Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 3 | Opponent: Someone | Judge: A Judge
Foucault explains how what we think of as “truth” is actually determined by power structures that erect a regime of “truth” to legitimate the existence of such structures. It is the structures, which we must overturn in order to make ethical decisions.
Michel Foucault. Power And Knowledge.
“It seems to… importance of Nietzsche.”

Moreover, we can never understand the nature of morality unless we first know who we have obligations to. This means that interrogating power structures must come first because it is the power structures that frame whose lives count.
Butler, Judith. Frames of War (2009), 138
“We ask such… who will not.” 

And, it is impossible to determine who we have obligations to without interrogating the norms created by power structures. There is no other way; epistemology demands that we look first at power
Butler, Judith. Frames of War (2009), 3-4
“The epistemological capacity …facilitate that recognition.”

In an educational context, deconstructing power relations is critical. Trifonas:  

Trifonas, Peter. PEDAGOGIES OF DIFFERENCE: RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE. New York, London. 2003.
“domination and subordination… for our children.”

Rather, we should focus on current injustices. In particular, it is important to analyze oppressive power structures embedded in historical experiences.
Dei:
George Dei – 2006. Anti-Colonialism and Education. The Politics of Resistance BOLD VISIONS IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Volume 7. Sense Publishers.
Power is unequally ... of power relations
Thus, the standard is resisting colonialism.

I contend that prioritizing environmental protection over resource extraction perpetuates oppressive ideologies.
First, a focus on environmental protection provides cover for eco-imperialism. Soomin and Shirley:
Lim Soomin and Dr. Steven Shirley, “Eco-Imperialism: The Global North’s Weapon of Mass Intervention.” Journal of Alternative Perspectives in the Social Sciences (2009).
We are seeing ...the 19th century.
And, environmentalism leads to the worst form of biopolitical control and destruction turning the case—Scares about oil shortages spill over to wars in foreign countries to secure more—the same thing will happen with the environment. Luke:
Luke in 1997 (Timothy, The (Un)Wise (Ab)Use of Nature: Environmentalism as Globalized Consumerism?,http://www.cddc.vt.edu/tim/tims/Tim528.htm, kdf)?
In conclusion, Foucault ... and modify them."

Second, environmental protection laws are generally Western concepts imposed on developing countries, which are labeled polluters and forced to take “responsibility” for Western problems. Zeleza: 

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza–History and African studies, University of Illinois –1997 Manufacturing African Studies and Crises. Senegal: Antony Rowe Ltd. 1997, p. 129. 

“Doomsday scenarios were… North-South dichotomy (Hoogvelt 1982). “

Tournament: Alta | Round: 2 | Opponent: idk | Judge: idk
I value government obligations because The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy defines ought as

 “ought.” The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. 2005. Oxford University Press. BSK.

The principle term ... find a café.’

There is no universal conception of obligations because there are no self-evident statements from which to derive such obligations. Instead, conceptions of obligations are context-dependent. Habermas

Jurgen Habermas Former Chair of Philosophy and Sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Institute for Social Research, Permanent Visiting Professor at Northwestern University, "Theodor Heuss Professor" at The New School, New York., The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory. Cambridge: MIT Press (1998), p. 36-37. AT.

A sentence or ... all future objections.

Thus, the validity of any normative order is grounded in certain foundational, socially constructed norms. Only a foundational basic norm can provide legitimacy to individual instances of a norm. Kelsen
Hans Kelsen—1978. Austrian jurist and philosopher of law. Pure Theory of Law. University of California Press, pp. 193.  JS.

To understand the ...  as a basic norm.

Thus, the standard is Maintaining Consistency with the Constitution

The Sixth amendment guarantees the right to a lawyer, and that protection necessitates granting privilege.  ABA Task Force
Report of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on the Attorney-Client Privilege.  “The Business Lawyer,” Vol 60, No 3 (May 2005) 1029-1055.
The Sixth Amendment ...  assistance of counsel.57

The right to a lawyer means the right to an effective lawyer; this Supreme Court Precedent has been uncontested for over 80 years.  Justice White in McMann v Richardson
McMann v. Richardson, 397 U.S. 759, 771 n.14 (1970)

Since Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U. S. 335 (1963), it has been clear that a defendant pleading guilty to a felony charge has a federal right to the assistance of counsel. See White v. Maryland, 373 U. S. 59 (1963); Arsenault v. Massachusetts, 393 U. S. 5 (1968). It has long been recognized that the right to counsel is the right to the effective assistance of counsel. See Reece v. Georgia, 350 U. S. 85, 90 (1955); Glasser v. United States, 315 U. S. 60, 69-70 (1942); Avery v. Alabama, 308 U. S. 444, 446 (1940); Powell v. Alabama, 287 U. S. 45, 57 (1932).

Weigold explains how attorney-client privilege is necessary for effective representation.
Ursula H. Weigold, Associate Professor of Law, University of St. Thomas School of Law, "The Attorney-Client Privilege as an Obstacle to the Professional and Ethical Development of Law Students", Pepperdine Law Review, Volume 33, Issue 3.
The promise of ... from the privilege.' 64

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