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The affirmative speaks of violence as if it were “out there” and perpetrated under specific mitigating circumstances – this is wrong. When we try to explain violence in terms of conditions that allow for it, we abdicate the individual agent of any responsibility for their acts of violence
Kappeler 95 (Susanne, Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University. “The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behavior,” 1995. Pgs 1-3)
What is striking is … act as he did.
And, instead of placing responsibility for war and violence at the level (economic collapse, biopower, etc) we should find the true root of war – the generals, the president, the individual – stepping back to analyze violence is key to opening up space for real peace
Kappeler 95 (Susanne, Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University. “The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behavior,” 1995. Pgs 9-11)
'We are the war', … not acting or doing nothing.
The affirmative’s representations entrenches us in ideological violence and warfare – this outweighs large scale war and turns the aff
Kappeler 95 (Susanne, Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University. “The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behavior,” 1995. Pgs 6-7)
This means …, refusing to fight back.
We should begin to interrogate violence with a local refusal to endorse the affirmative’s violence.
Our strategy of local analysis aims to challenge the individual’s will to violence and allows for personal culpability
Kappeler 95 (Susanne, Associate Professor at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Al-Akhawayn University. “The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behavior,” 1995. Pgs 4-5)
If we nevertheless …violence and for a non-violent society.