Tournament: Alta | Round: 1 | Opponent: Desert Vista JG | Judge: Alex Belisle
Advantage 1 is Structural Violence
Sanctions function like siege warfare —- they deprive civilians of basic needs and shift recourses to the elite
Gordon 6 (Joy, Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University, published in the Harvard University Press, "A Peaceful, Silent, Deadly Remedy: The Ethics Of Economic Sanctions," Ethics and International Affairs, Volume 13, Issue 1, 4-11-06, http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1747-7093.1999.tb00330.x/pdf)**
In many regards, sanctions are the modern version of siege warfare: each involves
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, sanctions should be subject to the same moral objections as siege warfare.
Structural violence is comparatively the biggest impact – it is continuous and ongoing
Winter Et al 1 (Deborah Du Nann Winter - Professor of Psychology at Whitman College, Richard V. Wagner - Professor of Psychology at Bates College in Lewiston. Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan, Daniel J. Christie - Professor Emeritus of Psychology at The Ohio State University and Fulbright Specialist in Peace and Conflict Studies, Peace, Conflict, and Violence:¶ Peace Psychology for the 21st Century., 2001, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:¶ Prentice-Hall.)EA
Today, an increasing number of peace psychologists are concerned about structural violence¶ (
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violence, as big powers supply arms to smaller countries around the world.
Scenario 1 is Medicine
Cuban freedom is dead - the embargo has caused the suffering out countless civilians
Kovalik 6-27 (David, labor and human rights attorney, and teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, "Trying to Destroy the Danger of a Good Example", http://mltoday.com/subject-areas/books-arts-and-literature/trying-to-destroy-the-danger-of-a-good-example-1697-2.html,
Lamrani concludes that the results of this relentless 50-year blockade have cost Cuba
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*Cubans are denied critical drugs for treating bone cancer and HIV AIDS.
This is a form of genocide on Cuban citizens
Simons 1999 - chief editor at the National Computing Centre,
~Geoff, "Imposing Economic Sanctions", Pluto Press, 12-13, chip~
The years-long US attempt to deny Cuba access to food, medicine and
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the Articles of the Geneva Convention governing the treatment of civilians in wartime.
Scenario 2 – Freedom of Speech
Plan solves internet that guarantees Cuban freedom of expression and communication
Cuba Study Group 10 (The Cuba Study Group is made up of business and
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government source, or government-funded subcontractor; "EMPOWERING THE CUBAN PEOPLE
THROUGH ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY"; July 2010; http://www.ascecuba.org/publications/proceedings/volume20/pdfs/cubastudygroupit.pdf)
Information has always been a liberating force, and¶ throughout history, totalitarian and
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living under a¶ closed, economically-underperforming, totalitarian¶ regime.
Spills over to solving international human rights abuses
Thibault 10 (Denae; Info Society; "Communication 26 Human Rights"; 2010; http://infosocietycuba.wordpress.com/communications-and-human-rights/)
In 2008, Cuba was the second largest prison in the world for journalists,
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sooner than later, urge to advance toward unalienable human rights for all.
Freedom of speech is a moral prerequisite – must be upheld
Dwyer 2001 (Susan Dwyer, at University of Maryland, 2001 (http://www.umbc.edu/philosophy/dwyer/papers/freespeech.html))
Let us return to the central topic: free speech. From the perspective just
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free speech in one place, we strengthen (protect) it everywhere.
Contention 2 is Hospitality
The status quo is locked into a system of enemy creation and violence. The plan is an act of embracing the demonized other – ethic of absolution is key
Richard Kearney, 1-01-2001, Charles Seelig professor of philosophy at Boston College, author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature, "Others and Aliens; Between Good and Evil," from "Evil After Postmodernism; Histories, Narratives, and Ethics," https://www2.bc.edu/~~kearneyr/pdf_articles/pl86217.pdf *This card has been gender modified
One of the oldest conundrums of human thought is: unde malum? Where does
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believe they are recipients of messianic messages from sorne Other they caJi God?
Hospitality is key to accommodate the other – without out it we are annihilating those who refuse to conform.
Paul Corey-Voegelin Institute- 9-~2-5~-2004, Humber College, McMaster University, member of the Eric Voegelin Institute, a humanities and social sciences research institute devoted to the revitalization of teaching and understanding of the "great books" of Western civilization in comparison with other tradition, "Totality and Ambivalence: Postmodern Responses to Globalization and the American Empire," http://www.lsu.edu/artsci/groups/voegelin/society/200420Papers/Corey2004.shtml
To clarify what he means by absolute hospitality, Derrida distinguishes it from "tolerance
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us from accepting a vehement fundamentalism or a genocidal solution. ~22~
The embargo leads to identity erasure for the Cuban- American children born in the United State – a mindset shift is key
José Gabilondo, 5-21-2013, Caribbean Journal, Associate Professor of Law at Florida International University in Miami, Fla., "Op Ed: The Embargo and Cuban Identity," http://cri.fiu.edu/news/2013/op-ed-the-embargo-and-cuban-identity/
What "Cuban embargo" brings to mind is the economic blockade of the United
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coordination. Reconsidering our own views, though, is within our control.
Failure to adopt an ethic of openness causes mass atrocities and violence
Darrell J. Fasching-prof religious studies, University of South Florida-93, Professor of Religious Studies of the University of South Florida in Tampa, holds a joint appointment in Special Education, has served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the College of Arts and Sciences and as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, "The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia?" p. 1-7
*edited for gendered language
Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as they
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" who are capable of creating a new world of pluralistic humyn interdependence.
Utilitarianism is unethical because it counts the self as equal to the other – Ethics to the other must come first
Emmanuel Levinas, Face to Face with Levinas, 1986, p. 23-24 *gender modified
The approach to the face is the most basic mode of responsibility. As such
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’id’ for gratifica¬tion, possession, and power - the libido dominandi.
Text: The United States federal government should remove its economic sanctions on the Republic of Cuba.
We have to change our conception of crisis based politics to include everyday violence
Cuomo`96 (Chris Cuomo - Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies, and Director of the Institute for Women’s Studies at the Univerity of Georgia – 1996 "War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence" Published in Hypatia 11.4, pp. 30-46)
Ethical approaches that do not attend to the ways in which warfare and military
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the "war on crime," and other state-funded militaristic campaigns.
Extremely low probabilities should count as zero—decisions can’t be justified by vanishingly small probabilities
RESCHER 2003 (Nicholas, Prof of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, Sensible Decisions: Issues of Rational Decision in Personal Choice and Public Policy, p. 49-50)
On this issue there is a systemic disagreement between probabilists working on theory-oriented
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—it is no longer seen as something that presents a realistic prospect.
Sole focus on survival destroys value to life and is always used to justify the worst atrocities.
Callahan, Fellow at the Institute of Society and Ethics, 1973 - (Daniel, The Tyranny of Survival, Pages 91-93)
The value of survival could not be so readily abused were it not for its
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survival. It would be the Pyrrhic victory to end all Pyrrhic victories.
And war won’t happen
Easterbrook, 05 senior fellow at The New Republic, 05 ~Greg, "EXPLAINING 15 YEARS OF DIMINISHING VIOLENCE — The End of War?", http://democraticpeace.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/easterbrook-end-of-war/~~
Daily explosions in Iraq, massacres in Sudan, the Koreas staring at each other
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plowshares and spears into pruning hooks. The world ought to take notice.