Iowa City West NW

Hi my name's Nate and I debated at Iowa City West for four years. I acquired 9 bids to the TOC in my career (1 sophomore year, 2 junior year, 6 senior year) and made Quarters of the TOC as a junior and Doubles as a senior. I mostly did phil/theory debate. Something I found the wiki and Circuit Debater very useful for coming from a small school was finding different frameworks to read/try out so I'm going to post my phil cases here. If you have any questions feel free to reach out to me at [/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection [email protected]]

Contracts: Contracts says the only moral obligations you have are to do what you agreed to do in contracts with others.

This framework has a meta-ethic, which is a top level observation about how ethics should be formed. I.e. in the contracts framework it is anti-realism (as opposed to moral realism) which says that there are no objective moral facts, or things like "goodness". (Keep in mind the framework also has a card in it about how we can solve this dilemma to "salvage ethics"). This meta-ethic is useful in answering frameworks like Util or Kant that claim "pleasure is intrinsically good" or "ethics begins a priori" because those both presume there are some moral facts that we're able to find, which contracts indicts.

This is the framework itself: File:Contracts Framework .docx

Here are two example cases that use the framework.

Contracts NC: File:JF2023 Contracts NC.docx

Contracts AC: File:ND2022 Contracts AC.docx