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Skepticism in Ethical Debate

1. The document discusses allowing for a skeptical argument against the resolution as a morally permissible position. 2. It argues that skepticism is important for philosophical debate and education by challenging assumptions, encouraging critical thinking, and forcing affirmatives to prove the legitimacy of their ethical frameworks. 3. Several standards are provided for how skepticism enhances education, including precluding limits on critical thinking skills, establishing debate's educational value, and incentivizing better argumentative habits.

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Skepticism in Ethical Debate

1. The document discusses allowing for a skeptical argument against the resolution as a morally permissible position. 2. It argues that skepticism is important for philosophical debate and education by challenging assumptions, encouraging critical thinking, and forcing affirmatives to prove the legitimacy of their ethical frameworks. 3. Several standards are provided for how skepticism enhances education, including precluding limits on critical thinking skills, establishing debate's educational value, and incentivizing better argumentative habits.

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Skepticism - Good

AT Permissibility Flows Affirmative 1. Even if they win that morally permissible means that there is neither an obligation or a prohibition that still negates. a. The resolution specifies that targeted killing is a morally permissible foreign policy tool. Policies are only permissible if there is a reason to keep them as an option otherwise we would presume they are impermissible in order to avoid wasting the resources and political capital necessary to maintain them. b. The state is contractually obligated to protect its citizens since it derives its power from their submission to state authority. Therefore, all policy options must benefit society for the state to continue upholding its duties to citizens. Thus permissibility negates as it demonstrates no greater reason for targeted killing than for against it. c. If the affirmative burden is to demonstrate that targeted killing is morally permissible as a foreign policy tool so demonstrating that targeted killing is permissible as a general principle is negative ground. The affirmative is otherwise non-topical since they are extending their advocacy beyond the scope of the resolution by accessing advantages to targeted killing as a permissible foreign policy tool AND as a permissible action in all circumstances.

AT - Theory

A. Counter Interpretation The negative may run one skeptical argument that proves the falsity of the resolution as a moral statement B. I meet. C. Standards: Philosophy 1. Skeptical arguments give us access to a mostly untouched portion of philosophy in debate, precluding it limits our ability to learn critical thinking skills because the ULTIMATE form of criticism is question the assumptions that govern everyday life. This is the key internal link into education because critical thinking is what establishes the value of debate as an educational activity, they dont teach this in a classroom so debate is the only channel 2. The onus is on the affirmative to prove the legitimacy of their ethical framework, just as a deontological framework has to withstand the indicts of utilitarianism, all normative theories must be able to prove their legitimacy against skepticismdeny thing them this burden of proof hurts the educational function of debateit teaches debaters that they can cheat their way out of hard situations and disrupts the development of critical thinking. This links to education because it a. incentivizes bad habits and b. destroys critical thinking. 3. All moral theories are designed to avoid the skeptical conclusions of Mackie, so forcing the affirmative to prove their frameworks legitimacy fosters argumentative responsibility and increases philosophical education. This is a key to education because it forces them to run arguments responsibly and maintain their validity. D. Voters Education

Skepticism - Good

E. Skepticism comes before fairness because fairness appeals to a normativity.

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