Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Des Moines Roosevelt EW | Judge: Tom Evnen
I value morality since ought is defined as a moral obligation. The meta-ethic is constitutivism.
Only an agent’s reasons from means to ends provides the necessary unity of movement in an action.
Rodl 11 Sebastian Roedl. Prof. Of Philosophy, University of Leipzig. “Two Forms of Practical Knowledge and Their Unity” in Ford and Hornsby, Eds. Essays on Anscombe's Intention (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011) 239.
We can give … of her nexus.
The resolution asks an unqualified question about morality in a specific circumstance. This means both sides need to propose and defend a binding moral rule.
Further, constitutive standards alone explain the possibility of binding standards.
Boyle and Lavin 10 Matthew Boyle and Douglas Lavin. Professors of Philosophy: Harvard University. “Goodness and Desire” p. 32-33. http://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/4879173/Boyle_GoodnessDesire.pdf?sequence=2
A certain standard … to be itself.
Acting with the structure of practical deliberation provides us with a mechanism for decision making that is normative.
Engstrom 09 The Form of Practical Knowledge, Stephen Engstrom, Harvard UP, 2009
Since the will, …exercise of the will.
Only a constitutivist account of morality can provide moral norms because it draws them from practical deliberation as opposed to other moral theories that draw moral norms from sources external to the agent.
Engstrom 09 The Form of Practical Knowledge, Stephen Engstrom, Harvard UP, 2009
The distinctive practical … cognizance of it.
Thus, the standard is maintaining a system of equal freedom because when an agent engages in rational reflection they must will a system of equal freedom as only a universal law is consistent with the constitute aim of practical reflection for two reasons.
All knowledge must be applicable to all reasoners.
Engstrom 09 The Form of Practical Knowledge, Stephen Engstrom, Harvard UP, 2009
As I mentioned, …judgment is based.
2. A system of knowledge must be universal since the system must be coherent.
Engstrom 09 The Form of Practical Knowledge, Stephen Engstrom, Harvard UP, 2009
The second form … we simultaneously endorse.
Contention 1
Non-voting isn’t universizable within democracy.
Mayo 59 H. B. Mayo. “A Note on the Alleged Duty to Vote.” May, 1959. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2127168.
The usual argument … attached to citizenship.
Only a system that requires everyone to vote has the possibility of representing equal freedom. One’s own choice is the only one that can’t self-wrong.
Kant 1793: Immanuel Kant, On the Common Saying: ‘This May Be True in Theory but it Does Not Apply in Practice.” 1793. In Democracy: A Reader, eds. Ricardo Blaug and John at Schwarzmantel.
3. The independence (sibisufficientia) … the original contract.
Thus, the state still has the obligation to require them to vote- as part of the rightful condition, they cannot allow violations to occur.
Weinrib 08: Weinrib, Jacob, Kant on Citizenship and Universal Independence (December 1, 2008). Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy, Vol. 33, 2008.
Although passive citizens … enable universal independence:3
Contention 2
Those who don’t vote are minority groups whom voting would help. Chong ‘05
Alberto Chong and Mauricio Olivera, “On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries”. Inter-American Development Bank and George Mason University, May 2005. RP 8/16/13
As explained above, the case for… shift the position of the median voter.
Underviews
Neg must defend converse
No RVIs