Tournament: VBI | Round: 6 | Opponent: Mustafa Naguib | Judge: Chris Bentley
V: morality

Freedom makes us human.

Banach: Nothing outside of … wills of others.” 6
S: protecting freedom. 

Morality presumes freedom as the starting point for all moral theories since in order to abide by moral rules one must have the capacity to follow them. If persons were not truly free, then morality would become meaningless since nobody could be subject to moral rules.

Second, liberty is a prerequisite to theorizing about morality, since it is what allows us to make our own decisions about what is morally valuable instead of having those values imposed externally. Since we lack definitive grounds for believing any particular moral theory, the only moral rule we can follow with confidence is to maximize our continued ability to engage in unbiased moral reasoning.

C1: ensuring food security is inconsistent with the maximum ideal of societal freedom.
Subpoint A.) Food security comes at the price of increased taxes.
Food Security Portal 13:The nature of … raw commodity (manufacturing). 

Subpoint B.) Taxes violate freedom: Nozick: Taxation of earnings … money) is not? 

By taxing exports to ensure food industry growth, countries which seek to ensure food security are violating the liberty of everyone who works to produce the raw commodity. 

My second contention is that ensuring food security leads to a cycle of enforced slavery.
Ensuring food security results in a cycle of land grabbing, displacing and enslaving the local natives. The Journal of Ethics and International Affairs writes: To prevent the … than industrial agriculture.

Ensuring food security is taking away the liberty of the local populations by forcing them off their land, arbitrarily arresting them, and beating and abusing them them, treating them as subhuman.

Article links and citations:
http://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2013/hunger-food-security-and-the-african-land-grab-full-text/
Nozick, Robert. "ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA." (1974).
http://www.anselm.edu/homepage/dbanach/sartrelecture.htm, , David Banach, head of philosophy at St. Anslemcolledge, explaining Sartre’s philosophy.
Two Treatises on Government: A Translation into Modern English, ISR/Google Books, 2009, p. 76
http://www.foodsecurityportal.org/export-taxation-context-food-crisis