Showing posts with label ethics and morality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ethics and morality. Show all posts
Mar 5, 2014

political realism in LD

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A Twitter follower has asked me to elaborate on one of the V/C pairs I listed for the humanitarian aid resolution . Over at that post, I wr...
Feb 22, 2014

Emmanuel Levinas, ethics, and LD

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This post is inspired by Max , who wrote an LD case for the March/April humanitarian aid resolution based on the work of Emmanuel Levinas. ...
Feb 13, 2014

value / criterion pairs for the humanitarian aid resolution

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This post consists of value and criterion pairs for the March-April 2014 LD humanitarian aid resolution , which states: Placing political co...
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Feb 4, 2014

the agent of action in the humanitarian aid resolution

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The March/April LD humanitarian aid resolution invites a careful parsing. Resolved: Placing political conditions on humanitarian aid to fo...
Feb 1, 2014

Resolved: Placing political conditions on humanitarian aid to foreign countries is unjust.

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The National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) has released the March-April 2014 Lincoln-Douglas debate ...
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Aug 22, 2011

thoughts about animal rights

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The first post about the animal rights resolution has sparked a lot of great questions. Rather than try to answer them in the comments, I...
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Aug 15, 2011

Resolved: Justice requires the recognition of animal rights.

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The September / October 2011 Lincoln-Douglas debate topic has been released: Resolved: Justice requires the recognition of animal rights. I...
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Aug 6, 2011

the fast and the furious

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Johnette Howard of ESPN has written a fascinating summary of the triumph and travails of Oscar Pistorius, the path-blazing runner who might...
Apr 13, 2011

Resolved: The United States has a moral obligation to promote just governance in developing nations

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With North Africa and the Middle East exploding in conflict, now's a perfect time for the NCFL's LD resolution for the May champion...
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Feb 1, 2011

Resolved:The United States is justified in using private military firms abroad to pursue its military objectives.

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The NFL LD topic for March / April 2011 has been released: Resolved:The United States is justified in using private military firms abroad t...
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Dec 1, 2010

Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system.

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The NFL Lincoln Douglas debate resolution for January / February 2011 has been released: Resolved: In the United States, juveniles charged ...
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Nov 22, 2010

civil commitment and the illegal drugs resolution

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Is it possible for a public health approach to the abuse of illegal drugs  to be coercive? In a previous post, citing quarantine as an analo...
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Oct 25, 2010

value and criterion pairs for the illegal drugs resolution

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The NFL LD resolution for November / December 2010 offers many options for frameworks. Resolved: The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be tr...
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Oct 22, 2010

from the retribution vault

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The November/December resolution for 2010 invites us to contrast a public health approach to a criminal justice approach to illegal drug ab...
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Oct 13, 2010

could public health officials quarantine drug abusers?

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1. Let's say that a ranking public health official decides that abuse of illegal drugs is a literal epidemic. 2. How do you contain an...
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Oct 1, 2010

Resolved: The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be treated as a matter of public health, not of criminal justice.

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The NFL Lincoln Douglas debate resolution for November / December has been released: Resolved: The abuse of illegal drugs ought to be treat...
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Jun 25, 2010

animal rights for people, too

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NOTE: This topic was chosen for Sept. / Oct. 2011. Current comments and thoughts are posted here . First in a series of previews of pot...
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Feb 21, 2010

jury nullification and "parameters of acceptable deviance"

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Regarding the jury nullification resolution , the affirmative has to show why the practice is not only a check on government power, but a ju...
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Feb 11, 2010

value and criterion pairs for the jury nullification resolution

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The following is a list of possible value / criterion pairs for the jury nullification resolution. A couple questions to kickstart your thin...
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Feb 1, 2010

Resolved: In the United States, the principle of jury nullification is a just check on government.

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The March / April Lincoln Douglas debate topic has been released: Resolved: In the United States, the principle of jury nullification is a j...
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