The intentional ban on hunting whales shoud be lifted

Thank you for taking this debate seriously and giving a meaningful response, as it seems people who will take this website's debates seriously is in short supply. We should still weigh this round on who speaks for the greater good of all people. We should weigh this round this way because the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I speak for all people including Native Americans. Pro only speaks for native Americans which is a small percent of the population. " this CP cherry picks which parts of the MMPA are good and bad, which makes it impossible for the affirmative to win. If we are going to make this a debate in which both sides have decent ground to argue on you are going to have to reject the CP out right on abuse claims." I am going to argue that the CP is not abusive and the fact that I can use the CP is on you, for you could have easily made the resolution specific to if the Makah should be allowed to whale or not. You could have easily avoided this situation, but did not and that is your fault. Therefore you should be given no lenience on the CP for you put yourself at a disadvantage and all I did was take advantage of it. You wholly concede that the CP would solve for both of our offense and the only argument you have against it is abuse. Whether the CP is abusive or not the judges should still vote for it, because it is better than the plan. Abuse should not be taken into account, because the Pro was allowed to write the resolution. This means he could have shaped it to be about the Makah and not about the MMPA, therefore any disadvantage my CP gives is entirely Pro's fault and responsibility. We should not give him any break or any lenience on abuse for something that is entirely his fault. You defined the resolution as we should repeal and remove the MMPA, and you need to prove that we should do that and that the MMPA is bad itself. I am only going by your definitions. You still have plenty of ground to argue because you can still talk about why the MMPA is bad. "Perm do both" You can not do both because the resolution and the counter plan are competitive and would not work together. " This CP exemplifies the rotten, corrupt legal system that erases history by still attempting to whitewash the Treaty of Neah Bay" This is not true, because the CP is actually helping to restore the agreements with the treaty and does nothing to erase it's history. "The CP marginalizes other native groups by assuming that only the Makah want whaling rights" You only talked about Makah rights, so I did exactly the same. Saying my only talking about Makah rights is wrong is outright hypocritical and should not be taken into consideration. Now onto the Whales DA 1. "especially the grey whale, are naturally resilient" False, as I proved before whales are not resilient and at risk by my Mulvaney 13 evidence, because they reproduce slowly. 2. "Only Natives are really into hunting whales" This is not true. There are many other hunters and people from other countries who hunt whales such as the Japanese. Also If you look at this article here: http://www.livescience.com... you will see that the MMPA has worked in protecting marine life. 3." Grey whales aren't a keystone species that means a domino effect is impossible" As proved by my Zelko 13 evidence whales are critically important to ocean ecosystems. Also whales keep ocean ecosystems running (Zimmer and Ferrer 07). Because of this a domino effect is not every very possible but almost inevitable if whale populations were to collapse. "They say that the MMPA has not caused any genocide and violence and genocide can not occur because we are in a post colonial setting, however the MMPA is used to exclude natives from an economic opportunity, whaling, which causes them to starve and be exploited by other means, not only that but we commit genocides still to this day against native populations and it is the fact that their voice is no heard that we don't recognize this. We literally dump nuclear waste on native reservations which gives the cancer and countless other complications. A slow genocide is the worst genocide." There really is no proof or evidence to any of this actually happening. Considering it is allowing the Makah to whale won't change any of this.