Tournament: Texas | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard Kim-Seaton | Judge: Winfrey
The second problem of evil means the quest for a true identity is set against the backdrop of difference and the drive for truth in identity converts difference into otherness, and necessitates scapegoats to secure the appearance of the identity. This is the ethical problem of global contingency.
Schoolman 2k8 Morton, Professor of Poli Sci at NYU, The New Pluralism, page on bottom of page
Whereas Augustine's solution to the first … or consumed by resentment.
48-49

The 1ac constitutes war as a war against identity - justifying endless war
Campbell 92 David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography, and part of the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies(http://www.dur.ac.uk/dcaps/)Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity. 1992.   Security and subjectivity are …" as an economic and political problem.'32 253-255 

The hegemonic foreign policy of elimination of otherness is centered on the pax Americana that justifies violence through the dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion, where the enemies like Japan and China are violently vanquished and destroyed.
Campbell 92 David Campbell is Professor of Cultural and Political Geography, and part of the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography Studies(http://www.dur.ac.uk/dcaps/)Writing Security: United States Foreign Policy and the Politics of Identity. 1992.   
The political and policy … Policy; strategies which are highly gendered. 236-237

Tournament: Texas | Round: 8 | Opponent: Oklahoma Schexnayder-Baez | Judge: bugrov
The 1ac is a futile and destructive attempt to internalize the Other –
But the Other is an enigma – knowing or projecting your own justifications destroys the very ethical act
Fernando 2k10 Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. Atropos Press January 29, 2010. Pg 148-151.
For a gift must be active—she must … — it is to provide meaning for that which has none

The affirmative has chosen a reading of death—to textually represent a faceless death of the detained, to revel in the piety of their action—but this robs each other’s sacrifice and their choice of death from the other—the aff is a self-serving necrophilia
Fernando 10 Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. New York, Dresden.
Death is this unknowability … in the moment of exchange.  

The ethical impulse of the aff comes from a narcissistic desire for a unified self. They embody the “knights of good consciousness,” but it only sustains the gift economy of exchange. However, the detained gift of death CANNOT be understood. This renders the aff simply a calculative rational that sustained human atheism – sustaining assimilation and extermination of otherness.
Taylor '84 Mark C. Taylor. Erring:. A Postmodern A/Theology,. Pg. 25-29
The psychology of mastery … themselves and at home in the world. 

The only response to the particular other is the gift of death—of irresponsibility—and this isn’t easy—but the sacrifice of ethics: of an action absent of all justification for the sake of responsibility to the singularity of the absolute other—is the only option to respond to the Other.  This means in the context of debate—you should advocate the destruction of indefinite detention minus the justifications/ advantages/ ethics/ calculation.
Fernando 10 Jeremy. Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, Research Fellow at the Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences. The Suicide Bomber; and her gift of death. New York, Dresden, pg. 51-53.
Of course, once the instant of … to everything—except the ability to respond.

Tournament: Texas | Round: 4 | Opponent: Michigan Keenan-Keller | Judge: Donlan
The 1ac conflates 'life' with 'organism' - this perpetuates the biological fallacy. Only by shifting to an object-oriented-ontology can we resist the impulses toward anthropocentrism and the destruction of the biosphere.
Rowe 96 — Stan Rowe, Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan, 1996 (“From Shallow To Deep Ecological Philosophy,” Trumpeter, Volume 13, Number 1, Available Online at fhttp://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/278/413, Accessed 07-26-2011)
Organisms can be “alive” one … very roots of evolutionary creativity.

The elevation of the human soul is the emergent cause of violence – the hierarchy of life structures inevitable domination over the earth. The pull towards violence created the conditions of torture, warfare, aggression, and inevitable war.
Bennett 10 – Professor of Political Theory and Political Science at Johns Hopkins (Jane, “Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things, Duke University Press, 2010”)
Advocates of the culture of life … various kinds of cells or tissues of the mature, differentiated organism.

The alternative is to reject the affirmative humanism in favor for a flat ontology - The hubris of humanity has falsified the idea of human uniqueness – a object oriented ontology sews up a destructive divide. Recognition that no object should be privileged challenges the destruction of all objects.
Harman 11 – professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. (graham, the quadruple object)
Normally there seems to be an … to call "speculative psychology."

Tournament: Texas | Round: 5 | Opponent: Harvard Kim-Seaton | Judge: Winfrey
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