Tournament: Stanford | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
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Tournament: NSD | Round: 2 | Opponent: idk | Judge: Sam Matthews
v=morality
Natural law determines morality. All actions must be reduced to basic goods.
Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, and John Finnis, “Practical Principles, Moral Truth, and Ultimate Ends”, American Journal of Jurisdiction vol. 32, 1987.
"Even when one's... instantiate basic goods."

The requirement to act according to a will towards a full set of basic goods generates a stronger principle of rationality.
Germain Grisez, Joseph Boyle, and John Finnis, “Practical Principles, Moral Truth, and Ultimate Ends”, American Journal of Jurisdiction vol. 32, 1987.
"Even morally bad... receiving full attention."

The precepts of natural law have their status naturally.
Murphy, Mark, "The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2011 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/natural-law-ethics/.
"The precepts of... or evil dispositions (ST IaIIae 94, 6)."

Natural law precludes util. Util treats pleasure and enjoyment as a good within itself and fails to recognize the higher moral purposes.
Richard W. Wright, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. “The Principles of Justice” ©2000
"The ultimate good... good in itself."

standard=consistency with the principles of natural law.

My framework is a meta ethical constraint on other frameworks because rationality is a mechanism which determines which philosophy to pick. But rationality as a prerequisite to morality is insufficient because it leaves the individual to do whatever they feel would result in any benefit whatsoever, which is why all action must be guided by basic goods. Also, if basic human goods are not respected, moral decisions would result in infinite regress. In other words, my framework defines the context of what is good, which gives us a starting point to make moral judgements.

Contention one: Natural law requires reparations to black Americans for slavery.
a. natural right to property.
Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oklahoma University.  ““This habitable earth of ours:” Locke on humanity in the environment”
"Locke’s solution rests... is his property” (Locke 2T, § 31)."

b. Slavery denied people of natural right to property.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN and the NATURAL LAW TRADITION?Herman Belz, University of Maryland (Professor Emeritus)
"Discussing the basic... conflict over slavery."

c. Acting in violation of the principles of natural law constitutes a transgression, and the victim has the distinct right to seek reparation.
Locke "A Treatise of Two Governments"
"Besides the crime... he hath suffered."

Because slaves never received reparations, the debt is now owed to the present black population.

"This argument does... present black population."
A Lockean Argument for Black Reparations
Bernard R. Boxill
The Journal of Ethics, Vol. 7, No. 1, Race, Racism, and Reparations (2003), pp. 63-91
"The second problem... day African Americans."

Underview:

1. Neg must defend prohibition
   2. RVI's
   3. Presume aff, err aff on theory
   4. Textual advocacy is preferable to subtextual advocacy
   5. Neg must weigh abuse against time skew
   6. Neg can't read multiple shells w/o RVI's.
   7. Neg can't generate offense off of something abusive that the aff did if they were able to do it too.
   8. Ignore generic framework indicts if they're not linked to my ethical constraints.
   9. Neg advocacies must use USFG.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
The Congo Basin nations should implement an incentive system consistent with the international REDD mechanism to discourage deforestation, funding is through normal means with specific emissions-reduction programs chosen the state level. This includes Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.