Adolescents ought to have the right to make autonomous medical choices

Traditional personhood fails — resolutional ontology is centered on an idea of a subject that has always necessarily excluded those that don’t fall into a calculable spectrum. It creates a an autonomous, self-independent decision maker, appealing to some transcendental humanity that exists between people, and confines beings into the narrow category of the political realm through rights. These ideas were created to exclude certain groups from moral calculation as a whole. Rather, we should view existence as something incoherent under traditional models, something completely different. Weheliye[1]: We … need … alternatives to the … conception of personhood … to not lose sight of … what it cannot magically transform into the fantastic form of … ownership. … the focus on inclusion, recognition, and equality based on a narrow legal framework … not only hinders the eradication of violence against … vulnerable populations but actually creates the … possibility for the continued unequal “distribution of life chances.” … demanding recognition and inclusion … will lead only to a … notion of personhood as property that zeroes in … on only one form of subjugation at the expense of others, thus allowing for the continued existence of hierarchal differences between full humans, … and nonhumans. … To make claims for inclusion … removes from view that the law … continues to be one of the chief instruments in creating and maintaining the racializing assemblages in the world of Man. … AND, medical choices beg the question of what a medical choice is. Logically medical choices inevitably apply to the body. BUT, the primary site of totalization i.e. the creation of a subject that I criticize is the body, the flesh. Western philosophy, i.e. fascism, seeks the creation of a unified organic body by which to normalize ideas of identity as a whole. Kriss[2]: sport is fascist bullsh*t. … The fundamental fascist vision is one of a cohesive … society structured around the metaphor of the healthy body. Any politics of the body will by necessity be a politics that acts on the body: the healthy body becomes a regulative ideal, … spectacularisation of the body is always present … but it’s always also accompanied by the idea that health is good in and of itself … Individual health means social health. … The ideology of sport and fitness has its roots in Victorian England … the desperate belief that sports will prevent masturbation … Fitness and beauty are still good, sickness and ugliness are still bad, … We need to find a space beyond these things. Look no further; you’ve found what is capable of creating space - me. Adopt the methodology of becoming vampire. This allows us to exist in a space between boundaries — to not view ideas of the subject as normative, but to see the infinity of factors that create the things that we eventually label as subjects. Subversion of intrinsic properties is necessary to discover the inherent whiteness of an eternal subject because intrinsic properties are illusions created that allow for more exploitation and exclusion. Winnubst[3]: All boundaries are crossed here—human/non-human, organic/inorganic, … and, yes, alive/undead, … a world that echoes the worlds of vampires, “any interesting being, . . … should—be teased open to show the … political, … historical, mythic, … threads that make up its tissues” In teasing open such threads, the structures … of both racism and sexism often surface. … race, which continues to haunt us in its biological appearances … despite all our talk of social construction, may finally begin to appear as the … effect of investments in 19th century concepts of the organic, the ‘natural,’ … Investments by that absent body, the body-in-control, the straight white male body. … we need not continue … The Vampire is antithetical to Western metaphysics, it is mutually exclusive with the idea of a subject, because it has no process of self-recognition, precisely because there is no fundamental self. Vampires are key because their very existence is a threat to the philosophy of the hegemonic west. Vote aff since my vampirism contests the white subject at it’s core — it’s also contagious. The more we bite, the more we turn, and the more of the West we destroy. Winnubst 2: the vampire can never become a legible subject in the straight white male symbolic … western … America. He … can never become a subject … for the vampire does not have the one necessary condition … it has no mirror reflection. This ‘lack’ … is … read as the lack of a soul, … the lack of a mirror reflection troubles the logics of subjection … that we find in the … schema of our cultural psyche. The vampire does not … register on the radar of identity-formation—he … does not have the necessary condition for … becoming a subject. But, … nor can he … be fully abjected, nor can he … be … categorized … as the Other. … The vampire, … is forever haunting because he … is forever beyond the grasps of … subjectivity. The vampire infects his blood, alters his spirit and … exceeds his concepts. And … he … always carries the power to expose them, … and their anxieties—about blood, … boundaries, … Thus my advocacy is that adolescents ought to be able to make the autonomous medical choice to become vampires. Before the topicality rebuttals come pouring out, here’s some clarification. The adolescents here are us, right here in this debate round. My medical choice is a choice relating to the body, the tearing down of my body as something that must be healthy or even unified in favor of the chaotic mass that is the process of me becoming vampire. Becoming vampire is already occurring, because it’s already a part of our existence, everything is — potential to exist is just as real as physical existence. We just need to activate that becoming. The role of the judge should be about what WE CAN DO in round not about what WE CAN MAKE BELIEVE ABOUT in round. I can make the choice RIGHT NOW to become a vampire. I cannot make the choice RIGHT NOW to restrict all adolescent autonomy to what the neg wants to advocate for.This centers the role of the judge in the most realistic and true description of debate as an activity. Our use of fiat is a utopian tool to imagine a better life, which has no impact whatsoever so the judge’s decision is an intellectual endorsement of a position. McGee[4]: judges are only capable of … intellectual endorsement, … neither debaters nor judges are capable of … the adoption of a plan of action, fiat is always a utopian gesture that hints at the creation of a better life. From this point of view, both aff … and neg … are utopian literatures from which the judge must choose. … the … judge is the particular audience addressed by debaters, … the judge is the only living … individual who will choose between the equally utopian possibilities … An aff vote is not only an acknowledgement of my existence and the possibility of vampirism as a whole, but also an invitation into the room — I can’t just walk in, I need a little bit of help, so invite me in so I can spread my poison. I am making my claim to existence. Any rejection is a hopeless appeal to the problematic metaphysics of the West — the intellectual endorsement is of me making my claim to vampirism.ANDBeing is transformative and exists in terms of potential and interaction. The illusion is the subject is created through the idea that, for example, I am Zaradi and Zaradi has brown hair. But in reality, brown hair isn’t something attributed to me; it’s just as much Zaradi as anything else is. Without it, I’d be a fundamentally different kind of Zaradi. Liberation happens when we realize that there is no such thing as a permanent Zaradi, Zaradi is just an affect of many phenomena, including the existence of brown hair. The vampire destabilizes the subject and embodies existence beyond categorization — this is also a key component of what we call knowledge. In order to learn, the only possible method of engagement is one that is beyond stable existence. Each activation of potentiality is new knowledge, like the activation of the vampire. Stable existence can never induce true knowledge production. Thus, the role of the ballot is to activate spaces of possibility — to liberate existence from the West’s false tales of subjectivity. Ramey[5]: The real question is not "What is swimming?" but " Where can I swim? " " When can I swim?" … To learn to swim is to conjugate the distinctive points of our bodies with the singular points of the objective Idea in order to form a problematic field. This conjugation determines … a threshold of consciousness at which our real acts are adjusted to … the real relations, … These syntheses are produced not at the level of … stable objectivities … but with … subperceptual forces … every perception is a new creation, and learning happens when a new mode of existence comes into being. … every mode of life is a form of becoming that actualizes virtual potencies, creating new assemblages of bodies and sense. Learning takes place … through … a projection of activity toward a virtual whole … that is never completely or directly lived, but manifest or ramified over multiple series of iterations Thus the only something that we can actually get out of this round is a form of becoming. Affirming new existence only takes the form of becoming, and I am literally doing that in round, I am becoming vampire. The ballot story is like so: nothing we do here really matters beyond intellectual engagement, so the ballot is of endorsement. I tell you how knowledge is created through Ramey, contextualizing that the endorsement should be one of becoming. Then I become vampire right here — and reasons why the vampire is good, why I destroy the boundaries Weheliye talks about are reasons why I win. Close the windows, if you ate garlic today brush your teeth, dispose of all silver items, and embrace my fangs.Sources:http://bit.ly...