Tournament: Dowling | Round: 1 | Opponent: Washington CM | Judge: Chris Jackson

Framework

Only by contextualizing impacts in terms of oppression can we have any conception of morality because normative frameworks are one-sided and only take into account the perspective of the advantaged, thus denying the legitimacy of the experiences of the oppressed.
Jaggar 2k. Department of Philosophy at Colorado Boulder. “ETHICS NATURALIZED:
FEMINISM’S CONTRIBUTION TO MORAL EPISTEMOLOGY”. METAPHILOSOPHY
Vol. 31, No. 5.
The dominant ideal ... rationalized masculine privilege.
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Discussions of moral exclusion both epistemically preclude conceptions of rationality and means other theories aren’t binding – animals matter too.
Regan and Singer 89 (Tom and Peter Singer, "Animal Rights and Human Obligations”, New Jersey, pp. 148-162) www.animal-rights-library.com/texts-m/singer02.htm
In recent years ... that show this.
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Abstractions both fail to guide action and ignore social contexts, reinforcing moral exclusion.
Curry 14 Dr. Tommy J. Curry The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century. 2014.
Despite the pronouncement ... contemporary moral parameters.
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Thus, the standard is mitigating oppression.
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The role of the judge is to be an adjudicator and an educator.
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Role-playing both enables political self-identity construction and facilitates empathy for others.
Mitchell 2K Gordon Mitchell, Associate Professor of Communication at University of Pittsburgh, Winter 2000, “Stimulated Public Argument As Pedagogical Play on Worlds”, Argumentation and Advocacy, vol 36, no 3, pq
When we assume ... significant emancipatory potential.
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Government-as-heuristic both provides a means of understanding and breaking down the US.
Zanotti 14 Dr. Laura Zanotti is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech.  Her research and teaching include critical political theory as well as international organizations, UN peacekeeping, democratization and the role of NGOs in post-conflict governance.“Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World” – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304,. A little unclear if this is late 2013 or early 2014 – The Stated “Version of Record” is Feb 20, 2014, but was originally published online on December 30th, 2013. Obtained via Sage Database.
By questioning substantialist ... and pessimistic activism.’’84
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Pragmatism is necessary to both actualize material change and avoid power structures.
Pappas 16 Gregory Fernando Pappas Texas AandM University “The Pragmatists’ Approach to Injustice”, The Pluralist Volume 11, Number 1, Spring 2016
The pragmatists’ approach ... not otherwise appreciate.15

Puppycide

Police increasingly shoot dogs for no reason as a means to militarize – accountability is key.
Whitehead 7/8 John W. Whitehead. 07/08/2016. Programmed to Kill: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Dogs. The Huffington Post. Attorney, President of The Rutherford Institute, and author of ‘Battlefield America’. JCHS-MM *Bracketed
A dog is ... shoot to kill.
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Oppression of non-humans is a gateway drug to other oppression – hatred fuels hatred.
Best 7. Steven Best. 2007. Chair of Philosophy at University of Texas – El Paso, Review of Charles Patterson’s “The Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust”, Journal for Critical Animal Studies.
While a welcome ... Christianity left behind. 
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Thus I resolve that The United States Supreme Court should limit qualified immunity by ruling in the next available test case that qualified immunity should be limited in the case of the killing of non-human animals by police, adopting the Ninth Circuit Courts decision in Hell’s Angels v. San Jose.
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Puppycide litigation empirically reforms police with no stress on courts but SCOTUS is key.
Griffith 14 David Griffith, editor of POLICE Magazine since December 2001. He brings more than 25 years of experience on magazines and newspapers to POLICE . A Maggie award-winning journalist, his byline has appeared on hundreds of articles in POLICE and other national magazines, 10-29-2014, "Can Police Stop Killing Dogs?," No Publication, http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2014/10/can-police-stop-killing-dogs.aspx JCHS-MM
A PR Nightmare ... dog, handcuff him?"
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Offending officers pay damages and ruin their careers – forces agencies to help communities.
Griffith 14 David Griffith, editor of POLICE Magazine since December 2001. He brings more than 25 years of experience on magazines and newspapers to POLICE . A Maggie award-winning journalist, his byline has appeared on hundreds of articles in POLICE and other national magazines,11-4-2014, "Sued for Shooting a Dog," Police Magazine, http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2014/11/sued-for-shooting-a-dog.aspx JCHS-MM
Losing and Paying ... issue,” he says.
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We outweigh – high probability impact scenarios outweigh in context of calculus and avoid distractions from structural violence.
Jackson 12 Jackson, Richard Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, the University of Otago “The Great Con of National Security.” Richard Jackson Terrorism Blog, 8/5/12.
It may have ... on this fact.

Underview

1. Neg burden is to win offense to an alternative world – that’s key to fairness and engagement with the AC’s pedagogy.
   Nelson 8 Adam F. Nelson, J.D.1. Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Lincoln-Douglas Debate. 2008.
   And the truth-statement ... we live in.
   2-4. Analytics