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| Presentation | 4 | Opponent: Northwood CA | Judge: Nicho Rogers 1NC - Radiation Good HGTRS pic Coal DA Util NC |
| Presentation | 2 | Opponent: Basis | Judge: Scott Wheeler NC - Space PIC Prolif Good and T Multiple Countries |
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Round 4 - Presentation - Rahul Shukla Harker RSTournament: Presentation | Round: 4 | Opponent: Northwood CA | Judge: Nicho Rogers NCThe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. If you want me to spec further on my standard just tell me.First, the constitutive obligation of the state is to protect citizen interest—individual obligations are not applicable in the public sphere. Goodin 95Robert E. Goodin. Philosopher of Political Theory, Public Policy, and Applied Ethics. Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1995. p. 26-7 Second, only impacts and values that exist in the physical world are relevant. Physical realism is the only meaningful ontological theory of being. Williams,Donald Williams. "Naturalism and the Nature of Things." The Philosophical Review, Vol. 53, No. 5 (Sep., 1944), pp. 417-443. Duke UP. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2181355** Third, the role of the judge should be to merely adjudicate the debate as this is the most predictable standard.Fourth, the role of the ballot is to maximize utility.CPCounterplan Text: Countries ought to prohibit the production of all currently active forms of nuclear power, except for HTGRs, by phasing out nuclear reactors through the process of immediate dismantling and uphold international norms against radioactivity in the context of uranium mining.Solves safety and warmingNGNP Alliance, 12 Environmental destruction is a form of structural violence – allowing warming to continue perpetuates all inequalitiesHoerner 8—Former director of Research at the Center for a Sustainable Economy, Director of Tax Policy at the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland College Park, and editor of Natural Resources Tax Review. He has done research on environmental economics and policy on behalf of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Andrew received his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law—AND—Nia Robins—former inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, director of Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (J. Andrew, "A Climate of Change African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy for the U.S." July 2008, http://www.ejcc.org/climateofchange.pdf) Solves the "Location of Plants" HarmsNGNP Industry Alliance no date Solves Accidents HarmMartin, 16 Solves waste dumping – their cardLowry, David. "Uranium Exploitation and Environmental Racism: Why Environmental Despoliation and the Ignorance of Radiological Risks of Uranium Mining Cannot Be Justified by Nuclear Fuel Production." Nuclear Waste Advisory. N.p., June 2008. Web. 12 Aug. 2016. http://www.nuclearwasteadvisory.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Uranium-exploitation-and-environmental-racism.pdf. David Lowry was awarded a PhD on nuclear decision making by the Open University in 1987. He previously studied at the State University of New York (1978-79) and the London School of Economics, London University (1975-78). In 2001 he was presented with a special award for education at the Nuclear Free Future Foundation annual awards and the UK Campaign for Freedom of Information 1995 Award in the politics category (jointly with Llew Smith MP). He holds specialist knowledge of UK and EU nuclear and environment policy. DANuclear power stops dangerous quantities of emissions from other fossil fuelsBiello 13 – David, writes for the scientific American, Internally Cites James Hansen, Professor at Columbia University ("How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nuclear-power-can-stop-global-warming/) No renewable shift – would take 100 years to replace energy yields of nuclear power and would increase CO2 emissionsFollett ’16 (Andrew, Energy and Environment Reporter, The Daily Caller, "Hillary Platform Leaves Out The Largest Source of CO2 Free Power", http://dailycaller.com/2016/07/20/hillary-platform-leaves-out-the-largest-source-of-co2-free-power/~~#ixzz4Gsb7OLxm, July 20, 2016) Coal is horrible for CO2 emissions – that exacerbates warmingTWC 14 ("Black as Coal", http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Coal-Mining-Effects-on-the-Environment) That runaway greenhouse guarantees destruction of all life on EarthBrandenberg 99 – PhD, Physicist The world goes on its merry way | 10/9/16 |
SeptOct Afropessimism KTournament: Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Hunter College NP | Judge: John Scoggin The aff's call for legal relief is the perfection of the slave as a slave. Relief is only possible via the master and can only be granted by the United States as a gift upon the slave—the fact of need itself means that the request will fail.Farley 5 ~Boston College (Anthony, "Perfecting Slavery", http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1028andcontext=lsfp)~~ The rhetoric of pluralist reform helps protect and maintain stability for black suffering that underwrites the foundation of the US—their legislative antics help civil society maintain legitimacy at the expense of Indians and BlacksStatus quo intellectual protocol's ignore the way ontology doesn't permit us from understanding the being of the black man—ideas of civic participation is little more than a passionate dream that narrows the distance between the protester and the police—the fixation on specific unique experience of a myriad identities deals with conflicts within America and hides the suffering that underwrites the antagonism of America—their antics help civil society recuperate and maintain stability White supremacy is the un-named political system that governs status-quo politics. We pass policies to satisfy a "social contract" that is inherently racist. The omission of any mention of this system is not accidental but a coordinated condition of the system.White supremacy is the unnamed political system, however political theory has no mention of it—this omission is not accidental—white privilege is taken for granted that it isn't seen as political and is the background against which other systems are highlighted—the 1AC works in a way to not situate a broader debate about the role of racism as the political system—that's Mills You cannot detach theory from its history- ethics must be informed by the injustice of empirical institutions, because the assumptions behind abstraction defy reality and serve to legitimize oppression. Curry 13Dr. Tommy J. Curry 13, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Texas AandM, "In the Fiat of Dreams: The Delusional Allure of Hope, the Reality of Anti-Black Violence and the Demands of the Anti-Ethical", 2013. Mainstream social science is structured by the entrenched, white-supremacists system which ignores the issue of race—you should prefer our impact argumentsShaw, '04 ~Katharine, Associate Professor of Urban Studies at Ohio State Using Feminist Critical Policy Analysis in the Realm of Higher Education: The Case of Welfare Reform as Gendered Educational Policy Source: The Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 75, No. 1, Special Issue: Questions of Research and Methodology, (Jan. - Feb., 2004), pp. 56-79~ You should view the impact debate from the lens of the dispossessed—conventional moral theory operates colorblindly—we must value the interests of minorities equally, before we make assessments on moral frameworks
Our method of social resistance is the only way to create ethical agency – regardless of solvency, agency must come from an individual level via the choice to constantly rebelHedges, '10 ~Chris Hedges, Fellow at The Nation Institute, F. Ross Johnson-Connaught Distinguished Visitor in American Studies at the Centre for the Study of the United States at The University of Toronto, long-time foreign correspondent for the New York Times where he was part of a team of reporters that won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the war on terrorism, recipient of the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, 3/8/10, "Calling All Rebels", http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/03/08-2~~ The alternative is to engage in unflinching paradigmatic analysis—calling attention to the antagonism that undergirds civil society is the only way to address the conflicts within it like the 1AC.Wilderson, '10 ~2010, Frank B. Wilderson is an Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine and has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, "Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,"~ Voting negative has revolutionary potentialAs debaters, we aren't policymakers or political activists but simply pedagogues in intellectual discussion—the act of an unflinching paradigmatic analysis allows us to deny intellectual legitimacy to the compromises that radical elements have made because of an unwillingness to hold moderates feet to the fire predicated on an unflinching paradigmatic analysis | 9/26/16 |
SeptOct Agency NCTournament: Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: xx | Judge: xx 1NC - AgencyBecause states are legal fictions created for a scheme of social cooperation, obligations of states must derive from the people's condition in the state of nature and the conditions that allow for the authority of the state. Pre-government people have an innate right to independence.First, all moral obligations must derive from reason, since it is necessarily an authoritative basis for action.Velleman 6 ~David. Self To Self. Cambridge University Press. 2006. Pg 18-19~ Reason is a necessary starting point for all moral questions that no agent can escape because it's impossible to question the authority reason without conceding that authority.Second, Agency is the fundamental enterprise involved in taking any action, whereby the agent submits to a normative reason for action. It's impossible to reflect on whether we should exercise agency without already having engaged in the activity of agency. It follows that agency is the inescapable and universal across all rational agents. If the constitutive principle of agency is merely agency, then any valid practical judgment must be true of every practical agent and for every agent.Furthermore, in tending toward any action, the agent must actually align herself with the pursuit of her end—you can't decide to do A and not A at the same time, since that doesn't make any decision at all. This involves willing compatible ends, which demands outer freedom because in tracking any end, you hold yourself to being able to reach it free from others' choice, which requires that you will consistently with your freedom as a precondition for bringing about that end at all. Thus, any maxim that subjects one person to someone else's choice is internally contradictory.This places the coercive state seemingly at a contradiction. However, freedom is only possible if agents jointly will a common end, i.e. system of reciprocal constraints; else people could arbitrarily infringe upon the pursuit of your respective ends. You can't will yourself into a state of nature on pain of contradiction, since that would make the means of your action incompatible with the end. Thus, agents in willing any end at all are committed to willing a system of equal and outer freedom, that is, the state. Thus the standard is consistency with a system of equal outer freedoms.I contend that banning private ownership of handguns violates the independence of individuals.Prohibiting nuclear power production is a violation of property rights because:It would require government confiscation of power plants owned by private companies, which directly violates their ownership rights of the reactors.World Nuclear 16 "World Energy Needs and Nuclear Power" June 2016 AT That's offense for me —- individual sovereignty is absolute —- any excess limitation on freedom is domination and inconsistent with a system of equal freedoms.Ripstein, (Arthur Ripstein, "Beyond the Harm Principle," University of Toronto, http://www.law.utoronto.ca/documents/Ripstein/beyond_harm_principle.pdf//FT It would close off nuclear power production to everyone. The government cannot unilaterally declare certain industries as illegal to own and operate even if doing so will reduce accident risk, just as it cannot prohibit people from owning cars for the same purpose, because mere ownership does not violate the rights of any other person. At worst, the government can pass safety regulations to prohibit nuclear plants from posing a threat to others, but cannot outright prohibit it. Nuclear energy doesn't intrinsically interfere with anyone's ends because it doesn't involve force. It's illegitimate to prohibit it.Levendis et al 6 John Levendis (Dr. John V. Connor Professor in Economics and Finance Associate Professor of Economics at Loyola University New Orleans), Walter Block and Joseph Morrel "Nuclear Power" Journal of Business Ethics, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Aug., 2006), pp. 37-49 | 9/25/16 |
SeptOct Dualism KTournament: Voices RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: xx | Judge: xx The affirmative reinforces the dichotomy between humans and nature – setting up humans as being able to technologically control nature by controlling waste.Krupar '12 ("Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, Colorado, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste", Shiloh R Krupar, Shiloh Krupar is a Geographer and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she currently serves as Field Chair of the Program in Culture and Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California-Berkeley, an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and a BA from Case Western Reserve University, 24 May 2012, http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/05/28/1474474011433756 | SP) Their use of the state is a link and turns case – allows governments to avoid answering hard questions about things like the military industrial complex, instead labeling themselves as heroes of the environment and furthering institutionalization of environmental ethics.Krupar '12 ("Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, Colorado, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste", Shiloh R Krupar, Shiloh Krupar is a Geographer and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she currently serves as Field Chair of the Program in Culture and Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California-Berkeley, an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and a BA from Case Western Reserve University, 24 May 2012, http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/05/28/1474474011433756 | SP) The securitization of contamination reproduces a fear of difference, producing transphobic and ableist responses – only the alternative framework of transnaturalism can solve.Krupar '12 ("Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, Colorado, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste", Shiloh R Krupar, Shiloh Krupar is a Geographer and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she currently serves as Field Chair of the Program in Culture and Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California-Berkeley, an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and a BA from Case Western Reserve University, 24 May 2012, http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/05/28/1474474011433756 | SP) Representations are a prior question – even if we lose framework, the K outweighs as a procedural disad – political rhetoric frames our understanding of political reality and outweighs everything – star this cardHinds and Windt Jr. 1991 (Lynn Boyd, is Associate Professor of Broadcasting at West Virginia University. and Theodore Otto, Professor of Political Rhetoric at the University of Pittsburgh. "The Cold War As Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945–1950," 1991, 6-10, MT) The alternative is to embrace the mutant drag performance of Nuclia Waste. This model of exaggerated difference and humor solves case, builds coalitions, and is an actual method to reshape our ontological position.Krupar '12 ("Transnatural ethics: revisiting the nuclear cleanup of Rocky Flats, Colorado, through the queer ecology of Nuclia Waste", Shiloh R Krupar, Shiloh Krupar is a Geographer and Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she currently serves as Field Chair of the Program in Culture and Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California-Berkeley, an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University, and a BA from Case Western Reserve University, 24 May 2012, http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/05/28/1474474011433756 | SP) Fiat is not just illusory but delusionary. Not only does the plan not actually pass but we'll pre empt the 1ar arguments about critical thinking or agency.Schlag '90 (Pierre, professor of law at the University of Colorado, Stanford Law Review, lexis, AM) | 10/9/16 |
SeptOct Give Back the Land KTournament: Voices RR | Round: 5 | Opponent: xx | Judge: xx The aff ignores the prior question of Native American colonization. Where are we? How did we get here? What right does our government have to exist? They fail to come to terms with a basic material fact: we are colonial occupiers of stolen land. Failure to address these questions means that their politics of liberation will fail.Churchill, 03 (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, "I am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World"). Their project is destroyed by the failure to address colonial violence. No state can both wage a racist war within its borders and claim to engage in politics of liberation. Moreover, they will make things WORSE because the continued failure of progressivism will result in a public disenchanted with the very notion of fundamental change.Churchill, 03 (Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader. THE NEW FACE OF LIBERATION: Given the aff's negligence, our alternative is to prioritize land return. This must come before engaging the aff, which abandons material questions in favor of theoretical gestures that only serve to comfort colonial oppressors.Churchill, 03 (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, "I am Indigenist: Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World"). Taking the decolonization of North America seriously is the only way to control the state. It is impossible to end oppression without starting in Indian Country. Otherwise, extinction is inevitable.Churchill, 03 (Ward, Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader, "Radioactive Colonization"). | 10/9/16 |
SeptOct Nuclear Imperialism KTournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: xx | Judge: xx KThe 1ACs assumption that US military power needs to be curbed because it is an entrenchment of US dominance over other countries assumes that others can't handle the US's nuclear energy reproduces inequality and re-entrenches state power. They only ban nuclear power for the US – assuming developing nations aren't capable. Their Connory 2 evidence criticizes the US for being anglo centric and dominating – this is a link.Mathur '16 — Department of Political Science and Geography, Univ of Texas (Ritu, Sly civility and the paradox of equality/inequality in the nuclear order: a post-colonial critique, Critical Studies on Security, Volume 4, 2016, Issue 1) The role of the ballot is to reject orientalism as a prejudiced and inaccurate view of the world. Their language is a first priority – stereotypes shape how we thinkMathur '16 — Department of Political Science and Geography, Univ of Texas (Ritu, Sly civility and the paradox of equality/inequality in the nuclear order: a post-colonial critique, Critical Studies on Security, Volume 4, 2016, Issue 1 The alternative is to embrace an emancipatory post-colonial politics –must create a knowledge base that can foster cooperative attempts at meaningful political change. Brydon '06Diana Brydon, University of Western Ontario, '6 ~Postcolonial Test 2.1, "Is There a Politics of Postcoloniality?" http://journals.sfu.ca/pocol/index.php/pct/article/viewArticle/508/175~~** Colonial racism is the biggest impact in the round – viewing others as subhuman, dangerous, and irrational is the root cause of many of society's illsMathur '14 (Ritu, 'The West and the Rest': A Civilizational Mantra in Arms Control and Disarmament? Contemporary Security Policy, 35:3, 332-355) | 9/26/16 |
SeptOct Prolif KTournament: Valley RR | Round: 2 | Opponent: Apple Valley DA | Judge: Evnen, Lipton KRepresenting the dangers of proliferation to third world nations relies on racist orientalismGusterson '99 (Gusterson, Hugh,"Nuclear Weapons and the Other in Western Imagination" Cultural Anthropology, 14.1 Feb 1999 http://www.jstor.org/stable/656531 Aug 17/2009 TBC 6/29/10) The 'proliferation' metaphor is epistemologically bankrupt —- their framing obscures the root cause of the spread of weapons, turning the caseMutimer 00 (David, Professor of Political Science – York University (Canada), The Weapons State: Proliferation and the Framing of Security, p. 58-63) immediate replacements for security are constructions of expert knowledge that rely on circular and epistemologically-closed narratives—- the drive for certainty and closure produces violence. It crowds out vital ethical questions about IRBiswas 7 (Shampa, Professor of Politics – Whitman College, "Empire and Global Public Intellectuals: Reading Edward Said as an International Relations Theorist", Millennium, 36(1), p. 117-125) The alternative is to embrace an emancipatory post-colonial politics –must create a knowledge base that can foster cooperative attempts at meaningful political change. Brydon '06Diana Brydon, University of Western Ontario, '6 ~Postcolonial Test 2.1, "Is There a Politics of Postcoloniality?" http://journals.sfu.ca/pocol/index.php/pct/article/viewArticle/508/175~~** Questions of framing are a meta-argument that must precede policy discussionCrawford 2 (Neta, Ph.D. and MA – MIT, Professor of Political Science – Boston University, Argument and Change in World Policy, p. 19-21) | 9/23/16 |
SeptOct T - Multiple CountriesTournament: Valley RR | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lake Highland MK | Judge: xx Interpretation: If the affirmative choses to parametricize an advocacy, they must specify at minimum two actors, with a solvency advocate that species both of them taking an action.GREG N. CARLSON, 1977, A UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH BARE PLURAL*, http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~~ivano/LogicSeminar_15W/Material/Carlson_1977_EnglishBarePlurals.pdf** Violation:Standards:Textuality: "Countries" is a plural word. By definition, a plural noun must have more than one subject. Grammatically, the resolution reads that multiple countries have to prohibit nuclear production. Grammar is key to fairness because it is the only predictable, not arbitrary way of debating the resolution. Key to education because we cannot clash if you are unpredictable.Limits: There are 144 countries that the aff can spec—forcing the aff to spec at least two countries decreases the number of combinations the aff can specify. My interpretation is uniquely key on this topic because nuclear power initiatives are often multinational—empirically proven through Saudi-Korean relations. The topic already huge, don't make it bigger. Limits are key to clash because you can only prepare so much—their interpretation means there will never be real substantive debate, just generic K rounds. And key to fairness because it ensures that one debater will not arbitrarily be ahead in the debate. | 9/24/16 |
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