The intentional ban on hunting whales shoud be lifted

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to engage in this debate as I am excited to take part in it. Now let's begin Resolution: The intentional ban on hunting whales should be lifted. As you defined it "I will define intentional as deliberately done, ban as a Marine Mammal Protection Act" So, therefore you have to convince the audience that we should lift the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and I will be arguing that we should keep the Marine Mammal Protection Act. "The weighing mechanism for this round is going to be indigenous culture; the judge should vote for the team that best represents the Natives of America's voice within this round, because it allows for an understanding of whaling practices beyond modern Eco-conservatism." I disagree, the weighing mechanism for this round should be who speaks best for the greater good of the world. Now onto your first impact: "This type of sovreign violence in which we, as outsiders, force our belief onto a non-normative group results in genocide and violence" This would be a possible outcome if we were a few hundred years back in history. This, however is not the case. This impact is overblown and is outright unrealistic. This is also proved by the fact that the ban has been in place for a long time, yet no genocide or mass violence has taken place. Next: "Makah poverty is high right now due to their inability to whale" If this truly is the case, we can not reasonably be blamed, we are not stopping them from adapting nor changing. Onto legalism "Legally the Makah Tribe has the right to whale" No they don't actually. They lost it with the MMPA. Now onto offcase DA: International law International law is strong and it helps us keep the peace. (MacCallum 14). If we remove the MMPA act we weaken international law which hurts international relationships and will be detrimental to our ability to keep the peace. When we lose our ability to keep the peace tensions, political instability and a possibility for war become very real (Weeramantry and Burroughs 05). DA #2 Whales! The MMPA was put into place for a reason. It is needed to protect the marine ecosystems and specifically gray whales. Right now the population of gray whales is recovering thanks to the MMPA act, but if we remove the act the whales will be put at a serious risk, for they are still vulnerable. (Mulvaney 13) If the MMPA act was never put in place the population would be extinct. We need the act in place for the very reason to keep the gray whale population, and many other populations alive. (Jenkins and Romanzo 98) We need to protect whales for a few reasons. 1. They are so critically important to the ecosystem, for they recycle nutrients and allow the ecosystem to thrive. 2. Whales reproduce very very slowly, so if we do not protect them we risk losing them. (Zelko 13). Losing whales would be very bad because we would lose a very important part of the ecosystem. This is capable of causing a domino effect leading to a moderate to severe environmental collapse. Some believe that this could result in extinction, but whether you believe it will go that far or not, what you can't deny is that this cause some very severe impacts. This includes harming the fishing industry and hurting food supply for many people from all over the world. CP: Make an exception for the Makah tribe without lifting MMPA. If the tribe's practice is as harmless as you say we can keep the act in place while making one exception without causing any harm. This Counter-plan solves for all of your impacts while avoiding all of the DA's I have. Now back onto Framework: Within your framework I believe I should be considered the winner, for I spoke for the Makah people and other people from different cultures, because they would be harmed by harm or destruction to the ocean ecosystem. If I am not winning than I should be tied with you. However in my framework I am the clear winner, because I speak for what is best for the human race as a whole, while you only speak for a small percentage on the population.