Tournament: LAMDL 1 | Round: 1 | Opponent: ELC | Judge:
Plan: The USFG should significantly ease its trade restrictions on Cuba.
The embargo restricts the flow of medical goods and creates financial strains that threaten to collapse the Cuban healthcare system.
Xinhua News, 2012
("Cuban healthcare weakended by U.S. embargo," 11/28, Online: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/health/2012-11/28/c_132004531.htm)
Cuban medical authorities said on Tuesday a 50-year trade embargo imposed by the
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not have all the raw materials and tools to solve certain problems immediately."¶
Eisenberg, former Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine and Psychology at the Harvard Medical School, 1997
(Leon, "The sleep of reason produces monsters – human costs of economic sanctions," The New England Journal of Medicine, 336:17, pgs. 1248-1250, ProQuest)
Thus, three unusual outbreaks of medical conditions — neuropathy, self-inflicted disease
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it. Continuing to allow our reason to sleep will produce more monsters.
Lifting the embargo will restore the flow of goods and improve living conditions in Cuba.
Franks, South American correspondent for Reuters, 2012
(Jeff, "Cuba says ending US embargo would help both countries," September 20, Online: http-http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/20/us-cuba-usa-embargo-idUSBRE88J15G20120920
Both the United States and Cuba would benefit if Washington would lift its longstanding trade
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he called a "massive, flagrant and systematic violation of human rights."¶
Sanctions fail at both behavior change AND ethical positioning
Addis, Professor at Tulane University Law School, 03
~Adeno, August, Human Rights Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 3, pp. 610-611, Economic Sanctions and the Problem of Evil, Project Muse, accessed 7/2/13, VJ~
Not only do economic sanctions as they are currently applied usually fail to persuade the
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repressive regimes by unwittingly providing the condition in which internal challenges are discredited.
Gillespie 13 (Kaitlin—staff writer at The Columbian, 8/4/13, "Washington laments loss of Cuba agriculture trade market" http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/aug/04/state-no-longer-trades-with-cuba/-http://www.columbian.com/news/2013/aug/04/state-no-longer-trades-with-cuba/)
HAVANA — The aisle of a Havana grocery store is lined with shelf after shelf
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here; this is all locally grown fruit that thrives in the Caribbean.
Alberto de la Cruz, on October 21, 2011, at 3:26 pm U.S. Agricultural sales to Cuba nosediving
http://babalublog.com/2011/10/21/u-s-agricultural-sales-to-cuba-nosediving/
Sales of U.S. agricultural products to Cuba continue to nosedive for the
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them with political support and commercial credit, in particular Venezuela and China.
The United States embargo uses food as a weapon against Cuba while constructing a narrative of Cuban moral inferiority and American dominance
Fazzino, 10 - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Alaska Fairbanks. M.S., Sustainable Systems, Slippery Rock University, December 1999; J.D., University of Florida Levin College of Law, 2007; and Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Florida, 2008 (David V., "WHOSE FOOD SECURITY? CONFRONTING EXPANDING COMMODITY PRODUCTION AND THE OBESITY AND DIABETES EPIDEMICS," Drake Journal of Agricultural Law, 15 Drake J. Agric. L. 393, LexisNexis)HAL
It’s important for our nation to build—to grow foodstuffs, to feed our
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connected with economics and politics; it is a historically produced discourse. n34-http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/lnacui2api/frame.do?reloadEntirePage=true26rand=137467839461726returnToKey=20_T1785094828426parent=docview26target=results_DocumentContent26tokenKey=rsh-20.337962.36718518514
WATSON 1977 (Richard, Professor of Philosophy at Washington University, World Hunger and Moral Obligation, p. 118-119)
These arguments are morally spurious. That food sufficient for well-nourished survival is
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whether or not the human species survives as a result of individual behavior.
Mepham et al, 96, Director of the Centre for Applied Bioethics at Nottingham
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and Technology Policy at Sussex University. "Food Ethics" 1996)NG
Reasons for the special status of alleviating hunger
Two kinds of reason may be given for saying that hunger has a special moral
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all other human beings, obligations which cross societal and national frontiers.7
Mepham et al, 96, Director of the Centre for Applied Bioethics at Nottingham
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and Technology Policy at Sussex University. "Food Ethics" 1996)NG
Onora O’Neill has presented a modern Kantian approach which can be summed up as follows
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disease, physical malfunctioning and disability, which are themselves also inherently evil.
Scheper-Hughes and Bourgois ’4
(Prof of Anthropology @ Cal-Berkely; Prof of Anthropology @ UPenn)
(Nancy and Philippe, Introduction: Making Sense of Violence, in Violence in War and Peace, pg. 19-22)
This large and at first sight "messy" Part VII is central to this
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including the house gun and gated communities; and reversed feelings of victimization).
Their large-scale wars claims are isolated impacts and are thus highly improbable—they’re one-shot deals—while systemic impacts are 100 probable because they are happening now. The best of cards would say that there’s like a 1 probability of their nuclear war scenarios.
You should privilege everyday violence for two reasons- A) social bias underrepresents its effects B) its effects are exponential, not linear which means even if they only cause a small amount of structural violence, its terminal impacts are huge
Nixon ’11
(Rob, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, pgs. 2-3)
Three primary concerns animate this book, chief among them my conviction that we urgently
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in situations where the conditions for sustaining life become increasingly but gradually degraded.
MESKILL 2009 (David, professor at Colorado School of Mines and PhD from Harvard, "The "One Percent Doctrine" and Environmental Faith," Dec 9, http://davidmeskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-percent-doctrine-and-environmental.html-http://davidmeskill.blogspot.com/2009/12/one-percent-doctrine-and-environmental.html)
Tom Friedman’s piece today in the Times on the environment (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/opinion/09friedman.html?_r=1) is one of the flimsiest pieces by a major columnist that I can remember ever reading. He applies Cheney’s "one percent doctrine"
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have exhibited precisely this combination of traits: the looming apocalypse, with the time (just barely) to take action.
Yudkowsky 06 ~Eliezer, 8/31/2006. Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence Palo Alto, CA. "Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgment of global risks, Forthcoming in Global Catastrophic Risks, eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan Cirkovic,singinst.org/upload/cognitive-biases.pdf.
4. The Conjunction Fallacy Linda is 31 years old, single, outspoken,
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a futurist, disjunctions make for an awkward and unpoetic-sounding prophecy.
Rescher ’83
~Nicholas, Risk Analysis BadassRisk: A Philosophical Introduction to the Theory of Risk Evaluation and Management, Pg 34-36~
On this issue there is a systemic di sagreement between pro- babilists working in
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. Probabilities below the threshold are treated as though they were zero.’3