Resolved: Stability and Security is more important than Personal Freedom.

In this round I shall respond to Pro and rebuild my case. Pro has accused me of abusive victory conditions which is false because it fails to meet the criteria for being abusive. It's not characterized by wrong or improper use of action because no rules were set. Since no rules were set, I declared my own victory condition. Pro also states that unfairness negates competition. This is false because life is a giant competition and it is very unfair, and living is an unfair competitive activity, thus this debate can be an unfair competitive debate. This is an academic debate, as we have both posted policies governments have put into place. The basis that my victory condition is unfair is also false. Pro says he won't be able to make good offenses or defenses in his opening yet he is able to defend his case while also effectively refuting my case, forcing me to go mostly on the defensive and making me lose ground on the offensive. The purpose of con is to negate Pro's resolution, not to prove con's case as true. (This is why I used 4 separate and contradictory arguments to attack the resolution.) Negation has 2 definitions: : to deny the existence or truth of, to cause to be ineffective or invalid. I used the Nihilism argument to deny the truth that SaS > PF. What is true is "the body of real things, events, and facts" (Merriam Webster) The importance of things is a subjective opinion that varies between people. Since importance is an intangible subjective opinion, it is not a fact, and what is not a fact is not true. Since Pro's resolution is not a statement of fact it is untrue. Thus I have negated Pro's resolution in the first way. The second way to negate a resolution is to cause the resolution to be ineffective and invalid. Personal Freedom is another word for Civil Liberties. Civil liberties are all the rights listed in the United Nations declaration of Human Rights include include the freedom from torture, freedom from forced disappearance, freedom of conscience, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, the right to security and liberty, freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to equal treatment under the law and due process, the right to a fair trial, and the right to life, thee right to own property, the right to defend oneself, and the right to bodily integrity. Stability: The state of being stable Security: The state of being protected or safe from harm Civil liberties/PF as declared by the UN guarantee stability and security for people, thus SaS is part of PF ,and PF expands on the rights for humans, ensuring more security and freedom for people. Pro claims that the USA valued SaS over PF by implementing the PATRIOT Act and that the UK valued SaS over PF by banning handguns. This claim is false though, because this was a conflict of PF/CL. The USA and the UK valued people's right to security/safety over their right to privacy (USA) and right to own firearms (UK). Thus these governments hold SaS and PF as equal, or if not, have a desire to balance them. The main reason for PF/CL is to protect the people from governments who value the stability and security of the nation as a whole over the lives and rights of their people, governments like the PRC who will brutally suppress any opposition to the regime or the political status quo, maintaining it at all costs. Pro stated "Lives are the most important thing because you can't have any personal freedoms without being alive." I wholeheartedly agree with this statement, which is why I urge voters to vote Con. Oppressive authoritarian regimes who value national SaS over PF to the extreme are responsible for the deaths of millions and for the oppression of millions more. According to the Heritage Foundation, Mao's failed policies resulted in the death of 65 million Chinese people. These deaths are permanent and have caused massive damage to the PRC. Pro criticized my citing of the PRC's atrocities as a singular example, so I shall cite atrocities of other governments that brutally suppressed opposition in order to preserve national stability and security. The Origins of Genocide: Genocide usually originates from a totalitarian nation state that has little regard for individual human life and human rights. Totalitarian nations emphasize the security of stability of the nation and the people as a collective above all else and exterminate anyone who is viewed as a threat to the state's stability and security, violating individuals PF /CL . Examples include the PRC, Stalin's USSR, Hitler's Nazi Germany and Hirohito's Imperial Japan. During Stalin's rule of the USSR from 1922-1953 it's estimated that his policies resulted in the death of 20-50 million people. Like Mao, Stalin's policies targeted political dissidents, those who Stalin viewed as a threat to the national stability and security of the Soviet Union. A specific example is the Holdomor "The result of Stalin"s policies was the Great Famine (Holodomor) of 1932"33"a man-made demographic catastrophe unprecedented in peacetime. Of the estimated six to eight million people who died in the Soviet Union, about four to five million were Ukrainians. The famine was a direct assault on the Ukrainian peasantry, which had stubbornly continued to resist collectivization; indirectly, it was an attack on the Ukrainian village, which traditionally had been a key element of Ukrainian national culture." This is proof that Stalin killed millions to ensure and maintain national SaS for the Soviet Union as a whole. Stalin also committed various other atrocities to political dissidents, including forceful relocation, sending them to forced labor camps called gulags, and killing them during the Great Purge. Hitler: Hitler perpetrated the Holocaust, the ethnic cleansing of Jews and other :undesirables" in Nazi Germany and Nazi occupied lands. This lead to the killing of 12 million people. According to the USHMM the cause of the Holocaust was Hitler's belief that human history was a racial struggle and that the Jews threatened Aryan/German dominance and would eventually enslave the German people, threatening the stability and security of Nazi Germany. Pol Pot: Pol Pot, Dictator of the Khmer Rogue ordered caused the Genocide of 1-3 million Cambodians who opposed Pot's attempt of making Cambodia an agrarian state On War: Three totalitarian regimes, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan signed a pact that formed the Axis powers. In 1937 Imperial Japan declared war on China in order to secure Chinese resources and farmland to benefit the Japanese people and to make Japan into a great power. Obtaining great power status and food would increase Japan's national security. During the Second Sino-Japanese War Japan committed the Nanjing Massacre where Japanese soldiers raped and killed 300,000 Chinese civilians mercilessly. In September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland in order to unite all Germans and to obtain farmland for Germans and Germany, which would increase Germany's national security. These invasions started World War II and were motivated by increasing the national security of the Axis powers. World War II lasted from 1939-1945 and caused the death of 70-85 million people. Conclusion Totalitarian nations that place national stability and security over all else at the expense of Personal Freedom/Civil liberties are responsible for the worst atrocities in human history. The policies of Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito/Tojo, and Pol Pot resulted in the deaths of 168-225 million people. By proving that nations giving extreme importance to Stability and Security to the detriment of PF/CL I have negated the resolution in the second way, by making it invalid. I negated the resolution in 2 ways, thus I win the debate. Sources: https://docs.google.com... ==== Thanks Edge! We'll have to both FF Round 4 though :c Sorry m8