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The Monash Association of Debaters (MAD) Member Training Program 2010 presents:1st PRINCIPLES: RIGHTS & MORALITYby Amit Golder, Best Speaker & Champion at the 2009 Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships and 3rd Best Speaker at the 2009 World University Debating Championships.Discusses the basis of rights and moral frameworks and explores how a deeper understanding of these provides the basis for engaging on a sophisticated level with a wide range of debates.Presented as session 1 in the 1st Principles Series.
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Morality:
What is moral or immoral in a particular situation?
eg: tram-car
What would a utilitarian say?
What would a rights-based (deontological) thinker say?
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Morality:
“But that’s just… wrong!”
• Is that enough to ban something? Why/ why not?
– Is something else going on here?
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Utility:
• How judge best utility?– Offensive music?
• What about my friends and family?
• What about fundamental, inherent, non-derogable human rights?
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Deontology:
• What if respecting rights does not promote the most efficient outcomes?
• Are we all deontological? – Torture?– Independence movements?– Anti-terrorism laws?
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Rights:
• What are rights?
• Where do they come from?– God– Utility– Human– Social Contract
• Why does this matter?
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Rights:
POSITIVE v NEGATIVE rights– Govt leave me alone vs govt give me stuff
What about:– Torture?– Reproductive rights?– Education? Healthcare? Workers rights?
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Rights:
INDIVIDUAL v COMMUNITARIAN rights
• Does the community have rights and interests as distinct from the individuals who comprise it?
• Is it ever fair to limit the freedoms of the individual to benefit the concept of the community?
– Is it effective?
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Rights Limits:
JS Mill’s Harm Principle • Freedom until cause harm• How direct must the causation be?
– Smoking? Drugs? Seatbelts?
• What about communitarian harms?– The ‘ick’ factor again
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Rights Limits:
Consent• State can intervene when you can’t
competently choose– What about the individual means they can’t consent?– What about the activity means they can’t?
• Collective action problems?
• Is this a situation of positive intervention to protect rights?
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Rights Limits:
When rights clash:• This happens often – examples?
• Who wins?– The Rightiest Right?– The one with most utility?
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Death Penalty:
Aff:• If you break the law and kill people, lose rights.• Deterrent effect (utility)• Community safety + security (utility)Neg:• Rights to life for all• Wrongfully convicted (utility/rights)• Disproportionately effects certain people
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