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Badiou K 1NC Optional 1NC Alternative 2NC Overview 2NC Link Frontline Post-Structural Ethics Links Victimization Link/Impact Human Rights Link Bio-medical Ethics Link Levinas Link: Mirror Image Post-Structural Ethics Links: Inclusion Cultural Relativist Ethics Link Compassion Fatigue Link Naming Evil Link Simulacrum Link Permutation Frontline Impact: Colonizes Indifference Impact: Nuclear Ambition Impact to Simulacrum Link Alternative: Encourage Subjective Fidelity Alternative Solvency Extension: Ethics of Truth AT: Badiou = Kant AT: Nihilism 2AC Revolution K 2AC Badiou/Statism K 2AC Badiou K of Ethics 2AC Impact to Badiou K 2AC Categories Good Invert DP 2-10 11-12 13-15 16-20 21-24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34-37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44-45 46-47 48 49 50 51

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(A) THE AFFIRMATIVE FAILS TO EXPOSE THE INTERNAL DYNAMICS OF THEIR ETHICAL FRAMEWORK THIS IS BAD BECAUSE IT CONCEALS THE INTRINSICALLY CONSERVATIVE AND DISEMPOWERING NATURE OF DOMINANT ETHICAL IDEOLOGY.

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THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICS OF ALTERITY START FROM AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE EXISTENCE OF AN ACTIVE A-PRIORI EVIL THAT WE MUST DEFEND AGAINST AT ALL COSTS THIS IS NOT STAY THAT EVENTS OF RADICAL EVIL DONT LITTER OUR POLITICAL LANDSCAPE SUCH AS THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE OR THE US IRAQ WAR CAMPAIGN. RATHER, IT IS TO UNDERSTAND THE PROXIMITY OF EVIL TO THE SELF/EGO, OR THE POTENTIAL FOR ANYONE TO BE EVIL. THE BANALITY OF EVIL CONFRONTS US DAILYIMAGES OF FAMINE, POVERTY, GENOCIDE, AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON THE AFFIRMATIVE REPRESENTS THEIR ADVOCACY AS A MEANS TO ESTABLISH A POLITICS OF CONNECTION WITH THE OTHER OR THAT WHICH IS BARE-LIFE TO HELP THE THIRD WORLDER FROM THE INNUMERABLE LIST OF CONFLICTS. THOUGH A SEEMINGLY GOOD IDEA THIS ETHICAL SYSTEM ATTEMPTS TO UNIVERSALIZE ETHICS AS A PURELY DEFENSIVE TACTIC AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 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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(B) COMBINATION OF SOVEREIGNTY AND ETHICS IS DISASTROUS THE AFFIRMATIVES DEMAND IS SYNOMOUS WITH KANTS CONCEPT OF THE CATEOGORICAL IMPERATIVE, THAT WHICH CAN BE WILLED UNIVERSALLY. THE STATE ENFORCES COMPLIANCE WITH THE AFFS IMPERATIVE WITH THE FORCE OF A HAMMER THIS LEGITIMATES VIOLENT MILITARY INTERVENTIONS UNDER THE BANNER 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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C) BADIOUS ARGUMENT DESCRIBES THE VIOLENCE INHERENT TO THE
AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL IDEOLOGY THE VISIBILITY OF SUFFERING ESTABLISHES A DANGEROUS CONNECTION BETWEEN PITY AND SUFFERINGTHIS RESULTS IN AN ETHIC OF VICTIMIZATION INCAPABLE OF VITALIZING LIFE AND POLITICS. BADIOU USES THE EXAMPLE OF THE CHURCH WHICH IS SIMILAR TO THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICS IT IS EASIER TO ESTABLISH CONSENSUS REGARDING WHAT IS EVIL (FORBIDDEN) SO AS TO EXCLUDE IT FROM THE TERRAIN OF DAILY EXISTENCE AND POLITICS THEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUR WHAT SHOULD BE DONE (E.G. PRE-MARITAL SEX)THIS RESULTS IN NIHILISM, THE DISAPPERANCE OF EMANCIPATORY POLITICS, INCREASED ETHNIC CONFLICT AND UNBRIDLED UNIVERSAL COMPETITION THAT OUR FRIEND KHALIZAD SPEAKS OF AS JUSTIFYING HOT AND COLD WARS. BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.9-10)

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D) ETHICS FEEDS OFF EVIL AND THE OTHER THE AFFS ETHICS ARE NIHILIST BECAUSE THEY ARE FOUNDED AGAINST THE ONLY CERTAINTY IN LIFEDEATH. THE CORE OF ETHICS DISCLOSES ITS POWER TO DECIDE WHO DIES AND WHO LIVES. THIS LOGIC ENABLES BIO-POLITICAL CONTROL. BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.34-35)

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E) THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICS MADE THE FINAL SOLUTION NOT ONLY THINKABLE BUT INFINETLY POSSIBLE. THEIR AUTHORS AND ETHICS FAILS TO UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL SEQUENCE OF NAZISM THE CULMINATION OF A MASSIVE ETHICAL SUBJECTIVITY THAT WAS ENABLED VIA THE INCLUSION OF THE CATEGORY JEW MADE THE EXTERMINATION POSSIBLE AND INEVITABLE. BEING-TOGETHER REPRESENTED THROUGH AN UNCONDITIONAL ETHICO-POLITICAL DEMAND. TO-BE ETHICAL FOR THE OTHER PRESUMES A POLITICAL SPACE THAT MUST FIRST DETERMINE THE COLLECTIVE CONCERNED AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT IMPORTANT THIS IS THE PROBLEM THAT BADIOU IDENTIFIES AS ENABLING NAZISM. NO-BODY DESIRED BEING-TOGETHER OF GERMANS MORE THEN HITLER. THE NAZI CATEGORY JEW SERVED TO NAME THE INTERIOR ETHICAL SPACE OF BEING TOGETHER. THE ABILITY TO DEFINE A SUBJECT OF JUDGEMENT (THE AFFIRMATIVES ABILITY TO DETERMINE WHAT ETHICAL ACTION WE MUST TAKE) MAKES EXTERMINATION INEVITABLE. THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL SYSTEM FAILS TO PROVIDE AN ADEQUATE ANSWER TO THE STATEMENT: IF WE ARE ALL RESPONSIBLE FOR ONEANOTHER WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE EXPENDABLE (E.G. TERRORISTS, MILITARY OFFICIALS, RAPISTS AND KILLERS) AND OTHERS NOT? THE DISCOMFORT OF THE QUESTION DISCLOSES THE ENABLING MECHANISM OF EXTERMINATION ETHICAL IDEOLOGY SITUATED AROUND POLITICS OF INFINITE AND RADICAL INCLUSION. IF YOU NEED A TEXT FOR AN ALTERNATIVE HERE IT IS: VOTE NEGATIVE DONT BE COMPLICT WITH THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL SYSTEM THAT MAKES EXTERMINATION 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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THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO RECOGNIZE ETHICS THROUGH BADIOUS CONCEPT OF KEEP-GOING CONTINUE TO BE A SOMEONE AMONG OTHERS WHICH FINDS ITSELF DISPLACED BY THE EVENTAL PROCESS OF A TRUTH. THESE MAXIMS DISCLOSE A ETHIC OF TRUTH AND SINGULARITY THAT ATTEMPTS TO WARD OFF THE UNDERSIDE OF EVIL.
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THE AFFIRMATIVE ATTEMPTS TO SOVLE THE EVIL IN THE WORLD IS INSCRIBED IN A PARTICULAR IDEOLOGY THAT ATTEMPTS TO LOCATE IDENTITY IN A-PRIORI EVIL. THIS IDEOLOGY IS SITUATED IN THE TERRAIN OF LIBERAL HUMANISM AND SEEKS TO ORDER SOCIETY INTO SUBJECTS IN NEED OF HELP AND NEED. WE WILL DESCRIBE THIS AS THE HEROIC PRACTICE, OR A PROCESS THAT SEEKS RESOLVE THROUGH ANY MEANS NECESSARY. THIS ENABLES VIOLENT MILITARY CAMPAIGNS 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 IS A PERVERSE ETHICAL MOVE THAT SEEKS CONSTANT SELF PRESERVATION AND AFFIRMATION IN A WORLD OF TOTAL ALIENATION. THIS RESPONSIBILITY TO THE OTHER EVOLVES INTO A DISCIPLINARY TECHNIQUE OF UNCONDITIONAL OBEDIENCE TO HELP THE OTHER. THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL IDEOLOGY SHAKKLES SUBJECTIVITY TO THE FORCES OF SOVEREIGN POWER AND ENABLES THE CONSTRUCTION OF MORAL CODES AND LAWS. THESE MORAL CODES BECOME THE FILTER FOR GOVERNMENTALITY AND MAKE RESISTANCE WITHIN THE TERRAIN OF ETHICS FUTILE. SYSTEMS OF ETHICS FOUNDED UPON CONSTRUCTING EVIL ARE VALUELESS THEY REVOLVE AROUND TWO POLES. THE FIRST A KANTIAN ETHIC OF CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVES THAT RESTS ON UNDERSTANDING HOW RATIONAL CREATURES SHOULD WILL WHAT THEY DETERMINE TO BE ETHICAL. THIS SYSTEM CREATES A NOBLE ETHICAL SUBJECT THAT IS THE GUIDING LIGHT FOR ALL MORAL CONDUCT. THE AFFIRMATIVE ATTEMPTS TO BE GALADRIEL THE LADY OF LIGHT IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS AS LONG AS WE FOLLOW HER ENLIGHTENED-PATH WE WILL BE SAFE FROM THE DANGERS AND TERROR OF THE WORLD. GW BUSH IS MODERN LADY OF THE LIGHT WE FOLLOW HIS LEAD TO FREE THE WORLD FROM THE HORRORS THAT IMPEDE FREEDOM AND LIFE. THE LIGHT DISCLOSES A SHADOW THAT LURKS IN THE BACKGROUND THE SPECTERS OF UNIVERSAL ETHICS AND EXCEPTION THAT DETERMINE WHEN TO BE ETHICAL AND WHEN NOTTO-BE-ETHICAL. WITHIN THIS SYSTEM OF ETHICS WE OVERLOOK IMPORTANT HISTORICAL APPRORPRIATIONS OF KANTIAN ETHICS. THE RATIONAL CREATURE BECAME A MEANS TO DIVIDE HUMAN LIFE FROM SO-CALLED NON-HUMAN LIFE. SLAVES AND WOMEN WERE NOT RATIONAL CREATURES; HENCE OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES OF ETHICS. ONLY RATIONAL WHITE MEN ARE CAPABLE OF BEING ETHICAL CREATURES ETHICS ONLY APPLY TO THE PLIGHT OF WHITE 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 MEANS INVESTIGATING THAT, WHICH IS UNKNOWN THAT WHICH IS

2NC BADIOU K OVERVIEW

SEEMINLY OUTSIDE OF OUR GRASP. THIS SYSTEM LEGITIMATES CONTROL BY ELITE-THEO-ETHICISTS WHO BECOME GUARDIANS OF SOCIETY. THE AFFIRMATIVE SETS THE BORDER FOR CONDUCTING ETHICAL ACTION. UNIVERSAL CLAIMS OF ETHICS ARE UNIVERSALLY INVALID BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT TO DIFFERENCE THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICS ARE NIHILISTIC (A THREATENING DENIAL OF THOUGHT AS SUCH) AND REDUCE ETHICS TO A JURIDICAL CONCEPT INCAPABLE OF ACCESSING MODERN ATROCITIES. THE AFFIRMATIVE OPENS UP AN INTELLECTUAL JUSTIFICATION FOR THE STATUS QUO UNDER THE VIEL OF ACTING FOR COLLECTIVE GOOD, THIS CONCIEVES BEING AS A FUNDAMENTALLY PASSIVE AND FRAGILE CREATURE INCAPABLE OF TRAVERSING DESPERATE CONDITIONS. THE THIRD WORLDER IS ALWAYS IN NEED OF HELP FROM THE EVILS OF THE WORLD BECAUSE THEY ARE VOID OF THE NECESSARY ETHICAL PLATFORM TO ACT. THE ALTERNATIVE IS TO VOTE NEGATIVE DO NOT BE COMPLICIT WITH A SYSTEM OF ETHICAL IDEOLOGY THAT ENABLES RADICAL VIOLENCE AND MASS WAR. THIS TURNS AND OUTWIEGHS THE AFFIRMATIVE: A) THE AFFIRMATIVES SYSTEM OF ETHICS IS FUNDAMENTAL TO BIOPOLITICAL CONTROL AND ORDER. AT THE CORE OF THE MASTERY INTERNAL TO ETHICS IS ALWAYS THE POWER TO DECIDE WHO DIES AND WHO DOES NOT (BADIOU 35). THIS IS THE STATE OF EXCEPTION THAT ENABLES THE AFFIRMATIVES HARMS THE EVIL TERRORIST IS EXPENDABLE FOR THE PURSUIT OF A UNIVERSAL ETHICS OF RESPONSIBILITY. THIS IS WHERE WE SEE LEVINAS ARGUMENT CRUMBLE IF WE ARE UNCONDITIONALLY BOUND TO THE OTHER WHYARE WE ABLE TO KILL PEOPLE FOR THE BENEFIT OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY WHY IS HE ABLE TO PROCLAIM THAT PALESTINIANS ARE NOT MY NEIGHBOR? THIS IS THE STATE OF EXCEPTION THAT ENABLES ETHICAL IDEOLOGY. B) ETHICAL IDEOLOGY ENABLES GLOBAL ETHNIC CONFLICT, WAR AND LEGITIMATES ANY AND ALL VIOLENCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFENDING THE INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF THE OTHER.

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C) THE CRITIQUE TURNS THE CASE THE ETHICAL SYSTEM THAT THE AFFIRMATIVE UTILZIES ENSURES CONTINUED VIOLENCE AND IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF BARE LIFE.
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2NC LINK FRONTLINE

ETHICS ARE A PIOUS DISCOURSE WITHOUT PIETY ETHICS ARE A SPIRITUAL SUPPLEMENT FOR THE INCOMPETENCY OF LIBERAL-DEMOCRATIC ORDER OUR LACK OF FAITH IN THE POLICIES OF GW BUSH MAKE US SEARCH FOR SOME COLLECTIVE GOOD WITHOUT CAUTION WE LATCH ON TO LEVINAS INFINITE FRIENDSHIP, ETHIC OF DIFFERENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS. LEVINASS ETHICS SEEKS TO AMALGAMATE IDENTITY INTO WESTERN NORMS THIS IS THE FINAL IMPERATIVE OF A CONQUERING/COLONIZING POLITICS. BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.22-25)

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ETHICS ARE A SERVANT OF NECCESSITY, THEY EMBODY THE LOGIC OF CAPITAL. THEY FORM THE BASIS FROM WHICH THE MODERN LIBERAL-DEMOCRATICPARLIMENTARY ORDER ORGANIZES AND SHAKKLES SUBJECTIVITY. THE WILL TO ACTION IS ENDEMIC TO LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ORDER AND DRAGS SUBJECTIVITY INTO A HOLLOW SHELL WAITING TO BE FILLED BY TECHNO-POLITICAL SOUNDBYTES. DONT FALL FOR THE TRAP THE AFFS POISON IN THE WELL. BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.30-32)

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DONT BE FOOLED BY THE AFFIRMATIVES NON-SENSICAL CLAIMS ETHICS OF LIFE MADE THE FINAL SOLUTION NOT ONLY THINKABLE BUT INFINITELY POSSIBLE.
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ETHICS CIRCULATE BETWEEN TWO COMPLEMENTARY DESIRES; 1ST) IT SEEKS RECOGNITION OF THE WESTERN METAPHYSICAL ORDER AND 2ND) IT GRANTS LEGITIMACY OVER A VIOLENT MASTERY OF LIFE THAT RISKS UNTOLD CATASTROPHE.
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POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS LINK FL

POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS, FOUNDED THROUGH LEVINAS ETHIC OF INFINITE RESPONSIBILITY, IS A NUVO-RELIGION THAT IS GUIDED VIA AN OBSESSIVE UNCONDITIONAL OBEDIENCE TO THE OTHER MUST INTERROGATE THE DESIRE FOR ABSOLUTE OTHERNESS IN ORDER TO EXPRESS 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 FL

LEVINAS ETHIC OF OTHERNESS REDUCES THE SELF TO OTHER ONCE THE SELF RECOGNIZES ITS RADICAL ALTERITY IT BECOMES INCAPABLE OF SEEING PAST ITS REFLECTION.
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2NC POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS FL

OUR INVESTIGATION IS NECESSARY TO EVACUATE THE FOUNDATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY AND ETHICS FOUNDED THROUGH ETHICS OF ALTERITY. THE AFFIRMATIVES ETHICAL SYSTEM IS BANKRUPT AND THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND WESTERN MORALITY AND LAW.
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VICTIMIZATION LINK/IMPACT
STATUS OF VICTIM EQUATES PEOPLE AS PURE BIOLOGICAL LIFE (BARE LIFE) THIS ENABLES MASS EXTERMINATION.
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HUMAN RIGHTS LINK

ETHICS FOUNDED ON CONCEPTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ARE ENABLED THROUGH 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 LIVE OTHERS 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.

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POST-STRUCTURAL ETHICS LINKS:INCLUSION

ETHICS OF ALTERITY THAT FOCUS ON INCLUSION ARE FOUNDED VIA THE SAME VULGAR SOCIOLOGY THAT ENABLES THE DOMINATION OF SAVAGES BY WESTERN COLONIAL POWERS BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.26-27)

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CULTURAL RELATIVIST ETHICS LINK

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COMPASSION FATIGUE LINK

DEPICTIONS OF BRUTALITY AND SUFFERING ATTEMPT TO CRAFT A CONSENSUAL ETHICS THIS REINSCRIBES THE STATUS QUO ENSURING VIOLENCE. BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.32-33)

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NAMING EVIL LINK

NAMING EVIL IN ORDER TO RECOGNIZE GOOD ENABLES RADICAL EVIL
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SIMULACRUM LINKS
THE AFFIRMATIVES ATTEMPT TO SOLVE TERRORISM AND VIOLENCE IS THE MODUS OPERANDI FOR ETHICS
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2NC PERMUTATION FL
THEY SAY PERMUTATION: GROUP IT A)PLAN AND CRITIQUE ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE THE AFFIRMATIVES CALL FOR A ETHIC OF RADICAL INTERDEPENDENCE (VIA THEIR DERRIDA, SPIVAK, AGAMBEN, LEVINAS, PINFAT OR ANY OTHER POST-STRUCUTRAL ETHICS) FORECLOSES RE-NEGOTIATION OF ETHICS. THE CRITIQUE REJECTS UNIVERSAL CLAIMS OF RESPONSIBILTIY TO THE OTHER, WHICH INCITES VIOLENCE.
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B) LIBERAL HUMANIST FRAMEWORK IS DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSSED TO OUR ARGUMENT SOVEREIGN POWER CONSTRUCTS STATES OF EXCEPTION THAT VALIDATE ETHICS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPANDING THE POWER OF LIBERAL DEMOCRACY THE WAR ON TERROR EXAMPLES IN THE OVERVIEW PROVE THAT THIS IS A EMPTY ETHICAL DOCTRINE. AND, EMUALTING THE ROLE OF POLICY MAKER PLAYS INTO THE HAND OF SOVEREIGN IDEOLOGY --- THIS PROCESS ENSURES TOTAL CONTROL OVER SUBJECTIVITY BY SOVEREIGN POWER. (ONLY READ AGAINST REALLY CONSERVATIVE AFFIRMATIVES!!!)
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D) NO ROOM FOR THE AFFIRMATIVES NIHILISM IN OUR FRAMEWORK THEIR ETHICS PARALYES THOUGHT AS SUCH AND CONSUMES 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 ETHICSP. 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-Jewish
philosopher known especially for his ethics of otherness and Ids influence on certain versions of poststructuralism. Badiou's critique of Levinas in this brief text will probably seem superficial to adherents of the latter's thought. Indeed, it seems that Badiou 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 of ethics. In one of Levinas's most famous formulations, he writes, "To see a face is already to hear `You shall not kill,' and to hear `You shall not kill' is to hear `Social justice'" (Difficult Freedom: Essays on Judaism, trans. Sean Hand [Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990], 8). For Badiou, in contrast, the obsession with human beings' potential for victimization is a form of nihilism, since the "underlying conviction [of this ethics] is that the only thing that can really happen to someone is death" (35). Such a nihilistic perspective will not lead toward "social justice," but rather toward apology for actually existing relations of exploitation and domination.>

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E) WE MUST SEEK OUT A NEW POLITIC OF LIBERATION THE PERMUTATION ENSURES FURTHER VIOLENCE
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IMPACT: COLONIZES DIFFERENCE

WE MUST ABANDON AN ETHIC OF UNIVERSAL ALTERITY OR RADICAL INTER-DEPENDENCE THIS UNIVERALISM COLONIZES DIFFERENCE FOR SAMENESS AND ENABLES RADICAL EVIL.
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BADIOU K IMPACT: NUCLEAR AMBITION

THE DRIVE FOR ETHICS IS THE SAME UNIFYING DRIVE FOR TRUTH THAT ENABLES THE CONSTRUCTION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONARY AND DESTRUCTION BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.58-9).

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IMPACT TO SIMULACRUM LINK

FIDELTY TO SIMULACRUM ENSURES VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.75-76).

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ALT: EN-COURAGE SUBJECTIVE FIDELITY

ETHICS SHOULD DESCRIBE WHAT HELPS TO EN-COURAGE A SUBJECTIVE 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 SINGULAR TRUTHS.
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A2: BADIOU = KANT

ARE YOU KIDDING ME BADIOU REJECTS KANTS UNIVERSAL CATEGORICAL 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 WE RELATE TO WHAT IS GOING ON A MEANS TO REGULATE COMMENTARY ON HISTORICAL SITUATIONS. THIS ETHICS RESULTS IN GENUINE NIHILISM MUST SEEK AN ETHIC OF SINGULARITY.
BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.2-3)

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2NC NIHILISM FL
NO LINK AND TURN ETHICS ARE NIHILISM THEY ARE A SYMPTOM OF A UNIVERSE RULED BY A DISTINCTIVE COMBINATION OF RESIGNATION 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 FULL IDEOLOGICAL CONSTITUTION. THE TERM SIGNIFIES A PARTICULAR POLITICAL DISCOURSE THAT ENABLES VIOLENCE AND IS FOUNDED VIA A SIMULACRUM OF TRUTH.
BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.72-74).

BADIOU CONTINUES _

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2AC REVOLUTION K FL
BADIOU CONTINUES 2/2

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2AC BADIOU/STATISM K FL
PUT YOUR GENERO 1980S STATISM KS UP THE STATE EXISTS AND ALL POLITICAL STRATEGIES MUST REVOLVE AROUND THIS CONSTRUCTION RESISTANCE MUST OCCUR WITHIN THE TERRAIN OF SOVEREIGNTY.
BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.104-105).

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2AC BADIOU K OF ETHICS

TURN: BADIOU DOES NOT SAY THAT RADICAL EVIL DOES NOT EXIST OR THAT WE SHOULD NOT AVOID IT HE RECOGNIZES THE RADICAL EVIL OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM. SIMILARLY, THE AFFIRMATIVE EXPOSES THE RADICAL SACRIFICIAL EVIL OF NEO-LIBERAL ECONOMICS.
BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.77).

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IMPACT 2 BADIOU K
ETHICS RELY UPON THE ABSOLUTIZATION OF THE POWER OF TRUTH THIS ENABLES RADICAL EVIL AND ANHILATION.
BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.85).

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2AC: CATEGORIES GOOD INVERT DP

TURN: CATEGORIES CAN BE RE-DEPLOYED FOR POSITIVE SIGNFICATION THIS IS VITAL TO REVERSING DISCIPLINARY RELATIONS. BADIOU, TEACHES PHILOSOPHY @ ECOLE NORMALE SUPERIEURE PARIS, 2K1 (ALAIN, ETHICS :AN ESSAY ON THE UNDERSTANDING OF EVIL. P.112-113).

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