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I read Kant with the Brahmaputra Dams advantage (thanks Elmer!). I cut a different Kant framework to justify property rights as a political necessity in order to leverage the environmentalism offense better. The TL;DR on that one is that: | I read Kant with the Brahmaputra Dams advantage (thanks Elmer!). I cut a different Kant framework to justify property rights as a political necessity in order to leverage the environmentalism offense better. The TL;DR on that one is that: | ||
# Freedom is important. | # Freedom is important. | ||
# Property rights are necessary for individuals to exercise their freedom | # Property rights are necessary for individuals to exercise their freedom (see the explanation for the SO22 Kant AC for why this is true) | ||
# Property rights can only be guaranteed by the state. | # Property rights can only be guaranteed by the state. | ||
# Thus, a state is necessary. | # Thus, a state is necessary. | ||
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==== September/October ==== | ==== September/October ==== | ||
===== ACs ===== | ===== ACs ===== | ||
The offense was that people who depend on private insurers to guarantee something essential to their life (healthcare) were being coerced, so the government | The offense was that people who depend on private insurers to guarantee something essential to their life (healthcare) were being coerced, so the government---which is obligated to be fair to citizens via the social contract---needs to provide public insurance. Take the example of a man in poverty who is dependent on you to survive. Every week, you give him a stipend of $10,000 to stay alive. While he may seem free since he has plenty of money, it is up to you as to whether you want to withdraw that money -- if you were in a bad mood, for example, you could withdraw your charity for several months and he would starve and die. The reason this is coercion is because since he is fully dependent on you, you can make him do whatever you want (e.g., dance, rob banks, other favors) and he will have to obey or else die. Kant calls this coercion regardless of whether you are currently being generous or not since it still violates freedom (or as I like to articulate it, even the most well-treated prisoner is still a prisoner). | ||
The reason the government has the ability to control how people should own their property is because the government/state determines what property rights are in the first place. When people are born, they are a priori entitled to use property so they can exercise their freedom (for example, if I can't use objects then I am unfree because I limit my own ability to do things such as breathe air, walk on land, etc.) but they are not entitled to a specific piece of land (an a posteriori detail). However, since there are no laws governing how people can use their land and one individual can't decide how land should be divided for everyone (this is what Kant calls a unilateral will, and it is coercion -- imagine what happens if someone disagrees with that individual's interpretation -- there is no one to correct them), the government must be created so that it can enforce property laws to guarantee everyone's freedom. This is why the government is allowed to do things like tax and regulate property, since the government itself determines what constitutes property in the first place. This is also another reason the government has to intervene when its own property laws create a situation of coercion/dependency, since it must enforce property rights so that people are free, but if current laws (e.g., the lack of singlepayer) leave people unfree, it isn't doing its job correctly. | |||
The public option CP gave me headaches trying to answer it -- in my opinion it didn't really affirm since singlepayer is far too specific for Kant. Counterplans are underrated against phil affs! | |||
[[:File:Prospect ST -- SO22 Kant AC.docx|SO22 -- Kant AC]] | [[:File:Prospect ST -- SO22 Kant AC.docx|SO22 -- Kant AC]] | ||