Tournament: Stanford | Round: 9 | Opponent:  | Judge:
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Tournament: NSD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Evan O Donell | Judge: Marshal Thompson
V=morality

Fairness is driven by internal moral judgements.
Skitka, L. J., Bauman, C. W., and Mullen, E. (2008). Morality and justice: An expanded
theoretical perspective and review. In K. A. Hedgvedt and J. Clay-Warner (Eds.), Advances in
Group Processes, Vol. 25 (pp. 1 - 27). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
"The authority independence... or respectful treatment."

Democracy is the best way to morally evaluate actions. Stable ethical evaluation is only rooted in democratic procedure within the political sphere, because all moral norms are related to a collective agreement or understanding.
Harman, Gilbert Moral Relativism Defended Philosophical Review Vol. 84, January 1975
"My thesis is... called moral relativism."

And, because democracy is the only way of reaching a legitimately established consensus, especially within the political sphere, it is the only way of accessing moral norms.
2. Epistemology: Morality is not a list of objective facts but rather a guide for action, so morality must be grounded in an epistemological basis for how one can come to know what moral rules to follow. A democratic decision making process is the best way to epistemologically access moral truth.
Christiano, Tom, "Democracy", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/entries/democracy/. July 27th 2006 Philosopher at the University of Arizona (Mill 1861, p. 74, Elster 2002, p. 152).
"Two kinds of... forms of rule."
3. Democracy precedes all moral theories. Morality cannot be understood absent a social context because notions of fairness evolve over time. Objectivity is impossible because people are born into a socio-historic context, so no one is qualified to make an absolute claim about what the good is in all cases. Democracy determines what is valuable in each individual context since states are partitioned into separate territories whose populations have their own desires.
Thus, a democratic consensus is the best way to establish moral truth, specifically in a political context, so prefer the standard of government action consistent with popular opinion. Also prefer majority consensus because the USFG is the implicit actor in the resolution, so a democratic process is obligatory anyway.

I contend that 68 of Americans oppose reparation.
Moore 6/2 Peter (Assistant Editor at YouGov) “OVERWHELMING OPPOSITION TO REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY AND JIM CROW” YouGov June 2nd 2014 https://today.yougov.com/news/2014/06/02/reparations/
Racial divisions become... of the Holocaust.

Tournament: NSD | Round: 1 | Opponent: Evan O Donell | Judge: Marshal Thompson

1. Aff must specify plan text in the AC.
   2. Aff cannot run conditional CP's.
   3. Aff cannot run dispositional CP's.
   4. Aff can't be effects topical.
   5. Reparations must be monetary.