Tournament: Blake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Green Valley BH | Judge: Elijah Smith
We played some clips from Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" to make an argument about oppressive practices and structures in place.

I also talked about my social location in relation to the topic through a narrative-style expression.

We analyzed video as a method for reversing power structures in the debate space and in the US government.

Tournament: Blake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Bishop Guertin SZ | Judge: Courtney Schauer
Stream of consciousness intended to jam cultural/political norms..

Tournament: Blake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Rowland Hall-St Marks GK | Judge: Cade Cottrell
We played some clips from Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" to make an argument about oppressive practices and structures in place.

I also talked about my social location in relation to the topic through a narrative-style expression.

We analyzed video as a method for reversing power structures in the debate space and in the US government.

Tournament: Blake | Round: 7 | Opponent: Glenbrook South CK | Judge: Donnie Grasse
Read the neg on the aff... SWITCH-SIDE SUCKAS

Tournament: Capitol | Round: 2 | Opponent: Roseville HD | Judge: Neeral Mehta
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

American policies toward Cuba represent the last remnants of a Westernized Cold War ideology rooted in exclusion and security rhetoric. Our ethic facilitates correction of ethical asymmetry through economic means.

Since the beginning of the 1905
AND
United States wishes to claim a monopoly on or declare irrelevant.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

Tournament: Capitol | Round: 4 | Opponent: Washburn DJ | Judge: Cody Crunkilton
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

American policies toward Cuba represent the last remnants of a Westernized Cold War ideology rooted in exclusion and security rhetoric. Our ethic facilitates correction of ethical asymmetry through economic means.

Since the beginning of the 1905
AND
United States wishes to claim a monopoly on or declare irrelevant.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

Tournament: Capitol | Round: 6 | Opponent: Edina OW | Judge: Raymond Zhang
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

American policies toward Cuba represent the last remnants of a Westernized Cold War ideology rooted in exclusion and security rhetoric. Our ethic facilitates correction of ethical asymmetry through economic means.

Since the beginning of the 1905
AND
United States wishes to claim a monopoly on or declare irrelevant.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

Tournament: Caucus | Round: 2 | Opponent: Valley MR | Judge: Jyleesa Hampton
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

The root causes of tangible war are power, heroism, threat construction, and fear – our ethic focuses to solve these issues.
Molloy 99 – Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Patricia, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, 1999, “Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re?thinking alterity in security discourse,” Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 304-328, p. Taylor and Francis)NK

The Will to Kill: War as Desire¶ Desire, as Shapiro points out
AND
. For in the infinite waters of responsibility, there are no pirates.

Tournament: Caucus | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Niles North BE | Judge: Travis Henderson, Christopher Thomas, Kevin Bancroft
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

The root causes of tangible war are power, heroism, threat construction, and fear – our ethic focuses to solve these issues.
Molloy 99 – Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Patricia, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, 1999, “Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re?thinking alterity in security discourse,” Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 304-328, p. Taylor and Francis)NK

The Will to Kill: War as Desire¶ Desire, as Shapiro points out
AND
. For in the infinite waters of responsibility, there are no pirates.

Tournament: Caucus | Round: 4 | Opponent: Shawnee Mission East MW | Judge: Aaron Schoenemen
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

The root causes of tangible war are power, heroism, threat construction, and fear – our ethic focuses to solve these issues.
Molloy 99 – Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Patricia, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, 1999, “Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re?thinking alterity in security discourse,” Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 304-328, p. Taylor and Francis)NK

The Will to Kill: War as Desire¶ Desire, as Shapiro points out
AND
. For in the infinite waters of responsibility, there are no pirates.

Tournament: Caucus | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lane Tech Prep WK | Judge: Kyle Joseph
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

The root causes of tangible war are power, heroism, threat construction, and fear – our ethic focuses to solve these issues.
Molloy 99 – Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Patricia, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, 1999, “Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re?thinking alterity in security discourse,” Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 304-328, p. Taylor and Francis)NK

The Will to Kill: War as Desire¶ Desire, as Shapiro points out
AND
. For in the infinite waters of responsibility, there are no pirates.

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 1 | Opponent: Niles West IT | Judge: Brad Meloche
Tournament: Capitol | Round: 6 | Opponent: Edina OW | Judge: Raymond Zhang
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

American policies toward Cuba represent the last remnants of a Westernized Cold War ideology rooted in exclusion and security rhetoric. Our ethic facilitates correction of ethical asymmetry through economic means.
Gordy and Lee 9 - *PhD in Dept. of Government at Cornell University, professor of political theory at SFSU, specifically researches and teaches comparative political theory, and critical theory related to Latin America AND Jee Sun E. Lee
(Katherine Gordy and Jee Sun E. Lee, Sept – July 2009, “Rogue Specters: Cuba and North Korea at the Limits of US Hegemony”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Volume 34, No. 3, pg. 229-230, JSTOR)NK

Since the beginning of the 1905
AND
United States wishes to claim a monopoly on or declare irrelevant.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 4 | Opponent: Niles West KP | Judge: Liam Hancock
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

American policies toward Cuba represent the last remnants of a Westernized Cold War ideology rooted in exclusion and security rhetoric. Our ethic facilitates correction of ethical asymmetry through economic means.
Gordy and Lee 9 - *PhD in Dept. of Government at Cornell University, professor of political theory at SFSU, specifically researches and teaches comparative political theory, and critical theory related to Latin America AND Jee Sun E. Lee
(Katherine Gordy and Jee Sun E. Lee, Sept – July 2009, “Rogue Specters: Cuba and North Korea at the Limits of US Hegemony”, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political; Volume 34, No. 3, pg. 229-230, JSTOR)NK

Since the beginning of the 1905
AND
United States wishes to claim a monopoly on or declare irrelevant.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

Tournament: Dowling | Round: 5 | Opponent: Niles West CK | Judge: Dan Carlson
We played some clips from Spike Lee's "Do The Right Thing" to make an argument about oppressive practices and structures in place.

I also talked about my social location in relation to the topic through a narrative-style expression.

We analyzed video as a method for reversing power structures in the debate space and in the US government.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lane Tech Prep MS | Judge: Sharon Hopkins
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 _{Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK}

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

The root causes of tangible war are power, heroism, threat construction, and fear – our ethic focuses to solve these issues.
Molloy 99 – Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Patricia, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, 1999, “Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re?thinking alterity in security discourse,” Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 304-328, p. Taylor and Francis)NK

The Will to Kill: War as Desire¶ Desire, as Shapiro points out
AND
. For in the infinite waters of responsibility, there are no pirates.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 4 | Opponent: Kinkaid BY | Judge: Ernie Rose
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 _{Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK}

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

The root causes of tangible war are power, heroism, threat construction, and fear – our ethic focuses to solve these issues.
Molloy 99 – Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Patricia, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, 1999, “Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re?thinking alterity in security discourse,” Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 304-328, p. Taylor and Francis)NK

The Will to Kill: War as Desire¶ Desire, as Shapiro points out
AND
. For in the infinite waters of responsibility, there are no pirates.

Tournament: New Trier | Round: 5 | Opponent: Glenbrook North CH | Judge: Jeremy Hammond
Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase its economic engagement toward Cuba.
Alterity

Contention 1 is Alterity

Increasing economic engagement facilitates a medium for encountering unpredictable Others in new locations.
Chandler 5 – Ph.D. in Political Science from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Senior Lecturer at the Canadian Political Science Association; Chair and Professor at the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario; Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto; Research Director at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation from University of California, Berkeley; Assessor for Publius, International Organization, and Canadian Journal of Political Science; Public Administration, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, University of Toronto and University of British Columbia; SSHRC Doctoral Evaluation Committee; Selection Committee for the German Parliamentary Internship Program (EMGIP); Research Associate for the Royal Commission on Party Finance for the Government of Canada; Visiting Professor at the University of Tuebingen and the University of Oldenburg; Faculty Research Associate in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; Certified Politique from Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Paris; Professional Memberships in the American Political Science Association (APSA), Canadian Political Science Association (CSPA), Deutsche Verinigung für Parlamentsfragen, and German Studies Association; Regional Director at Summit Conference Group on German Politics; COR Grant – Party System Change for the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada – “The Politics of German Unification”; Abroad Senior Lecturer from the Federal Republic of Germany; DFG Research Grant; McMaster University Student Union Awards for Teaching Excellence; 2005 Reinterpretation of History Prize Winner; Writes in 4 Accepted Languages (William M., “Reconceiving the Political: Arendt, Levinas, and the Potential for Politics to Become Otherwise”, Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA-ACSP), 2005, http://www.cpsa-acsp.ca/papers-2005/Chandler.pdf)//NK

The concern motivating this paper is that in dominating and fast replacing all other forms
AND
the precondition for overcoming this egoism, for the feminization of the self.

Economic oppression is the foremost obstacle to obtaining an ethical relationship with the Other – only the aff’s etho-political demand for material equality through the state can solve.
Tahmasebi 10 – assistant professor in women's studies/humanities at the University of Toronto Scarborough
(Victoria, “Does Levinas justify or transcend liberalism? Levinas on human Liberation”, Philosophy Social Criticism June 2010 vol. 36 no. 5 pg 523-544, dml)

Levinas, in his opposition to symmetry and equality as the founding principle of one’s
AND
from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!”.

Specifically Cuba is key to reorient our ethic towards the Other – after decades of pacifism and no ties to Cuban bodies, these new experiences further our relationship towards these Others.
Huish 12 – Honorary Masters thesis for Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) in accordance with L’Université de Montréal, Canada; Ph.D. in Ethics from the Simon Fraser University in Nova Scotia, Canada; Professor of Pedagogical Activism at Queens University (Robert,  “Cuba vs. Globalization: Chronicle of Anti-imperialism, Solidarity and Co-operation”, Centre de Recherche en Éthique (CRÉUM) L’Université de Montréal, 2012, Global Autonomy, http://globalautonomy.ca/global1/dialoguePrint.jsp?index=dialogue/SN08_Huish.xml)//NK

Abstract While Cuba was left out of the globalization
AND
we might just be able to remind ourselves that another, healthier, safer world is possible.

We have an infinite ethical obligation to encounter the Other – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)//NK

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER¶ ‘The other is not
AND
to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional.
Hendley 5 – Associate Professor of Philosophy at Birmingham-Southern College (Steven, 2005, “Autonomy and alterity: moral obligation in Sartre and Levinas,” from Emmanuel Levinas Critical Assessments V2: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (ed. Claire Elise Katz and Lara Trout), pp. 137-138, p. Google Books)NK

This last point bears on the conditions of the realization and maintenance of a just
AND
of those whose concerns have always yet to be adequately taken into account.

We should focus on particular relationships over universal rules.
Bergo 11 – Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at l'Université de Montréal (Bettina, written 7/23/06 and substantively revised 8/3/11, “Emmanuel Levinas,” http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/levinas/)//NK

Levinas's first book-length essay, Totality and Infinity (1961), was written
AND
about the first human particularity: the face-to-face relationship.

The only way ethical warfare is possible is through status quo dyadic ethical structure.
Odysseus 3 – Louiza Odysseus (PhD International Relations) March 2003 “Against Ethics? Iconographies of Enmity and Acts of Obligation in Carl Schmitt’s Theory of the Partisan” http://www.louizaodysseos.org.uk/resources/Odysseos+ISA+2008+Against+Ethics.pdf)//NK

A third objection, still, has to do with the imposition of particular kind
AND
to be fully and finally consumed without remainder’ (Rasch 2003: 137).

This medium facilitates the spill over of ethical warfare to planetary annihilation.
Camus 54 (Albert Camus, dead French dude who won the Nobel Prize in 1957; “The Rebel”)NK

What does such an attitude signify in politics? And, first of all,
AND
and rediscover with the reasons for its rebellion, its faith in itself.

Contention 2 is Disparity

A calculation for the ballot is not rational – economic rationality devalues human identity because it prefers profitability over sustainability. The judge should vote affirmative if our ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 _{Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK}

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
AND
, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

We will defend the implementation of the plan in the context of the adoption of our ethic – ethical framing conditions all political practice – this recognition is integral to combining theory and practice.
Dauphinee 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)NK

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

Our ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems like utilitarianism, which violently reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from new experiences by encounter.
Introna 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
AND
). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Ethics answers the question of what to do and all questions are always already one of ethics, even the choice to reject ethics and other value systems.
Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas D., Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics @ Lancaster University, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol. 26, No. 4, 2009, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Pg. 25-46)NK

This sort of ethics of hybrids is obviously very important and desperately needed. The
AND
(or rather ethos) of things to be rendered possible at all. 

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die – in the face of uncontrollable catastrophe and cosmic flux, ethics must enter first in your decision calculus
Clark 10 – Senior Lecturer in Geography at Open University (Nigel, “Ex-Orbitant Generosity: Gifts of Love in a Cold Cosmos”, Parallax, Vol. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)NK

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
AND
turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

The root causes of tangible war are power, heroism, threat construction, and fear – our ethic focuses to solve these issues.
Molloy 99 – Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology and Equity Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (Patricia, teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, 1999, “Desiring security/securing desire: (Re)re?thinking alterity in security discourse,” Cultural Values, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 304-328, p. Taylor and Francis)NK

The Will to Kill: War as Desire¶ Desire, as Shapiro points out
AND
. For in the infinite waters of responsibility, there are no pirates.

Tournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All
Aff-nk.nikhilkrishnan@gmail.com
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