Tournament: Havard | Round: 8 | Opponent: idk | Judge: yeet
The ideology of capital and symbolic economy predetermine legitimate speech through powerful actor’s ability to project hegemonic speech without possibility of response. This is the death of communication; free speech is never real within a system of capital. Baudrillard 81:
Jean Baudrillard (Grande pute pour la sémiotique, Grumpy old French sociologist, The Matrix exists because of him – what a swagster), “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign” Telos Press. Pgs. 169-170. https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Baudrillard_Jean_For_a_critique_of_the_political_economy_of_the_sign_1981.pdf SF
The mass media... the social process. 

Their critique and reformation of the aesthetic politics of dress are only symptomatic of capital’s commodification of beauty through arbitrary social norms that demand consumption and destroy autonomy. Even if the 1AC changes our norms, the opportunity to dress with dignity is a privileged ideal defined by capital – this kills free speech and turns their ballot claims. Baudrillard 81:
Jean Baudrillard (Grande pute pour la sémiotique, Grumpy old French sociologist, The Matrix exists because of him – what a swagster), “For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign” Telos Press. Pgs. 31-32. https://monoskop.org/images/0/08/Baudrillard_Jean_For_a_critique_of_the_political_economy_of_the_sign_1981.pdf SF

The echo of... of their possessor. 

The alternative is the radical nihilistic challenge of my speech act. Our blind adherence to fiat and poor political representation as a community has drained debate of meaning. There is no connection between what we do here and the political; only the refusal to participate in the fiat game can bring us closer to meaning.
Baudrillard in 81:
Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation.” Published 1984, in English in 1994.
I am a nihilist... where seduction begins.

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The images of suffering they present are like a drug, used by the media and politicians to advance their ends. They present these images to you in exchange for the ballot for their own moralistic satisfaction, but this constant search for new catastrophes to “solve” can only end in domination and violence.
Baudrillard in 94
Jean Baudrillard (philosopher of symbolic swag), “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71. 1994.

We have long ... as a species.

Tournament:  | Round: Finals | Opponent:  | Judge: 0
JanFeb – Neolib K

The Constitution serves a social role by shaping the way we conceive of proper life through written law. Their legal approach limits the political imaginary, putting precedence over the struggle of the commons. Ollman 04:
Bertell Ollman (professor of politics at NYU; received his D.Phil. at Oxford University in 1967; has taught at the University of the West Indies and been a Visiting Professor at Oxford and Columbia Universities; Since 1970, he has given about 250 lectures on different aspects of Marxist theory in a dozen countries)
What still needs …never be understood.

The Constitution’s writing was undemocratic and made for economic elites – its emphasis on self-ownership as the basis of rights inscribes neoliberalism. Beard 13:
Charles Beard (Associate professor of politics at Columbia University), “An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States”. 1913. http://thenewschoolhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Beard_An_Economic_Interpretation_of_the_Consti.pdf SF
The movement for ..in their scope.

The alternative is the use of the commons as the social source of value. Carroll 10:
William Carroll (Founding director of the Social Justice Studies Program at the University of Victoria). “Crisis, movements, counter-hegemony: in search of the new.” Published November 2010. Accessed 12/25/14. http://interfacejournal.nuim.ie/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Interface-2-2-pp.168-198-Carroll.pdf SF
MST exemplifies a ..to decommodify labour.

Neoliberalism’s logic is reified in educational spaces; we must reclaim education so students can imagine radical solutions. Thus, the role of the ballot, as an academic pedestal, is to vote for whoever best interrogates neoliberalism. Giroux 15:
Henry A. Giroux (American and Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy)
If neoliberal others… locally and globally.

Tournament: haravrd | Round: 3 | Opponent: harvard | Judge: me
The standard is util. My framework defines ought as util – two warrants:

1. The free dictionary defines ought as used to indicate desirability
   http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ought
   2. Ought implies an ends based calculus. Harris:
   But this notion... human well-being.

Also, util is substantively true:

1. Psychological evidence proves we don’t identify with our future selves. Continuous personal identity doesn’t exist.
   Alisa Opar (articles editor at Audubon magazine; cites Hal Hershfield, an assistant professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business; and Emily Pronin, a psychologist at Princeton) “Why We Procrastinate” Nautilus January 2014
   “The British philosopher... might be you.”
   This means util is the only coherent moral theory.
   A. Since a there is not continuous persons, distribution of goods among people is irrelevant, so we just maximize benefits among people.
   B. It is impossible to violate a constraint since identity is in constant flux. Anything such as a promise a made a year ago is no long my promise, etc.
   2. Public policy necessitates tradeoffs—that means util.
   Gary Woller BYU Prof., “An Overview by Gary Woller”, A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics, June 1997, pg. 10
   “Moreover, virtually all...making it worse.”
   A. Takes out util indicts—governments already use it in the squo, so calc indicts are empirically denied.
   B. Any theory based in constraints is useless. Government action inevitably violates some principle, so util is most plausible.
   C. Util is comparatively better to any other ethical theory—non-consequentialist theories paralyze government action which is always worse than a risk of not being able to use util.
   3. No act/omission for governments—constraint based theories collapse to util.
    Sunstein and Vermule 05 (Cass Sunstein and Adrian Vermuele, “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? The Relevance of Life-Life Tradeoffs,” Chicago Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 85 (March 2005), p. 17.)
   In our view... violations require aggregation.

1. The aff defends that colleges have to defend any free speech in all instances should be allowed, which means if one instance exists such that it would be more utilitarian to deny the right, we should.
   2. Util means we can never have rights.
   HEARD 97:  Heard, Andrew. “THE CHALLENGES OF UTILITARIANISM AND RELATIVISM” Simon Fraser University. http://www.sfu.ca/~aheard/417/util.html
   At one level... to be absolute. 
   3. Util proves permissibility of the resolution. To clarify it’s still a true theory, it just proves that actions have equal value:
2. The universe is infinite.
   Bostrom 11 Nick Bostrom (Professor, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School Director, Future of Humanity Institute Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology University of Oxford) “Infinite Ethics” Analysis and Metaphysics, Vol. 10 (2011): pp. 9-59
   In the standard... of good and bad.

2. Every action causes other events which themselves have consequences- that means every action has an infinite amount of consequences so one better consequence doesn’t make an action obligatory.
3. None-such problem—each type of pleasure—the pleasure of friendship, the pleasure of eating ice cream—is qualitatively different, so there’s no way to quantify and compare pleasures under consequentialism.