Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Tommy Choi | Judge: Robbie Dillard
- morality requires a state or we're in the state of nature
(Darick Biondi, Capitalism and Morality, P.2)
http://www.wju.edu/academics/bus/iscm/dbiondi.pdf
Hobbes depicts..produce the leviathan
VC=upholding the structure of democracy
2. creates meaning
(Parrish - Derrida's Economy of Violence, From: Theory and Event
Volume 7, Issue 4, 2005 | 10.1353/tae.2005.0054)
https://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0andtype=summaryandurl=/journals/theory_and_event/v007/7.4parrish.html
"Again using...own terms"
3. need it to have a coherent conception of morality
Contention complusory does these things to uphold the structure of democracy:
- allows the most accurate account to be drawn of the majority
2. structural barriers prevent equal representation
(Lisa Hill, "compulsory voting: what choices matter?", August 2011, Issue 6)
"failure to vote.....mandatory voting"
3. forcelsoes the possibility of the state
4. CV is a pre-req to all other facets of democracy