Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: North Hollywood JS | Judge: Torson, Adam
Litigation saps city budgets
Elinson and Frosch 15 Zusha Elinson and Dan Frosch, Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big U.S. Cities, WSJ, 7-15-2015
For most of ... really been challenging.”
This causes overpricing
Graeber 15 David Graeber (London School of Economics, the author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire, and Direct Action: An Ethnography, “Ferguson and the Criminalization of American Life,” Gawker 3/19/2015
The Department of ... feel like criminals.
City budgets are crucial to the national economy
Morath 10/26 Eric Morath; covers the economy from The Wall Street Journal's Washington Bureau; 10/26/2016; “Slowdown in State, Local Investment Dents U.S. Economy”
A sharp pullback ... the growth rate.
Economic decline will trigger military conflict
Tønnesson 15 (Stein, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Leader of the East Asia Peace program at Uppsala university, “Deterrence, interdependence and Sino–US peace,” International Area Studies Review, Volume 18, Number 3, p. 297—311
Several recent works ... Beijing to intervene.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 6 | Opponent: Gig Harbor CM | Judge: Yao, Brian
CP Text: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except in cases of campaign expenditures.
Kelly 17 Matthew Kelly, 1-19-2017, "SGA campaign spending cap proposed," Sunflower, http://thesunflower.com/12744/news/sga-campaign-spending-cap-proposed/
Wednesday’s Student Government ... next week’s meeting.
Campaign expenditures were deemed constitutionally protected speech by Citizens United
Levy 15 Gabrielle Levy, “How Citizens United Has Changed Politics in 5 Years,” US News and World Report, January 21, 2015
Five years ago ... on political activities
Limits on campaign expenditures are key to provide equal access to student government, especially for underprivileged students.
New University 16 New University. "Spending Caps Stop The Arms Race.". May 04, 2009. Web. December 07, 2016
On April 20, the ... activist organization’s – pocketbook.”

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Palo Alto BH | Judge: Koh, Ben
Challenging the epistemology of cap is a prereq to evaluating the valuability of the res
Marsh 95 Marsh 95- Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, PhD from Northwestern University (James, Critique Action and Liberation, p 331-2
Is it reasonable ... incomplete, truncated rationality.
LINKS-- I read lots of different ones. Just don't be capitalist
Commodification turns case and outweighs—destroys value of free speech and kills value to life by making them mere objects.
Morgaridge 98 Morgaridge, Clayton, Prof of Philosophy at Lewis and Clark College, 1998, Why Capitalism is Evil 08/22 http://www.lclark.edu/~clayton/commentaries/evil.html
Now none of ... at the table.
Class is the root cause of oppression
Kovel 07 Joel Kovel, Former Professor Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Faculty in the New School for Social Research, Green Party Presidential Nominee, 2007 (The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World, Zed Books, Accessed 07-25-2008, pp. 151-153MUDI-Darxlice)
If, however, we ... drives history onward.
Cap makes abstract conclusions about freedom meaningless
Marcuse Herbert Marcuse (Marxist dude, critical theorist). “One-Dimensional Man - Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society.” First Edition. 1964. http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/works/one-dimensional-man/one-dimensional-man.pdf
Under the rule ... of the controls.
The alternative is to reject the 1AC’s representations and to entirely withdraw from the logic of capital—individual criticism is key to solve
Kovel 07 (Joel, Professor of Social Studies at Bard, The Enemy of Nature, pg 77-79)
Relentless criticism can ... responsibility for intellectuals.
Rejection without reformism tacked on is the only unexpected response, which prevents the prevailing mindset from coopting our strategy.
Halberstam 11 J. J. Judith Halberstam, professor of English at the University of Southern California, The Queer Art of Failure, chapter 33, pg. 88
Failure, of course, ... of “common sense.”

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Palo Alto BH | Judge: Koh, Ben
A. Historical Amnesia- their historiography totally ignores that class was the central element, historical, of the ascriptive hierarchies that marginalize Asian identity and experience
B. Intertextuality- their focus on linguistic critique/spoken word reinforces a postmodern strategy of obscuring materiality
C. Personal experience- individual oppression as a lens occludes class struggle. San Juan Jr 91
 (E,  Beyond Identity Politics: The Predicament o f the Asian American Writer in Late Capitalism  American L ite ra r y H isto ry , Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1991), pp. 542-565 )
With the presumed ... narrative (see Nakanishi).

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 5 | Opponent: Palo Alto FZ | Judge: Legried, Erik
The affirmative’s project of satire reproduces capitalism—it maintains a safely cynical distance from ideology so they don’t have to defend actual ideas. This is a form of vaccination that diminishes the revolutionary potential of dissent.
Corner 13 (Adam, 11/21/13, research associate in psychology at Cardiff University, “Ad nauseam,” http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/how-advertising-turned-anti-consumerism-into-a-secret-weapon/)
It seems almost ... is against dissent.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Brentwood EL | Judge: OKrent, Michael
Nuclear shutdown leads to a shift to coal
Severnini 15 Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University, "Nuclear Shutdown, Coal Power Generation, and Infant Health: Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the 1980s," August 2015
Nuclear accidents usually ... most affected counties.
Coal development violates human rights and doesn’t engage people in the process
Gomez 15 Krisna Gomez, Gregory Regaignon, "Digging deeper: the impact of coal on human rights ," Dejusticia And Business And Human Rights Resource Centre, November 2015, coalinthesouth.org
The countries increasing ... approaching adequate remedies.

Tournament: Damus | Round: 1 | Opponent: Meadows KS | Judge: Torson, Adam
Aff clogs the courts
Putnam and Ferris 92 Charles T. Putnam Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire and Charles T. Ferris JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center, “Defending a Maligned Defense: The Policy Bases of the Qual- ified Immunity Defense in Actions Under 42 USC 1983,” Bridgeport Law Review, Vol. 12, 1992
National resources are ... defendants facing suit.
Court clog undermines just enforcement
Bannon 13 Alicia Bannon (serves as counsel for the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, where her work focuses on judicial selection and promoting fair and impartial courts. Ms. Bannon also previously served as a Liman Fellow and Counsel in the Brennan Center’s Justice Program. J.D. from Yale Law School in 2007, where she was a Comments Editor of the Yale Law Journal). “Testimony: More Judges Needed in Federal Courts.” Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. September 10, 2013
The growing workload ... our federal courts.
The Supreme Court will backlash
Fallon 11 Richard H. Fallon, Jr., (The Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School). “Asking the Right Questions About Officer Immunity.” 80 Fordham L. Rev. 479 (2011). http://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol80/iss2/3
As another possible ... is not unreasonable.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 4 | Opponent: Summit Academy JS | Judge: Joseph, Jeff
Getting rid of qualified immunity destroys federalism.
Putnam and Ferris 92 Charles T. Putnam Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire and Charles T. Ferris JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center, “Defending a Maligned Defense: The Policy Bases of the Qual- ified Immunity Defense in Actions Under 42 USC 1983,” Bridgeport Law Review, Vol. 12, 1992
Although the historical ... or constitutional mandate.”
Police vs court power is the linchpin for public health
Hodge 98 James G. Hodge Jr. (Professor of Public Health Law and Ethics at Arizona State University), "The Role of New Federalism and Public Health Law," Journal of Law and Health, 1998
Because of the ... their police powers.
Lack of health infrastructure makes diseases more dangerous
Schermerhorn 14 (Jordan, Global Health and the Middle East at Duke University) “Bioterrorism is Already Here” Medium Apr 29, 2014
The fact that ... an encouraging model.
Unchecked disease spread will cause extinction
Quammen 12 David, award-winning science writer, long-time columnist for Outside magazine for fifteen years, with work in National Geographic, Harper's, Rolling Stone, the New York Times Book Review and other periodicals, 9/29, “Could the next big animal-to-human disease wipe us out?,” The Guardian
Infectious disease is ... a global pandemic.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 6 | Opponent: Gig Harbor CM | Judge: Yao, Brian
All concepts, identities, and judgements are constructed in opposition to their negative. Ontological violence is foundational to any ethical or political framework.
Hagglund  THE NECESSITY OF DISCRIMINATION DISJOINING DERRIDA AND LEVINAS” MARTIN HÄGGLUND, 2004, p 56.
“Derrida targets precisely ... nothing at all.
Turns case- to do away with difference results in absolute violence.
Hagglund 2 “THE NECESSITY OF DISCRIMINATION DISJOINING DERRIDA AND LEVINAS” MARTIN HÄGGLUND
“A possible objection ... “Violence and Metaphysics.”
Vote negative to deconstruct the 1AC- rather than forming politics around a collective, understand the world as indeterminate.
Mouffe 2 Mouffe  (Chantal Mouffe, Professor at the Department of Political Science of the Institute for Advanced Studies. June 2000. “The Democratic Paradox”)
However, if we ... forms of identification.

Tournament: Damus | Round: Octas | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AM | Judge: Miyamoto, Alderete, Ivens-Duran
Counterplan: The United States Supreme Court will reverse the Harlow v. Fitzgerald ruling in part, establishing an objective reasonableness standard for qualified immunity for police officers in Fourth Amendment cases that only applies when there has been a violation of a newly developed legal standard, not merely a new application of an established doctrine.
Hassel Diana Hassel, EXCESSIVE REASONABLENESS, Professor, Roger Williams University School of Law, 2009
In excessive force ... the victim possible.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 3 | Opponent: Polytechnic JL | Judge: Overing, John
Meaning is not natural but a function of individual perspective
Parrish 05, Rick. "Derrida's economy of violence in Hobbes' social contract." Theory and Event 7.4 (2005).
The point, as ... as extrinsic facts.
The only way to reconcile different values is the sovereign who can assert the normative system.
Parrish 06 Rick Parrish, Violence Inevitable: The Play of Force and Respect in Derrida, Nietzsche, 2006
All of the ... the natural condition.
Thus the standard is consistency with the sovereign’s authority.
Prefer:
A. Rights claims are impossible in the state of nature because there are infinite rights violations—even other framework authors agree.
Varden A Kantian Conception of Free Speech” by Helga Varden Chapter from: “Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World” edited by Deirdre Golash 2010
“The first important ... anyone’s arbitrary choices.”
B. If we remove the sovereign, everyone becomes their own sovereign
Parrish 2 Rick Parrish, Violence Inevitable: The Play of Force and Respect in Derrida, Nietzsche, 2006
But even more ... comparison with others"
Contention:
Public colleges are the sovereign—Supreme Court cases prove
Buchter 73, Jonathan. “Contract law and the student-university relationship.” Indiana Law Journal, vol. 48, issue. 2, article 5, Winter 1973.
“This theoretical mixture ... these constitutional rights.”

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Palo Alto BH | Judge: Koh, Ben
The aff’s strategy of conscientization of Asian-Americans rather than analyzing material institutions is part of a flawed strategy of liberal anti-racism—materiality generated the systems they critique. JALAN 12
Journal of Asian Liberation 12 (Editors of JALAN Journal of Asian Liberation “Asians Against White Supremacy, by JALAN Journal of Asian Liberation On the origins of anti-Asian racism and how we have fought back” SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 201
That’s why liberal ... reforming Asian barbarism.
Their focus on using the debate space as a medium for social change merely serves to create a symbolic exchange where problems are presented to judges in exchange for the ballot and does nothing to solve. Real social change comes from engaging the material world, not the academic world of textual discourse.
BRYANT Levi, prof of phil @ Collin College, McKenzie Wark: How Do You Occupy an Abstraction?, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/08/04/mckenzie-wark-how-do-you-occupy-an-abstraction/
Here I’m also ... closed autopoietic system.

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker AV | Judge: Wheeler, Scott
Non-consensual explicit image distribution is constitutionally protected—case law proves and outweighs
Larkin Paul J. Larkin Jr., Senior Legal Research Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, “Revenge Porn, State Law, and Free Speech,” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Oct. 1, 2014 JW
The Internet serves ... Court answered, “No.”
College is the hotbed for non-consensual image distribution due to the amount of sexting on campus
Reid 14 Samantha Reid, reporter at USA Today, “Study says 70 of students have sexted, so how do they feel about revenge porn?” USA Today, May 15, 2014, http://college.usatoday.com/2014/05/15/study-says-70-of-students-have-sexted-so-how-do-they-feel-about-revenge-porn/ JW
College students are ... can be problematic.
Turns case – non-consensual image distribution causes chilling effect for the targeted who are afraid to speak out and are silenced.
Citron 14 Danielle Keats Citron Mary Anne Franks 2014 "CRIMINALIZING REVENGE PORN" Wake Forest Law Review digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2424andcontext=fac_pubs
Free expression allows ... and intimate selves.

Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: Valley LG | Judge: Somani, Shailja
The aff is an act of methodological ventriloquism.
Tuck and Yang Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, State University of New York, and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California San Diego, "R-Words: Refusing Research," Humanizing Research, 2014
Elsewhere, Eve (Tuck, 2009, 2010) has ... of my talk. (p. 343)
Predicating recognition on pain narratives precludes any recognition of agency for the subaltern.
Tuck and Yang 2 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, State University of New York, and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California San Diego, "R-Words: Refusing Research," Humanizing Research, 2014
The costs of ... and pained existence?” (p. 55).
Refusing instances of the aff opens space for more preferable desire-based narratives.
Tuck and Yang 3 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, State University of New York, and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California San Diego, "R-Words: Refusing Research," Humanizing Research, 2014
Alongside analyses of ... a developmental hierarchy.2
The judge’s primary obligation is to reject unequal power structures – this is the only way to make educational spaces truly fair
Trifonas 03 PETER PERICLES TRIFONAS. PEDAGOGIES OF DIFFERENCE: RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE/ RoutledgeFalmer. New York, London. 2003. Questia
Thus, paying attention ... teachers and students.
Universal ethical obligations fail to account for status quo ante inequalities—acknowledging these is a prerequisite to any form of morality
Llorente 03 Renzo Llorente. “Maurice Cornforth’s Contribution to Marxist Metaethics.” NATURE, SOCIETY, AND THOUGHT Vol. 16, No. 3 (2003)
The problem, argues ... their interests prevail.13

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker AV | Judge: Wheeler, Scott
Buying and selling research papers is blatant plagiarism—but it’s also constitutionally protected speech
Duke Law Journal 73, Term Paper Companies and the Constitution, 1973, 1275-1317 (1974) Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol22/iss6/3
The preparation and ... value to society."
Plagiarism harms the academic environment
Colantuono Florence Colantuono, “Academic Plagiarism.” Explorable.
The written word ... standing and creditability.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 6 | Opponent: Gig Harbor CM | Judge: Yao, Brian
The embodied character of personhood requires particularism. The virtuous character does not follow a rule that precedes and guides every context.
Leibowitz PARTICULARISM IN ARISTOTLE’S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS * Uri D. Leibowitz University of Nottingham (Forthcoming in The Journal of Moral Philosophy)
“Following Burnyeat (1980), I ... resolve the conflict.” (7-14)
Thus, the standard is appealing to virtuous character clarified by the moral complexities of specific situations.
Prefer- States must promote contextual virtuous decision-making.
SILVIA: “VIRTUE ETHICS AND COMMUNITARIANISM” by Rui Silva, University of the Azore
“The second distinctive ... of virtue ethics:”
Contention was analytic

Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker AV | Judge: Wheeler, Scott
CP Text: The United States federal government shall repeal the Patriot Act.
That’s key to improve free speech and weaken the war on terror
Macdonald 03 Morgan MacDonald, Patriot Act stifles dissent on campus, Baltimore Sun, 11/24/03, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-11-24/news/0311240117_1_student-groups-student-information-college-campuses LADI
AS A COLLEGE ... on college campuses.

Tournament: Damus | Round: Octas | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AM | Judge: Miyamoto, Alderete, Ivens-Duran
Pronouns require an antecedent.
LEO 99 LEO: Literacy Education Online, “Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement,” St. Cloud State University, last updated 5 October 1999 (but antecedents are timeless)
A pronoun is ... source is that?

Tournament: Damus | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Brentwood EL | Judge: Miyamoto, Shan, Hunt
The legal system fails IPV survivors
Goodmark 11 Leigh Goodmark, October 20, 10-20-2011, "Domestic violence: Legal system fails abused women," Baltimore Sun
After learning that ... for deportation instead.
The state reproduces sexism by justifying a protection racket
Blanchard 03 Eric M. Blanchard, Ph.D. U of S. CA., American Council of Learned Societies Faculty Fellow, “Gender, International Relations, and the Development of Feminist Security Theory” Signs, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 1289-1312. The University of Chicago Press)
Like Tickner, many ... their ostensible guardians (1983a).
The aff exposes survivors to more violence
Goodmark 15 Leigh Goodmark, (Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law) 3-9-15. HANDS UP AT HOME: MILITARIZED MASCULINITY AND POLICE OFFICERS WHO COMMIT INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE. BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW
The scant social ... intimate partner abuse.
The alt is to relieve police officers of responsibility for IPV cases and turn power over to survivors through community conflict resolution.
Goodmark 11 Leigh Goodmark, October 20, 10-20-2011, "Domestic violence: Legal system fails abused women," Baltimore Sun
Criminal justice system ... those women better.
Empirically solves
Bernish 16 Claire Bernish, (activist and journalist who focuses on government and corporate corruption, freedom of speech, censorship, law enforcement accountability, and human rights) “It’s Time to Imagine a Post-Police World — Here’s Why Abolishing the Police is Not a Crazy Idea,” The Free Thought Project, August 28, 2016
Trained and unarmed ... in the process.”

Tournament: Damus | Round: 4 | Opponent: West Ranch JW | Judge: Wheeler, Scott
Limiting qualified immunity harms police effectiveness
Rosen 05 Michael, Attorney in San Diego, JD Harvard Law, A Qualified Defense: In Support of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Cases, With Some Suggestions for its Improvement.
It is hard ... as the public.
Chilling police action causes a homicide spike—empirically proven
Felton et al 16 Ryan, Lois Beckett, Jamiles Lartey, 'Ferguson Effect' is a plausible reason for spike in violent US crime, study says, 2016
A new Justice ... vigorous enforcement actions”.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Peninsula MG | Judge: Panchal, Olivia
Here’s the link- the affirmative’s representations portray the nuclear condition as a segment of history that can be ended and therefore bounded by dismantling plants, instead reframing it as a perpetual state. This futurist linearity is a product of the aff assumptions, and erases the space for a queer temporality.
Saint-Amour writes Paul Saint-Amour, "Queer Temporalities of the Nuclear Condition," The Silence Of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism In A Post-Cold War World (Edited By Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, Jack Taylor), September 26, 2014
Neither Miller's speculative ... is always now.
Second-- apocalyptic rhetoric of extinction relies on reproductive futurism- this emphasizes the later over the now, precluding solving the violence in the current world.
Kouri-Towe 13 (Natalie; 6/16/13; Fuse, “Queer Apocalypse: Survivalism and Queer Life at the End” http://fusemagazine.org/2013/06/36-3_kouri-owe)
Queer adjective • Strange, ... stories of apocalypse.
Linear temporalities normalize futurism, implicitly dening the possibility for queer existence and a temporality that can recognize their personhood.
Lippert 08 Leopold Lippert, University Assistant in English and American Studies @ the University of Vienna – Utopian Contemporaries:  Queer Temporality and America, thesis, November 2008
I will return ... for queer existence.
The aff doesn’t want to tell you who they really protect- normalization allows us to deem the deviant less desirable and worthy of the violence that the AC hides away
Yep 03 Gust A, Prof of Sexuality Studies @ San Francisco State, The Violence of Heteronormativity in Communication Studies:  Notes on Injury, Healing, and Queer World-Making, muse
In this passage ... of sexual others.
Outweighs-- analytics
The alt is to adopt the perspective of queer temporalities.
We must explore queer temporalities as a perpetual condition that upends the linearity of heteronormative time, which emphasizes stops and starts, past and future, and the inescapability of reproductive futurism.
Saint-Amour writes Paul Saint-Amour, "Queer Temporalities of the Nuclear Condition," The Silence Of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism In A Post-Cold War World (Edited By Michael Blouin, Morgan Shipley, Jack Taylor), September 26, 2014
Reproductive futurism subordinates ... a perpetual crucifixion.
If the perm tries to translate negativity into a political advocacy, it takes queer theories and temporalities and makes them conform to a linear notion of progress that favors normalization and marginalization every time.
Edelman 04 (Lee, Professor of English Literature, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, pp. 5-8)
Rather than rejecting, ... the social itself.'

Tournament: Damus | Round: 4 | Opponent: West Ranch JW | Judge: Wheeler, Scott
Police reform solves the aff
Kaste 9/22 Martin Kaste, 9-22-2016, "Police Reform Is Happening, But It's Hard To Track," NPR.org
"Clearly the high-profile ... take more risks.
Limiting qualified immunity kills motivation within police departments
Leeuwen 16: Sean Van Leeuwen, Post June 23,2016, "Political rushes to judgement hurt public safety," Sean Van Leeuwen is Vice President of Association for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs
Mosby's decision to ... determines are wrong?

Tournament: Voices | Round: 5 | Opponent: Carmel Valley KL | Judge: Walton, Shayne
Every US sub produces nuclear power.
Heinrich 16 Torsten Heinrich (military historian) “Why the US Needs Conventional Submarines,” Apr 14 2016, The Diplomat
The U.S. Armed ... been nuclear powered.
Nuclear-powered subs are essential for deterring strategic and nuclear wars.
PBS 15 PBS interview between James McIntyre, Judy Woodruff, Commander John Cage, Vice Admiral Mike Connor, and others; “How many ballistic missile submarines does the U.S. really need?,” PBS Newshour, July 31 2015
JUDY WOODRUFF: During the 1980s ... essentially already lost.
US/China war causes extinction
Strait Times writes The Straits Times, 6/25/2000 (Regional Fallout: No one gains in war over Taiwan, p. lexis)
THE high-intensity scenario ... destruction of civilisation.
You know what it is...
Bostrom 12 Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” Global Policy (2012)
These reflections on ... any existential catastrophe.

Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 5 | Opponent: Palo Alto FZ | Judge: Legried, Erik
The 1AC is a trivialization of hate speech, the implication of the danger zones satire is that people should be able to suck it up and deal with hate speech. However, hate speech creates real violence, and the judge has an active obligation to reject arguments that talk down its effects
Watterson 91 (Kim M. Watterson, 'THE POWER OF WORDS: THE POWER OF ADVOCACY CHALLENGING THE POWER OF HATE SPEECH', 1991 by the University of Pittsburgh Law Review; Kim M. Watterson, 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 955 University of Pittsburgh Law Review Summer, 1991, JL)
The physical and ... response of tolerance.” 79
If satire isn’t combined with an unflinching interrogation of what is being said, it gets coopted by bigots.
Allemang 15 John Allemang, “Satire is often nasty, harmful and grotesquely abusive,” The Globe and Mail, Friday, Jan. 09, 2015
Bigots deploy satire ... down before anything.”

Tournament: Voices | Round: 5 | Opponent: Carmel Valley KL | Judge: Walton, Shayne
I value morality.
Brain studies prove personal identity doesn’t exist
Parfit Parfit, Derek.  Reasons and Persons, Oxford, 1984 (ironic, huh)
Some recent medical ... person’s two hands.
Analytic
2. Analytic
Thus the standard is maximizing expected well-being.
Prefer- Policymakers must use aggregates
Robert Goodin, professor of philosophy at the Australian National University college of arts and social sciences, “The Utilitarian Response,” pgs 141-142, 1990
My larger argument ... rules or conduct.

Tournament: Alta | Round: 4 | Opponent: Summit Academy JS | Judge: Joseph, Jeff
The standard is maximizing expected well-being.
Experience means consequentialism
Sam Harris 10 (CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy). “The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.” 2010.
Here is my ... actual or potential).
Governments must use util.
Woller 97 BYU Prof., “An Overview by Gary Woller”, A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics, June 1997, pg. 10
Moreover, virtually all ... among competing values.