Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 4 | Opponent: Trinity Dardant-Russell | Judge: Doubledee
ADVANTAGE ONE – ROBO WARS

U.S drone program is causing an international arms race to acquire more drones
Shane 11 (national security correspondent for New York Times) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/sunday-review/coming-soon-the-drone-arms-race.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0
AT the Zhuhai air …..  That is the path we’re on.”
The US will use drones to perpetuate global biopolitical violence
Shaw ‘13
Ian G. R. Shaw, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, The University of Glasgow , Scotland. “Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of US Drone Warfare.” Geopolitics, 18:3, 536-559. 14 Jun 2013. Taylor and Francis.
This paper critically assesses the CIA’s drone programme and proposes ……..l I name the “Predator Empire”.

Virtual war will lead to virtueless war

CHRISTOPHER ROGAN, West Point Graduate School 2010 Graduate, 10 (“INCREASING THE COMBAT POWER OF THE SQUAD ON PATROL:  THE POTENTIAL OF THE SOLDIER-PORTABLE DRONE AS A TACTICAL FORCE MULTIPLIER”, The US Military, Written 2010, Academy, www.usma.edu/DMI/dss/Docs/Theses/Rogan20Thesis.pdf)
Drones have …. onto the battlefield.

Fully autonomous weapons ideology will spillover to control of nuclear weapons and would result in the end of humanity

Peter M Asaro, professor of Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University 2007 “How Just could Robot Wars Be?” www.peterasaro.org/writing/Asaro20Just20Robot20War.pdf

More complex are …. well as towards other states.

Advantage II – Violence

Targeted killing causes international tensions and increases cycles of violence through revenge

Blum and Heymann Write, 2010:  GABRIELLA BLOOM – HARVARD/PHILLIP Heymann; Harvard National Security Journal, Vol. 1, No. 145, 2010 

When targeted killing operations collateral consequences.

The ideological perspective that guides the ontological legitimation for drone strikes reaches the final level of violence. Killing becomes part of bureaucracy and becomes accepted and routinized.  Asaro 13
(Peter M., School of Media Studies at The New School, NY, published in Social Semiotics 2013, Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, “The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators”, CL)

There has been a ……………describe this work. 

The drone policy allowing to kill from a distance must be avoided on an ethical and ontological level.  Killing should not be as easy as playing video games.  This leads to a devaluation of human life and a disposable life mentality

Bauman 95
(Zygmunt, Emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds, “Life in Fragments: Essays in Postmodern Morality, p. 195-96, CL)

Such conditions – conditions………..; while only total human persons can be bearers of moral significance.