Tournament: KCKCC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Concordia CS | Judge: Moore
Western legal strategies to regulate warfare are rooted in the human-nonhuman distinction that values some lives over others and informs what counts as acceptable tactics of war. The aff’s promotion of species differentiation is an endorsement of violence that ensures the plan will fail.
Deckha, 10(Maneesha, Associate Professor at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law in Victoria, Canada. ¶ Professor Deckha‘sresearch interests include critical animal studies, intersectionality, feminist analysis of law, law ¶ and culture, animal law, and bioethics, The Subhuman as a Cultural Agent of Violence, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 2010, http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/JCAS-Special-Issue-Women-of-Color-November-FINAL-2010.pdf, p.42-43)
The resonance of the subhuman figure may also be found in western ¶ jurisprudence relating
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¶ practices, the subhuman figure is critical to producing violence against humans.
This culminates in a banishment of Being-in-the-world with us that marks the exploitation and destruction of all nature on Earth.
DeLuca, 5 (Kevin Michael, prof of communication @ University of Utah, Thinking with Heidegger: Rethinking Environmental Theory and¶ Practice, Ethics and the Environment, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp.67-87)
Machination is unconditional controllability, the domination of all¶ beings, the world,
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translating¶ Erlebnis as adventure. Others translate it as lived-experience.)
Their extinction impact is irrelevant in comparison because the universe will still have value without humanity.
Lee 99 (Keekok, Visiting Chair in Philosophy at Lancaster University, The Natural and the Artefactual, 1999)
We should not delude ourselves that the humanization of nature will stop at biotic nature
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forms and processes embodying this value exist whether human¬kind is around or not.
The alternative is to embrace Being-in-the-world on earth as a starting point for replacing the subject-object dichotomy of human-nonhuman relations. This ontology opens space for understanding how existence is co-created and fundamentally alters how one comes to know her surroundings.
DeLuca, 5 (Kevin Michael, prof of communication @ University of Utah, Thinking with Heidegger: Rethinking Environmental Theory and¶ Practice, Ethics and the Environment, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2005, pp.67-87)
Heidegger disdains “the Cartesian approach of positing a subject one¶ can come across
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fundamental¶ understanding of Being-in-the-world on earth?