifies:
http://nsdupdate.com/2015/04/21/miscellaneous-thoughts-from-the-disorganized-mind-of-marshall-thompson/
Therefore, I am
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they are extended.
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Spikes exclude people with learning disabilities from debate. Thompson 2:
First, I think that
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difficult to track).
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Second, it's an independent voter and an epistemic prerequisite to all other theoretical and substantive issues. Winter and Leighton:
Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton  Winter :Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. "Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century."~
Finally, to recognize the
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 oppressed, invisible, outsiders.
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First, it is impossible to coherently debate theoretical preempts before they have been implicated. Thompson 3 :
First, you can only
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expected to answer it.
Second, spikes add a huge element of luck to the round. Thompson 4:
Second,
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Second, punishment deters bad practices and set good norms.
Sigel 84:
Sigel, Doug. The Punishment Theory: Illegitimate Styles and Theories as Voting Issues Northwestern University. 1984.
Deterrence  seems  especially  
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 their pre-round planning.
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Tournament: Dowling | Round: 2 | Opponent: asdf | Judge: asdf
~Be~ in a field long enough, and the sounds   
start up again. The crickets, the invisible   
toad who claims that change is possible,
And all the other life too small to name.   
First one, then another, until innumerable
they merge into the single voice of a summer hill.
Yes, it's hard to ~be~ still, hour after hour,   
fixed as a fencepost, hearing the steers
snort in the dark pasture, smelling the manure.
And ~puzzled~ by the mystery of how a stone   
can bear to be a stone, the pain
the grass endures breaking through the earth's crust.
Unimaginable the redwoods on the far hill,   
rooted for centuries, the living wood grown tall
and thickened with a hundred thousand days of light.
The old windmill creaks in perfect time
to the wind shaking the miles of pasture grass,   
and the last farmhouse light goes off.
-Becoming a redwood by Dana Gioia ~edited for ableist language~

The essence of the university is the signification of reason – constituted through the metaphysical model of being as a self-contained organism, a rational animal. The university reflects and re-produces the center of society suspended over the abyss of its own incompleteness and contradictions. All movement within the confines of the university only enforce its transcendent interiority – we must begin from the marginalized peripheries of the abyss itself. Derrida 83:

The Principle of Reason: The University in the Eyes of Its Pupils Author(s): Jacques Derrida, Catherine Porter and Edward P. Morris Source: Diacritics, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Autumn, 1983), pp. 2-20 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/464997 Accessed: 16-02-2017
Today, how can we not speak of the university? I put my question
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institutes guardians and calls upon them to watch faithfully- truthfully- over itself

The notion of speech itself encodes violent metaphysical abstraction that necessitates the dialectical destruction of the object in the gaze of the subject. The silent material expression of plants is uniquely marginalized by this conceptualization, and is key to deconstructing the entire metaphysical edifice. Marder 11:

Vegetal anti-metaphysics: Learning from plants Michael Marder Published online: 28 October 2011
The meaning of plants The other remnants of metaphysics in Levinas's oeuvre revolve around his
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complete; something of meaning always burns up along with the tree simpliciter.

So the ROB is to endorse the best method of plant pedagogy.

The alt is to become plant through poetry. Marder 12:

~Michael, Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz~ The Life of Plants and the Limits of Empathy. Dialogue, 51,  pp 259-273 doi:10.1017/S0012217312000431
A more subtle method of inviting the rapprochement of the human and the vegetal worlds
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existences and mediate between various ontologies without privileging the standpoint of the human Dasei

Metaphysics outweighs – the violent dichotomies that produce human reason and individuality in opposition to plant ontology lead to endless exploitation and extinction. Marder and Vieira 13:

"Writing Phytophilia: Philosophers and Poets as Lovers of Plants" michael marder and patricia vieira
The uneasy predicament of Western philosophy, which has, since the nineteenth century,
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being dogmatically superseded the plant- and animal-like evanescence of wisdom.