Noah and+Isaiah Aff

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The Drug Enforcement Administration is creating a massive database of license plate tracking information – this is being exploited to violently target racial and political groups
License plate surveillance may invite political targeting By Alice Salles / February 4, 2015 AND detailed pictures of the private lives of citizens and visitors to this country.
 * Salles 15** (Alice, journalist specializing in civil liberties, "License plate surveillance may invite political targeting," Watchdog Arena, Feb 4, http://watchdog.org/197745/license-plate-surveillance-political-targeting/)

License plate monitoring exemplifies totalitarian consolidation of power for power's sake – resistance now is key
Today, massive and unsustainable debts are maintaining the US standard of living. Freedom AND one of many ominous signs regarding where this centralization of power is heading.
 * Suarez 13** (John, human rights activist who has spoken before the United Nations Human Rights Council on several occasions, PanAm Post, Oct 18, http://panampost.com/john-suarez/2013/10/18/the-us-surveillance-state-and-the-totalitarian-tipping-point/)

Freedom from surveillance is an a priori value: it's the key liberty that defines the value of our lives and our capacities for agency
Now, there's a reason why privacy is so craved universally and instinctively. It AND the constraints that it imposes on us do not become any less potent.
 * Greenwald 14** (Glenn, Snowden's lawyer, "Why Privacy Matters," http://www.ted.com/talks/glenn_greenwald_why_privacy_matters/transcript?language=en)

Surveillance violates our basic ethical imperative to treat people with dignity and protect freedom, but even if utilitarianism is good, you should still vote aff
Under utilitarian, duty-based, and rights-based ethical theories the act AND freedom of speech and the power of the people will be lost forever.
 * Burkhart et al. 7** (Laurie Burkhart, Michael Haubert, and Damon Thorley, undergraduate editors who published a book on surveillance under the supervision of Dr. Dirk S. Hovorka, "The Efect [sic] of Government Surveillance on Social Progress," in Confronting Information Ethics in the New Millennium" http://www.ethicapublishing.com/5CH1.htm)

Actions determine morality, not results—consequentialism might be good, but moral side constraints exist that we cannot violate
Many people feel, without being able to say much more about it, that AND ease the consciences of those responsible for a certain number of charred babies.
 * Nagel 79** (Thomas, philosopher, Mortal Questions, pg. 48-49, 1979)

Our advantage is one of those side constraints—the injustices we have described should not be tolerated at any cost
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions as truth is of systems of thought AND . Being first virtues of human activities, truth and justice are uncompromising.
 * Rawls 71** (John, philosopher, A Theory of Justice, p. 3-4)

====The negative's argument will be that the right to privacy is outweighed by some appeal to the greater good but this utilitarian forced-choice rests upon the problematic premise that no rights are absolute and even the most evil acts can further the greater good – that twisted logic justifies torture and enslavement because those in power will always invoke some greater utility which exceeds the agency of the subjugated. Voting negative is not justified by any consequence because privacy is absolute and absolute rights are the only check against mass violence given a utilitarian calculus – this debate must be over whether the plan is intrinsically moral==== It is a widely held opinion that there are no absolute rights. Consider what AND of the valid principle of morality in its equal application to all persons.
 * Gewirth 81** (Alan, prof of philosophy at U Chicago, "Are There Any Absolute Rights?," Philosophical Quarterly, January)

Dead bodies aren't the key metric for decision-making – surveillance might not be dramatic, but the failure to confront it now adds up to a worse harm over time as abuses accumulate
Investigating the nothing-to-hide argument a little more deeply, we find AND to-hide argument, in the end, has nothing to say.
 * Solove 11** (Daniel, professor of law at George Washington University, Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide', May 15, http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/)

"Life key to rights" is backwards – life and death are not inherently good except for the things we enjoy about them which the status quo erodes and the plan protects
If death is the unequivocal and permanent end of our existence, the question arises AND disadvantage, it is not easy to say when a man suffers it.
 * Nagel 12** [Thomas, University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, "Mortal Questions", Cambridge University Press, Mar 26, 2012, Pg.1-3]

The obsession with human survival is self-defeating – the tyranny of survival paradoxically destroys more people in the long run and diminishes the value of life
The value of survival could not be so readily abused were it not for its AND survival. It would be the Pyrrhic victory to end all Pyrrhic victories.
 * Callahan 73** (Daniel, Institute of Society and Ethics, The Tyranny of Survival, pg. 91-3)

Thus the plan: The United States federal government should curtail its use of Automatic License Plate Recognition in the United States. or

The plan is a necessary response to violations of liberty – federal action is key
But if the program was allowed to be carried out unchecked for so long, AND aren't even asking questions about civil liberties and privacy when approving this technology."
 * Salles 15** (Alice, journalist specializing in civil liberties, "License plate surveillance may invite political targeting," Watchdog Arena, Feb 4, http://watchdog.org/197745/license-plate-surveillance-political-targeting/)

We must resist license plate tracking as an infringement of liberty – this form of surveillance will constantly expand to new abuses with no security rationale
Another day, and another of Leviathan's tentacles is exposed for all the world to AND consumptive child in a hospital incubator, is nowhere included within its brief.
 * Cooke 15** (Charles, writer at the National Review, "As You Drive, So Are You Watched," National Review, Jan 25, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/397303/you-drive-so-you-are-watched-charles-c-w-cooke)

No counterplan can solve the case – the ability of another actor to address the harm doesn't absolve you of your obligation to do so as well
Some have maintained that there is a fourth minimal condition which a potential helper of AND resort is too strong; it is not a minimal condition for obligation.
 * Aitken 77** (William, teaches philosophy at Chatham College, World Hunger and Moral Obligation, p 93-94)

====Various world systems exist in a critical state where sudden and unpredictable collapse is possible at any time – it is literally impossible to learn from history or identify a cause of war even minutes before it breaks out==== This book is not only about earthquakes. It is about ubiquitous patterns of change AND for explanation may be terribly misplaced, and doomed always to go unsatisfied.
 * Buchanan 2** (Mark, Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen, p. 62)

We can't make policy based on linear predictions – the complexity of government and the chaos of unpredictable events means that as a judge you should simply ignore disads based on future impacts
Porush establishes the link between narrative-as-history and chaos theory by recognising AND a historical event recorded in a text or a series of texts.41
 * Ward 96** (Brian, "The Chaos of History: Notes Towards a Postmodernist Historiography," Limina, Vol 2, http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/previous/volumes_15/volume_2?f=73934)

This is particularly true for war – it's too chaotic to be controlled or avoided through policymaking
Betts (2000) observed a useful application of chaos to strategy and international security AND , the transition from predictability to chaos in deterministic mathematical system is possible.
 * Font and Régis 6** (Joan Pere Plaza i Font UAB – Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona – Spain Dandoy Régis UCL – University of Louvain – Belgium "Chaos Theory and its Application in Political Science" IPSA – AISP Congress Fukuoka, 9 – 13 July 2006 http://www.sciencespo.site.ulb.ac.be/dossiers_membres/dandoy-regis/fichiers/dandoy-regis-publication18.pdf)