Tournament: Life | Round: Finals | Opponent: Filthy Pluralists | Judge: Imonuel
I affirm and value morality as ought implies a moral obligation.

Everything is socially constructed through communication
Carey 89
CHAPTER 1 A Cultural Approach to Communication James Carey (from Communication as Culture 1989)
Under the sway of realism
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"experiment" or "test."

All frameworks must be consistent with the fundamental subjectivity and social construction of truth.
Haste 98:
Helen Haste, PhD, Communitarianism and the Social Construction of Morality, 1998 Helen Haste is Reader in Psychology at the University of Bath, England

The 'meaning' of something
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are not shared (Shweder et al, 1987).

But a precondition is stable norms and processes for proper deliberation and argument
Hoppe 93:
From the Economics of Laissez Faire to The Ethics of Libertarianism, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, in Man, Economy, and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Murray N. Rothbard, The Ludwig von Mises Institute Auburn University
First, it should
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proposal at all.

Thus, the criterion is respecting discursive deliberation.

(1) Problem of disagreement – across cultures there are radically different moral and political systems, but there are some minimally thin normative truths underpin all of these systems – one of which is the value of deliberation
Habermas 98:
(JurgenHabermas, The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory, 1998 MIT Press, p. 4)
In the absence of
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unimpaired, intersubjective socialization.

(2) Epistemically, the criterion is the best decision-making procedure for producing truth
Christiano 06:
Thomas Christiano. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Jul 27, 2006. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/democracy/

Epistemologically,democracy is thought
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who rule over

Congressional Research Service 14 defines unprotected speech
Ruane, Kathleen Ann. Legislative Attorney, Congressional Research Service. CRS Report for Congress, 8 Sept 2014.
This report provides
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further the articulated interest”).
Continues:
All other types
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the First Amendment.

Speech restrictions is becoming precedent and it’s expanding – chills deliberation
Hentoff 91:Nat Hentoff, “‘Speech Codes’ On The Campus and Problems of Free Speech.” Dissent, v. 38. P. 546-9. Fall 1991.

A precedent has
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freedom in the United States.

(B) More speech, not less, solves bigotry. ACLU 16
American Civil Liberties Union, “Hate Speech on Campus.” Accessed 3 December 2016. https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus 

Many universities, under
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all subject matter.

Institutionalized restrictions help oppressors because they’re the ones with access to institutional power.
Moynihan 17: “Who’s Really Placing Limits on Free Speech?” Donald P. Moynihan, JAN. 9, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opinion/whos-really-placing-limits-on-free-speech.html

On both private
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and research spaces.

Free speech is key to learning constructive argumentation.
Burleigh 16: THE BATTLE AGAINST ‘HATE SPEECH’ ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES GIVES RISE TO A GENERATION THAT HATES SPEECH BY NINA BURLEIGH ON 5/26/16 AT 6:08 AM NEWSWEEK http://www.newsweek.com/2016/06/03/college-campus-free-speech-thought-police-463536.html

Wood believes students
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learning is vital.”

Banning speech never solves the root cause
ACLU 2: American Civil Liberties Union, “Hate Speech on Campus.” Accessed 3 December 2016. https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus  

Bigoted speech is
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bankruptcy of racist ideas.

9) Policy education and practices like fiat are key to social change: state institutions aren’t ignorable, and simply pointing out problems isn’t enough. Themba-Nixon 2k Themba-Nixon, Makani. Executive Director of The Praxis Project, Former California Staffer, Colorlines. Oakland: Jul 31, 2000.Vol.3, Iss. 2; pg. 12
Getting It in Writing
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committed to making it so.