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1 Kamiak NB Neg

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K Afropessimism / Wilderson

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Theory Normative Ethic Spec

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K Race Discourse

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K Nopper

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2 Valley LB Aff

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Aff Kant

I affirm that plea-bargaining ought to be abolished in the U.S. criminal justice system.

First, there is no a priori morally relevant distinction among persons.

Godofsky:

“Indeed, human beings ... right to survival.”

Godofsky, Jessica. “Future generations and the right to survival: a deontological analysis of the moral obligations of present to future people.” TCNJ Journal of Student Scholarship, vol. XII, April 2010.

analytic

Second, analytic double-bind either A) analytic B) analytic

Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative.

Prefer additionally, the Categorical Imperative unites the abstract with the concrete—this controls the internal link to challenging oppression.

Farr:

"Whereas most criticisms ... its emancipatory potential."

Arnold Farr (prof of phil @ UKentucky, focusing on German idealism, philosophy of race, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, and liberation philosophy). “Can a Philosophy of Race Afford to Abandon the Kantian Categorical Imperative?” JOURNAL of SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 33 No. 1, Spring 2002, 17–32.

Further, impacts to intentions outweigh

A) analytic

B) analytic

C) analytic

D) analytic

E) analytic

I contend that plea bargaining fails to recognize its subjects as ends in themselves.

analytic. analytic. analytic

Someone who acts on maxims that treat others as mere means, however, authorizes punitive treatment by contradicting the categorical imperative. Punishment is rendered moral by the individual’s decision to voluntarily defect from the requirement.

Hill:

“Moral duties are... as mere means.

Hill, Thomas. “Kant on wrongdoing, desert, and punishment.” Law and Philosophy, vol. 18, No. 4, July 1999, pp. 407-441

analytic

Punishments are rendered obligatory because and only because of desert — that is, the agent ratifies the treatment by expressing contradictory maxims underlying decision to treat others as mere means.

McCloskey:

“These criticisms of ... he they deserves.”

McCloskey, H.J. “Utilitarian and retributive punishment.” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 64, no. 3, February 16, 1967, pp. 91-110

analytic

Analytic. In both cases, the purpose of the system is to provide undeserved punishment.

Kipnis:

“Justice in punishment ... of plea bargaining.”

Kipnis, Kenneth. “Plea bargaining: a critic’s rejoinder.” Law andamp; Society Review, Winter 1979. Bracketed for grammatical

clarity

analytic

Rather, it is that those engaging in the bargaining process necessarily do so with the intent to assign punishment not based on desert.

Kipnis 2:

“Bargains are out ... justice system itself.”

Kipnis, Kenneth. “Plea bargaining: a critic’s rejoinder.” Law andamp; Society Review, Winter 1979. Bracketed for grammatical

clarity

Further, analytic

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analytic. analytic. analytic

Aff Psychoanalysis

Psychotic crime doesn’t occur from an inability to integrate the superego. But rather, is the epitome of its expression. The drive to undercover inherent in the superego is psychosis. The jurisprudence inherent to plea bargains reflects the symbolic orders paradoxical thirst and denial of the real.

Bond:

"At this scene ... and original way."

(Henry Bond and foreword by Slavoj Zizek, 2009, “Lacan at the Scene”, The MIT Press) || LB

Conditions of psychosis are dependent on the foreclosure of the fundamental signifier- psychotic subjects finds themselves invested in the superego with no paternal guidance resulting in the other as a formation of subjectivity that manifests in perpetual and infinite otherization.

Recalcati 98:

"Jacques-Alain Miller has formalized ...his fellow manperson."

*bracketed for gendered language

(Massimo Recalcati, January 1st 1998, “The Empty Subject: Un-Triggered Psychoses in the New Forms of the Symptom”, How to Read Lacan Zizek and translated by Jorge Jauregui) http://www.lacan.com/essays/?page_id=393 || LB

Therefore, I affirm that plea-bargaining ought to be abolished in the United States Criminal Justice System as a method of psychotic disruption. I’m willing to specify further on issues of implementation, means of abolition, definitional context, political conditions, or any questions of implementation along these lines to avoid silly T debates. And will grant links to most DAs / CPs and Method Ks but not PICs or Reps / Rhetoric indicts.

The affirmative analysis exposes the paradoxical situation the superego imposes on subjects. This is maintained in the addiction of confession and relieving of guilt inherent to plea bargaining.

Schoenfeld 76:

"To answer this ... in plea bargaining."

(C. G. Schoenfeld, 1976, “A Psychoanalytic Approach to Plea Bargains and Confession”, Journal of Psychiatry and Law, 3(4), pg. 463-473)

Akhtar continues:

"Criminal from a ... its phenomenological elegance."

(Salman Akhtar, 2009, “Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis”, Electronic Books) https://books.google.com/books?id=35HoGo2uF1kCanddq || LB

The reconceptualization of the status quo and our inquiry into its psychic affections allows for us to understand the social production of criminality. Transgression has been simultaneously co-opted through normalization and repressed- social change is reliant on our interrogation.

Zizek:

"The very beginning ... of Tom Ripley."

(Slavoj Zizek, “When Straight Means Weird and Psychosis is Normal”, Lacan.com) http://www.lacan.com/zizripley.html || LB

The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who best provides a methodology of interrogating the superego. Societal consciousness known as the superego, can both maintain and deconstruct the mythology of the law, which upholds particular notions of living and forecloses alternative methods of being. Institutions are structured according to this underlying ideological regime which gives them their perceived authority in the form of rules and obligations. Pathways for change are therefore constructed at a symbolic level – with and between social subjects – and political, normative, and legal influence must be leveraged on the level of this discursive form to result in change.

Zevnik 16:

"The psychoanalytic engagement ... and the institution"

Andreja Zevnik, 2016, Zevnikis a Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include theories of subjectivity, political violence and resistance, aesthetic politics, law and psychoanalysis. She is co-editor of Jacques Lacan Between Psychoanalysis and Politics (Routledge, 2015) and a convener of the Critical Global Politics research cluster at Manchester. “Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics – Rethinking the Ontology of the Political Subject”, pg 24-25

Uniquely key to addressing antiblackness as it relies on the master signifier of whiteness – the sole focus on racism predicated out of phenotypic differences neutralizes antiblackness by precluding the question of how we become raced.

George:

"Lacan described separation ... of all subjects."

(Sheldon George, “From alienation to cynicism: Race and the Lacanian unconscious,”)

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