LD Lesson 5

Military conscription is unjust. 

1) Value: Justice

2) Explain Value: Because it is a moral duty. 

3) Value criterion: maximization of possible freedoms 

4) Explain Value: compulsory military action is condemned not because military action is bad, but because it is compulsory. 

States ought not to own nuclear weapons 

1) Value: human life

2) Explain value: it will become very dangerous for citizens. 

3) Criterion: reducing conflict

4) Explain criterion: we will have less war. 

In the United States, juveniles charged with violent felonies ought to be treated as adults in the criminal justice system. 

1) Value: justice

2) Value explain: The value for the round is justice. 

3) Criterion: Utilitarianism 

4) Criterion explain: By acting in the best interests of the greatest portion of society, utilitarianism is able to bring justice to more people. 

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Affirmative Value: Morality 

Value explanation: It is important for global stability because if no state or few states value the life of their citizens or political leaders, then a form of war, conventional or nuclear, is guaranteed. 

Affirmative Value Criterion: Morality 

V.C. explanation: the criterion of the Protection of Lives which states that every person is entitled to his own defintion of morality. 

Negative Value: Just War 

- Value explanation:  possessing good intend constitutes the only condition of moral activity. 

Negative Value Criterion: Just War Theory

- V.C. explanation: It is human rights and whether or not they are being violated or upheld.