Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Newark Science NS | Judge: Neil Conrad
Morality must be noncontradictory
(immanuel kant, grounding for the metaphysics of morals, p.945)
"there is the...a moral law"

the only way to check this is if it's universalizable
(immanuel kant, gorunding for the metaphysics of morals, p.945)
"we must be able......would contradict itself"

most important moral rule=preserving autonomy
(Dwight Furrow. “Objective Moral Reasons.” Ethics. 2005. 20.)
"According to kant....be fatally compromised"

contention=compulsory voting violates autonomy
A) no longer a choice to abstain
B) state coercion

Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AK | Judge: Kris Wright
ethics must be open to the unpredictable coming of time
(hagglund, radical atheism, p. 169)
"Derrida's argument is...in the future-to-come"

radical democracy makes re-legislation in the face of the unpredictable coming of time possible
(hagglund, radical atheism, p. 171)
"democracy to come...sheltered from critique"

vc=embracing radical democracy

contention-radical democracy rejects CV
A)affirming the res is atemporal
b)posits absolute characteristic of democracy
c)can't stop corruption completely bc it makes democracy possible
(hagglund, the necessity of discrimination: disjoining levinas and derrida, p.69)
"To be sure...in the first place"