Badiou-a k on evil

GDI Scholars 2K4 BADIOU K

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Badiou K1NC 2-10Optional 1NC Alternative 11-122NC Overview 13-152NC Link Frontline 16-20Post-Structural Ethics Links 21-24Victimization Link/Impact 25Human Rights Link 26Bio-medical Ethics Link 27Levinas Link: Mirror Image 28Post-Structural Ethics Links: Inclusion 29Cultural Relativist Ethics Link 30Compassion Fatigue Link 31Naming Evil Link 32Simulacrum Link 33Permutation Frontline 34-37Impact: Colonizes Indifference 38Impact: Nuclear Ambition 39Impact to Simulacrum Link 40Alternative: Encourage Subjective Fidelity 41Alternative Solvency Extension: Ethics ofTruth

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AT: Badiou = Kant 43AT: Nihilism 44-452AC Revolution K 46-472AC Badiou/Statism K 482AC Badiou K of Ethics 492AC Impact to Badiou K 502AC Categories Good Invert DP 51


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1NC BADIOU KRITIK(A) THE AFFIRMATIVE FAILS TO EXPOSE THE INTERNAL DYNAMICS OF THEIRETHICAL FRAMEWORK – THIS IS BAD BECAUSE IT CONCEALS THE INTRINSICALLYCONSERVATIVE AND DISEMPOWERING NATURE OF DOMINANT ETHICAL IDEOLOGY.


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THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICS OF ALTERITY START FROM AN UNDERSTANDING OF THEEXISTENCE OF AN ACTIVE A-PRIORI EVIL THAT WE MUST DEFEND AGAINST AT ALLCOSTS – THIS IS NOT STAY THAT EVENTS OF RADICAL EVIL DON’T LITTER OURPOLITICAL LANDSCAPE SUCH AS THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE OR THE US IRAQ WARCAMPAIGN. RATHER, IT IS TO UNDERSTAND THE PROXIMITY OF EVIL TO THESELF/EGO, OR THE POTENTIAL FOR ANYONE TO BE EVIL. THE BANALITY OF EVILCONFRONTS US DAILY—IMAGES OF FAMINE, POVERTY, GENOCIDE, AND THE LISTGOES ON AND ON – THE AFFIRMATIVE REPRESENTS THEIR ADVOCACY AS A MEANSTO ESTABLISH A POLITICS OF CONNECTION WITH THE ‘OTHER’ OR THAT WHICH IS‘BARE-LIFE – TO HELP THE ‘THIRD WORLDER’ FROM THE INNUMERABLE LIST OFCONFLICTS. THOUGH A SEEMINGLY GOOD IDEA THIS ETHICAL SYSTEM ATTEMPTSTO UNIVERSALIZE ETHICS AS A PURELY DEFENSIVE TACTIC – AND IS RESPONSIBLEFOR THE CURRENT ORDER OF SOVEREIGN POLITICS.

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1 (PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XI-XII)


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1NC BADIOU KRITIK(B) COMBINATION OF SOVEREIGNTY AND ETHICS IS DISASTROUS – THEAFFIRMATIVES DEMAND IS SYNOMOUS WITH KANTS CONCEPT OF THECATEOGORICAL IMPERATIVE, “THAT WHICH CAN BE WILLED UNIVERSALLY.” THESTATE ENFORCES COMPLIANCE WITH THE AFFS IMPERATIVE WITH THE FORCE OF AHAMMER – THIS LEGITIMATES VIOLENT MILITARY INTERVENTIONS UNDER THEBANNER OF HUMANITARIANISM.

BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1(ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.8-9)


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1NC BADIOU KRITIK

C) BADIOUS ARGUMENT DESCRIBES THE VIOLENCE INHERENT TO THEAFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL IDEOLOGY – THE VISIBILITY OF SUFFERING ESTABLISHES ADANGEROUS CONNECTION BETWEEN PITY AND SUFFERING—THIS RESULTS IN ANETHIC OF VICTIMIZATION INCAPABLE OF VITALIZING LIFE AND POLITICS. BADIOUUSES THE EXAMPLE OF THE CHURCH WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE AFFIRMATIVESETHICS – IT IS EASIER TO ESTABLISH CONSENSUS REGARDING WHAT IS ‘EVIL’(FORBIDDEN) SO AS TO EXCLUDE IT FROM THE TERRAIN OF DAILY EXISTENCE ANDPOLITICS THEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUR WHAT SHOULD BE DONE (E.G. PRE-MARITALSEX)—THIS RESULTS IN NIHILISM, THE DISAPPERANCE OF EMANCIPATORY POLITICS,INCREASED ETHNIC CONFLICT AND UNBRIDLED UNIVERSAL COMPETITION THATOUR FRIEND ‘KHALIZAD’ SPEAKS OF AS JUSTIFYING ‘HOT AND COLD WARS’.


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D) ETHICS FEEDS OFF EVIL AND THE OTHER – THE AFF’S ETHICS ARE NIHILISTBECAUSE THEY ARE FOUNDED AGAINST THE ONLY CERTAINTY IN LIFE—DEATH. THECORE OF ETHICS DISCLOSES ITS POWER TO DECIDE WHO DIES AND WHO LIVES. THISLOGIC ENABLES BIO-POLITICAL CONTROL.



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1NC BADIOU KRITIKE) THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICS MADE THE FINAL SOLUTION NOT ONLY THINKABLEBUT INFINETLY POSSIBLE. THEIR AUTHORS AND ETHICS FAILS TO UNDERSTAND THEPOLITICAL SEQUENCE OF NAZISM – THE CULMINATION OF A MASSIVE ETHICALSUBJECTIVITY THAT WAS ENABLED VIA THE INCLUSION OF THE CATEGORY ‘JEW’MADE THE EXTERMINATION POSSIBLE AND INEVITABLE. BEING-TOGETHERREPRESENTED THROUGH AN UNCONDITIONAL ETHICO-POLITICAL DEMAND. TO-BEETHICAL FOR THE OTHER PRESUMES A POLITICAL SPACE THAT MUST FIRSTDETERMINE THE COLLECTIVE CONCERNED AND THOSE WHO ARE ‘NOT IMPORTANT’– THIS IS THE PROBLEM THAT BADIOU IDENTIFIES AS ENABLING NAZISM. NO-BODYDESIRED BEING-TOGETHER OF GERMANS MORE THEN HITLER. THE NAZI CATEGORYJEW SERVED TO NAME THE INTERIOR ETHICAL SPACE OF BEING TOGETHER. THEABILITY TO DEFINE A ‘SUBJECT OF JUDGEMENT’ (THE AFFIRMATIVES ABILITY TODETERMINE WHAT ETHICAL ACTION WE MUST TAKE) MAKES EXTERMINATIONINEVITABLE. THE AFFIRMATIVE’S ETHICAL SYSTEM FAILS TO PROVIDE ANADEQUATE ANSWER TO THE STATEMENT: IF WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR ONE-ANOTHER – WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE EXPENDABLE (E.G. TERRORISTS, MILITARYOFFICIALS, RAPISTS AND KILLERS) AND OTHERS NOT? THE DISCOMFORT OF THEQUESTION DISCLOSES THE ENABLING MECHANISM OF EXTERMINATION – ETHICALIDEOLOGY SITUATED AROUND POLITICS OF INFINITE AND RADICAL INCLUSION.

IF YOU NEED A TEXT FOR AN ALTERNATIVE HERE IT IS: VOTE NEGATIVE DON’T BECOMPLICT WITH THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL SYSTEM THAT MAKESEXTERMINATION INFINITELY POSSIBLE.

BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1(ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.62-65).

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1NC BADIOU KRITIKBADIOU CONCLUDES…4/4


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1NC ALTERNATIVE (IF DESIRED)

THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO RECOGNIZE ETHICS THROUGH BADIOU’SCONCEPT OF ‘KEEP-GOING’ – CONTINUE TO BE A ‘SOMEONE’ AMONGOTHERS WHICH FINDS ITSELF DISPLACED BY THE EVENTAL PROCESSOF A TRUTH. THESE MAXIMS DISCLOSE A ETHIC OF TRUTH ANDSINGULARITY THAT ATTEMPTS TO WARD OFF THE UNDERSIDE OFEVIL.




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2NC BADIOU K OVERVIEW

THE AFFIRMATIVE ATTEMPTS TO SOVLE THE ‘EVIL’ IN THE WORLD ISINSCRIBED IN A PARTICULAR IDEOLOGY THAT ATTEMPTS TO LOCATEIDENTITY IN A-PRIORI ‘EVIL’. THIS IDEOLOGY IS SITUATED IN THETERRAIN OF LIBERAL HUMANISM AND SEEKS TO ORDER SOCIETYINTO SUBJECTS IN NEED OF ‘HELP’ AND ‘NEED’. WE WILL DESCRIBETHIS AS THE HEROIC PRACTICE, OR A PROCESS THAT SEEKS RESOLVETHROUGH ANY MEANS NECESSARY. THIS ENABLES VIOLENT MILITARYCAMPAIGNS AND GLOBAL GENOCIDE IN THE NAME OF SAVING THE‘IRAQI OTHER’ FROM THE ‘EVIL’ OF WMD AND GLOBAL TERRORISM.THE AFFIRMATIVES OBSESSIVE COMPULSION TO HELP THE ‘OTHER’ ISA PERVERSE ETHICAL MOVE THAT SEEKS CONSTANT SELFPRESERVATION AND AFFIRMATION IN A WORLD OF TOTALALIENATION. THIS RESPONSIBILITY TO THE OTHER EVOLVES INTO ADISCIPLINARY TECHNIQUE OF UNCONDITIONAL OBEDIENCE TO HELPTHE ‘OTHER’. THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL IDEOLOGY SHAKKLESSUBJECTIVITY TO THE FORCES OF SOVEREIGN POWER AND ENABLESTHE CONSTRUCTION OF MORAL CODES AND LAWS. THESE MORALCODES BECOME THE FILTER FOR GOVERNMENTALITY AND MAKERESISTANCE WITHIN THE TERRAIN OF ETHICS FUTILE. SYSTEMS OFETHICS FOUNDED UPON CONSTRUCTING EVIL ARE VALUELESS – THEYREVOLVE AROUND TWO POLES. THE FIRST – A KANTIAN ETHIC OFCATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES THAT RESTS ON UNDERSTANDING HOW‘RATIONAL’ CREATURES SHOULD WILL WHAT THEY DETERMINE TO BE‘ETHICAL’. THIS SYSTEM CREATES A NOBLE ETHICAL SUBJECT THATIS THE GUIDING LIGHT FOR ALL MORAL CONDUCT. THE AFFIRMATIVEATTEMPTS TO BE GALADRIEL – THE LADY OF LIGHT IN THE LORD OFTHE RINGS – AS LONG AS WE FOLLOW HER ENLIGHTENED-PATH WEWILL BE SAFE FROM THE DANGERS AND TERROR OF THE WORLD. GWBUSH IS MODERN ‘LADY OF THE LIGHT’ WE FOLLOW HIS LEAD TOFREE THE WORLD FROM THE HORRORS THAT IMPEDE ‘FREEDOM’ AND‘LIFE’. THE LIGHT DISCLOSES A SHADOW THAT LURKS IN THEBACKGROUND – THE SPECTERS OF UNIVERSAL ETHICS ANDEXCEPTION THAT DETERMINE WHEN TO BE ETHICAL AND WHEN NOT-TO-BE-ETHICAL. WITHIN THIS SYSTEM OF ETHICS WE OVERLOOKIMPORTANT HISTORICAL APPRORPRIATIONS OF KANTIAN ETHICS.THE RATIONAL CREATURE BECAME A MEANS TO DIVIDE ‘HUMAN’LIFE FROM SO-CALLED NON-HUMAN LIFE. SLAVES AND WOMEN WERENOT ‘RATIONAL’ CREATURES; HENCE OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIESOF ETHICS. ONLY RATIONAL WHITE MEN ARE CAPABLE OF BEINGETHICAL CREATURES – ETHICS ONLY APPLY TO THE PLIGHT OFWHITE MEN – NOT BLACKS, MUSLIMS, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, GAYS,JEWS OR GYPSIES. BADIOU SAYS THAT THIS FORECLOSES NECESSARY


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FIDELTY TO THE ‘HOW/WHAT’ OF ETHICS. FIDELTY MEANSINVESTIGATING THAT, WHICH IS UNKNOWN – THAT WHICH IS


SEEMINLY OUTSIDE OF OUR GRASP. THIS SYSTEM LEGITIMATESCONTROL BY ELITE-THEO-ETHICISTS WHO BECOME ‘GUARDIANS’ OFSOCIETY. THE AFFIRMATIVE SETS THE BORDER FOR CONDUCTINGETHICAL ACTION. UNIVERSAL CLAIMS OF ETHICS ARE UNIVERSALLYINVALID BECAUSE THEY ARE ‘DIFFERENT TO DIFFERENCE’ – THEAFFIRMATIVES ETHICS ARE NIHILISTIC (A THREATENING DENIAL OFTHOUGHT AS SUCH) AND REDUCE ETHICS TO A JURIDICAL CONCEPTINCAPABLE OF ACCESSING MODERN ATROCITIES. THE AFFIRMATIVEOPENS UP AN INTELLECTUAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STATUS QUOUNDER THE VIEL OF ACTING FOR COLLECTIVE GOOD, THISCONCIEVES BEING AS A FUNDAMENTALLY PASSIVE AND FRAGILECREATURE INCAPABLE OF TRAVERSING DESPERATE CONDITIONS. THE‘THIRD WORLDER’ IS ALWAYS IN NEED OF HELP FROM THE EVILS OFTHE WORLD BECAUSE THEY ARE VOID OF THE NECESSARY ETHICALPLATFORM TO ACT. THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO VOTE NEGATIVE – DONOT BE COMPLICIT WITH A SYSTEM OF ETHICAL IDEOLOGY THATENABLES RADICAL VIOLENCE AND MASS WAR.

THIS TURNS AND OUTWIEGHS THE AFFIRMATIVE:

A) THE AFFIRMATIVES SYSTEM OF ETHICS IS FUNDAMENTAL TOBIOPOLITICAL CONTROL AND ORDER. “AT THE CORE OF THEMASTERY INTERNAL TO ETHICS IS ALWAYS THE POWER TODECIDE WHO DIES AND WHO DOES NOT” (BADIOU 35). THIS ISTHE STATE OF EXCEPTION THAT ENABLES THE AFFIRMATIVESHARMS – THE ‘EVIL TERRORIST’ IS EXPENDABLE FOR THEPURSUIT OF A UNIVERSAL ETHICS OF RESPONSIBILITY. THIS ISWHERE WE SEE LEVINAS ARGUMENT CRUMBLE – IF WE AREUNCONDITIONALLY BOUND TO THE ‘OTHER’ – WHYARE WEABLE TO KILL PEOPLE FOR THE BENEFIT OF LIBERALDEMOCRACY – WHY IS HE ABLE TO PROCLAIM THAT“PALESTINIANS ARE NOT MY NEIGHBOR?” THIS IS THE STATE OFEXCEPTION THAT ENABLES ETHICAL IDEOLOGY.

B) ETHICAL IDEOLOGY ENABLES GLOBAL ETHNIC CONFLICT, WARAND LEGITIMATES ANY AND ALL VIOLENCE FOR THE PURPOSEOF DEFENDING THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE OTHER.


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C) THE CRITIQUE TURNS THE CASE – THE ETHICAL SYSTEM THATTHE AFFIRMATIVE UTILZIES ENSURES CONTINUED VIOLENCEAND IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF BARELIFE.



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2NC LINK FRONTLINEETHICS ARE A PIOUS DISCOURSE WITHOUT PIETY – ETHICS ARE A SPIRITUALSUPPLEMENT FOR THE INCOMPETENCY OF LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC ORDER – OURLACK OF FAITH IN THE POLICIES OF GW BUSH MAKE US SEARCH FOR ‘SOMECOLLECTIVE GOOD’ – WITHOUT CAUTION WE LATCH ON TO LEVINAS INFINITEFRIENDSHIP, ETHIC OF DIFFERENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS. LEVINAS’S ETHICS SEEKSTO AMALGAMATE IDENTITY INTO WESTERN NORMS – THIS IS THE FINALIMPERATIVE OF A CONQUERING/COLONIZING POLITICS.




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2NC LINK FRONTLINEETHICS ARE A SERVANT OF NECCESSITY, THEY EMBODY THE LOGIC OF CAPITAL.THEY FORM THE BASIS FROM WHICH THE MODERN LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC-PARLIMENTARY ORDER ORGANIZES AND SHAKKLES SUBJECTIVITY. THE WILL TOACTION IS ENDEMIC TO LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ORDER AND DRAGS SUBJECTIVITYINTO A HOLLOW SHELL WAITING TO BE FILLED BY ‘TECHNO-POLITICAL SOUND-BYTES’. DON’T FALL FOR THE TRAP – THE AFF’S POISON IN THE WELL.



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2NC LINK FRONTLINE

DON’T BE FOOLED BY THE AFFIRMATIVES NON-SENSICAL CLAIMS –ETHICS OF LIFE MADE THE FINAL SOLUTION NOT ONLY THINKABLEBUT INFINITELY POSSIBLE.

BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1(ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.36).


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2NC LINK FL

ETHICS CIRCULATE BETWEEN TWO COMPLEMENTARY DESIRES; 1ST) ITSEEKS RECOGNITION OF THE WESTERN METAPHYSICAL ORDER AND2ND) IT GRANTS LEGITIMACY OVER A VIOLENT MASTERY OF LIFE THATRISKS UNTOLD CATASTROPHE.



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POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS LINK FL

POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS, FOUNDED THROUGH LEVINAS ETHIC OFINFINITE RESPONSIBILITY, IS A NUVO-RELIGION THAT IS GUIDED VIA ANOBSESSIVE UNCONDITIONAL OBEDIENCE TO THE OTHER – MUSTINTERROGATE THE DESIRE FOR ABSOLUTE OTHERNESS IN ORDER TOEXPRESS A NEW ETHIC OF TRUTH.

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1 (PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XXII-XXIII)

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POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS LINKS F/L



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POST STRUCTURAL ETHICS FL

LEVINAS ETHIC OF OTHERNESS REDUCES THE SELF TO OTHER – ONCE THESELF RECOGNIZES ITS RADICAL ALTERITY IT BECOMES INCAPABLE OFSEEING PAST IT’S REFLECTION.

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1 (PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XXIV-XXV)


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2NC POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS FL

OUR INVESTIGATION IS NECESSARY TO EVACUATE THE FOUNDATIONS OFCONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS FOUNDED THROUGH ETHICSOF ALTERITY. THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL SYSTEM IS BANKRUPT ANDTHE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND WESTERN MORALITY AND LAW.

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1 (PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XXXV-XXXVI)


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VICTIMIZATION LINK/IMPACT

STATUS OF ‘VICTIM’ EQUATES PEOPLE AS PURE BIOLOGICAL LIFE (BARELIFE) THIS ENABLES MASS EXTERMINATION.



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HUMAN RIGHTS LINK

ETHICS FOUNDED ON CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ENABLEDTHROUGH A DIVISION BETWEEN LIFE (E.G. BARE LIFE/SOCIAL LIFE).



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BIO-MEDICAL ETHICS LINK

ETHICS OF MEDICINE IS FOUNDED ON EXCEPTION – SOME ARE TO LIVEOTHERS ARE TO DIE – (THIS IS INTERNAL LINK TO GENERAL ETHICS K).



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LEVINAS LINKS: MIRROR IMAGE

LEVINAS SYSTEM OF ETHICS REDUCES THE OTHER TO A MIRROR

IMAGE OF THE SELF – THIS ENABLES A NARCISSITIC SYSTEM OF

ETHICS.

BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1(ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.21)


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POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS LINKS:INCLUSIONETHICS OF ALTERITY THAT FOCUS ON INCLUSION ARE FOUNDED VIA THE SAMEVULGAR SOCIOLOGY THAT ENABLES THE DOMINATION OF ‘SAVAGES’ BY ‘WESTERN’COLONIAL POWERS –



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CULTURAL RELATIVIST ETHICS LINKBADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1(ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.28-29)


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COMPASSION FATIGUE LINKDEPICTIONS OF BRUTALITY AND SUFFERING ATTEMPT TO CRAFT A CONSENSUALETHICS – THIS REINSCRIBES THE STATUS QUO ENSURING VIOLENCE.



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NAMING EVIL LINK

NAMING EVIL IN ORDER TO RECOGNIZE ‘GOOD’ ENABLES ‘RADICALEVIL’



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SIMULACRUM LINKS

THE AFFIRMATIVES ATTEMPT TO SOLVE TERRORISM AND VIOLENCEIS THE MODUS OPERANDI FOR ETHICS



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2NC PERMUTATION FL

THEY SAY PERMUTATION: GROUP IT –

A)PLAN AND CRITIQUE ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE – THEAFFIRMATIVES CALL FOR A ETHIC OF RADICAL INTERDEPENDENCE(VIA THEIR DERRIDA, SPIVAK, AGAMBEN, LEVINAS, PINFAT OR ANYOTHER POST-STRUCUTRAL ETHICS) FORECLOSES RE-NEGOTIATION OFETHICS. THE CRITIQUE REJECTS UNIVERSAL CLAIMS OFRESPONSIBILTIY TO THE ‘OTHER’, WHICH INCITES VIOLENCE.



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B) LIBERAL HUMANIST FRAMEWORK IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSSEDTO OUR ARGUMENT – SOVEREIGN POWER CONSTRUCTS STATES OFEXCEPTION THAT VALIDATE ETHICS FOR THE PURPOSE OFEXPANDING THE POWER OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY – THE WAR ONTERROR EXAMPLES IN THE OVERVIEW PROVE THAT THIS IS A EMPTYETHICAL DOCTRINE.

AND, EMUALTING THE ROLE OF POLICY MAKER PLAYS INTO THEHAND OF SOVEREIGN IDEOLOGY --- THIS PROCESS ENSURES TOTALCONTROL OVER SUBJECTIVITY BY SOVEREIGN POWER. (ONLY READAGAINST REALLY CONSERVATIVE AFFIRMATIVES!!!)



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D) NO ROOM FOR THE AFFIRMATIVES NIHILISM IN OURFRAMEWORK – THEIR ETHICS PARALYES THOUGHT AS SUCH ANDCONSUMES ALL ETHICS IN THE NAME OF ACHIEVING SOME“COLLECTIVE GOOD.” THE RESULT IS FURTHER DOMINATION

ROTHBERG, PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY @ U-ILL –URBANA, 2K1(MICHAEL, CRITICISM (JOURNAL) “REVIEW OF ETHICS…P.http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m2220/4_43/90251854/p1/article.jhtml?term=)<Badiou's primary philosophical adversary in his Ethics is Emmanuel Levinas, the Lithuanian-bom, French-Jewishphilosopher known especially for his ethics of otherness and Ids influence on certain versions of poststructuralism. Badiou'scritique of Levinas in this brief text will probably seem superficial to adherents of the latter's thought. Indeed, it seems thatBadiou is less interested in Levinas as such than in the general influence he has had on political and theoretical discourses:Levinas stands in for the contemporary valorization of otherness, difference, and victimization as the grounds and stakes ofethics. In one of Levinas's most famous formulations, he writes, "To see a face is already to hear `You shall not kill,' and tohear `You shall not kill' is to hear `Social justice'" (Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, trans. Sean Hand [Baltimore: JohnsHopkins University Press, 1990], 8). For Badiou, in contrast, the obsession with human beings' potential for victimization is aform of nihilism, since the "underlying conviction [of this ethics] is that the only thing that can really happen to someone isdeath" (35). Such a nihilistic perspective will not lead toward "social justice," but rather toward apology for actually existingrelations of exploitation and domination.>


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E) WE MUST SEEK OUT A NEW POLITIC OF LIBERATION – THEPERMUTATION ENSURES FURTHER VIOLENCE



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IMPACT: COLONIZES DIFFERENCE

WE MUST ABANDON AN ETHIC OF UNIVERSAL ALTERITY OR RADICALINTER-DEPENDENCE – THIS UNIVERALISM COLONIZES DIFFERENCE FORSAMENESS AND ENABLES RADICAL EVIL.

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1 (PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XXIV-XXVI)


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BADIOU K IMPACT: NUCLEAR AMBITIONTHE DRIVE FOR ETHICS IS THE SAME UNIFYING DRIVE FOR TRUTH THAT ENABLESTHE CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONARY AND DESTRUCTION



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IMPACT TO SIMULACRUM LINKFIDELTY TO SIMULACRUM ENSURES VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED



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ALT: EN-COURAGE SUBJECTIVE FIDELITY

ETHICS SHOULD DESCRIBE WHAT HELPS TO EN-COURAGE ASUBJECTIVE FIDELITY OR TO KEEP GOING!

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1(PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XI-XII)


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ALTERNATIVE SOLVENCY EXT: ETHICS OF TRUTH

THERE CAN BE NO ETHICS IN GENERAL – ONLY AN ETHICS OF SINGULARTRUTHS.

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1 (PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XXXV-XXXVI)


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A2: BADIOU = KANT

ARE YOU KIDDING ME – BADIOU REJECTS KANTS UNIVERSALCATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE

HALLWARD, TRANSLATOR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY KINGS COLLEGE, 2K1 (PETER, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P. XXIV-XXVI)


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2NC NIHILISM FL

THE AFFIRMATIVES RETURN TO ETHICS ATTEMPTS TO GOVERN HOW WERELATE TO ‘WHAT IS GOING ON’ – A MEANS TO REGULATE COMMENTARYON HISTORICAL SITUATIONS. THIS ETHICS RESULTS IN GENUINE NIHILISM– MUST SEEK AN ETHIC OF SINGULARITY.



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2NC NIHILISM FL

NO LINK AND TURN ETHICS ARE NIHILISM – THEY ARE A SYMPTOM OFA UNIVERSE RULED BY A DISTINCTIVE COMBINATION OFRESIGNATION AND A DESTRUCTIVE WILL

BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1(ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.30)


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2AC REVOLUTION K FL

TURN: THE CONCEPT ‘REVOLUTION’ MUST BE GIVEN ITS FULLIDEOLOGICAL CONSTITUTION. THE TERM SIGNIFIES A PARTICULARPOLITICAL DISCOURSE THAT ENABLES VIOLENCE AND IS FOUNDEDVIA A SIMULACRUM OF TRUTH.


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2AC BADIOU/STATISM K FL

PUT YOUR GENERO 1980’S STATISM K’S UP – THE STATE EXISTS ANDALL POLITICAL STRATEGIES MUST REVOLVE AROUND THISCONSTRUCTION – RESISTANCE MUST OCCUR WITHIN THE TERRAIN OFSOVEREIGNTY.



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2AC BADIOU K OF ETHICS

TURN: BADIOU DOES NOT SAY THAT RADICAL EVIL DOES NOT EXISTOR THAT WE SHOULD NOT AVOID IT – HE RECOGNIZES THE RADICALEVIL OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM. SIMILARLY, THE AFFIRMATIVEEXPOSES THE RADICAL SACRIFICIAL EVIL OF NEO-LIBERALECONOMICS.



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IMPACT 2 BADIOU K

ETHICS RELY UPON THE ABSOLUTIZATION OF THE POWER OF TRUTH –THIS ENABLES RADICAL EVIL AND ANHILATION.



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2AC: CATEGORIES GOOD INVERT DPTURN: CATEGORIES CAN BE RE-DEPLOYED FOR POSITIVE SIGNFICATION – THIS ISVITAL TO REVERSING DISCIPLINARY RELATIONS.


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