Tournament: texas | Round: 1 | Opponent: little rock | Judge: derek liles
The blockade against Cuba utilizes international pressure to divide the world into the legitimate and illegitimate as a means of forcing assimilation into western order
Jonathan Harris, 7-29-202k2, writer for the Chronicle, B.A. @ Trinity University, 2002, "U.S. should lift embargo, respect Cuban autonomy," http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2002/07/30/us-should-lift-embargo-respect-cuban-autonomy
Some recent letters have appeared in The Chronicle that criticize the Editorial Board’s support for
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an autonomous nation and lifting the unjust embargo. What do you think?
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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
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 human interdependence.
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This is especially true in the context of Cuba – the US uses universalized conceptions of political systems to justify violent interventionism and exploitation of Cuba for imperial interests.
Salim Lamrani, 12-17-202k3, La Sorbonne University, Paris, "U.S. Economic sanctions against Cuba: objectives of an imperialist policy," http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Caribbean/USEconomicSanctions_Cuba.html
The economic sanctions imposed on Cuba by the United States are unique in view of
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it should make of its subordination to the United States its main virtue.
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Hidalgo and Martinez 2k (Vilma, professor of macroeconomics at the University of Havana, Milagros, Research Fellow at the University of Havana, working with the Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos (CESEU), "Is the U.S. Economic Embargo on Cuba Morally Defensible?," muse.jhu.edu/journals/logos/v003/3.4hidalgo.html, Project Muse)
The prime victim of the economic blockade has unquestionably been the Cuban people. The
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anecdotal nature of the events reported may seem to render our analysis simplistic.
This is not an accidental byproduct but a deliberate structural element of the embargo – the instrumentalization of Cuban civilians to enforce a Western political agenda legitimizes mass violence and should be rejected
Gordon 2k6 (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-http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.turing.library.northwestern.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1747-7093.1999.tb00330.x/pdf)
But deontological arguments do offer guidance in situations where military aggression is not at issue
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where that end is something less than the lives of other human beings.
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The status quo locks us into a permanent state of war against the alien and the evil. Lifting the embargo represents an act of embracing the demonized other, an act of absolute hospitality which necessitates openness to alterity even in the face of total uncertainty.
Richard Kearney, 1-01-2k1, 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
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?
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Paul Corey-Voegelin Institute- 9-~2-5~-202k4, 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~
Even if this stance of unconditional hospitality is impossible to legislate, we should constantly attempt to make society more open to the other – ending the drive to spread American democracy is necessary to end cultures of xenophobia which demonize Latin America.
Brock Bahler, Spring-xx-2010, Duquesne University, Philosophy, Graduate Student, "Derridean Hospitality in an Age of Political Xenophobia," http://www.academia.edu/2235169/Derridean_Hospitality_in_an_Age_of_Political_Xenophobia
The Cult(ure)ivation of Fear Consequently, however, we are not
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-war, or pro-capitalist—ought to be seriously questioned.
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Divorcing governmental policies from ethics cedes political control to technicism, making extinction desirable. The Cuban Missile Crisis is a case-in-point – the race towards annihilation is made possible only by the subjugation of the stranger to the rhetoric of war. Only ethical responsibility and openness to the stranger stops the drive towards human self-destruction.
Fasching 1993 (Darrell J., Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Pp. 232-233)
These technological barbarians, says Neuhaus, "are composed of the most sophisticated and
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, as an absolute limit to which all sacred orders must be subordinated.
Arguments justifying the exclusion of the Cuban other restrain themselves to what is and ignore the possibilities of what ought to be. Rejecting such logic for the world of ought is necessary to reinvigorate ethical engagement.
Fasching 1993 (Darrell J., Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida, The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, Pp. 132-133)
If ethics involves a mode of consciousness that embraces a uto¬pian or fictional view of
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, opening the past and present to the utopian possibilities of the future.
Fasching and deChant 2k1(Darrell J., Professor of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, Dell, Director of Religious Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of South Florida, Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach, p. 21-22)
Modern philosophical forms of ethics have sought to achieve the "ethical point of view
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David, the greatest King of ancient Israel (c.1000 BCE).