DDO Tier Tournament Take Two: A Liberal Social Democracy is Preferable to Anarchy

I guess we're calling it LSD now. Ah well. =P Sorry for lack of formatting, no time. Oh boy. Biopower and cap K's and deep eco to boot. --- Rebuttals of the Con Case --- Intro 2CIA: "[A]narchism ... the world has not seen since the rise of imperialism." 1: Citation needed. 2: Con thus accepts no post-1700s anarchies as existing. 2CIB: "Anarchism ... is ... rarely a violent ideology[.]" 1: Citation needed. 2: I assert that anarchy leads to violence, not necessarily that supporting anarchy causes violence. 2CIC: "[A]ssume ... the transition to LSD or anarchism is possible, and ... compare[.]" 1: I accept. 2CID: "I ... choose one or more ... anarchist ideologies[.]" 1: I accept. --- 2CVD: Con doesn't explicitly define a value, but does consider the death, suffering, otherization, and/or sex traffiking of living beings and degradation of the environment to be immoral. 1: I have a basis in utilitarianism to consider these as immoral, because they generally harm utility. From which ethical system does Con draw this conclusion? --- 2C1: Veganarchy 1: Apply 2P3. Anarchy inevitably collapses (which would make this short-term anyways), and my opponent can't really determine which system it will collapse into, so we could end up with a system even worse than LSD. 2C1A: "Veganarchy is ... the anarchy version of deep ecology." 1: I accept. 2: Deep ecology is flawed: (If these are straw mans to my opponent's position, do tell.) 2A: Deep ecology believes that humans are not more important than or significantly different from other species, when (seeing as I've proven in 2PVD that intelligence is important to maximizing value) humans have a much higher encephalization quotient (read: brainpower to body size) than any other species, at ~7.4-7.8 EQ [1] to a bottlenose dolphin's ~4.14 [1], an "increase" of ~79-88%, which makes them quite a bit more valuable in the search for value and quite different in complexity of behavior.From http://www.frontiersin.org... : 2B: Deep ecology believes that humans have become "apart" from nature, with the only major proof being that of the existence of industrialized society. However, there is no reason why the structures that humans build are any different from those built by beavers or wasps or bees or ants or termites or birds or cassidfly or chimpanzees or spiders or silkworms, except that we build bigger. 2C: Deep ecology believes that "nature" (a distinction that shouldn't exist) is inherently good, which is an appeal to nature and fallacious [2]. 3: Isn't all deep eco anarchist, really? 2C1B: "Veganarchy critiques ... human-centric ... economics and xenophobic ... [s]tatehood, and proposes ... an inclusive, communal practice[.]" 1: Con must prove that it is possible to avoid a life-measured-in-numbers mentality AND that measuring life in numbers is immoral. 2: Humans naturally otherize [3][4], because death by foreigner dramatically reduces your chances of survival [3][4]. It's only with modern, multicultural society that we've really gotten away from this, and to destroy that would increase, not decrease, otherization. (How often does one think of feudalism or tribalism and of multiculturalism and acceptance of others? A move into anarchy and small communes, much like prehistoric tribes, would actually thus increase otherization.) Con must prove that statism is inherently otherizing, rather humans being inherently otherizing, AND that it is possible not to otherize. --- 2C2: Statism Causes Resource Wars 2C2A: "[A]narchy ... preventing bloodshed. 1: See 2P2C. Anarchy cannot prevent chaos. 2C2B: "All wars of the United States have been resource wars[.]" 1: Citation please. 2C2C: "[R]esource wars are inherent in state actors[.] .... [D]uty towards only internal residents is ... exclusive, which reduces consideration ... of others[.] ... [D]emocracy ... only voters ... have power[.] .... This means ... crimes against the "other" are acceptable, which leads ... to ... wars. 1: See 2C1B.2. Veganism would increase otherization. 2: Why wouldn't a small commune also only have a duty to members of that commune? If a small commune can have duties to all other small communes, why couldn't LSDs have duties to other LSDs? Why is solvency limited to veganarchy? 3: Further, democracies aren't so keen on war [5]. Perhaps because they feel kinship, perhaps because they're less likely to spend on weapons, perhaps because the people think that they, as common soldiers, are more likely to die in war than an autocrat thinks that he is. Perhaps because of the interdependent free trade that democracies like. The empirical truth remains. In a world with all LSDs, war would be very unlikely to occur. A world of all Veganarchies would avoid war, if only because the total population is so busy dieing at 30 years of disease and subsistence living that war takes too much effort. 2C2D: "[R]esources are becoming scarcer, these effects will only be amplified[.]" 1: Citation please. 2: Malthus said the same in 1798. 6 billion (and a few) people and 316 years later, we're doing pretty well. Human ingenuity seems to do pretty well in continually expanding the resource base. As we should know, given that our food quite likely was fed fertilizer using ammonia synthesized from the air. 3: Moreover, see 2P1A on how developed countries generally protect their environments even better then developing ones, suggesting perhaps that the modern economy isn't resource-starved. --- 2C3: Capitalism Causes Resource Wars 2C3A: "[C]apitalism ... aggravates resource wars." 1: Citation needed. 2: Capitalism wants more resources, yes. However, wars are generally unprofitable [6][7]. Capitalism encourages globalization, preferably peaceful globalization, because it's better for business. Why kill people when you can sell to them? 2C3B: [G]lobal warming and environmental destruction [are] ... accelerating[.]" 1: Citation needed. 2: See 2P1A. Wealthier economies reduce environmental destruction and have quite pleasant qualities of life. 3: Global warming is a problem. However, emissions reductions are entirely possible under a world-LSD-rule, given that regulation of carbon emission (through cap-and-trade or mandated reductions) is quite possible and economically feasible (and even profitable) [8]. --- 2C4: Capitalism Causes Consumerism 2C4A: "[C]apitalist ... endless consumerism. .... [C]ycles of consumerism ... violence ... resources. ... [E]nough food and resources ... to everyone ... but consumerism[.]" 1: Capitalism probably does encourage consumerism. (Though a citation would be lovely.) However, consumerism isn't an economic system, but a cultural model. If we weren't so obsessed with profit but instead with philosophy or science, then consumerism would be seriously mitigated. Because capitalism CAN'T force you to think consumerist. 2: Why is consumerism bad? Why is it worse than the alternative, no products? 3: It's terrible that food isn't provided to everyone. However, this is often a result of the fact that other nations prevent access to produced food, or it is impossible to get food through post-anarchic regions, due to warlords and the like. In a world of all LSDs, distribution would be possible (and in fact necessary for the form of government). 2C4B: "Veganarchy ... solves for consumerism, and ... sex slavery[.]" 1: Veganarchy solves only because there's nothing to buy -- for example, no vaccines or healthcare or surplus food. 2: Why would sex slavery be solved? Without police, who's going to stop it? --- 2C5: "[O]ver 10 billion animals are slaughtered in the US alone ... fully-conscious[.]" 1: Citation needed. 2: I'm opposed to consumption of meat when it reduces agricultural efficiency. However, it's possible to be vegan in a LSD. In fact, a LSD could mandate it, through both very high taxes on meat, education of the ethical issues, and gradual elimination of meat consumption. In an anarchist commune, you can't mandate that nobody eat the monkeys, because there is no enforcement. --- 2C6: Statism Causes Colonialism 2C6A: "Colonialism ... a result of the [s]tate and capitalism." 1: Citation needed. 2: Colonialism would be prevented in a world of all LSDs, due to its economic inefficiency and the requirement of respect of other nation's citizens. --- 2C7: Statism Causes Genocide 2C7A: "All genocides are results of Us/Them mentalities stemming from Statism." 1: Citation needed. 2: See 2C1B.2. Veganarchy would increase otherization. 3: Pogroms. The Rwandan Civil War. A government is not required for genocide -- only hatred and a power imbalance [9]. Anarchy can't stop people from killing each other -- LSDs can. Anarchy can't enforce multiculturalism -- LSDs can. --- References: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org... [3] http://sfbaytimes.com... [4] http://www.tommoon.net... [5] http://www.e-ir.info... [6] http://economics.about.com... [7] http://theweek.com... [8] http://www.economist.com... [9] http://www.genocidewatch.org...