Tournament: UTD | Round: 5 | Opponent: UCO BH | Judge: Allsup
Their use of the paralysis metaphor is not benign wordplay but violent language that misinterprets the experiences of persons with disabilities and appropriates that identity to show deficiency. That’s a voter because it maintains power relationships that render persons with disabilities invisibile.

Ben-Moshe, 2005. (Liat, Ph.D student in Sociology at Syracuse). ““Lame Idea”: Disabling
Language in the Classroom,” in Building Pedagogical Curb Cuts: Incorporating Disability into the University Classroom and Curriculum.” http://www.syr.edu/
gradschool/pdf/resourcebooksvideos/Pedagogical20Curb20Cuts.pdf. ZDS

When we use terms ...but as lived experiences?

Tournament: KCKCC | Round: 3 | Opponent: UTSA | Judge: Cabezas
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?

Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: XX | Judge: XX
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’s research 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.

The notion that the human language and our narratives are important and the only way to discuss epistemology is a system that sets people apart from and above the rest of existence is excludes the nonhuman world from any and all considerations.

Bell and Russell, 2000 (Anne and Constance, "Beyond Human, beyond Words: Anthropocentrism, Critical Pedagogy, and the Poststructuralist Turn," Canadian Journal of Education 25.3, p.193-194)
This "organic apartheid" (Evernden, 1992, p. 119) is
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more than material objects in nature is nil" (p. 108).

And, the end point of their epistemology is a liberation exclusive to humans. Their concept of politics is always closed off to the non-human. This is their solvency author.
Henze 2000
Brent R.Henze 2000 "Who Says Who Says?: The Epistemological Grounds for Agency in Liberatory Political Projects." Found in Reclaiming Identity: Realist theory and the predicament of postmodernism. Edited by Paula Moya and Michael Hames-Garcia

¶ AGENCY IN EPISTEMIC PRIVILEGE¶ In this chapter I make an argument about some
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with become better able to represent their members in political struggles against oppression.

Spanos’ ontology seeks to reform humanism.
Williams and Spanos 2006
Jeffrey J. Williams, "The Counter-Memory of Postmodernism: An Interview with William V. Spanos" The Minnesota Review, Fall 2006 ns 67, http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns67/interview_spanos.shtml

Williams: But you see hope for humanism or posthumanism?¶ Spanos: Yes.
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is opposed to the more positive force, the existential category of care¶ 

Their anti-humanism is a correlationist ontology which is anthropocentric. Their claims about the social and linguistic construction of being still centers being in the human which forecloses any questioning of what the world might be like apart from humans
Bryant, 11
(Levi Bryant is Professor of Philosophy at Collin College. and~~2334;The Democracy of Objectsand~~2334; pg. 38-39, http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/9750134.0001.001/1:5/—democracy-of-objects?rgn=div1;view=fulltext~235.2)

As a consequence, it becomes clear that, for the correlationist, objects take
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, for both the humanists and the anti-humanists, entirely foreclosed.

Correlationist ontology is the root of all violence and ecological destruction—we must recognize the ontologies of the object to understand the world.
Bryant 2012
Levi R. Bryant, author of Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence, co-editor of the forthcoming The Speculative Turn with Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman, and author of a number of articles on Deleuze, Badiou, Zizek, Lacan, and political theory, The Stakes of SR/NFM/OOO/Onticology: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolves? June 5, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/06/05/the-stakes-of-srnfmoooonticology-whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-wolves/

By SR I mean "speculative realism", by "NFM" new materialist feminism
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very much the spirit of what’s unfolding with the new materialisms and realisms.

The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s vertical ontology and embrace a flat ontology. Our approach is key to decentering the human from ontology and recognizing that contribution that non-humans can make.
Bryant 2012
Levi R. Bryant, author of Difference and Givenness: Deleuze’s Transcendental Empiricism and the Ontology of Immanence, co-editor of the forthcoming The Speculative Turn with Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman, and author of a number of articles on Deleuze, Badiou, Zizek, Lacan, and political theory , " Flat Ontology/Flat Ethics" Larval Subjects, June 1 2012, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/flat-ontologyflat-ethics/

Returning to the questions of an earlier post, it seems to me that perhaps
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other words, flat ontology rejects the anthropocentrism implicit in most contemporary theory.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wyoming JF | Judge: Green
Terrorism ADV
Global Terrorism
Nuclear terrorism is complete hype. 

Oswald, 9/9

(Rachel, Expert Report: Talk of WMD Terror Threat to U.S. Has Been 'Overheated' - See more at: http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/new-expert-report-says-talk-wmd-terror-threat-us-has-been-overheated/#sthash.5ARbsxZ7.dpuf, Global Security Newswire, 9/9/13)

WASHINGTON -- Warnings over the past dozen years of the threat of extremists carrying out
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creating an electromagnetic pulse that could disrupt and damage the electrical grid below.
Focusing on terrorism makes conflict more likely as the state itself becomes terroristic to defend itself.
Agamben 2001 (Giorgio, professor at the University of Verona, On Security and Terror, 9/20 /2001)
Today we face extreme and most dangerous developments in the thought of security. In
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single deadly system, in which they justify and legitimate each others’ actions.

Yemen
The aff has is backwards – AQAP is not a terrorist threat to the US, rather the US is a terrorist threat to Yemen and its so-called AQAP affiliates.

Hersh, 8/10
(Joshua, Yemen Drone Strikes Bring New Round Of Terror To Embattled Country, 10 August 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/10/yemen-drone-strikes_n_3737554.html)¶
On Friday night, Farea al-Muslimi, a young Yemeni journalist and activist
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in, with drones. It's like they stepped through the looking glass."
No big attacks – most recent statement by al-Zawahiri calls for small attacks and the boycott of US goods.  (LOL) (Not kidding).

GSI, 9/13
(Global Security Network, Al-Qaida Wants to Force Increase in U.S. Security Spending that Hurts Economy - See more at: http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/al-qaida-wants-force-increase-us-security-spending-hurts-economy/#sthash.zmjv8iRx.dpuf, 13 Sept. 2013)
Al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri has called for Muslims to carry out
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wolves who become radicalized and carry out attacks such as what Zawahiri proposed.¶
Terror and fascism is the inevitable result of the limiting of the ontological development of constituent power
Negri 1992
Antonio (Toni) Negri, a political exile in France for many years and the emblematic figure of the¶ Italian radical Left, was a professor at the College International de Philosophic and the University of¶ Paris VIII (Saint-Denis)., Insurgencies Constituent Power and the Modern State by Antonio Negri, 1992, U of Minn Press)

However, this solution to the problem, as we have seen, is not
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this is the cynical foundation of the fascist disfiguring of¶ constituent power.
Prolif
The Zenko evidence doesn’t apply to drone courts, how could a court allow for diplomatic pressure?
_. Economic ties deter war between China and Taiwan.

Eric Ting-LunHuang, LL.B. Soo-chow University School of Law, Taiwan, ROC; LL.M., and currently S.J.D. candidate, Golden Gate Law, Spring 2003, 9 Ann. Surv. Int'l and Comp. L. 55 

After twelve years of negotiations, Taiwan was admitted as a full member of the
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tensions and gradually increase economic cooperation through their repeated contacts at WTO meetings.
_. Extinction from nuclear war is a myth – there is no scientific evidence to support the claim.

Martin 1984 (Brian, physicist whose research interests include stratospheric modelling. He is a research associate in the Dept. of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Australian National University, and a member of SANA, “Extinction Politics”, Scientists Against Nuclear Arms Newsletter, number 16, May 1984,)

Yet in spite of the widespread belief in nuclear extinction, there was almost no
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have left unaddressed the question of whether nuclear war inevitably means global extinction.
The next effect to which beliefs in nuclear extinction were attached was ozone depletion.
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and extinction from ozone reductions is virtually out of the question.3
Their focus on large-scale impacts creates death as the only thing we should orient ourselves around which ultimately creates a community that strives for death itself.
Nancy, 2010 Jean Luc Nancy, The Truth of Democracy, translated Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Fordham University Press, p. 29-31
It is perhaps possible today that this choice is to be taken in a different  
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not that "God is dead' but that death is becoming our God.

Solvency
Drone courts won’t decrease drone usage.

Crowley, 13
(Michael, So Who Can We Kill?, Time, 1 April 2013, http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,2139176,00.html)

Last spring, the New York Times published a front-page story detailing Obama's
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Department have lawyers, like Johnson, who already closely vet such requests).
A new drone court is pretty silly. These new federal judges have to be approved by the Senate and they haven’t been approving judges lately. Anonymous holds mean that members that like drones will ensure the court can never hear cases.
We must refuse institutions. The inclusion of institutions limits constituent power and stops the creation of better ontologies. 

Negri 1992
Antonio (Toni) Negri, a political exile in France for many years and the emblematic figure of the¶ Italian radical Left, was a professor at the College International de Philosophic and the University of¶ Paris VIII (Saint-Denis)., Insurgencies Constituent Power and the Modern State by Antonio Negri, 1992, U of Minn Press)

Let's try once again to measure the density of the concept by comparing¶ it
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.79 "What is potent can be¶ and not be."8

Tournament: Wichita | Round: 1 | Opponent: UTD LO | Judge: Loghry

The affirmative isolates war as something that is only understood through or affected by policy institutions. The affirmative has constructed war scenarios that they believe they prevent but they haven’t questioned what created those wars in the first place.

Hillman 2004, James Hillman, internationally renowned psychologist, professor at University of Chicago and Yale, A Terrible love of War (Chapter 1: War is Normal, p3) AS
Fallen from the higher mind’s central contemplation, war tends to be examined piecemeal by
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theology of war’s deepest mind. That is the purpose of this book. 

War has become so normalized, so engrained in our psyche that it is impossible for us to imagine solutions to its horror. We have left war alone and unquestioned so much that we have forgotten its terrible imagery.

Hillman 2004, James Hillman, internationally renowned psychologist, professor at University of Chicago and Yale, A Terrible love of War (Chapter 1:War is Normal, p21-22) AS
To declare war "normal" does not eliminate the pathologies of behavior, the
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, more rats in the lab, and tax rebates for urban renewal.

The myth that peace is the result of ending war functions as a collective amnesia for the effects of war that allows continued repression of our desire for war. This is a fantasy, and an ignorant one as it means we will continue to repress our desire to make war.

Hillman, 4 (James, retired Director of the Jung Institute, "A Terrible Love of War", The Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-011-4-http://debatecoaches.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/1594200114, pgs 3o-31)
When Neville Chamberlain and his umbrella returned from Munich in 1938 after utterly failing to
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dead anesthetized by that major syndrome of the public psyche: "peace."

War is the articulation of individual psychic repressions via state mediated politics.  In attempts to create unity, a polity necessarily creates an enemy other that must be destroyed.  This happens at the level of the imagination and means that new enemies and new wars will always be created.  This is a never-ending cycle – their impacts are inevitable. They don’t solve war – they just create more war.

Hillman, 4 (James, retired Director of the Jung Institute, "A Terrible Love of War", The Penguin Press, ISBN 1-59420-011-4-http://debatecoaches.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:BookSources/1594200114, pgs 24-27)
War certainly does rely upon the individual’s repressions and/or aggressions, pleasure in
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that process from the intolerable through the barely endurable to the merely normal. 

The alternative is to psychologically enter into war. Once we sympathetically imagine the phenomenon of war we can understand our irrational and complete love for it. Only then can we begin to know prevention of further wars or total peace.

Hillman 2004, James Hillman, internationally renowned psychologist, professor at University of Chicago and Yale, A Terrible love of War (Chapter 1: War is Normal, p1-2) AS
We can never prevent war or speak sensibly of peace and disarmament unless we enter
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burning and its aftermath are unimaginable, their cause, war, is not

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wyoming JF | Judge: Green
Democracy simply implies being together in community. This means that democracy is more than just a political system, it is a way of being that cannot be reduced to a mere institution.
Nancy 2010, Jean-Luc Nancy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, “The Truth of Democracy” translated by Michael Naas, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rodlibrary/Doc?id=10396016andppg=40
What is important, in this regard, is not the “antiauthoritarianism" and
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on the contrary, the most real, concrete, and pressing necessity.

By increasing statutory restrictions on the president, the affirmative is withdrawing even further from the political and entering further into the society of the spectacle, an inoperative community. This forecloses the possibility of engaging in true democracy.
Rua Wall 2013 Illan rua Wall, Associate Professor of Law at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick., "Politics and the Political: Notes On the Thought of Jean-Luc Nancy", 20 February 2013, Critical Legal Thinking– Law and the Political –   http://criticallegalthinking.com/author/illanwall/
In Being Sin¬gu¬lar Plural, Nancy delves fur¬ther into this ques¬tion, explain¬ing two modes
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of appear¬ance, he sees the Situ¬ation¬ism as open¬ing cer¬tain paths of critique.

Opening of being is key to the unconditional community.  This replaces the “I” of sovereignty with the “we” of incommensurable subjectivity of community.
McAllan, 2007 Fiona McAllan, ” THE ‘AUSTRALIAN’ COMMUNITY: Bound for more of the Same?”, Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 2 No 1, November 2007
Following Jean Luc Nancy, an unconditional community accepts that subjects are not fixed identities
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, irrupts fixed structures created to organise sameness, where difference becomes appropriated.

When we achieve a community through ecstasis and sharing out, we are able to overcome equivalence.
Nancy 2010, Jean-Luc Nancy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, “The Truth of Democracy” translated by Michael Naas, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rodlibrary/Doc?id=10396016andppg=40)
The destiny of democracy is linked to the possibility of a mutation in the paradigm
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“nothing" signifies that all have value incom¬mensurable absolutely, and infinitely.

The closing off of experience and collapse of the symbolic order locks humanity into a static notion of being that ends a general equivalence of all people.  This drive to equivalence guarantees extinction
Nancy, 2010 Jean Luc Nancy, The Truth of Democracy, translated Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Fordham University Press, p. 29-31
It is perhaps possible today that this choice is to be taken in a different  
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not that "God is dead' but that death is becoming our God.

The alternative is to reject traditional notions of democracy in order to enact a being-with through a sharing out of experience. 

The power of the people is only derived when there can be a sharing out through community. It is the responsibility of democracy to facilitate this sharing out but democracy should not take responsibility for what is shared. The expectation of a political sharing out is the very thing that leads to ineffective democratic systems.
Nancy 2010, Jean-Luc Nancy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, “The Truth of Democracy” translated by Michael Naas, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rodlibrary/Doc?id=10396016andppg=40)
The share of what is without value—the share of the sharing (out
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initiations, ecstasies, or revelations for which they nevertheless sometimes made room."

Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: XX | Judge: XX
The aff reduces politics to the state as a static institution which is only derived from preexisting authority, but the political should imply a way of being together in community. There shouldn’t be any recognized authority other than that which proceeds from genuine communication.
Nancy 2010, Jean-Luc Nancy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, "The Truth of Democracy" translated by Michael Naas, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rodlibrary/Doc?id=1039601626ppg=40
What is important, in this regard, is not the "antiauthoritarianism" and
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on the contrary, the most real, concrete, and pressing necessity.

The closing off of experience and collapse of the symbolic order locks humanity into a static notion of being that ends a general equivalence of all people.  This drive to equivalence guarantees extinction.     
Nancy, 2010 Jean Luc Nancy, The Truth of Democracy, translated Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, Fordham University Press, p. 29-31

It is perhaps possible today that this choice is to be taken in a different  
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not that "God is dead’ but that death is becoming our God.

The ontology of a being-together by possessing the common substance of law results in extinction
Devisch 2006 Ignaas Devisch, Professor in Ethics, Philosophy and Medical Philosophy University of Ghent,  "The Sense of BeingWith Jean-Luc Nancy" Culture Machine, Vol 8 (2006) http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/viewarticle/36/44

Although Nancy’s reasoning about sense or coexistence seems quite abstract, the consequences of it
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functioning as something that transcends and thus unworks the closed community itself.5

Our alternative is to embrace a radical community of finitude. Only through discovering our being-in-common will we be able to overcome the fusional ontology of being-together represented by the affirmative.
Devisch 2006
Ignaas Devisch, Professor in Ethics, Philosophy and Medical Philosophy University of Ghent,  "The Sense of BeingWith Jean-Luc Nancy" Culture Machine, Vol 8 (2006) http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/viewarticle/36/44

The challenge for a radical community of finitude and sense is to think through the
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Luc, to Luc and Jean, always already plural in its singularity.

When we achieve a community of finitude through sharing out and realizing being-in-common, we are able to overcome equivalence.
Nancy 2010, Jean-Luc Nancy, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, "The Truth of Democracy" translated by Michael Naas, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rodlibrary/Doc?id=1039601626ppg=40)
The destiny of democracy is linked to the possibility of a mutation in the paradigm
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"nothing" signifies that all have value incom¬mensurable absolutely, and infinitely.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: Wyoming JF | Judge: Green
TEXT:
The United States federal government should substantially increase statutory restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States by establishing a federal court with jurisdiction over targeted murder orders.
The word kill is used to describe what humans do to animals – when lives that matter are lost we use the term murder.  Using “kill” desensitizes us to the murder and violence that is done the other.  We should use murder instead of kill to recognize the humanity of the other.

Palczewski et al., 12
(Cate – prof of Comm @ University of Northern Iowa, received the George
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the NDT. Rhetoric and Civic Life, p. 153-155)¶ 

The cover of the July 2008 issue of National Geographic shows a close up of
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position, but also require people to make a choice between competing arguments.

Dehumanization outweighs nuclear war, environmental destruction and genocide – makes them all inevitable.

Berube, 1997
(David, Comm@South Carolina, Nanotechnology Magazine, "Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side," June/July http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/prolong.htm, posted on http://www.inkwater.com/net-benefits/printthread.php?s=17417e75c3a3fbf37a1f5c11956b4f1bandthreadid=1987andperpage=30andpagenumber=2

 Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this
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inevitable for every epoch has evil and dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon.

Tournament: UNT | Round: 4 | Opponent: GSU NS | Judge: Archer
The terrocrats should plan text

Observation 1:  It competes-it does not use the term Federal Government

Observation 2:  It solves-the terrocrats carry out the exact same action as their fictitious representation of the government would.
Observation 3:  Net benefit.

The term government is an abstraction.  The government is a group of people that oppresses others.
Mann 98
(Frederick, "The Nature of Government", Version 2, Originally Published in Terra Libra, 1994, http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/neuro/govt.html)
The human brain is an abstracting device. We might call the first level of
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does things," that their brains automatically shut out anything to the contrary. 

This abstraction is used to coerce people.  This coercion leads to death, destruction, and unending violence.
Mann 95
(Frederick, "Why You Must Recognise and Understand Coercion", http://www.mind-trek.com/reports/misc/coercion.htm)

In its strongest form, coercion involves killing another. Next comes threatening to kill
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is also the level of the violent criminal, the robber or murderer.
Then there’s blackmail: compelling someone to make a payment or perform a specific action
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coercive religions, cults, etc.). They lie to get your mind. 

Counter Plan solves-using the term terrocrat shows the underside of violence that the abstraction government covers.
Mann 98
(Frederick, "The Nature of Government", Version 2, Originally Published in Terra Libra, 1994, http://www.hiddenmysteries.org/freebooks/neuro/govt.html)
There is an "intermediate method" of communication. Instead of "state,"
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patriot communicators were to use these terms over the airwaves and in print21