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- III. Negative Case Positions
| 13NFL1-Compulsory Voting Page 12 of 163 www.victorybriefs.com politicians. Any of these improvements are great tangible benefits for the state and are open to really specific weighing. As for the Rawls case above, I find this position viable for local debate as well as for national debate. III. Negative Case Positions Autonomy/Freedom Many negatives will make note of an obvious fact anything compulsory necessarily restricts freedom. Delving into backfiles will yield innumerable cards that emphasize the role of the state as minimizing restrictions of freedom. As inmost deontological leaning cases, the majority of legwork for such a position would happen at the framework level. This is best accomplished with a highly fleshed out investigation and presentation of ideas that determine the very fundamental roles of government social contract theory. Convincing negatives may not want to take a hardline, right- libertarian get your hands off my freedom stance, but rather emphasize the nuances that make voting an issue that may not be worth the backing of state force. Voting is not a matter of physical safety. Voting doesn’t seem to be zero-sum at the level of rights (it maybe so at the level of representation. This is important, as common responses to social contract frameworks will allege that the social contract is being violated if one citizen harms another and has that citizen has thus forfeited their right to freedom from state intervention. If a negative does a good job convincing the judge that it is the role of the state to prevent undue harm and to provide opportunity, this position can be highly convincing. Biopower Recent memory conjures no topics more inviting for critiques of the aff as unduly increasing the scope of biopolitical control other than the assorted healthcare topics (vaccination, illegal drug abuse, health v. law. The thesis of such a position would be that forcing citizens to cast votes at state-appointed polling places serves to reiterate the mindset that the government should control the way citizens conceptualize their bodies within the political sphere. Negative/Positive Obligations A strategic position for the negative may take the time to delve into the theory of positive and negative obligations in relation to the state. A common definition of the state —of which I am a fan —is the body that possesses a sole monopoly on the legitimate use of force. A negative case |