Valley Thomas McGinnis Aff
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| Blake | 2 | Poly Prep Country Day | Trevor Martinez |
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| Blake | 1 | Apple Valley | Dan Carlson |
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| Blake | 3 | Collegiate | Jim Broomfield |
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| NOV DEC | 1 | ALL | ALL |
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| TOC | Finals | Trent Gilbert | Big Moat Foley |
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| NOV DEC | 1 | Opponent: ALL | Judge: ALL These are citations being read on the November December topic |
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Blake Round 2 ACTournament: Blake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Poly Prep Country Day | Judge: Trevor Martinez Millgram, Elijah, "Practical Reason and the Structure of Actions", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2012/entries/practical-reason-action/. Schapiro, Tamar (Professor of Philosophy at Stanford University). “Three Conceptions of Action in Moral Theory.” Nous 35.1 (2001): 93-117. Clark, David and Tugrul Ansay. Introduction to the Law of the United States. Kluwer Law International, 2002. Streumer, Bart (Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading, UK). "Reasons and Impossibility." Philosophical Studies 136 (2007): p. 351-384 Foundation for Individual Rights in Educaiton (FIRE). “Freedom of expression at public universities.” State of the Law: Speech Codes. Copyright 2016. Web. https://www.thefire.org/in-court/state-of-the-law-speech-codes/ Ross, Kathleen and Philip Faccenda. “Constitutional and statutory regulation of private colleges and universities.” Valparaiso University Law Review, vol. 9, number 3, 1975. Buchter, Jonathan. “Contract law and the student-university relationship.” Indiana Law Journal, vol. 48, issue. 2, article 5, Winter 1973. O’Neill, Robert. Academic Freedom in the Wired World: Political Extremism, Corporate Power, and the University. Harvard University Press, July 1, 2009. | 12/17/16 |
Blake Round 4 ACTournament: Blake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Oakwood | Judge: Nick Smith Kant, Immanuel (was a real pissant who was very rarely stable). "Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals." Translated by Thomas Kingsmill Abbott. Originally published in 1785, released online into the public domain in May 2004 via Project Gutenberg. Wallace, R. Jay (Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley). Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments. (1994): p. 52. Nagel, Thomas (Distinguished Prof of Philosophy, NYU). “Moral Luck” in Mortal Questions (1979). J. David Velleman (Prof of Phil, NYU), Self to Self, 2006. Denis, Lara, "Kant and Hume on Morality", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2014 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2014/entries/kant-hume-morality/. Engstrom, Stephen (Prof of Phil, University of Pittsburgh), “Universal Legislation as the Form of Practical Knowledge” | 12/17/16 |
JAN-FEB AC 1Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Mutual recognition of the spirit of others within a social order is necessary to reconcile conflicting conceptions of the self to form an identity. If I were to close a door, I would not know if it had made a noise unless others reacted as well. Actualization of individuals can only occur by placing them within society – the person alone is an incomplete picture of the subject I contend that unrestricted public expression of unfiltered opinion is prereq to the establishment of an ethical community. Aff solves best. Destroying identity construction in the community. | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 10Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Actions are either steps toward an end or random motions. The ends of particular action classes are determined by the practices within which those practices take place. A state is a creature of its constitution, and it is literally impossible for a state to act outside the constraints of its constituting documents because when state agents do so they are not, by law, acting as the state. The U.S. Constitution is nearly unique in the degree and duration of universal acceptance among those under its jurisdiction. Since ethical obligation is a judgment of choice, adjudicating as unethical the failure to make a choice one is incapable of making renders ethical judgment meaningless. Agents of the U.S. government are literally incapable of enacting enduring policies in violation of settled constitutional law because the structure of the legislative and judicial branches prevents it. Constitutional jurisprudence implicitly recognizes that public college and university employees are agents of the state. The Supreme Court has ruled explicitly that this is the case. The status of public employees as agents of the state subject to constitutioanl requirements is demonstrated by the susceptability of their work communications to federal and state FOIA inquiries. | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 2Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Our knowledge of the world assumes the reliability of sense data, but reasoning from sense data to the external world begs the question of the reliability of our senses. | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 3Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley The language in Tinker v. Des Moines clarifies that “protected speech” loses its protection when circumstances arise that subject it to restriction. Only their own internal evaluation of what the cede as epistemically true can do anything. No impact turns Outweigh. Linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism determines a key sphere of languages’ functionality. Further, silencing of some language excludes the capacity of some individuals to form an identity and seek truths themselves. | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 4Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Thus, morality is a system of reasons we can all accept—mutual justifiability is the only way to solve the subjectivity of abstract moral theories. Contractual obligations are agent relative—reasonable rejection of principles can only come between two rational agents. This means we evaluate every moral consideration on a 1-1 ratio, not whether the aggregate of everyone following the principle would have a positive net effect. James: Thus the standard is consistency with the agent relative principle of reasonable rejection. Students cannot accept restrictions relative to the college because the basis of public universities and colleges is the constitution, which the protection of speech. Buchter: Metaethical actualism means no fiat for counteradvocacies. Jackson and Pargetter: And, contracts will always be made based on subjective emotions because that contributes to agent relative rejection. | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 5Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley The standard is consistency with basic capability equality. Only this provides the true value of equality – not concerned with goods or happiness, but what people can do. Sen: A focus on capabilities allows the maintenance of intuitions about fundamental human rights without requiring people to fulfill them. It creates consensus among conceptions of the good. Nussbaum: Only it allows dialogue between the oppressed, philosophers, and policymakers on equal comprehensible terms. Glass The capabilities approach best captures the value of rights – rights are not valuable as abstract rules, but are only fulfilled when people have the ability to exercise them. For example, someone who cannot walk lacks the full value of the freedom of movement without extra resources. Nussbaum 2 Capabilities can be interpreted in different ways in different societies – that is the point of pluralism. Nussbaum 3 No agent has greater epistemic access to moral truths because morals aren’t verifiable with empirical fact. Markovitz | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 6Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Judgments based on external considerations are not moral judgments because they arise from considerations other than right and wrong. Bedke 2: Further, the very idea of externalist moral considerations assumes a background understanding that morality is internal. Bedke 3: Also, externalist moral conceptions collapse into desire rather than moral consideration. Roojen: Further, internal moral reasoning is idiosyncratic to individuals. This is true because moral reasoning cannot produce objectively verifiable outcomes for all moral reasoners. Coburn: And, objective or universalist conceptions of morality devolve to totalitarianism. Rawls: Thus, the criterion is consistency with internal moral standards. Externalist thought is embedded within the nature of restrictions in relation to speech acts. Restrictions establish conditions of which speech is acceptable which is externalist by virtue as it requires an externalist declaration of which speech applies. ACLU: presume aff because there is an 11 side bias towards the neg | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 7Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Inclusion of all agents in the construction of truth is an ontological prerequisite to morality. Haste: No agent has greater epistemic access to moral truths because morals aren’t verifiable with empirical fact. Markovitz: Thus the standard is consistency with the maxim of including individuals in the construction of moral truths. Additionally, only the analysis of intent of an action includes all perceptions into the construction of truths. Tannenbaum: Speech codes entrench a massive divide within society and push society to manifest into one in which nobody is included in the manifestation of truth— historically proven. Haiman: And, even when speech codes do target those with oppressive ideology, they are coopted and used as a tool of exclusion. Cammaerts Further, the neg embraces an overall maxim in which individuals are excluded from moral projects- means only the affirmative has a risk of epistemic validity. Greenawalt: Restrictions establish conditions of which speech is acceptable which is exclusionary by virtue as it requires a declaration by one agent of which speech applies. ACLU: | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 8Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Judgments based on external considerations are not moral judgments because they arise from considerations other than right and wrong. Bedke 2: Further, the very idea of externalist moral considerations assumes a background understanding that morality is internal. Bedke 3: Also, externalist moral conceptions collapse into desire rather than moral consideration. Roojen: Further, internal moral reasoning is idiosyncratic to individuals. This is true because moral reasoning cannot produce objectively verifiable outcomes for all moral reasoners. Coburn: And, objective or universalist conceptions of morality devolve to totalitarianism. Rawls: Thus, the criterion is consistency with internal moral standards. Externalist thought is embedded within the nature of restrictions in relation to speech acts. And, the affirmatives method of engagement with speech uniquely weeds out oppressive ideologies from prevalent ideas— prevents active imposition of moral values. Moosa: Moosa, T. (2012). John Stuart Mill And The Dangers Of Silencing. Big Think. Retrieved 19 February 2017, from http://bigthink.com/against-the-new-taboo/john-stuart-mill-and-the-dangers-of-silencing The neg actively excludes voices from moral projects- means only the affirmative has a risk of epistemic validity. Greenawalt: Restrictions establish conditions of which speech is acceptable which is externalist by virtue as it requires an externalist declaration of which speech applies. ACLU: Presume aff because there is an 11 side bias towards the neg | 4/29/17 |
JAN-FEB AC 9Tournament: TOC | Round: Finals | Opponent: Trent Gilbert | Judge: Big Moat Foley Self-ownership if a commitment of all discursive exchange. Hoppe My framework is most specific to the topical state agent and the only one that explains the origins of legitimate state authority. Simmons The right to autonomous control of one’s aims and identity is foundational to other liberal rights, hence precludes and constrains rights like free speech. Christman The right to free speech is embedded within self ownership intrinsically- means the neg is by definition inconsistent with self ownership. Curtman: Self-ownership requires that agents have the ability to regulate access to the self- means one needs to be able to freely express oneself via free speech in the context of identity construction. Kupfer: And, the aff props up self ownership while simultaneously ensuring people do not become complacent in driving hate speech underground- restricting it via speech restrictions causes more backlash and drive racism underground-historically proven. Haiman | 4/29/17 |
Nov Dec Aff CitationsTournament: NOV DEC | Round: 1 | Opponent: ALL | Judge: ALL | 12/5/16 |
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