Tournament: 2013babyjo-Round 1 | Round: 1 | Opponent: North Texas Garcia-Sauceda | Judge: Krueger
You must first begin your deliberation with a question of value. Ignoring the question of what counts as violence enacts an endless genocide against the non-human other, and Reinforces Anthropocentric Separation.
Kochi 2009
Tarik Lecturer in Law and International Security at the University of Sussex “Species War: Law, Violence and Animals” Law, Culture and the Humanities Oct 5: 353-369
Similar comparisons have been made before. Yet
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was to treat people like animals
Humanism is the root cause of the drive for war, violence, and systemic militarization and domination of nature
Johns 98
David M. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science Portland State Univ. B.S. Political Science and Anthropology 1976, Portland State University; M.A. Political Science 1978, J.D. Law, 1980, Columbia University.The Relevance of Deep Ecology to the Third World (1990) Some Preliminary Comments in The great new wilderness debate By J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson ct Page/s 257
MILITARIZATION As with overconsumption we
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the same split that has brought us to the current crisis.
Anthropocentrism is the original and foundational hierarchy that structures all other forms of oppression.
Best 2007
Steven, Asst Phil Prof at UT El Paso “Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, by Charles Patterson (2002)” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, 5.2 http://www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/Issue_7/bestpatterson.pdf
While a welcome advance
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they would depict the Devil in human form."
Vote negative to disrupt the exceptionalism of humanism and form an identification with species-being
Hudson 2008 Laura, Grad student in Cultural Studies at UC-Davis “The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life” Mediations Spring 23.2: http://www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/the-political-animal
In his discussion of religion, Marx
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how are we to envision the future of politics and society?
