SUPERMAN K

[UUAAjosh]

I'm attempting to put together a superman kritik. I am basing it off of Neitzchse's Superman Theory. I have some pretty good impacts and links but I am struggling to find a good alternative besides reject and think. If anyone has any ideas or cards to help it would be appreshiated.

[iluvnooyawk]

I don't know much about this Superman theory, but I looked it up (I admit, on Wikipedia) because Nietzsche seems really interesting to me. Anyway, I don't really get it. What's the thesis of your kritik? I haven't read much on this, but it sort sounds like it would trasnslate to "muliple worlds bad" or something.

Explain it to me? I can help you find cards or whatever, it sounds interesting.

[UUAAjosh]

Nietzsche rejects moral conceptions of what is right and wrong. He also argues that, specifically, the human impulse of charity, or saving others, inhibits our evolution. The basic idea of the k would be that:
1) The idea that helping others is a moral imperative only stops us from achieving our full potential as a species. or
2) Saving the weak stops us from evolving into what Nietzsche calls the superman, or next step in the evolutionary process.

He argues that "Man is to ape as Superman is to man"

That can be argued under a kritikal perspective or a more realist, social Darwinist frame.

Hopefully this explains it a little bit better.

Thank-you for your willingness to help.

[iluvnooyawk]

It does sound interesting. Admittedly, though, as much as I love Darwinism as an idea, I'm definitely more of a humanist than a Darwinist. It doesn't make sense to me how assiting Africa hinders our own evolution to this theoretical "Superhuman." Why not bring the African peoples up with us?

It doesn't seem like it will win you many rounds, with the exception of people contiunously dropping it because they've never heard of it.

It also seems vulnerable to a racism counter Kritik or something similar.

Good luck though! I sort of hope I hit you one day- high school varsity? Which school/circuit?

[msschristinex]

Hmm... that's really interesting. It actually sounds like a pretty legit K to me.

It might be a little tough, but you could advocate a policy option as your alt - remove all aid from Sub-Saharan Africa? There's some good literature on why foreign aid is what's killing them... I run a Colonialism K with pull out all aid as the alternative. (And we almost always win our Neg rounds.) The only problem that we've hit is that we're working under multiple frameworks... but nobody has ever cared too much to run multiple worlds on us. So, as long as you're prepared for a theory debate, you should be fine. :]