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The current way debt is framed is through a model of rational choice contract frame. That model of viewing debt ignores the fact that the people in the countries that owe this much have no agency in deciding if its country should borrow money.
Julie A. Nelson August 2006 Ethics and International Debt:A View from Feminist Economics Tufts University http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae BB
Consider the relations among agents described...terms of the original contract called into question.
The notion that debt is an agreement between states ignores the violence that is committed as a result of that debt. The people paying for this debt are not responsible for the actions their countries made way back when. The fault is traditionally laid on the country that barrowed the money rather than the fault of the country who has yet to forgive the debt.
Julie A. Nelson August 2006 Ethics and International Debt:A View from Feminist Economics Tufts University http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae BB
When analysts use the rational ...future. Children as children are invisible.¶ 3
The fact that it is framed through a fair system means that we ignore the ways the debt was accrued in the global south. The north stole their resources forcing them to become dependent on them to keep up economically with the north.
Jagger 02 (Allison M. Jagger, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, A Feminist Critique of the Alleged Southern Debt, Hypatia 17.4 Fall 2002.) BB
Liberal democratic theory holds that ...people are women (United Nations Development¶ Programme 2001).
Often the state officials entered into these debt contracts not because they believe the funds will be helpful but rather because they wanted to further their own interests.
Julie A. Nelson August 2006 Ethics and International Debt:A View from Feminist Economics Tufts University http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae BB
Feminist legal scholar Gillian Hadfield (1998) ....the debt, might be quite beside the point.
SAPs are terrible for the local populations and only serve to help the global north. They result in decreased human rights, education, and more domestic conflict. Each person has to pay off the debt individually, not the state.
Abouharb et al 6. "The human rights effects of World Bank structural adjustment, 1981–2000." International Studies Quarterly 50.2 (2006): 233-262.BB
¶ After controlling for selection effects and .... advocated by the IMF and the Bank (Banks,¶ Muller, and Overstreet 2003
Structural violence is the proximate cause of all war- creates priming that psychologically structures escalation. The framing of the world as peaceful absent declared conflict prevents solving structural violence.
CHRIS J. CUOMO is assistant professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University of Cincinnati. She teaches courses in ethics, feminist philosophy, social and political philosophy, environmental ethics, and lesbian and gay studies, fall 1996
Theory that does not investigate address the depth...other militaristic agents of the state
Thus the plan: United States federal government should cancel all Venezuelan debt.
Contention two is framing
We are all going to die someday – extinction is inevitable. We need to prioritize ethics
Clark 10 (Nigel, Senior Lecturer in Geography @ Open U, Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, p. 80-95) BB
In this way, desire or love is becoming, and generosity is generativity - which makes it,¶ to borrow a formulation from Ray Brassier, `ontologically ubiquitous’.56 Effectively,¶ there is no need for a distinctive ethics to address the injuries of transmutation,... between turning toward and turning away has a¶ defining quality. If not us, then who?
There is a moral obligation to speak out against injustice, absent that no one speaks out against injustice that results in large scale atrocities and everyone remaining silent.
Filice 90 (Carlo, Asst Prof of Philosophy @ State University of New York, On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities, Geneseo, Human Rights Quarterly, Aug, Vol. 12, No. 3. p. 397-414) BB
Objection Ill: Help only those you can...limit one's focus to parochial matters.
The state and ethics are inevitably intertwined, without the state there can be no ethics but the state will never be perfectly ethical. There is an ethical imperative to make the state just or it will become unethical.
Simmons 99 (William Paul, Prof @ U of Arizona, Formerly ASU and Bethany College, The Third: Levinas’ Theoretical Move from An-Archical Ethics to the Realm of Justice and Politics, Philosophy and Social Criticism, 25 BB
We should also say that all those who attack us ... itself, only hastens the contrary of what it wants to secure
Policy predictions will constantly fail, you should disregard causal link chains.
Tetlock and Gardner 11 (Dan* and Philip, Prof of organizational behavior @ the Haas Business School @ UC-Berkeley* and columnist and senior writer, 7/11/11, Overcoming Our Aversion to Acknowledging Our Ignorance, http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/07/11/dan-gardner-philip-tetlock/overcoming-our-aversion-acknowledging-our-ignorance)
The editors may regret that short ....automatically predicted more of the same
Considering the backlash of other means no social reform ever happens. It isn’t our fault that other people do bad things as a result of the plan, the plan is still ethical.
Alan Gewirth, Professor of Philosophy @ The University of Chicago, 1982
(“Human Rights: Essay on Justification and Application.” Pg. 230)
The required supplement is provided by ...ustifiably be secured at the price of the rights of blacks.