Some Renovations

Welllll... my family is renovating.
My bathroom.
More like the kid's bathroom, so it stinks kinda.
In the middle of the night, you know, you have to go to the bathroom, so you have to walk all the way downstairs to go to the darn bathroom, because the upstairs bathroom is being ripped up.
I took up a bunch of tile from the floor.
Hard labor.
But, I guess it's for the best.

A little bit of stuff from my language.
Just a sentence.
So, if I wanted to say, "Hello, my name is Austin, and I am a boy." I would say, "HolA_havOl.loshTO.T.óshta_po.koTlol.." Litterally translated as "Hello, I have the name Austin, and I boy."
The verb to boy is used there.
Pretty odd, no?

On a completely unrelated note, here is my new debate case for my debate class.
If you don't get it, comment and I'll try to explain.
Any feedback would be nice.


Austin Milan
2nd Aff case

Moral Obligation to the American People

Good day, my name is Austin Moss and I will be the Aff speaker in this debate round. The Preamble to the Constitution states, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

My value for this debate round will be the Moral Obligation to the American people. Moral Obligation is defined below. The United States has a MO to the American People, this MO being defined in the Preamble.

Some other definitions pertinent to the resolution are as follows,

Webster’s online
Mitigate - To cause to become less harsh or hostile.
External - Situated outside, apart, or beyond; specifically: of or relating to dealings or relationships with foreign countries
Conflict - Competitive or opposing action of incompatibles : antagonistic state or action
Obligation - the action of obligating oneself to a course of action (as by a promise or vow)
Hence, a Moral Obligation would be such that if one broke that obligation, he would be in sin.
Significant - having or likely to have influence or effect of a noticeably or measurably large amount

So, the United States has a Moral Obligation to the American people to make the conflicts which are significant to the US less severe or hostile.

My thesis statement is as such, The United States of America has a Moral Obligation to protect the American people, and the resolution dictates a means to achieving that Moral Obligation.

Contention 1 – The resolution restates and gives a means to achieving the
Moral Obligation of the United States government to protect its people.
The Preamble to the Constitution clearly states the MO of the US to protect its people, and because significant external conflicts are significant to the US and therefore harm the US, not mitigating them in some instances will violate the MO given by the Preamble. This MO sometimes dictates that we mitigate, sometimes not. However, we still always have this MO to mitigate SEC, simply because not doing so will harm us and violate the MO to the American People.

Contention 2 – Just because a MO cannot be fulfilled does not mean it ceases to be a MO.
I will present an example. We as people have a MO to protect life. Someone is going to die somewhere on this earth. We cannot protect this life for some reason, say because the distance in-between us is too great, or we aren’t aware of this person. This by no means says we do not still have a MO to protect that person’s life. A more pertinent example would be our MO as Christians to be Christ-like. In and of ourselves, we cannot do this. We cannot fulfill this MO, but still it exists. Of course, we throw ourselves on Christ to fulfill this MO, but even when we don’t do this and rely on ourselves, we still have the MO.

Contention 3 – My value of MO to the American People dictates that the US takes the path which best protects the American people.
As quoted in the Preamble, the United States has a MO to protect its people. This means taking the best path possible to protect America. Sometimes this comes in the form of MSEC, because SECs are such that they are significant to us and probably harmful to us.

Contention 4 – The Resolution states a Moral Obligation which can be used to fulfill my value of MO to the American People. When MSEC is achieved, we fulfill my value.
By no means do I state that we must always MSEC, for if we did, we would be irresponsible to the American people, therefore violating my value. The United States always has the MO to MSEC, as shown previously, but a MO still exists even when it cannot be fulfilled. When a better means than MSEC arises to fulfill my value, that means is to be preferred over mitigation. We still have the MO, we just cannot fulfill it if we wish to harmonize with my value.

In summary,

The US government has a MO to protect its people. My value of Moral Obligation to the American People dictates that the US takes the path which best protects the American people. Because SECs are significant to the US, and hence probably are harmful to the US, MSEC is sometimes the best way to protect the American people. Sometimes, however, the US better protects its people by not getting involved in mitigation.

This all goes to prove my initial thesis statement of The United States of America has a Moral Obligation to protect the American people, and the resolution dictates a means to achieving that Moral Obligation.

I thank you for your time and now stand ready for cross-examination and points of further clarification from the Negative speaker.