Tournament: 2013babyjo | Round: 1 | Opponent: Gonzaga DiDio-Elias | Judge: Murillo
Restricting Presidential war powers is merely a cosmetic alteration that ramps up the species war ongoing against the nonhuman other.

Kochi ‘9

Civil society marks civil war. The 1ac’s politics becomes nothing more than species war pursued by other means.
Wadiwel 2009 

The affirmative’s manipulation of legal mechanisms determining particular laws of war obscures the foundational species war upon which the law is founded

Kochi ‘9

Humanism is the root cause of the drive for war, violence, and systemic militarization and domination of nature
Johns 98

The Role of Your Ballot Is Liberatory Scholarship as Animal Standpoint Theory
Anthropocentrism is THE Foundational Hierarchy that structures all others—Their Humanist Politics Dooms Us To a Future That Endlessly Repeats the Oppression of the Status Quo.
Steven Best, Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, 2007 JCAS 5.2

The alternative is an identification with species-being—disrupting the ethical exceptionalism of humanism.
Hudson 2008