The Ethics of Star Trek: Ethnic Cleansing

Thanks again to User. I would request that judges not award the loss to User simply due to his forfeit; I would ask that he be allowed, as per the debate structure, to posted a rebuttal of my case (not a defense of his case, as that was the round he ceded) in this round. Thank you. At this time, I will be defending my case.First of all, it is important to reiterate that Pro dropped my framework. Extend it. Now, on to my case:PA. The Borg did Not Pose and Imminent Threat to Voyager and her CrewPro concedes that, "the Borg did not posed an immeniant threat to the Voyager." Pro's only attempt then to rebut this contention is to say that the Borg posed an imminent threat to the galaxy, but this is something I will cover later in my speech.PB. Even if the Voyager Crew Responded to an Imminent Thread (something I've already shown to be false), their Response to the Threat was not ProportionalSo, again, Pro implicitly concedes that the supposed threat to the individual ship would not warrant the drastic actions Voyager took in its defense. Pro implicitly concedes this by failing to address it at all. Again, his only argument was that the threat to the Federation justified the scale of Janeway's response.PC. The Borg and the FederationAt this point, since Pro's really dropped a lot already, as long as you buy that the Borg's threat to the Federation wasn't imminent, you can vote Con.Let me, at this point, reemphasize the definition of imminent that I offered--this definition went uncontested: "An imminent danger is one that is about to happen; it is immediate. [1] For instance, if I am swinging a punch at you, that poses an imminent danger. However, if I merely threaten you with violence--even if I have a prior history of violence--that is not imminent, because the violent act (1) isn't literally about to unfold, and (2) may never unfold."Pro says that the Borg attack came "a mere 13 years later." In no sense of the term is 13 years "imminent." Moreover, there was absolutely no way to anticipate, from Voyager's point of view, when the Borg attack would've come. For all they knew, it might have been 100 years down the road, or 1,000. All this goes to show that when Janeway made her decision, she had no solid ground to stand on in declaring that the Borg threat was imminent. It is important to note also that "imminent" and "inevitable" are not the same terms. The Borg threat may have been inevitable, but when Janeway made her call, the Borg threat to the galaxy was not imminent. This goes to the heart of what I meant with my Russia-U.S. example. In the lifespan of any society, it will go to war with probably dozens of other societies; but, even if they could look into the future and know that they would inevitably go to war with a country, say Russia, that doesn't mean that they can preemptively strike more than a decade in advance. By beginning the conflict early, the U.S. would be hurting millions of innocent Russian who were not part of future Russia's war effort, and the U.S. would become the aggressor.Either way, Pro makes a great case that the Borg threat was inevitable, but he doesn't show it was imminent. Imminency is the standard, not inevitability, so Pro has not illustrated that under my framework Janeway was justified. Over to Pro...