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Contact InformationTournament: All | Round: Quads | Opponent: All | Judge: All I make a good-faith effort to keep this page updated with everything I've personally read, though you can expect me to read anything on my teammates' wikis. I care a lot about making debate less hostile, so hostility makes me sad. No one likes being sad. Hopefully you agree. | 12/4/16 |
JF17 AC - DeliberationTournament: Lexington | Round: 2 | Opponent: All | Judge: All Everything is socially constructed through communication This is a metaphysical and linguistic justification for the framework. The 'meaning' of … are not shared (Shweder et al, 1987). But this doesn’t mean there are no true normative statements – skepticism is solved by relativism. Thus, the criterion is respecting discursive deliberation, defined as the right for everyone to choose to participate and argue. Prefer (1) Problem of disagreement (2) Epistemically, the criterion is the best decision-making procedure for producing truth Epistemologically, democracy is … legislation as well. Part 2 is the Advocacy Part 3 is the Contention This is the precedent and it’s expanding – chills deliberation A precedent has … the United States. (B) More speech, not less, solves bigotry. ACLU 16 Many universities, under … all subject matter. Institutionalized restrictions help oppressors. Free speech is key to learning constructive argumentation. Wood believes students … learning is vital.” Banning speech never solves the root cause Bigoted speech is symptomatic … of racist ideas. | 1/15/17 |
JF17 AC - Kant v1Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: All | Judge: All analytics Abstract agent is embodied agent. Whereas most criticisms … its emancipatory potential. Feminist theory requires a Kantian account of oppression in order to adequately explicate a duty to resist oppression. Varden Chapter 2 sketches the … to resist oppression. Affirm. Restrictions in the status quo prevent people from acting on their agency no matter how miniscule the restrictions is. This outweighs—no hindering a hindrance since arguments aren’t intrinsically harmful. Hindering a hindrance requires a hierarchy of rights and doesn’t collapse to consequentialism. Hindering a hindrance requires an external account of entitled freedoms. Only the Constitution solves. Banning speech drives the root cause underground and leads to more virulent bigotry 1 Interp – Neg gets advantage counterplans to test the intrinsicness of aff advantages and aff gets intrinsicness perms to test the intrinsicness of neg disadvantages. Mankins 84 summarizes | 2/20/17 |
JF17 AC - StockTournament: Lexington | Round: 2 | Opponent: All | Judge: All Advocacy (:20) Down and Cowan … and their views. Historically, First Amendment and its principles have helped secure civil rights, fight prejudice, and move to equality – the aff is oriented toward ending racism of all forms but with a different method than censorship Contention 4 – Hate Speech Contention 5 – Abuse Hate speech restrictions are used to abuse minorities who don’t agree with leftist ideology – they get called race traitors and it becomes permissible for white men to silence them Contention 6 – Exposure and Counter-speech | 1/15/17 |
JF17 AC - Stock v2Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: All | Judge: All AC - Stock v21ACFrameworkThe criterion is act-consequentialism. Two warrants:(1) Pleasure is good and pain is bad.Nagel 86 Thomas Nagel, The View From Nowhere, HUP, 1986: 156-168. (2) There is no morally relevant distinction between doing and allowing harm – it’s all about states of affairs.Snyder 02 Western Washington University - First published Tue May 14, 2002; substantive revision Fri Sep 21, 2007 - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/doing-allowing/ I defend whole rez.Contention 1 - BacklashRestrictions on speech fuel Trump’s agenda regardless of the content – his followers adopt radical stances as part of a larger reaction to the feeling that they’re being silenced.Nichols 16 Tom Nichols, “How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump,” 1-3-16, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/04/how-the-p-c-police-propelled-donald-trump.html Premier The link is causal – restrictions on college campuses spill over into politics writ large.Tumulty and Johnson 16 Karen Tumulty and Jenna Johnson, “Why Trump may be winning the war on ‘political correctness’” 1-4-16 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-trump-may-be-winning-the-war-on-political-correctness/2016/01/04/098cf832-afda-11e5-b711-1998289ffcea_story.html?utm_term=.db9bc85e5b87 Premier Contention 2 – DissentStrong First Amendment protections are key to dissenting voices in academia – feminism, CRT, and anti-Islamophobia are reliant on it.Bernstein ’03 (David E. Bernstein is a professor of Law at George Mason University, 2003, “Defending the First Amendment from Antidiscrimination Laws”, http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=489063)//SJT Contention 3 – MovementsFree expression is key to civil rights movements for racial minorities, women, and LGBT folks – campuses are key.Harris and Ray 14 Vincent T Harris has an M. Ed. degree and is a doctoral student @ LSU, Darrell C. Ray is a prof @ LSU, HATE SPEECH and THE COLLEGE CAMPUS: CONSIDERATIONS FOR ENTRY LEVEL STUDENT AFFAIRS PRACTITIONERS, Race, Gender and Class 21.1/2 (2014): 185-194. ProQuest. Premier Historically, First Amendment and its principles have helped secure civil rights, fight prejudice, and move to equality – the aff is oriented toward ending racism of all forms but with a different method than censorship.Friedersdorf 15 Friedersdorf, Conor. (Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs) "Free Speech Is No Diversion." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 12 Nov. 2015. Web. 09 Jan. 2017. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/race-and-the-anti-free-speech-diversion/415254/. Premier Over the course … and stigmatizing allies. Contention 4 – Hate SpeechHate speech statutes are compatible with the aff.Tsesis 10 ALEXANDER TSESIS*, prof @ Loyola Chicago Law, Burning Crosses on Campus: University Hate Speech Codes, HeinOnline -- 43 Conn. L. Rev. 619 2010-2011, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c4c2/a881ffd558d28d2b0d0a738981c7211d85e4.pdf Premier Contention 5 – AbuseSpeech codes empower white majorities to silence minorities.ACLU 16 American Civil Liberties Union, “Hate Speech on Campus.” Accessed 3 December 2016. https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus, WWLD Contention 6 – ExposureBanning speech drives the root cause underground and leads to more virulent bigotry.ACLU 16 American Civil Liberties Union, “Hate Speech on Campus.” Accessed 3 December 2016. https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus, WWLD UVTo understand requires internal critique of assumptions, but for us to even understand the critique requires that it start within the framework of our original for-meanings. Thus critique and development of the aff is important, but it must start within the aff’s general methodology, otherwise no engagement or development is possible.Gadamer 60 Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. 1960. (modified for gendered language) | 2/20/17 |
JF17 AC - Stock v3Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: All | Judge: All AC - Stock v31ACFrameworkThe standard is consistency with rule utilitarianism.1 Intuitions are inescapable.Huemer (Michael, UColorado philosopher, http://spot.colorado.edu/~huemer/5.htm) And, rule util is most intuitive.Hooker ’08 (Brad, phil prof @ University of Reading, “Rule Consequentialism,” SEP, http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consequentialism-rule/) OS 2 Moral substitutability is true and only consequentialism explains it.Walter Sinnott-Armstrong ’92 Dartmouth College Philosophical Perspectives, 6, Ethics, AN ARGUMENT FOR CONSEQUENTIALISM 3 Language cannot describe reality, which means a priori knowledge fails.Conard ’07 (Mark T, prof @ Marmount Manhattan, “Chaos, Order and Morality: Nietzsche’s Influence on Full Metal Jacket,” The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick edited by Jerold J. Abrams) 4 Act util fails—6 warrants.Chappell on Mackie “Indirect Utilitarianism” June 11 2005 Philosophy, et cetera http://www.philosophyetc.net/2005/06/indirect-utilitarianism.html I defend whole rez. CX checks. My rule is that colleges granting free speech as a principle is good.Contention 1 - BacklashRestrictions on speech fuel Trump’s agenda regardless of the content – his followers adopt radical stances as part of a larger reaction to the feeling that they’re being silenced.Nichols 16 Tom Nichols, “How the P.C. Police Propelled Donald Trump,” 1-3-16, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/04/how-the-p-c-police-propelled-donald-trump.html Premier The link is causal – restrictions on college campuses spill over into politics writ large.Tumulty and Johnson 16 Karen Tumulty and Jenna Johnson, “Why Trump may be winning the war on ‘political correctness’” 1-4-16 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/why-trump-may-be-winning-the-war-on-political-correctness/2016/01/04/098cf832-afda-11e5-b711-1998289ffcea_story.html?utm_term=.db9bc85e5b87 Premier Contention 2 – DissentStrong First Amendment protections are key to dissenting voices in academia – feminism, CRT, and anti-Islamophobia are reliant on it.Bernstein ’03 (David E. Bernstein is a professor of Law at George Mason University, 2003, “Defending the First Amendment from Antidiscrimination Laws”, http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=489063)//SJT Contention 3 – MovementsFree expression is key to civil rights movements for racial minorities, women, and LGBT folks – campuses are key.Harris and Ray 14 Vincent T Harris has an M. Ed. degree and is a doctoral student @ LSU, Darrell C. Ray is a prof @ LSU, HATE SPEECH and THE COLLEGE CAMPUS: CONSIDERATIONS FOR ENTRY LEVEL STUDENT AFFAIRS PRACTITIONERS, Race, Gender and Class 21.1/2 (2014): 185-194. ProQuest. Premier Historically, First Amendment and its principles have helped secure civil rights, fight prejudice, and move to equality – the aff is oriented toward ending racism of all forms but with a different method than censorship.Friedersdorf 15 Friedersdorf, Conor. (Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs) "Free Speech Is No Diversion." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 12 Nov. 2015. Web. 09 Jan. 2017. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/11/race-and-the-anti-free-speech-diversion/415254/. Premier Contention 4 – Hate SpeechHate speech statutes are compatible with the aff.Tsesis 10 ALEXANDER TSESIS*, prof @ Loyola Chicago Law, Burning Crosses on Campus: University Hate Speech Codes, HeinOnline -- 43 Conn. L. Rev. 619 2010-2011, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c4c2/a881ffd558d28d2b0d0a738981c7211d85e4.pdf Premier Contention 5 – AbuseSpeech codes empower white majorities to silence minorities.ACLU 16 American Civil Liberties Union, “Hate Speech on Campus.” Accessed 3 December 2016. https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus, WWLD Contention 6 – ExposureBanning speech drives the root cause underground and leads to more virulent bigotry.ACLU 16 American Civil Liberties Union, “Hate Speech on Campus.” Accessed 3 December 2016. https://www.aclu.org/other/hate-speech-campus, WWLD UVTo understand requires internal critique of assumptions, but for us to even understand the critique requires that it start within the framework of our original for-meanings. Thus critique and development of the aff is important, but it must start within the aff’s general methodology, otherwise no engagement or development is possible.Gadamer 60 Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Truth and Method. 1960. (modified for gendered language) | 2/20/17 |
ND16 AC - Kant TortsTournament: Princeton | Round: 4 | Opponent: all | Judge: all Slavery ended with . . . to the present. 10. Abstraction is the condition of possibility for recognizing each other’s humanity in the midst of empirical differences. That means abstraction is necessary and good—the abstract agent IS the embodied agent. Whereas most criticisms . . . its emancipatory potential. Now, offense: A better way . . . a single payment. Tort law captures the unique responsibility to other persons while maintaining freedom to pursue one’s own conception of the good—solves the contradiction. Affirm: C) QI disrupts the natural balance of plaintiff and defendant rights in tort law D) There’s no sound legal basis for current QI doctrine – SCOTUS has expanded it simply to reduce caseloads I defend that the United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers by establishing that officers will not be granted qualified immunity in wrongful-death suits when their actions violate departmental training or policy. | 12/4/16 |
ND16 AC - LevinasTournament: Apple Valley | Round: 5 | Opponent: All | Judge: All I affirm. And, generic util turns and NC hijacks do not apply—the other counts as such, which means they cannot be reduced or aggregated in any ethical analysis; likewise, they cannot be ignored in favor of some abstract idealized system of rules. Perpich 3 In the world of politics, the other is joined by the third, which extends the self’s ethical obligation to the entirety of humanity. Since I am finite, I cannot relate to all of humanity at once; this constitutes politics as the necessary, original violence the self imposes with and on the other. Politics is a universalization of the infinite obligation to the other, since otherwise I separate myself from the concrete others in front of me. Simmons The universalization of ethical responsibility requires an agent to attempt to disburse justice—this justifies the liberal state. Its self-critical nature, always cognizant of the imperfection of its justice, is the only hope to satisfy the demand of the other. Simmons According to Levinas, . . . morally ideal state.69 CONTENTION But the justice we have today is no justice at all—current qualified immunity doctrine is unequivocally a tool of totalization and violence—police eschew responsibility for the others they encounter and re. Greene 15 A recent Mireille . . . official execution date. Excessive force is a unique case that presents the inadequacy of current law. Jeffries 13 We must fight this totalization. The other is a singular being, which is to say they are completely unique in their otherness as distinct from me. The address between myself and the other demands that I account for the other’s singularity. In the context of excessive force cases, the plaintiff cries out for a properly just reckoning, not merely one that subsumes the other under a previously decided general rule without any spirit of justice or concern for the other’s situation. Derrida Rigidly applying the law without translating concern for the other’s unique situation into action when one’s sense of justice demands it reduces the other to someone who is merely calculable. Judicial precedent and the legacy of the jury as a fact-finding body proves that the courts must do more than merely programmatically apply a rule as if calculating a math operation; it must render justice without certitude, steeped in the specificity of the situation. Also means the ethical application of rules presupposes the AC framework. Derrida 2 The undecidable, a . . . is not, applied? Thus, I affirm that the United States ought to limit qualified immunity for police officers by establishing that officers will not be granted qualified immunity in wrongful-death suits when their actions violate departmental training or policy. Steorts 15 clarifies the aff advocacy: It is astounding . . . or civilly liable. Taking the life of the other is the worst form of totalization—it’s an attempt to know the other in their entirety, as opposed to merely limiting an aspect of the other to a category. Not putting right what can be put right about the death of an other is the worst possible harm under the framework—qualified immunity must be limited to allow justice to apply specifically. Perpich Here as elsewhere, . . . wish to murder. | 11/5/16 |
SO16 AC - AnimeTournament: Beltway | Round: 6 | Opponent: TJ HSST NB | Judge: Wesley Hu 1AC Anime1ACPart 1WE BEGIN WITH A STORY. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, a princess in a society powered by titular wind farms, has just discovered the Tolmekian—human—God Warrior, symbolic of a nuclear blast. A nuclear blast that this 1AC reads Hayao Miyazaki noting as the inevitable outcome of our overreliance on technological domination of nature. But the God Warrior is defeated by the Ohmu, symbolizing nature’s wrath. The Ohmu go too far, however. On the verge of the Ohmu’s destruction of all Nausicaä holds dear, she must convince her fellows to understand nature, its wrath, and our essential relationship to it. It is the Ohmu and Nausicaä’s focus on understanding the importance of our relationship with the environment that I identify myself—ourselves—with. We’ve lost track of the mythic commons, the land and sky through which Nausicaä treks and soars.Morgan 15 Creatures in Crisis: Apocalyptic Environmental Visions in Miyazaki's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Princess Mononoke Author(s): Gwendolyn Morgan (Le Moyne College) Source: Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 2015), pp. 172-183 Published by: University of Nebraska Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/resilience.2.3.0172~ These two levels of fear ultimately serve to lead us to the question, What AND separation and being at war with nature ends in disaster in both films. analyticAnd, this anime is useful at communicating the need to rework our philosophical concepts, to connect with the traditions of the past and alter our subjective positions to be more open, more available, and more authentic.Rifa-Valls 11 Rifa-Valls, Montserrat. “Postwar Princesses, Young Apprentices, and a Little Fish-Girl: Reading Subjectivities in Hayao Miyazaki’s Tales of Fantasy.” Visual Arts Research, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 2011), pp. 88-100 Published by: University of Illinois Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/visuartsrese.37.2.0088~ In Histoire(s) du cinema (1988), Jean-Luc Godard states AND (Odell and Le Blanc, 2009, pp. 110–111) We today are Tolmekians—we cling to nuclear power to solve our problems, we refuse to understand the importance of our relationship with nature, and we fail quite miserably at trying to break from the false conception of fairness, morality, and value that structures our society.The Tolmekians cared not for the people of Nausicaä’s valley—we today refuse to grieve for Native American lives lost to nuclear power. What else shall we do—shall we start a Ceramic War? Or shall we return to the wind, to the waves, to the valley?The shock wrought by the disruption of our subjective positions through an aesthetic performance enacts a negative dialectic, a reworking of our subjectivities that avoids the deleterious effects of contemporary culture.Carroll 8 Carroll, Jerome (Department of German, University of Nottingham). “The Limits of the Sublime, the Sublime of Limits: Hermeneutics as a Critique of the Postmodern Sublime.” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66.2 (2008): 171–181. WWXR 2016-7-30 Like Lyotard’s, Adorno’s ideas are characterized by an ambivalent attitude toward the human subject AND , underlining the brittle- ness of art’s critical or oppositional force.51 analyticanalyticPart 2
Experience begins with the mediation between subject and object. The necessary ground of experience entails that objects are partly known through concepts, but the object is prior in that it is not wholly reducible to concepts. Philosophy that avoids this starting point cannot generate knowledge claims.O’Connor 4 O’Connor, Brian (Hertford University). Adorno’s Negative Dialectic. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. Print. pp. 56–59 WWXR 2016-7-29 :35 Adorno’s strategy is to make us consider what we could be committed to in the AND strategy Adorno attempts to demonstrate the irrationality of the reified version of experience. Enlightenment thought evades its commitment to the mediated priority of the object—its attempt to know moral facts through a rational conceptual schema that reduces the objects of moral judgment to moral knowledge makes its knowledge-claims groundless. This groundlessness is the consequence of a set of historical pressures that attempts to demythologize and rationalize the world.Bernstein 99 Bernstein, Jay (New School). "Adorno on Disenchantment." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44:305-328 (1999) WWXR 2016-7-29 pp. 309–310 Historically, three pressures converged to make the search for rational foundations for morality necessary AND be legitimate against these characterisations of the world and demands on reflection.5 There is a crisis in reason—rationality is dialectically dependent on myth to supply its content. There is no intrinsic end to which rationality can aim, since reason is not self-sufficient; reason cannot supply its own determinate end since the mediation between reasoning subject and judged object gives priority to the object, which cannot be reduced to conceptual categorization.Bernstein 99 Bernstein, Jay (New School). "Adorno on Disenchantment." Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 44:305-328 (1999) WWXR 2016-7-29 p. 321 The dialectical entwinement of enlightenment and myth is dependent upon their mutual formation because mutual AND myth, to mythic stasis, to the historical inertia of the master. But, reason can account for its imperfect mediation of objects to concepts in two ways: either it reduces the object to the concept, and loses its ground for making knowledge-claims at all, or it identifies flaws in how its concepts capture the object and produce its features—correcting these flaws in the concepts we use to mediate the world starts with critiquing our moral concepts, like freedom and empowerment, without assuming a goal for which reason is instrumental.O’Connor 4 O’Connor, Brian (Hertford University). Adorno’s Negative Dialectic. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. Print. pp. 77–81 WWXR 2016-7-29 Perhaps the most important of Adorno’s statements on the problem of Hegelian philosophy relates to AND essence, has the metaphysical motivation of validating the nonexperiential notion of identity. Thus, the role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who better performs a negative dialectical analysis in the context of the resolution. | 10/25/16 |
SO16 AC - DemocracyTournament: Beltway | Round: 6 | Opponent: TJ HSST NB | Judge: Wesley Hu AC – DemocracyAC – LayFrameworkThe value of human freedom is a precondition to all other values, because the act of valuing itself presupposes freedom to value. The sphere of the government is derived from the constitutive force of free agreement from the general will of the population. Such conceptions stem from the natural value of human freedom.Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques. “The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right”. 1762. Translated by G.D.H Cole. Constitution Project I SUPPOSE men people to have reached the point at which the obstacles in the way AND would be absurd, tyrannical, and liable to the most frightful abuse. If the sovereign does not respect the general will, then they exert power over and above the citizenry and the contract dissolves since something other than the collective contract would govern state action.Rousseau 2 Rousseau, Jean Jacques. “The Social Contract or Principles of Political Right”. 1762. Translated by G.D.H Cole. Constitution Project I WARN the reader that this chapter requires careful reading, and that I am AND social union would evaporate instantly, and the body politic would be dissolved. The value criterion is consistency with procedural democracy. This differs from other social contracts by locating the grounding contract not between the sovereign and the people, but between the people themselves to construct a sovereign.Impact calc:A. analyticB. analyticC. analyticContentionI contend that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power because the nuclear power industry is inconsistent with procedural democracy.First, public exclusion, secrecy, and violation of procedural principles of democratic society are intrinsic to the nuclear industry today. Regulations cannot suffice—nuclear regulatory agencies are part of the problem—that means prohibiting the production of nuclear energy is necessary to ensure deliberative democracy.Kyne and Bolin 16 Dean Kyne Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Bob Bolin School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University “Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination” Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 700; doi:10.3390/ijerph13070700 Public participation: While public participation and the right to know has been a hallmark AND the problems of distributive justice and procedural justice will not be adequately addressed. Second, policy discussions about nuclear power production fail to include both the public and nuclear technocrats on a level playing field—India’s example provides three warrants.Bhadra 13 Bhadra, Monamie. "Fighting Nuclear Energy, Fighting for India's Democracy." Science as Culture 22.2 (2013): 238-246. Now, those tactics are showing obsolescence as the nuclear establishment engages more substantively with AND the vote”. (quoting Chatterjee, 2004, p. 18) Third, prohibition is key—big nuclear has and will continue to manipulate policymakers and regulatory agencies to serve their interests—democracy requires a strong stance against the industry NOW.Brutoco and Austin 10 Rinaldo Brutoco and Madeleine Austin, "The Upcoming Nuclear Peril: Worse Than the BP Oil Disaster", Thursday, 01 July 2010 09:32, Rinaldo Brutoco is a well-known futurist and the founding president of the World Business Academy, a nonprofit think tank launched in 1987 with the mission to educate and inspire the business community to take responsibility for the whole of planetary society. He is a frequent public speaker and a prolific author on renewable energy, climate change and sustainable business strategies. He is the co-author of "Freedom from Mid-East Oil" (2007), a leading book on energy and climate change and "Profiles in Power" (1997), a college textbook on nuclear power and the dawn of the solar age. Madeleine Austin is vice president of the World Business Academy and a member of the Hawaii Energy Policy Forum. She is the co-author with Rinaldo Brutoco of "The Nuclear Nemesis" (ABA, Trends May/June 2008) and "The Nuclear Nemesis Redux" (Forum CSR International, Dec. 2008)., http://www.truth-out.org/archive/component/k2/item/90459:the-upcoming-nuclear-peril-worse-than-the-bp-oil-disaster~ How many crises will it take? The recent destruction wrought by Big Finance and AND future for ourselves and future generations, we must act and act now. UnderviewAlthough the most important ethical consideration in the nuclear power debate is deliberative democracy, consequentialist reasons also support prohibiting nuclear power.Nukes are phasing out now—disadvantages from banning nuclear power occur in the negative world too.Penn and Masunaga 16 Ivan Penn and Samantha Masunaga, LA Times reporters, “PGandE to close Diablo Canyon, California's last nuclear power plant” 6-21-16, http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-diablo-canyon-nuclear-20160621-snap-story.html~ In the mid-2000s, the nation’s utilities had anticipated a nuclear renaissance that AND cents a kilowatt hour compared with twice that much for a nuclear plant. Strong stance against the nuclear industry fosters a tech breakthrough in renewables.Ebinger 11, Dr. Charles Ebinger is a senior fellow and director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution and is a former senior adviser at the International Resources Group, where he advised governments on various aspects of their energy policies, quoted in “What Happens Next as the World Turns Away From Nuclear Power? A Freakonomics Quorum” Stephen J Dubner, Freakonomics Blog, http://freakonomics.com/2011/06/21/what-happens-next-as-the-world-turns-away-from-nuclear-power-a-freakonomics-quorum/~ However, there is one lingering note of optimism. If the German and Japanese AND Swiss scientists and engineers may be nearly as unwise and could surprise us. And renewables shift happens—Germany proves.Shankleman 16 Shankleman, Jessica. Contributor, Bloomberg News “Germany Just Got Almost All of Its Power From Renewable Energy.” Bloomberg News, April 2016. Clean power supplied almost all of Germany’s power demand for the first time on Sunday AND that can manage this oversupply -- for example more interconnectors or energy storage.” Democracy allows endless moral improvement…Sen 03 Amartya Sen, "WHY DEMOCRATIZATION IS NOT THE SAME AS WESTERNIZATION. Democracy and Its Global Roots", The New Republic Online Post date: 09.25.03 Issue date: 10.06.03 The value of public reasoning applies to reasoning about democracy itself. It is good AND Sudan or Afghanistan, or more like South Korea than like North Korea. Nuke power collapses the gridPedraza 12 Jorge Morales Pedraza, consultant on international affairs, ambassador to the IAEA for 26 yrs, degree in math and economy sciences, former professor, Energy Science, Engineering and Technology : Nuclear Power: Current and Future Role in the World Electricity Generation : Current and Future Role in the World Electricity Generation, New York. Bob Finally, it is important to single out the following. In addition to assuring AND and frequency, or even to the collapse of the power electric grid. | 10/25/16 |
SO16 AC - Environmental RacismTournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Hendrick Hudson MG | Judge: Kathy Wang AC – Environmental Racism1AC~2:00~ Part 1 is the Role of the BallotAssume all cards bracketed for grammar and gendered language. Identities have a normative structure – every identity is governed by rules or norms. For example, to be a writer, one must meet the necessary conditions by writing. For something to serve as a reason to act, it must appeal to one’s identity. Identities are the product of social relations with others, so sufficient reasons must be found in relation to others.Butler 1 ~Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself New York: Fordham UP, 2005. Print.~ In all the talk about the social construction of the subject, we have perhaps And, Recognizing the other requires recognizing that their otherness is undecideable. There is no way of apprehending how we might be changed through a relationship with the other. Due to the unknowable alterity of others, we expose ourselves to the very thing that could eradicate or violate us. There is no way to control it – attempts eliminate the other by eliminating their otherness. Constant exposure to otherness which could destroy us is the precariousness of life – precariousness reveals our exposure and dependence on others.Butler 2 ~Judith Butler, "Frames of War." London: Verso, 2009. Print.~ To say that a life is injurable, for instance, or that it can Grievability is required for apprehending precariousness and sustaining the conditions that make life possible.Butler 3 ~Judith Butler, "Frames of War." London: Verso, 2009. Print.~ Over and against an existential concept of finitude that singularizes our relation to death and Thus, the role of the ballot is to endorse the advocacy that best renders ungrievable lives grievable.Implications:1. Humans are initiated into certain norms that render lives ungrievable. Because norms are social, they can be interrogated and replaced with better ones—this interrogation is ethically necessary.2. Practices that remove grief become norms through historical wrongs such as racism and patriarchy. The only way to rectify ungrievability stemming from historical racism is to carry out rectificatory justice.Mills 14 ~Charles W. Mills, "White Time: The chronic Injustice of Ideal Theory" Du Bois Review. 2014.~ "Would it be in the least surprising, then, if the version Rendering ungrievable lives grievable requires rectification of historical wrongs.~3:00~ Part 2 is UngrievabilityThe Department of Energy website and its brochures state that "no one in the United States has died or been injured as a result of operations at a commercial nuclear power plant." (Richards 13) The Native American lives lost to nuclear power have never been acknowledged, let alone grieved.Richards 13 ~Linda Richards, "On Poisoned Ground." The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Spring 2013. https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/on-poisoned-ground Richards was the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s 2010–2011 Doan Fellow. She is researching nuclear and environmental justice history for a PhD at Oregon State University.~ Nuclear-industry spokespersons, U.S. government agencies, and nuclear scientists The government targets the Navajo Nation for uranium mines.LaDuke 9 ~Winona LaDuke, "Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path." Orion Magazine, February 07, 2009. https://orionmagazine.org/article/uranium-mining-native-resistance-and-the-greener-path/ Winona LaDuke is an American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development. A Native American with Ojibwe ancestry, she is the executive director of both White Earth Land Recovery Project and helped found the Indigenous Women’s Network in 1985.~ Over one thousand uranium mines gouged the earth in the Dine Bikeyah, the land This was not an isolated incident – Native American communities are targeted as sites for all nuclear activity, since the risks are high.Chatterjee 97 ~Pratap Chatterjee. "Indigenous Groups Try to Ward Off Nuclear Waste." Inter-Press Service News Agency. May 20 1997. http://www.ipsnews.net/1997/05/us-environment-indigenous-groups-try-to-ward-off-nuclear-waste/ ~ California governor Pete Wilson, deciding that the federal government was not serious about plans Exploitation by the nuclear industry occurs around the world.Rÿser et al. 16 ~Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty, Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine via Truth Out. "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud." 27 March 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ Millions of indigenous peoples living in Fourth World territories around the world have been and ~:20~ Australia has largest uranium reserves. Legislation protecting the aboriginal populations has been altered in favor of the mining industry.Green 14 ~Jim Green, August 8, 2014. "THE NUCLEAR WAR AGAINST AUSTRALIA’S ABORIGINAL PEOPLE." Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine – A Publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies. https://intercontinentalcry.org/nuclear-war-australias-aboriginal-people-25148/ ~ Muckaty Traditional Owners have won a significant battle for country and culture, but the I affirm that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. I reserve the right to clarify in CX on scope and implementation issues to deter silly bidirectional theory.Rozman explains the aff advocacy. ~"Should or Should Not Nuclear Power Energy Be Banned Globally?" Izzati Rozman, Critical Analysis Report.~ Nuclear power should be banned globally not because of the availability of extensive reasons that Prohibition must be worldwide to ensure solvency.Rÿser et al. 16 ~Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty, Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine via Truth Out. "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud." 27 March 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~ The Yakama Nation and her neighboring nations (Spokane, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Nuclear power production must be banned worldwide, or else patterns of exploitation will continue – the industry will move to regions of other indigenous populations to escape regulation, and concentrate damages there, exacerbating the problem. Prohibition must be complete to alter the corporate norms that refuse to grieve for indigenous lives.Prohibiting nuclear power will render lives grievable by ensuring historical exploitation is stopped and recognizing the effect of nuclear power on indigenous populations.UnderviewPresume aff Drop the arg Neg only gets one theory shell Denying a term doesn’t negate T with education doesn’t make sense | 9/17/16 |
SO16 AC - GriefTournament: Valley | Round: 4 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit CP JH | Judge: Terrance Lonam RICHARDS 2 Linda Richards, “On Poisoned Ground.” The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Spring 2013. https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/on-poisoned-ground Richards was the Chemical Heritage Foundation’s 2010–2011 Doan Fellow. She is researching nuclear and environmental justice history for a PhD at Oregon State University. This was not an isolated incident. Radioactive waste, power plants, and uranium mines are dangerous – that’s why they’re put on Native American lands. Exploitation by the nuclear industry occurs around the world. Australia has largest uranium reserves. Legislation protecting the original populations has been altered in favor of the mining industry. Part 2: Framing My advocacy is grief for the indigenous lives lost and harmed by nuclear power production. Affirm to grieve those killed and harmed by the production of nuclear power. Grief for these people brings them into our frame of reference and creates an ethical reorientation. The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that challenges educational spaces through exposure to previously un-grievable bodies. I’ll clarify predictable terms of art, weighing, and links to avoid ambiguity and spec debates that crowd out focus on the 1AC, but neg has no stable strategy for aff prep, so it’s unreciprocal for me to meet an exhaustive burden. Lastly, CX checks all neg theory violations. I will make concessions given the stipulations above. To clarify: Grievability is a social status that signifies a life as having value, and is demonstrated when we grieve for those who have died or been injured. It’s impossible to specify further, since grief rituals are highly variable across time and space. Exposing us to previously un-grievable bodies in the context of nuclear power is offense under the role of the ballot—examples of args you can make include analyzing other nuclear disasters. We compare offense in terms of how well debaters contextualize the social conditions that render lives ungrievable, and explain how grief destabilizes those conditions. This role of the ballot is a prior condition to a new politics. Undergoing the radical exposure that triggers grief awakens accountability for the other, forming communities for resistance Traditional education mandates one “truth” as the only “truth.” Debate provides a unique tool to question authority and the very nature of our existence. The grieving of the aff breaks through that regulatory exclusion of radical proceduralism by acknowledging the cultural context and making mourning accessible to the public, reworked and revised for each community. And Role-Playing reduces debaters to spectators, eviscerating their agency as the competitive nature of debate creates a sense of detachment. The debate public takes on characteristics of a lab, barred from the external world. Grief is a key first step to solve – in spaces of failure and violence, grief does justice to the ungrieved and contains the potential for resistant political strategies in the real world. And debate rules posit an ‘ideal speech’ which necessarily excludes other forms of discourse—I can leverage the 1AC against arguments that exclude it. | 9/25/16 |
SO16 AC - SingaporeTournament: Yale | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Cambridge Rindge OS | Judge: Life Some judgments are irrefutably normative- only RE meets. Parfit Err aff on the issue – debaters are cognitively biased towards absurdly absolute principles, which destroys philosophical discussion. Scanlon Plan: The Republic of Singapore should prohibit the production of nuclear power. Nuclear power production provides no benefit to Singapore and risks devastation. Singapore’s going to serve as a natural gas hub for Mozambique and Tanzania, boosting their nat gas exports but a strong pro-LNG policy stance is key. Mozambician natural gas exports enable political compromise, halting insurgent violence and government strongarming. Debate’s current race to hyperbole reduces our ability to discuss and compare actual impacts that aren’t hyperbole. As a critic you must be more skeptical of “risk of a link” logic and more willing to dismiss ridiculously improbable scenarios. | 10/15/16 |
Theory - Disclose or Get a Slap on the WristTournament: All | Round: Quads | Opponent: All | Judge: All Disclosure (Updated)Disclosure (Shell)
Interpretation: Debaters may only read positions that are disclosed before the debate on their NDCA wiki page under their own name with full citations, tags, and first three/last three words.Disclosure creates a rightful conditionRipstein 09 Arthur Ripstein, Force and Freedom. Harvard University Press, 2009. So mandatory cooperation ... costs them nothing. analytics
votersdrop debater on disclosure | 12/4/16 |
Theory - NIBs BadTournament: All | Round: Quads | Opponent: All | Judge: All | 12/4/16 |
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