I will set up my point, and then attack my opponent's.
My Points
1. Civil liberties is so broad that it justifies anything.
A. This is exactly the issue we're seeing in a multitude of nations. China, Thailand, Cambodia, Venezuela, Bangladesh, and Turkey are all arresting political opposition, journalists, and medical professionals who question the official response. (1) This has two issues within it.
I. If no one can question the actions taken by a state, then no one can question if the civil liberties need to be stopped. Whenever the pandemic is over, how are citizens of these nations supposed to question if they can stop quarantining and socially distancing if none of these nations allow people to question the actions of the state.
II. It actually leads to worse health responses. Firstly, nations that silence critics and experts from speaking up can silence their numbers from happening. US intelligence agencies have already discovered China has lied about their numbers, so any argument their doing better is, at best, highly doubtful. (2) Actually, any data on Covid isn't going to be meaningful because so many countries have different standards on how they test, who they test, access to tests, and reliability of tests. (3) Silencing health experts does nothing but make these numbers more muddled and stops us from finding the best way to deal with the pandemic.
B. Some nations, like Hungary, are justifying it to take full authoritarian control. The current Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, has made it where he can rule by decree and imprison anyone who spreads false information can be imprisoned for up to five years. This directly ties into the first point.
C. This is heightening the surveillance state. China is expanding the surveillance state they used to contain all the Uyghur Muslims in reeducation camps, Russia is developing a widespread surveillance system that utilizes facial recognition technology, and Israel is tracking all its citizens through cell phone technology. The worst part about the issue of surveillance is that once the system is created, it doesn't go away after the emergency. We can see that all of the surveillance created through the war on terror is still existent, and probably will never go away, and any power grab to expand on this surveillance needs to be rejected.
2. To take the critical approach of my opponent, I would say my opponent uses threat construction to prop up sovereign power. My opponent says that Covid-19 is a really bad and we need the government to take away our rights to protect it, but has no warranted points about it. All of this construction is utilized to create a system where the state is on an untouchable pedestal, because without it, we become sitting ducks for the disease. I would say the logic that we have to defer to the sovereign power of the state to protect us, especially without warranting it, leads to multiple impacts. I would say that it is necessary for the judge to vote down any team that uses unwarranted threat construction to prop up sovereign power.
A. Without having to create justified issues, the state can otherize any group and make them a threat to grab power. My opponent uses Covid, but has no warrants on how bad it is, has no statistics, and cites countries that shut down free analysis of the issue as our savior. By justifying that whatever a state says is the enemy is the enemy, my opponent justifies colonial and authoritarian genocide and conflict. Nations like China and Russia call political dissidents as threats related to Covid, and lead genocides of either killings or arrests to ensure that all dissent is silenced. This idea is then spread from powerful countries to smaller countries. Nations like Russia and China are going to utilize their geopolitical influence to expand their power to affect nations like Ukraine and North Korea and expand their power into these areas.
B. Because the only real impact that comes out of debate is the education we get, so we should utilize understanding sovereign power and the chains it uses to control us rather than continuing it's chain of threat construction and justification of atrocities. Every second we waste discussing the flawed conception of sovereign power is a second we lose the chance to truly be able to dissect it and see how far the issues go.
3. Counter proposal, instead of focusing on curbing the individuals liberties, the government should incentivize these actions through willingness. The government should offer to pay people to stay home, as well as bailout small businesses. Every business can open however they want, including enforcing masks if they so choose. People can choose to go out in public if they choose, but they wouldn't be forced to work since the state has the option of paying for it. This doesn't trigger any of the issues with civil liberty violations or threat construction rhetoric, as well as, it solves most of the issues with Covid. If workers get paid to stay home, guaranteed, they aren't going to go to work, meaning businesses shut down, meaning it solves Covid without triggering my impacts.
Opponent's points
1. The claim that China is doing better than the US shouldn't be valued in the round based on multiple points.
A. Extend the idea that China is lying about their numbers. We can't trust that their actually handling it better.
B. Extend my previous idea that all statistics about Covid numbers aren't reliable. Testing isn't done in a universal way that makes it fair to compare Covid rates.
C. My opponent is trying to create a false dichotomy between lives and rights. Extend my counter proposal that solves both.
D. Lastly, even if you don't believe the counter proposal solves both, value rights over life. Rights and liberty are key to any value to life. Suicide rates of groups that have lost their autonomy, such as Jewish populations during the Holocaust reaching 25% (4). While this is an extreme example, I've already proven why issues like this lead to grabs at power. Any push towards these conditions should be rejected.
Sources
1. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/03/how-authoritarians-are-exploiting-covid-19-crisis-grab-power2. https://www.businessinsider.com/us-intelligence-found-china-misrepresented-coronavirus-stats-report-2020-43. https://thethaiger.com/coronavirus/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics-reporting-the-stats-of-covid-19
Too bad about the forfeit and concession, Ancap460's Round 1 looked strong to me.
People should not be so dumbed down with food and 5g that i need to say this.Chemical preservatives and pesticides that are in the food are designed to make you stupid.What is happening is obvious.They are taking away your rights you will never get them back
George bush took away human rights after a 911.Trump is taking human rights away because of this coronavirus thing.Shame because i liked trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuP2wvTAj0E
how did palpatine get emergency powers in star wars. To commision the creation of the clone army.What did george bush do after 911.Think
I am voting Pro. Entering a race you are not registered for is against the rules.
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