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Canada Investment and Innovation Forum
November 14-18, 2016
Osaka, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Japan
Invest in Canada, in partnership with the Embassy of Canada to Japan, brought together business leaders, senior policy makers and key local industry representatives from Osaka, Tokyo and Fukuoka Japan and Canada for informative discussions on Canada's unique investment opportunities in: information and communication technologies (ICT), life sciences, advanced manufacturing, Agri-food and sustainable technologies.
The business outreach program of these invitation-only events reached 169 participants from 120 Japanese companies at the seminars and networking luncheons. The one-on-one meeting sessions resulted in 122 meetings held between Canadian cities' and provinces' economic development organizations and Japanese companies.
Speakers included:
Keynote address by Glen Hodgson, Senior Fellow, Conference Board of Canada.
Peter Brenders, General Manager, Sanofi Genzyme
Peter van der Gracht, Chair, Wavefront
These events proved to be a success as they created awareness and positive messaging around Canada. With a top performing economy, sound banking system, highly skilled workforce, low taxes, and a commitment to free and open trade, evidenced by NAFTA and the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), Canada is an excellent location for investors.


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Choosing A Veterinarian For the Health of Your Dog
If for any reason you ever feel uncomfortable after choosing a veterinarian for the health of your dog, by all means change veternarians. Your uncomfortableness might be because of their manners, their advice appeared wrong, or maybe there really is no real reason. Do what we do... trust your gut feeling once you get all the facts. Your pup counts on you to make all their health decisions.
We found this national veterinarian listing to be of help, however, it may not yet be totally complete. Checking with your Chamber of Commerce is most likely the best place to search for local veternarian listings in your city if you have not been given any recommendations yet.
When it comes down to deciding who your vet will be, it may very well end up being a tried and true experience. To avoid the tried and true method use our checklist below to make this important procedure a little easier for you and your new puppy.
Ask other dog owners for references and recommendations.
Check with the Veterinary Medical Board for filed complaints.
Check to be sure the new vet likes to work with dogs. Some don't.
Watch the interaction between the veternarian and the vet technichians.
Observe the professionalism between employees. Is it friendly?
Check for cleanliness and personnel attentiveness.
Observe how clients are treated.
Get a "feel for their prices". Vet offices vary in their charges.
Inquire if they accept pet health insurance plans in case you have one.
Ask what payment plans can be used if any hardship occurs.
Find out what is available for 24/7 emergency care.
Are there watchful eyes 24/7 in emergency care?
Lastly, trust your instincts. If not comfortable, keep looking!
Dog health procedures are more comfortable for everyone involved when you are comfortable with who you go to for your new puppy's health care needs.
Think of both your dog's and your comfort level when choosing veterinarian care. It is possible to keep future vet costs down, even regular routine visits by considering pet health insurance. One never knows what the future holds for your precious pet, but it is always nice to know you can afford to take care of them when the need arises. When choosing a veterinarian, ask if they accept health insurance.

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The Handmaiden is an intensely erotic South Korean thriller directed by Park Chan-wook. The film is adapted from Welsh writer, Sarah Waters' novel, Fingersmith, with the setting changed from Victorian era Britain to 1930s Korea under Japanese occupation.
The film follows Sook-hee (Kim Tae-ri), a Korean woman who's hired as the handmaiden of young Japanese heiress, Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee) on a secluded estate, but who is secretly complicit in a conman's elaborate plot to steal her employer's inheritance.
The Handmaiden is a complex puzzle, and if you're like me, it will keep you fumbling until the very end. Nothing and no one are what they seem here. Crucial scenes are revisited again and again, each time with a new revelation or shift in perspective that causes you question everything you've surmised so far.
The film's most erotic segments are deeply sensual and admittedly brazen, but purposefully so. Each subtle gesture and laboured breath hints at what's to come next. These shared moments are not used as pure titillation, they're imperative in propelling the characters and their connections.
Beyond the abundance of betrayals and triple-crosses, the unabashed sex scenes, and Park's calculated twists and turns lies the final, delicate sentiment that makes all the prior guesswork in The Handmaiden worthwhile. Just don't watch it with your mom, okay.


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EDAN is managed as a decentralized operation from Nairobi, Kenya under the auspices of the All Africa Conference of Churches(AACC). At the International level, EDAN remains a Programme of the World Council of Churches and is guided by the World Council of Churches constitution and general regulations as are in force from time to time. Operating with the guidance of WCC structures and governing organs, the Programme Executive Secretary works with an International Reference Group that assists in policy direction and envisioning of the work. The programme retains its international operation through Volunteer Coordinators in all the eight Regions of WCC. These Regions are Latin America, North America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia and the Pacific. Each Volunteer Coordinator works closely with the Regional Conference of Churches in their respective regions and their work is to initiate networks that operate at local and regional levels. The networks endeavors to reach out to the churches and to build relations that lead to the achievement of EDAN and WCC objectives.
At the Regional level, EDAN reports to the AACC General Secretary through the established structures and in accordance with the practice and regulations of AACC. The Programme works closely with Peace, Healing and Reconciliation Programme of AACC but also endeavors to have disability concerns integrated in all other programmes at the Conference.
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Romantic Wedding Portraits
Many of my bridal couples make the mistake (I think) of not allowing time for romantic portraits between the wedding service and the reception. I say mistake because the time between the service and reception are the first where the couple can experience each other and their new status without the distraction of friends and family. They can just enjoy each other. And this provides a wonderful opportunity to capture some lovely photographs.
This last Sunday, I took the opportunity to attend a workshop taught by Neil Van Neikirk. His blog (http://neilvn.com/tangents/) has been a source of inspiration and a great teaching source for all things related to wedding photography. This workshop focused on created romantic wedding portraits. As Neil showed us, it is possible to create simple, effective, and moving images quickly. All that is needed is some quiet time with the bridal couple.
As you plan your wedding day, I strongly encourage you to set aside time after the service for romantic portraiture. You should plan for at least an hour. It might not take that long, but any slippage in your day's schedule will end up coming out of this period.
Here are a couple of my favorites from the workshop. I hope you enjoy them. Try to see yourself in these photos. They would make a wonderful addition to your wedding photography.
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I don't care for any of the radio stations so I've subscribed to 3 minicasts to specifically target issues I need to work on.
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When you think of a supercar, certain obvious thoughts come to mind: Speed, luxury, class, a timeless design and, ultimately, the thought that when you have one, you're part of an elite level of individuals who appreciate the finer things life has to offer. Owning an exotic car means you're a part of history.
It's hard to pinpoint which cars are truly the best in this segment and that's part of the reason why it's so amazing to spend time pouring over these works of art. But, there have been exceptional failures when it comes to these pricey, speedy and eye-catching vehicles.
Even the bad boys at Mercedes had their share of fiasco. Just goes to show you, nobody is perfect. For example, Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren was done for.
Why did it ultimately get discontinued? This supercar surpassed its weight target by a mile, making it too large to enjoy a road trip on twisty country roads. Moreover, the designer was not content with the addition of the F1-inspired nose to the superficial body of this car. Any supercar enthusiast can conclude that the outcome of such a collaboration means that Mercedes-Benz and McLaren may never team up for another vehicle. If this was the best they could do together, that's really okay
We scoured the history books and polled some of our friends, experts and noted auto reviewers to bring you the biggest fails of the supercar world. Enjoy!
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Social media is an integral part of a well-rounded marketing campaign. However, strategic analytics and measurement are critical for success in this channel. Gone are the days of merely having a social presence just because your target audience uses social. The reality of today is, most people have a social profile and classify themselves … Read More


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From January 2018, the amount a claimant could receive from an advance payment of Universal Credit will increase from up to 50% of their estimated entitlement to up to 100%. Claimants will be able to receive an advance payment within five days of applying. The period in which the advance is recovered will be increased from six months to 12 months
From February 2018, the government will remove the seven-day waiting period for Universal Credit, so that the claim starts from the date of application. This means that if Universal Credit is paid on time, claimants will wait five weeks for their first payment instead of six weeks.
From 6 April 2018, Support for Mortgage Interest will no longer exist as a benefit for new or existing claimants. Claimants will instead be invited to apply for a loan if they want to continue to be supported. Loans will be repaid upon the sale of a claimant's house; or on a claimant's return to work if the borrower can afford it.
From April 2018 those already on Housing Benefit will continue to receive their award for the first two weeks of their Universal Credit claim. This will be an unrecoverable payment.
The government will also make it easier for claimants to have the housing element of their award paid directly to their landlord
Claimants who live in privately rented properties who have their Housing Benefit paid directly to landlords have this option at the beginning of a claim for Universal Credit. The government will also make it easier for claimants to have their housing element paid direct to their landlords.
The Government expects that Universal Credit will be rolled out to all areas of the country by the end of December 2018 for new Universal Credit claimants. Families with three or more children, however, won't be able to start Universal Credit claims until 1st February 2019 onwards. They will be moving claimants on the existing benefit system over to Universal Credit from July 2019. To follow the progress of the Universal Credit roll-out see our Universal Credit Timetable.
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Carsharing is simple to use, just sign up with a service, reserve a car, pick it up from the designed location and drive away!
Carsharing can be a great supplement to your various travel options. For example, take the commuter rail, the bus or bike to work, then, as needed, rent a car on an hourly basis to drive to your lunch appointment, meeting or even a weekend getaway at the beach. Or, if your family owns one car, use a carsharing service for those occasions when you need a back-up car or truck.
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Guy Barely Avoids Certain Death As His Tractor With Poles Chained Flips
From the driver of the tractor: "Very blessed to walk away without a band aid or any injury other than a little sore in right knee from hitting the back of the truck. The front tires getting off ground was pretty normal that's why I didn't stop until I realized I was too late to push the clutch down. My weight was going backwards so I couldn't put weight on clutch. If you watch the very end, you will see the log chained to tire kept rolling and hit me in back and pushed me towards the back of the truck. Nope, it's not sore or anything on my back. I'm very lucky."Here's the aftermath of the flip: Submitted by: (via Reddit) Share on Facebook


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Now that I am officially married for the large amount of time of ... 2 months and 23 days :) ... I have to say that being married to my man... well it's the most natural thing in the world! of course there are things to work out along the way but I think the fact that he is 41 and I am the young tender age of 38 :) we have really gotten over a lot of crap already and beside the obvious "divorce" baggage and the fact that I have 4 daughters... I only brought a TAD into the marriage hahaha... we are doing really really good! I have to say mostly because of him and who he is! and that is the honest truth! Neither of us FEEL like "newly weds" ... there are no unrealistic expectations! he knew what he was getting himself into and I trusted my instinct, which was huge for me, that this man was a GOOD guy! pretty easy to figure out .. marry a man who has complete confidence in WHO HE IS.. and you have a great man!!
My current advice for anyone out there still looking for Mr Right... find a confident man over anything else! charming gets old...looks fade (although I do find my man extremely handsome!)...adventures get exhausting...humor isn't what it's cracked up to be...financial success can go as easily as it comes, common ground can become uncommon!... confident and stable is where it is at! let me tell you!!
The reason I married this man after only knowing him for a little over 6 months was exactly that.. he is confident and stable! I knew that I knew this man would be good to me every day of my life... and so far I am right and I know it's a forever kind of right!
Now take this man who is living in a house with 4 hormonal women!! not just women but pre-teen and teenage women/girls... yah my thoughts exactly this guys deserves a medal! heck half the time I don't even want to be here :) it's not always easy listening to what I need to listen to... something in me REALLY hates being told what to do! hahaha ok that is the understatement of the year! ....but when he is helping and supporting and BEING present! something I craved and wanted and needed for a long time.. sometimes it's hard.. cuz reality is this - parenting teen and pre-teen girls is NOT easy!! another understatement! while I need his help and his perception, I don't always eagerly listen to it! But I always do appreciate it...underneath the eye rolling and sarcastic comments, I know shocking that I do that.. but I do!! .. I am NOT kidding about being told what to do! I somehow missed out on the growing up part of that!
He is beside me however how difficult a task that might be :) he chose to stand beside me.. to support me and when the crap hits the fan..and trust me it hits the fan A.L.O.T. .. he is there, never angry at me, never mean, never selfish, never wanting, just supporting...actually wanting what is best for these girls and ready to defend me when it's needed..and it's needed (and no they are not rotten...not completely :) haha just hormonal oh.my.gosh.they.are.hormonal.HELP!)
The fact that there was a man out there...willing to stand with me...willing to help parent these girls who crave the consistency he brings and the confidence he carries as naturally as his own skin... they needed him maybe even more than I did! Some days there is more laughter than others but I don't think that is much different then any other family out there! We will have ups and we will have downs...but one thing is for sure! I am confident 100% that this man is here with me for the rest of my life....working it out! and that should hopefully bring hope to you out there still waiting! the right man is worth waiting for!


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The oldest scientific journal in Czechia published since 1895. All contributions are peer-reviewed. Published by the Czech Geographical Society quarterly. Articles are accepted both in Czech and English.
Geografie has been selected for coverage in Thomson Reuters products and customs information services. Beginning with Volume 113 (1) 2008, this publication is beeing indexed and abstracted in the following: Social Science Citation Index ®, Social SciSearch ®, Journal Citation Reports / Social Science Edition ®. In 2011, Geografie recieved Impact Factor 0.787.
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Rebecca and her partner attend an evening party together with four other couples. During the initial mingling, everyone greets and shakes hands with those they hadn't met before.
Later in the evening Rebecca asks all nine other party-goers how many people they shook hands with, and she gets nine different answers.
How many people did Rebecca shake hands with?
Please note that everyone had met their partner prior to the party, and that no one shook hands with themselves.
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"Kuruk, concentrate harder" a sharp voice pierced the air. "Ever since you have found out that you are the Avatar your mind has drifted away from training. I don't want your father to pin me on an ice wall and duel me! You know your father is the best in the tribe."
"Yes master, I am concentrating." Kuruk said dreamily.
"Very well, students you know to is your evaluation. Right?" the instructor said.
"Yes sir" the students replied.
"Gulp! What examination sir!" Kuruk exclaimed.
"Have you forgotten Kuruk?" his instructor said in an annoyed tone. "I told you the dates last week!"
"Anyway sir, I am the best so take the exam on." Kuruk said albeit a bit worried.
"Very well. We'll find out who is the best shortly." his teacher replied amused.
"You!" the instructor said sharply. "Convert 10 gallons of water from the air near you."
"Sir, that's an impossible task!" the boy exclaimed.
"Do it."
Worriedly the boy bended the water around him to get converted into 10 gallons but he could not make even a single one.
"You're suspended!"
Like this he gave all the other students also almost impossible tasks and many got suspended. Finally it came Kuruk's chance. But he was in for a surprise.
"Kuruk, bend a water ball. The size of your palm." his teacher said.
"Eh?" Kuruk said.
"Eh!" the other students said.
""But sir I can make hundred water balls." Kuruk said.
"Yes, my able pupil I know you can do it. But please make one palm-sized water ball now." the instructor said smugly.
"Yes sir. As you wish." Kuruk said.
Had the ball not even be made half that it slipped of and splashed on Kuruk's hands.
"I failed" Kuruk said.
"My dear pupil. It was because your lack of concentration and emotion that caused you to fail. Waterbending is powered by emotion. But your mind has averted too far off duties that currently are founded by simple practices." The instructor said softly. "Anyway after one week there will be another test. Your final test for the year."
"Yes sir" everyone said.
Kuruk trained hard and on the day of the final test he performed amazingly. His instructor and fellow pupils were amazed.
2 weeks later....
"Kuruk a letter has come for you" his mother said.
Kuruk's eyes widened with amazement.
"Mother I have been permitted by the Tribal Chief to go Omashu then the Fire Nation Capital and finally the Eastern Air Temple after which I shall return to the tribe to learn about the spiritual side of the Avatar." Kuruk said happily.
"Well son, pack your belongings and sleep early you have to leave by the first goods ship that goes to Omashu." his mother said.
The next day at the docks Kuruk was seen of by his parents, the chief and many other citizens.
"Don't get into trouble with anyone. You have already done enough here." his father said with a calm tone.
"Take care of yourself and learn quickly and come home." his mother said.
Kuruk boarded the ship and set sail for Omashu. He had never been out of the North Pole and he knew great adventure lies forward.
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Would an Individual Voluntary Arrangement (IVA) Be Good for You?
So, you owe your creditors a certain sum of money and now you are having difficulties in catching up with the payments? With these financial troubles, your enterprise is in danger of bankruptcy and you have a lot to lose. Where do you turn to for aid?
Individual Voluntary Arrangements (IVA)
In a nutshell, IVA is a legal agreement between the payer and the creditor for the former to pay his debts to the latter at an amount which he can afford on a monthly basis within a certain period of time agreed upon. This period lasts usually relatively longer such as in five years. During these years, creditors are prohibited from increasing the payment terms. Upon making the final payment, the rest of the debts is disregarded.
Sounds better than declaring insolvency, right? But can it do you more good than harm? Are you qualified to have an IVA set up for you?
Down here are some fundamentals and essentials about IVAs for you to take a look at before you decide to sign up for one.
The Benefits
Under IVA, you will only have to make practical and realistic monthly payments. The amount will have to be based on what you can actually afford. You have much greater chances of keeping your assets, such as your house and your car, for as long as you are able to maintain the mortgage payments and any other kinds of loan which you owe. Your creditors are not allowed to include these assets in the agreement.
In addition, your creditors cannot make any other legal move against you such as bringing the case to court. They are not even allowed to contact you regarding what you owe them.
IVA may have to stay on your credit file for the next six years but you will not have to endure as many financial and credit restrictions relative to having been bankrupt. Hence, on the face of it, IVA seems better than bankruptcy.
Sounds good so far, right? But are you suitable to enter into IVA? Let us find out next what the risks are.
The Disadvantages
While being allowed for realistic monthly payments is part of the advantages IVA can offer you, these will go on for five years. Depending on how you look at it and how undemanding or burdensome this might be for you, these payment terms under IVA can be considered a disadvantage as much as it can potentially be easy.
IVA is a deal or contract between you and your creditors and it is not built on trust which is not a legal criterion to set up for an IVA. You may be permitted to keep your assets but may also have to be obliged to release a considerable part of your equity. This may happen at the start of the agreement or toward its end.
Should you fail the IVA along the way by not adhering to the terms, it will still be bankruptcy which you will fall off to.
Weigh the factors and circumstances of your current situation and get professional IVA Help & Advice now and find out more about the arrangement. If you ever come to the decision of moving on in an IVA, choose your IVA provider wisely.


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Author Guide #2
The Technical Manuscript
A manuscript is described as "technical" to a greater or lesser extent according to the amount of material it contains that is other than straight prose. Typesetting material in chemistry, engineering, mathematics, physics, or computer science obviously differs from typesetting a book on English literature. Whereas the latter is straight prose, an engineering book contains equations, tables, and special symbols, all of which require precise arrangement on the book page for clarity. The vertical and horizontal spacing of each character in a complex equation must be precise; the position of superscripts and subscripts must be accurate. Consequently, we must have a method of composing this technical material that gives us the necessary control over each piece of type.
The Metric System
Before we begin our survey of the preparation of the technical manuscript, we would like to remind authors who are writing in scientific disciplines of the possibility of international sales. They may wish to use metrics (English units), as well so as to conform to usage elsewhere in the world.
Since metric is a very general term, we recommend that authors adopt the International System of Units (SI) as the accepted metric system and terminology to be used. A basic reference for suggested usage is The International System of Units (SI), July, 1974, National Bureau of Standards, Special Publication 330, available in PDF format from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. See also Cassell's Dictionary of Weights and Measures.
Always consult your editor about the use of metric units in your book before you begin preparation of the manuscript.
The information in this chapter will help you deal with the many editorial problems presented by the technical manuscript. It is equally important that you be knowledgeable about the preparation of artwork and discriminating in the choice of photographs for your book. For this reason we urge you to read the next section, Illustrations, with care.
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I am sure that I was like most everyone else when I heard the tragic news of the 28 Killed in Newton Connecticut…
I wasn't sure what to do or think, but my heart broke and I continue to grieve for the families, the City and our Country. I am stuck looking into my children's beautiful eyes, full of innocence and thinking about the moments prior to the death of these children and how fearful they must have been and how they must have just wanted their mommies and daddies.
It is a confusing time because we all want some assurance that this won't happen again that there will be some sort of safe guards in place. But it seems like this is turning to a soapbox for many to wrestle with and to profess what is the more viable issue. Gun Control or Mental Health Care. Although I think these are really important issues and will address them at a later post, I think they are ancillary issues in a tragedy like this. So if its not Gun Control or Mental Health Care, Why did the little children die? Who is at fault here how can we possibly move past this feeling of helplessness and into believing as though the deaths of these victims will make a difference on how we go forward? Will the deaths of the 28 people change us as a people and as a country or will this just be a tragedy full of sorrow?
As I look at this massacre and think back to others such as The Columbine Shooting, or the Virginia Tech Massacre, I can't help but ask the Million Dollar question…Why not go out and murder as many people as you can in a day. Now before you get mad slow down and realize that this is really the question that we need to answer as a society. understand If we just take away guns people will just find a different way.
So If the answer seems obvious to you, I would urge you to do a couple of things. First ask, Is the answer that is in your head a good one, and what I mean is, is it thought through? Second; How did you get to your answer? Was it spoon fed to or just assumed? Third; Ask yourself is the answer that you are holding on to, just your subjective opinion or is your idea based on an objective concrete truth.
So you may already be starting to see where I am going here. As these tragedies have occurred in our recent past I always find myself in a crowd of people mourning the incidents but when I present this real and important question. Why not go out and murder and destroy the lives of others? their answers come back to me come across as so overly simplistic and elementary that when pressed they can't even convince themselves as they see there arguments falling apart right before their eyes.
Although I don't want seem disrespectful the issue of the safety of our children, the care of the mentally ill and our 2nd Amendment are at stake.
When I have asked people "why not" the usually say things like "well it's just wrong" or "Because its a tragedy", or "think off all the people that you would hurt" and although I don't disagree, I must then ask what makes it wrong? Here is where things get tricky. We are currently in the midst of an existential culture, and our idea of right and wrong are being formed by our experiences, emotions and our own desires… or they are being imposed upon us by a sort of mutually agreed upon cultural norm. The problem is that these ideas are continually shifting based upon our experience and emotions and even the most stringent cultural ideals loose their bite when you think you can dodge the consequence. Do we really believe that there is no consequence for those that take their own life? Lets be honest, we don't want to touch this question because it cuts both ways. We must believe it to sleep at night but we must avoid it or it might just change how we live. But for these Murders they believe that they are side stepping the worst that can happen by taking there own lives; No prison, no ridicule, no punishment, just a flash then they fade away on their own terms.
Of course there are some that are making this a purely a gun issue and there are solid cases that can be made on both sides
As far as dealing with those with mental disturbances, Do we really think that the answer is to teach them that they get to make their own right and wrong… but that they should do what everyone else wants (culture) because it's better that way, that is the nice thing to do (although you have been picked on while growing up).
We have to decide where we will stand on this tragedy. Was it tragic because we didn't like it, because it made up uncomfortable, or was it ultimately and undeniably wrong!!! Have these murders in taking their own lives dodged the consequence of their actions, Or… have they placed themselves before the most righteous and mighty Judge.
So how will we live and where we point the next generation? Will our focus be only in taking away the instruments of danger? Or will it be in teaching coping skills for those that fill isolated and alone? Or will we take people back to an absolute truth and an absolute belief in the one that is the absolute Judge.
All the gun control in the world will save us from someone whose conscience is scorched and the have no fear of consequence.


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Animal Rights Ought to be recognized in society
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Resolved: Animal Rights Ought To Be Recognised In Society
Round 1 is acceptance
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The Burden Of Proof is shared
To accept you must be older than 13
To accept you must also have completed 40 debates
You must have an elo above 3000 otherwise
Animal Rights: the rights of animals to live free from human exploitation and abuse.
Animal: a living organism which feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli. (excluding insects, humans and bacterial life).
Recognised: acknowledged
Society: a community
Contention 1 - Morality
Humans have been given the capability to be moral beings. Animal rights teach us that certain things are wrong as a matter of principle, that there are some things that it is morally wrong to do to animals. Human beings must not do those things, no matter what the cost to humanity of not doing them. Human beings must not do those things, even if they do them in a humane way. For example:
"if animals have a right not to be bred and killed for food then animals must not be bred and killed for food."
It makes no difference if the animals are given 5-star treatment throughout their lives and then killed humanely without any fear or pain - it's just plain wrong in principle, and nothing can make it right.
God is dead. The affirmative's appeal to the good is empty. Their values are groundless---unhinged from a source of ultimate significance, making them infinitely exchangeable. Their secular humanism is a cruel hoax: the thinly veiled attempt to resurrect the decaying corpse of the Christian god simultaneously kills him. Nietzsche:
Freidrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, late 19th Century ("Parable of the Madman." Online)
The affirmative will brush off the death of God as irrelevant. Even without the firm guidelines of Christianity, we still have obvious ethical maxims to hang our hats on. Their thesis will be that morality can infuse action even without proof of a transcendental placeholder from which it is derived. But it is precisely in such a condition, when the telos of the good has vanished and the yearning for it remains, that morality transforms into its cheap opposite---a moralizing vengeance serving only as a hysterial mask for the vertigo of God's vacuum. Brown:
Wendy Brown, Political Theory @ UC Berkeley, 2k1 (Politics Out of History. P 28-29)
The affirmative's moralizing results in an inner-war against the self that outweighs all violence. Nietzsche 2:
Freidrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, 1887 (On the Genealogy of Morals. 2.16)
And, moralism makes solvency impossible---it symptomizes despair over effecting change at significant levels, ensuring the sources of violence remain unarticulated and unaddressed. Brown 2:
Wendy Brown, Political Theory @ UC Berkeley, 2k1 (Politics Out of History. P 35-36)
Thus the alternative text: Vote negative.
Instead of tying your ballot to the affirmative's convictions, use it to prod the latent assumptions of their value system. Critiquing their morality is necessary to craft a new orientation towards life that does not collapse into punitive violence. Brown 3:
Wendy Brown, Political Theory @ UC Berkeley, 2k1 (Politics Out of History. p 95-98)
And, this K is especially effective against my opponent's case because not only is his first contention directly linking to morality, but all three of his contentions impose some attempt to dictate right and wrong courses of action by saying that it's wrong to inflict undue suffering and it's wrong to not treat animals compassionately when we have the higher standing. All of these attempts to discern right from wrong are links into the K.
And, the K negates in a number of ways:
First, it turns the contention level offense of the affirmative case by showing that the morality they claim supports animal rights actually doesn't support what they say it does, and only creates worse symptoms for animals.
Second, it internal link turns the case because the foundations for good and bad that they predicate their case off of are wrong.
I would like to introduce a framwork into this debate so before I begin on my rebuttals I will do that.
I have looked at some of my opponent's previous debates on similar topics and I have noticed that they have used egoism as a framework so I will like to counter this framework by showing how animal rights is necessary for human egoism.
Animal rights is beneficial for human beings. Without proper treatment and care that animal rights promotes animals will ultimately become extinct. The extinction of any species is ultimately damaging to the human race. It would have devestating effects if multiple animals didn't receive animal rights and ended up extinct. Here are some examples to back up this theory:
Termites are detritivores and decomposers, meaning they consume decomposing plant matter and play vital roles in recycling ecosystem energy, as well as in balancing biogeochemical cycles. Unlike other detritivores, the termite gut is unique in that it contains microorganisms that break down cellulose (building blocks for plants), which is indigestible without this symbiotic relationship. Think about it … what would we do without termites to clean up all the decomposing material? We might drown is cellulose-based litter, like autumn leaves and tree branches!
Contamination Control
Frogs act as bio-indicators, which means they indicate the health of their ecosystems. How? Frog skin is very porous and permeable, allowing substances present in the environment to be absorbed within their fatty tissues. Since these amphibians have the ability to live terrestrially and aquatically, they can indicate contamination dilemmas for both habitats. Since frogs will most often be the first animals to react to biological hazards, they are helpful for warning humans to take action.
Cycle of Life
Though not as effective as bats, frogs do help in insect control. They are also a food source to many carnivorous species and are needed for maintaining balanced ecosystems.
Religion is frequently help up as a model of moral behaviour. Many holy books contain rules for how people must live in order to reach Heaven or some similar afterlife. Failure to follow those rules often means eternal banishment and punishment. A person who follows these rules and is "godly" is also presumed to be a moral, upright person, whereas atheists are frequently viewed with suspicion. After all, with no God to tell you how to behave, what's to stop a person from doing whatever they like? A poll conducted by Canadian psychologists even placed atheists as more untrustworthy than rapists in the USA and Canada, showing that atheists are among the least trusted people even in North America.
In reality, there's no evidence that atheists as a group are any more untrustworthy or immoral than any other group. There are dishonest atheists just as there are dishonest Christians and Muslims, and there are atheists who are paragons of good behaviour just like any upstanding religious person.
Religions do seem to incite violence. This does not always imply a direct causal relationship between religion and violence, yet, this is the opposite of what you'd expect if morality really did stem from God.
Religious texts are generally ancient, and they reflect the values of the times when they were written. Over time, our views of what is acceptable shift as our cultures progress, which makes many things found in the Bible or Quran seem outdated and highly problematic.
Consider, for example, the issue of slavery. Although there are some people who still believe that slavery is moral, the vast majority of religious people are unlikely to admit support for the ownership of another person. Nevertheless, the Bible has many references to slavery, carefully detailing the rules for proper slave ownership.
Okay so long story short, my opponent just isn't doing enough work to understand the K and refute the K.
To start with, ignore the massive text at the top about how animals are necessary for humans egoistically. I'm not running egoism. If anything this is just another link into the K because he's saying that we ought to keep these animals alive and not persecute them, which rests on ethical assumptions of ought.
Start on Nietzche 1. Extend it out. God is dead at the hands of humanity. Our attempts to bring Him back to life via appealing to moral standards re-kills Him over and over again. Without God's life, there lacks an authoritative norm behind moral standards to give them reasons to believe them. Without God having the final moral say in what is actually good and what is actually bad, we wouldn't know if Pro's standard is the correct standard to live by.
His only response to this is that it's irrelevant because he doesn't believe in God, but a) your belief is irrelevant to determining whether or not God is dead, and b) your belief isn't relevant to my framework especially since I'm not running some kind of Christian theology.
Then go to Brown 1. Extend it out. The attempt to bring up other theories to base our moral impulses off of in the wake of the death of God creates a moralism that's without morality. Our desire for "good" is still there, yet the telos for the good has disapeered and it creates the exact opposite of morality.
His response to this is to literally concede that he thinks that we can find some source of good without God. This is word for word him conceding the link into the K. This means that affirming leads to the impacts. Don't let him get out of this link since when he said "Correct." in response to Brown 1's tag line he's verbatum conceding to the link.
And, all the massive wall of text below it concern biblical teachings isn't relevant to the K. My argument is that God is dead, so without His existence that no moral code has any kind of objective warrant behind why that is the correct way to live one's life. What the Bible says and what religion has done in the world is literally irrelevant to this point.
Then go to Nietzsche 2. Extend it out. Without God providing us our reasoning for doing things and giving us a source for the demands imposed on us, all of our impulses and desires are without a source and without a reason and become disvalued and disenfranchised. Nietzsche compares it to the evolution of water animals when they were forced to either adapt to land or die off. Our old impulses and desires still impose their demands on us, but we have to find new ways of fulfilling them. We pick something, anything, to work against, to demonize as the enemy and as something to be abolished and destroyed without any hesitation. And once it's defeated and eliminated, we have to find something else to strive against as quickly as possible. Without something to fight against, we tear ourselves apart in the downtime. Moralism is a constant physical and ethical struggle against ourselves and the outside world which encompases literally every individual on the face of the earth, which is going to out-weigh all other impacts.
His only response is that he doesn't understand the argument, but a) I just did, and b) Nietzsche literally walks you through the warrants in the card step by step. If you read the card, it's not that hard to figure out what it's saying.
Then go to Brown 2. Extend it out. Rather than address the root cause of our problems, to find ways to address the problems that we're facing and admit to our weakness and impotence, we prefer to ignore the problem and instead shift the attention away from our weakness and onto something else to fight. We'd much rather think that, despite our human flaws, we're still fighting the moral fight, still "fighting the good fight" than admit that we have no reason for believing what we believe. Within moralism, there isn't actually a way to solve for it. A society of moralism won't ever address the problem of moralism, instead preferring to just moralize harder and shift the attention away from the problem.
And, Brown 2 is especially damning because Pro doesn't make any kind of response to it and drops it entirely. This a) only solidifies the warrant in Brown. Instead of trying to respond to moralism and trying to answer back for how we can fix the problem, Pro doesn't address it at all, instead preferring to talk about certain animals that make our existence possible. Instead of addressing the problem, he continues to act as if he's "fighting the good fight", which makes it impossible for him to solve for the impacts of moralism, and b) means you shouldn't let him make a response to this in the last round because not only did he have the chance to respond to it here and didn't, but letting him make new responses in the last round is unfair to me.
Then go to Brown 3. Extend it out, because this is the most crucial piece and why you're ultimately negating at the end of the day. The way out of moralism is by negating. Instead of tying your vote to whichever belief system the affirmative decides to espouse at the end of the day, use it to criticize and poke holes in the assumptions of his ethics. This is the only way we can craft a new orientiation towards life that doesn't collapse into moralism. We need to critique moralism, not re-use it, and the only way to critique moralism is by negating.
This is the game-over mistake for Pro because he 100% drops this argument. There's no response made by him to address this at all in his last speech. And this is critical to the K since the alternative is the most important part of the K and he didn't put a single response onto it. Don't let him make a response to it in his last round since I won't have a chance to respond to it, plus he had the opportunity to address it and didn't.
And, even if he wants to use the Ten Commandments as an ethical system to try to get out of this, with God being dead even those lack warrant to why we ought to follow them since God's not there to uphold them anymore.
Since my opponent seems hella confused as to what it is I'm arguing, I'm going to give the tl;dr of my case right here. If he still doesn't understand what I'm arguing, that's on him.
Pro is advocating for some kind of moral good in his case. His arguments are that giving animals rights is a moral good and is morally right, which makes the assumption that his moral right is the correct moral right to live by and other moral rights are incorrect. My argument is that the only being with the ability to make something objectively right, since humans are inherently not perfect and flawed and capable of making mistakes, is God. The problem with this is that God is dead and we are the ones who killed him. Without His existence, there's no objective grounds to believe that any ethical system is the correct one. Pro attempts to say that God's death isn't relevant because we can still live good lives and do good things. Brown 1 says that this is exactly the problem - by attempting to try and "live good lives" and "fight the good fight" without some ultimate source of good, our appeals to good are groundless and without warrant, and it creates a form of pseudo-morality, which Nietzsche calls moralism, that becomes the exact opposite of morality. This results in an inner war of the self against their former impulses and the demands that moralism places upon them to act in some way, any way, so long as it's fighting against something. Eventually we just fight ourselves. And, within moralistic systems, trying to fix the problem isn't possible. People still believe that they're doing the right thing, still fighting the good fight, and so become blind to the consequences of moralism. The only way to escape moralism is by negating the resolution and questioning the assumptions of Pro's case.
This means you can extend the two turns out that the K makes on the Pro's case. He questions the warrant for the first but that's literally straight out of Nietzsche 2.
This makes the round relatively simple. The K stands and turns his case in two different places. I'm winning the K debate, which means that you can negate off of the alt of rejecting the affirmative case.
My opponent has chosen to ignore my framework. This is problamatic for them since under this framework animals have rights. Since my opponent has failed to refute the framework it is clear that this will affect their argument significantly.
Niezche 1
You have used God as a base for moral princaples which I clearly refuted by showing that you can be moral without God. I even demonstrated how God can make people immoral in this rebuttal. 'I do not believe in God' was only a very small fraction of the rebuttal that I provided for that.
Brown 1
I did say that God's death was irrelevant because it was. Just because I conceded that God's death was irrelevant that does not mean that I failed to refute the point made. I still argued based on morality and how we can be moral without God so whether or not God is dead, alive or non-existant, this had no relevance to my argument since we can be moral without God.
Nietzche 2
I have explained multiple timesthat we do not need God for morality. Again, my opponent is just stating things. He says:
"Moralism is a constant physical and ethical struggle against ourselves"
Yet, he fails to explain how. Just stating that moralism is a struggle against ourselves is meaningless without evidence. How is inner - struggle worse than terrorism or murder? You have stated that it will outweigh other impacts but again you have failed to provide me any reason as to why I should believe this. Is inner struggle worse than terrorism?
Brown 2
My opponent has gone back to making claims:
A society of moralism won't ever address the problem of moralism, instead preferring to just moralize harder and shift the attention away from the problem.
I do not see any sources to back up this claim. How can you know for certain that ever society of moralism wont address the problem of moralism. That is a huge claim that can only be satisfied by adequate source(s). Since I cannot address Brown 2 in any further detail I will just note that my opponent has tried to show how I misinterpreted it and just made an argument about animals being essential for our survival. However, whilst I have attempted to respond to every point made by my opponent they have completely dropped this argument and just said that it is irrelevant to their point.
Brown 3
When my opponent claims that it is "game-over" for me because I failed to refute this point, they are forgetting that they have missed some very important points made by me. They have failed to refute the points regarding animals being essential for our survival. They have failed to directly resopnd to any of my points in R2 since they have only used quotes and very little of their rebuttals actually came from them.
10 Commandments
God is not necessary for the 10 commandments to be a valid ethical system. Atheists do not believe in the Christian God, yet they choose not to murder and steal most of the time (this is the same for any group of people as stated in my previous round).
Consider what the world would be like if there were no traffic rules at all. Would people be able to travel by automobiles, buses and other vehicles on the roadways if there were no traffic regulations? The answer should be obvious to all rational members of the human species. Without basic rules, no matter how much some would like to avoid them or break them, there would be chaos. The fact that some people break the rules is quite clearly and obviously not sufficient to do away with the rules. The rules are needed for transportation to take place.
Why are moral rules needed? For example, why do humans need rules about keeping promises, telling the truth and private property? This answer should be fairly obvious. Without such rules people would not be able to live amongst other humans. People could not make plans, could not leave their belongings behind them wherever they went. We would not know who to trust and what to expect from others. Civilized, social life would not be possible. Without us being moral towards animals, this treatment will become a basic part of our lifestyle and civilisation will crumble.Conclusion
To conclude this debate, I would like to thank my opponent for participating in this debate with me. This debate showed me a new perspective of why people choose to be against animal rights. This was not the path that I was expecting this debate to go on but nevertheless, this debate was still great fun to participate in.
I believe that I have won this debate for a number of reasons and I would just like to quickly go over those here.
My opponent chose to attempt to refute my arguments using the majority of his R2 arguments for quotes only. Since none of this was actually his content I do feel like I have spent this entire debate arguing with a number of different arguments created by a number of different people. I do not feel like I should lose this debate because I lost to people who weren't even writing this debate. Whilst, I credit my opponent for finding such good quotes and explaining them in detail, I do not feel like it is fair to use them to try and counter all of my arguments. None of these directly responded to my arguments, meaning that a number of them were dropped. Including a very important one regarding the extinction of animals having devestating effects on humans since they are essential for us to survive.
Again, I would like to thank my opponent for participating in this debate and I would also like to thank voters and other debaters for reading this far into the debate.
So two things that (apparently) need to be explained:
First, the K is relevant and applicable to the debate resolution at hand. Three reasons for this:
1. When we say that something "ought" to happen, we say that we are morally bound to take some sort of action. This means that the affirmative must advocate for some way to morally obligate us to respect animal rights. This means the K is relevant because I'm kritiking the ethics necessary for the affirmative to actually affirm the resolution, making the K resolutional.
2. When we say that something "ought" to happen, we assume that there are negative consequences that would result from having not done what we ought to do. For example, I might receive a bad grade on my final if I don't study like I ought to, therefore I ought to study. These notions of positive and negative consequences rest on further assumptions of good and bad i.e. making a poor grade on my final is a bad thing. The only way to distinguish between these good and bad things is through some sort of ethical or philosophical questioning, which is directly what the K is kritiking.
3. The K directly links to the implicit assumptions within the affirmative case about what good and bad is, saying that they make false assumptions that lack any kind of ultimate source or warrant to them. His attempt to try to advocate for the Ten Commandments is a) shifting the goalposts at the last second where I can't respond, which is insanely unfair to me because that was no where in his case, and b) still links because with God's death even the Ten Commandments no longer have the same source of ultimate significance that they had before. God existing would've given us reason to follow them, but now that he's gone there's no reason to necessarily say that they are the source of what we ought to be doing. Moreover, he's not arguing for the Ten Commandments because God said that they are true, rather because as he put it, they teach us some sort of "basic morality", which means that he's still linking to the K even if you buy his Ten Commandments idea.
Because the K is linking directly to the affirmative case, to say that it's not applicable to the debate raises the question of is the affirmative relevant to the debate. If the only reason the K is relevant is because it links to the aff, and the K isn't relevant, that would mean that the case it's linking to wouldn't be relevant either, as it being relevant is the precondition that makes the K relevant. This puts people saying that the K isn't relevant in a double bind, either a) the affirmative isn't relevant and you negate on a risk of offense in solving for the impacts of Nietzsche 2, or b) it is relevant and you negate on the undercoverage of the K.
Second, that quoting others to create the warrants and evidence is a reason to discredit the arguments I'm making. Three reasons this isn't true:
1. This makes warranting any kind of argument impossible. Debate relies on outside sources of information for the construction of arguments. I'm no expert on Pro's life, but I'm fairly certain when I say that neither of us have the credentials and expertise to talk about animal rights and philosophy and how animals impact the ecosystem without relying on the testimony or expertise of someone else. This is true of literally 100% of debate. By saying that this is true, debate becomes a contest of who can throw out the biggest number of bare assertions, stripping it of any kind of value and turning DDO into the comments of Youtube videos of the comments on Facebook posts.
2. If this is true, then neither of our arguments have any kind of warrants to them. He cites outside souces as well, meaning that he's quoting the sources he cites. While he's not being as forthright with his quoting, the fact that we're both relying on outside souces and experts to warrant the things we're talking about means that if we're not allowed to do this anymore, then neither of our arguments have any kind of warrants to them. This means that either a) the debate becomes irresolvable, in which case you reject the idea entirely, or b) you reject the idea anyway and just evaluate the arguments normally.
3. Even if just block quoting other authors is a bad thing, which isn't true, it's not like I'm not making any kind of outside analysis of what I'm talking about. Literally the entire last round was me going through the arguments I make and extending them out and re-explaining them in my own words and then explaining what they mean in terms of the debate in my own words. So even if you don't like me quoting other people in my case, I go in the very next round and re-make the same arguments in my own words and make my own analysis.
With that out of the way, we can continue to the debate proper.
What this debate ultimately comes down to is he gives a lot of reasons why we ought to value animals and why respecting animal rights is the right thing to do and that all of these things will lead to a more morally good society and that all of these choices to respect animal rights are in the moral good.
The K argues that his conception of morality lacks an ultimate source of significance and truth - why is his ethics saying that we should respect animal rights any more valid than my ethics saying that we shouldn't?
His claim is that we can still do good things without God's influence in morality, that we can protect all these animals that are necessary to human survival and we can do all these really good things.
My argument is that what he thinks is morality is actually moralism, a cheap opposite of morality that does the exact opposite of morality. With God dead and gone, with the ultimate source of any kind of moral truth gone from life, the reasons for why things are good and why we feel certain ways is gone. But those feelings still remain, this time without any kind of justification and source of validity (this is all coming out of Brown 1, by the way). This leads us to lash out against something, anything that these impulses tell us is "wrong", which in this case is animals not having rights. We throw ourselves at accomplishing this task, casting aside anyone in our way until it's complete, and then it's onto the next struggle, the next fight. Our lives become a constant cycle of fighting and struggling against something, even to the point where the only thing left to fight against is ourselves (this is Nietzsche 2, since he apparently can't find the warrants for why this impact is significant and the most important impact in the round despite me spending multiple rounds clarifying this). Even as we tear ourselves apart, moralism still has us believing that we're "doing the right thing" and "fighting the good fight", which means that even after we're all long dead and gone, those left will still continue to tear themselves to pieces, mentally and physically, all in the name of moralism (this is from Brown 2).
The only way to escape this cyclical violence is to reject the assumptions made by the affirmative and to critique their modes of thought. This is the only way that we can actually craft a lifestyle that doesn't collapse into the harms of moralism (Brown 3).
The big problem with this is that abosolutely none of this goes addressed at any point in the debate. The entirety of the K, aside from conceding to the link, goes 100% dropped.
This has two implications on the debate:
1. It really doesn't matter at this point that I didn't respond to his arguments about how respecting animal rights is a good thing and that protecting animals that are key to human survival is a good thing. The K is proving that the "good" my opponent is striving for isn't actually something we should be striving for, which functions a priori to his arguments.
2. It turns the arguments of his framework against him. His mentality leads to the destruction of all society as we war against anything and everything in the need to "progress" and "do good", meaning that the good ends he's trying to create within a moral society won't actually happen.
In their last round my opponent spend their entire time re-hashing the same claims of "I don't need god" or "What's the warrant for this?" that I spent all of last round going over. I've walked you through Nietzsche 2 time and time again. The warrants from Brown 2 are literally right in the text and I've explained it with my own words. If my opponent still can't understand my argument, then there's not a whole lot more I can do for that.
To Conclude:
The K goes massively unaddressed. The warrants in the K show that the good ends he's trying to reach by giving animals rights aren't actually good ends. The ends he reaches by trying to appeal to a morality with backing ends up devolving society into moralism. The harms of moralism are infinitely worse than not giving animals rights. The only way to prevent collapsing into moralism is by negating and critiquing the morality he appeals to.
And, don't vote me down for running this K. plz and thanks.
The decision itself is straightforward: it's a clear win for Con on his Kritik. Pro conceded and then supercharged the link to his case, is never responsive to the impacts of the argument, and basically ignores the effects that doing these things has on the debate. I'll see if I can clarify what happened as the debate went on.
The first thing to understand is how a Kritik functions because it's important to understand why Zaradi decided to run this. So, what is a Kritik?
It's a non-unique disadvantage. What that means is that it's something that is not specific to the case in question (i.e. it's something that happens in other instances), but it's something that the case is making worse in some fashion. Usually, it applies to a certain mindset going into the case's construction, like "capitalism is good" (capitalism Kritik) or "impacts that apply to humans are the most important" (anthropacentricism Kritik). They involve quite a bit of theory, and basically attack you for your words rather than for the content of your case. That's why people generally don't like it - it detracts from the debate at hand, turning it into a comparison of theoretical arguments that often have little or nothing to do with the topic at hand, and it usually forces debaters to basically ignore their opening arguments in order to deal with it.
To be clear, I'm not exactly a fan of them. Zaradi's well aware of that because I've voted on several of his debates and, despite having picked him up on most of his Kritiks, I've always expressed a certain level of distaste for them. That annoyance isn't going to make me vote against him, nor, if this was a 7-point debate, would it have been reason for me to slam him on conduct. I do find it problematic that he'd choose to run such a technical argument against a fresh debater to the site on a very debatable issue, but Zaradi embraces his... assholishness, and his argument didn't contain any obvious misconduct. It's noob-sniping, but I don't punish that with points.
So, what is Con's Kritik doing, exactly? Well, it's actually not doing a tremendous amount, but what it is duing is very well warranted and potent.
First, it's explaining why Pro's case isn't producing any objectively positive impacts in this debate. This is basically the argument "morality is subjective" writ large; it's a common response to all manner of moralistic arguments, this one's just much better explained and examined, with Con precluding a number of potential responses. This point alone basically nixes Pro's impacts, since it's challenging the basis for what is a benefit and what is a harm. It's possible to argue that there is some basis for objective goods and bads, even if we presume God is dead. It's also possible to argue that subjective goods and bads should still be upheld. But Pro never really examined those possibilities, instead just asserting that his case was good because it has clear impacts on humans. That's really not enough to counter Con's arguments on this level.
Second, it's examining the negative impact of pursuing subjective moralism. He argues that this places us in constant conflict with the world around us, and that it also forces conflict within ourselves. Pro really doesn't address this, stating time and again that it's not clear (though it appears to be straightforward), and that the impact isn't comparable. I do think some impact analysis is missing and Pro could certainly have argued that "conflict" is a nebulous term leading to uncertain impacts (since not all conflict is bad, but I'll get to that shortly), but it's never really discussed. I think this was the first major missed opportunity for Pro, in several ways. He could have argued that this conflict happens most in the presence of other moral ideals that directly conflict with the life and well-being of other life forms, essentially saying that by denying Pro's case, you're denying an opportunity to reduce this conflict. He could have stated that that very conflict is what makes critiques such as the one Con advocates for as his alternative more likely to happen, since people have a reason to be interested (i.e. they might want to uphold it themselves, or might want to uphold a separate form of morality/moralism). Without that conflict, interest wanes and therefore the alternative is only transient without a case like Pro's. These aren't fully thought out, but they are the starts for something bigger that could have started to tackle this Kritik.
Third, it's explaining that the better alternative is to focus on critiquing the mindset that moralism is an effective substitute for morality. Again, I feel that this portion of the Kritik was vulnerable. Pro could have argued that critiquing moralism produces its own form of conflict, essentially pitting different forms of moralism against one another and causing the same problems Con espouses. If the alternative bites the Kritik, that's a potential reason to ignore it or even turn it against Con, depending on how you use it.
One thing to keep in mind in terms of all responses to Kritiks, you don't need to feel responsible for hitting every single piece. A Kritik is only as strong as it's weakest part " if any piece of it fails, the Kritik falls apart. That's part of the reason that every debater I tell every debater I coach that Kritiks should only be run by someone who's thoroughly capable of understanding all of it's pieces and has a lot of experience crafting them. Technical arguments require technical expertise. If you don't fall into that camp, then your goal is to know how to knock them down first and foremost. Understanding how to do so isn't necessarily all that difficult, but it also takes some practice, in order to know what you're looking for. Debating Zaradi is a learning experience, one that may not be broadly applicable on DDO, but which can come quite in handy if you're planning on doing NPDA, LD, or Policy debate. Take what you can from it.
I did give rules and I purposefully didn't provide a rule against Kritiks. I'm not against Kritiks as I am mentioning for the 10th time (at least). It is DK who is against this specific Kritik.
No, he couldn't. Because unlike him, I'd give rules.
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