Alyssa
I'm not sure how I could've fit things into my framing that would challenge his when he hadn't made his case yet. What did you think about my R2 attacks on his framing and the attacks on proportionality?

Also, were you just specifically looking for policy arguments from me and didn't like the philosophical angle?
Alyssa
Thanks for the vote! Few questions:

1. I'm curious about what your interpretation of my Magsino argument was. I was extending it off as a reason for why, in order to even conceptualize/evaluate Pro's framing, we had to accept mine. You seemed to believe that our frameworks could co-exist, whereas I was trying to argue that my framework was a prerequisite to theirs. Was there something I could've done to make that clearer?

2. How did you, if at all, evaluate the argument I made in R3 that people escaping prison was nonunique since they can just escape pre-death penalty anyway?

3. Can you elaborate on what you meant when you said my framing was "too vague" to warrant voting for it?
Alyssa
Thanks for the vote! Couple questions:

1. I'm curious as to why you thought their framing was sufficient to meet the requirements of Magsino. My argument was that there needs to be some sort of external justification for why laws are good and bad and that their argument for their framing that "the government has a responsibility to protect people" wasn't sufficient. I'm guessing that wasn't your interpretation. Was there a better way to make this argument?

2. Did the argument that "people escaping prison to kill more is nonunique" factor into that discussion at all or did that come too late for you?

3. How did you evaluate the proportionality vs. the 'goals of justice' arguments I made?
Alyssa
I think you're using race and ethnicity more interchangeably than I am. Which in casual conversation is 100% chill, but since Pro is making a distinction between "neurological" and "biological" race, for whatever reason, probably isn't safe to do.
Alyssa
Lmao...

So I'm going to skim over the obvious topic of "there's no fucking world where those two things are equivalent" because while gender dysphoria is very much a real thing, there very much is not an equivalent when it comes to ethnicity (that I'm aware of and can find).

I suppose the only hang up to saying that this is okay that I would have is in the instance of someone who is white wanting to become black or brown, would that count as cultural appropriation? I'm not sure, but it's close enough that I certainly wouldn't want to be the one to try it.

But otherwise, no I'm sure Shoresy and GratefulGoy would love to entertain your ideas of why trans people are awful.
Alyssa
The latter. I think the classification of people as an entirely different race 'biologically' can contextually be used to justify Other-izing minorities, so while you technically can nitpick on people's melanin levels and the like to say there are biological differences between people of different ethnicities, I'm just going to give you a very strong side eye.