Lincoln Douglas - NSDA Nats 2023 - Government Leaks
It would be an injustice not to publicly disseminate these top secret tips on the 2023 NSDA Nats LD topic on government leaks.
TIME STAMPS
Tip 1: Know NSDA Nats 3:58
Tip 2: Storytelling Over Evidence Stacking 10:33
Tip 3: Moral Obligation Is A High Standard 14:48
Tip 4: AFF Should Narrow The Obligation 19:44
Tip 5: Be Clear on "To Address Injustice" 26:46
Tip 6: AFF Should Emphasize Duty and Complicity 34:47
Tip 7: NEG Needs A Decision Tree 41:33
SOURCES CITED
2019 NSDA Finals: • Nationals 2019 - Lincoln-Douglas Debate Fi...
2010 NSDA Finals: • 2010 NSDA Nationals: Lincoln-Douglas Debat...
2021 NSDA Semis: • LD Round 14 - L203 vs L260 - Room 157
Whitbeck 1995, defining moral obligation: https://web.mit.edu/course/2/2.95j/re...
Hoffman and Schwartz 2014, on leaking being morally supererogatory: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24702828
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Supererogation: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/su...
Delmas, Candice. "The Ethics Of Government Whistleblowing." Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 41, No. 1. January, 2015. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24332319
Michael Davis, Some Paradoxes of Whistleblowing (1996): https://www.jstor.org/stable/27800992...
Eric R. Boot, Obligatory Whistleblowing: Civil Servants and the Complicity-Based Obligation to Disclose Government Wrongdoing (2019), paywalled copy at https://brill.com/view/journals/jmp/1...
Todd Helmus, et al., RAND Corporation, Prevalence of Veteran Support for Extremist Groups and Extremist Beliefs (2023): https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_re...
Department of Defense, Office of Inspector General, Evaluation of Department of Defense Efforts to Address Ideological Extremism Within the Armed Forces (DODIG-2022-095) (May 2022): https://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/ar...
Prof. Mark Fenster, University of Florida, The Elusive Ethics of Leaking (2017): https://www.jstor.org/stable/26395930