Tournament: Stanford | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loyola AC | Judge: Mark Bibas
The end of the 1AC’s truth-seeking is not truth but rather the avoidance of the anxiety that arises from being faced with the utter meaninglessness of existence – assuming that truth is noble and overridingly important fetishizes knowledge with the hope that it’ll make things better, which it never can
Jenkins ’12 Scott Jenkins, prof of Philosophy, U of Kansas, Ph.D Princeton; “Nietzsche’s Questions Concerning the Will to Truth;” April 2012; Journal of the History of Philosophy  Volume 50, Number 2, April 2012; Project Muse; RMJ
A more complete answer to this question must explain why we possess a faith of
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by covering up or otherwise denying the goallessness of existence that induces anxiety.

We are a lightning bolt that collapses their truth-seeking – voting negative deconstructs their meaningless pursuit
Jenkins ’12 Scott Jenkins, prof of Philosophy, U of Kansas, Ph.D Princeton; “Nietzsche’s Questions Concerning the Will to Truth;” April 2012; Journal of the History of Philosophy  Volume 50, Number 2, April 2012; Project Muse; RMJ
Nietzsche’s ultimate objective in uncovering the moral nature of our will to truth is not
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response to Nietzsche’s second question in BGE 1, Why not rather untruth?

Tournament: ASU | Round: 3 | Opponent: Head Royce HL | Judge: Miriam Barnum
Bilateralism creates asymmetrical power relations that lock in neoliberalism – link turns their Giroux impacts
Phillips '05 (Nicola, “U.S. Power and the Politics of Economic Governance in the Americas”, Latin American Politics and Society, 47.4, December, Wiley)
What explains this prioritization of bilateral negotiations? In the regional context, bilateralism represents
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the height of the hurdles facing the successful agreement of a comprehensive FTAA.

Policy making is neoliberal corporatism; be critical of the aff, which is just rhetoric
Bristow '05 (Gillian, “Everyone's a ‘winner’: problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness”, Journal of Economic Geography, June, oxford journals)
This begs the question as to why a discourse with ostensibly confused, narrow and
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exploring their role in influencing the ideas of regional and national policy elites.

Tournament: ASU | Round: 1 | Opponent: South Anchorage AS | Judge: Nisarg Patel
The 1AC is not offense – its urgent call to action cannot possibly impact the real world – fiat is a delusion that obscures our potential as individuals for exercising actual political agency
Schlag ‘90 Pierre Schlag, Prof. Const. Law @ Colorado U Boulder; “Normative and Nowhere to Go;” Nov 1990; https://www.pravo.unizg.hr/_download/repository/SchlagSLR.pdf  RMJ
But then again, that is precisely one of my points. And there is
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in a position to put any of its wonderful normative advice into effect.

This normativity hijacks politics – repurposes discourse to prevent effective political solutions and ignores their complicity in pain and death
Schlag ‘90 Pierre Schlag, Prof. Const. Law @ Colorado U Boulder; “Normative and Nowhere to Go;” Nov 1990; https://www.pravo.unizg.hr/_download/repository/SchlagSLR.pdf  RMJ
Of course, once it is widely recognized that normative legal thought is a technique
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we, as legal thinkers, are in control of normative legal thought.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 4 | Opponent: Clear Lake KV | Judge: Dave Basler
Economic engagement means using exclusively economic contacts like trade, loans and grants
Resnik, 1 – Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yeshiva University (Evan, Journal of International Affairs, “Defining Engagement” v54, n2, political science complete)
A REFINED DEFINITION OF ENGAGEMENT
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Gelucidation of multiple types of positive sanctions.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 2 | Opponent: Gig Harbor OR | Judge: Joseph Flores
Interpretation – economic engagement requires expanding bilateral economic relations
Kahler, 6 - Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego (M., “Strategic Uses of Economic Interdependence: Engagement Policies on the Korean Peninsula and Across the Taiwan Strait” in Journal of Peace Research (2006), 43:5, p. 523-541, Sage Publications)
Economic engagement - a policy of deliberately expanding economic ties with an adversary in order
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great power politics and that it may be more widespread than previously recognized.

This means the plan has to be government-to-government – not private economic engagement
Daga, 13 - director of research at Politicas Publicas para la Libertad, in Bolivia, and a visiting senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation (Sergio, “Economics of the 2013-2014 Debate Topic: U.S. Economic Engagement Toward Cuba, Mexico or Venezuela”, National Center for Policy Analysis, 5/15, http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/Message_to_Debaters_6-7-13.pdf)
Economic engagement between or among countries can take many forms, but this document will
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some issues are more important with respect to some countries than to others.