Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 1 | Opponent: Seven Lake BO | Judge: Stephanie Franklin
Any framework must account for
political life
Habermas
Habermas, Jurgen Former Chair of Philosophy and Sociology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main Institute for Social Research, Permanent Visiting Professor at Northwestern University, "Theodor Heuss Professor" at The New School, New York. The Inclusion of the Other: Studies in Political Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2001. Print. p. 256-257.
The same is...on moral discourse
Tolerance is needed.
Anderson
Anderson, Elizabeth Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies Democracy: Instrumental and Non-Instrumental Value Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. p. 216.
from the standpoint...is tyrannically undemocratic
We need to evaluate through principles that motivate consensus.
Rawls
John Rawls. Philosophy: Harvard (deceased). Political Liberalism (Harvard: 1992) 61.
since many doctrines...are not unreasonable
Voting disrespects freedom
Yarborough
Yarbrough, Michael. “The Ignorance of Compulsory Voting”. March 19, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-yarbrough/the-ignorance-of-compulso_b_1347525.html
the fact of...not to participate
One should be able to not take forced offers
Ripstein
Force and Freedom, Professor of Philosophy at University of Toronto
as an entitlement...about being clumsy