No youre the man

Resolved: The United States is justified in intervening in

the internal political processes to attempt to stop human
right abuses.

My Value is Justice. The definition of justice is having, done for, or

done by for a legitimate reason. In the resolution we are justified to
intervene to stop the abuse of human rights. In the resolution we have
to prove that intervening is justified.
My Criterion is Minimizing Dehumanization. When people
are dehumanized worse than death. Dehumanization is the root cause
of nuclear war and genocidewhen humans are reduced to means or
objects, any atrocity becomes justified including genocide like the
holocaust. When there is dehumanization there is no justice.
Definitions
Attempt: to make effort to accomplish
Political processes: The process of the formulation and
administration of
Human rights: Rights of freedom in which all humans are in titled
Contention 1: Ceases internal struggle.
A. Intervening stops internal struggle inside the country. Intervening
does effectively stop the internal political process.
Intervention Destabilizes Current Regimes, Leads To Shift Nils
Petter Gleditsch, Research professor at the International Peace Research Institute, Lene
Siljeholm Christiansen, Research assistant at Centre for the Study of Civil War & Hvard Hegre,
Research professor at the CSCW, 2007 Democratic Jihad? Military Intervention and Democracy,

http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTCONFLICT/Resources/DemocraticJ
ihadFinal.pdf
In our empirical analysis we study the effect of democratic and autocratic military interventions regardless

The argument is that a military

intervention destabilizes the regime of the country where the
intervention takes place, that a regime change is likely, and
that if the intervention is democratic the change is more likely
to be in the direction of democracy. This is true even if the motive for the
of the purpose of the intervention.

democratic intervention was to protect oil interests or the interveners citizens living there, to remove

The analysis
shows that in the short run, democratic intervention does indeed
promote democratization and that this relationship is robust
to the control variables most frequently invoked in studies of
democratization.
weapons of mass destruction or sources of support of terrorism, or whatever. []

Intervening into a different states internal political process is highly

effective even if there is not a just cause. However, there is a just
cause.
Contention 2: Justified for Foreign Governments are responsible for
human rights violations because of the breaking the Social contract
A. Social contract Country/state breaks social contract by abusing
human rights Other countries are responsible.
Syrian authorities have built an archipelago of at least 27 torture
centers, according to Human Rights Watch. In a report published Tuesday,
the advocacy group says abuse at the centers constitutes a
crime against humanity. The kinds of torture that we are
talking about are really appalling types of abuse,"said David Mepham,
the United Kingdom director of Human Rights Watch. "We've had people put in stress
positions, we've had people who have been electrocuted, we've had people burned
with acid, we've had people subject to sexual abuse terrible crimes have
been committed, Mepham said. [] He said responsibility ultimately
rests with those at the top of the Syrian government. Under
what's called command responsibility, even if a more junior
person in the Syrian intelligence agency or the Syrian military
was responsible for this abuse, one would expect that the
commanders responsible for that unit or that branch of the
intelligence agency would know what was going on, would take
steps to address it," Mepham said. "So the accountability and
criminal responsibility for this abuse goes very high in the
Syrian regime. The Syrian government thus far has not
responded to the reports allegations.
This is one of many examples where the government of the people
oppresses them of their human rights. It is the goal of foreign
government
B. Abusing human rights creates dehumanization.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an international
standard for human rights. Adopted by the UN General
Assembly in 1948 the Declaration has undergone the addition of
many treaties since that time as well as additional criteria for what
should rest under the umbrella of the declaration. The following
examination will consider human rights abuses of service

members and abuses committed by service members including

instances of dehumanization, torture, murder, suicide,
stigmatizing physiological injuries and sexual assault, as well as
other violations of service members right to heal and service
members human rights. There are clear connections between the
dehumanizing of service members and the harmful behaviors
they often inflict on themselves, civilians of occupied nations, and
the communities they return to after coming home from deployments
or leaving the military.
The Violation of Human Rights creates dehumanization. When an
unstable government breaks the social contract and hurt the people
they are trying to protect, they dehumanize them.
Sub Point C, When there are violations of human rights and we have
dehumanization.
Berube,

David. Professor. English. University of South Carolina. Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The

Down Side.1997. http://www.cas.sc.edu/engl/faculty/berube/prolong.htm

Dehumanization is the root cause of nuclear war and genocidewhen

humans are reduced to means or objects, any atrocity becomes
justified.

Assuming we are able to predict who or what are optimized humans, this entire resultant worldview smacks of eugenics
and Nazi racial science. This would involve valuing people as means. Moreover, there would always be a superhuman
more super than the current ones, humans would never be able to escape their treatment as means to an always further
and distant end. This

means-ends dispute is at the core of Montagu and Matson's treatise

on the dehumanization of humanity. They warn: "its destructive toll is already
greater than that of any war, plague, famine, or natural calamity on record -and its potential danger to the quality of life and the fabric of civilized
society is beyond calculation. For that reason this sickness of the soul
might well be called the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse.... Behind the
genocide of the holocaust lay a dehumanized thought; beneath the menticide of
deviants and dissidents... in the cuckoo's next of America, lies a dehumanized image of man... (Montagu & Matson, 1983,
p. xi-xii). While it may never be possible to quantify the impact dehumanizing ethics may have had on humanity, it is safe
to conclude the foundations of humanness offer great opportunities which would be foregone. When we calculate the
actual losses and the virtual benefits, we approach a nearly inestimable value greater than any tools which we can
currently use to measure it. Dehumanization is nuclear war, environmental apocalypse, and international
genocide. When

people become things, they become dispensable. When

people are dispensable, any and every atrocity can be justified. Once
justified, they seem to be inevitable for every epoch has evil and
dehumanization is evil's most powerful weapon.
Not only does dehumanization effect to the individual but also it impacts the
entire cultural group.
Dehumanization destroys culture because we dont only lose the individual.

Darrell Fasching, Professor of Religious Studies at University of South Florida, 1993, The Ethical
Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima, pg 155-156
Although every culture is inherently utopian in its potentiality, the internal social dynamic through which its
symbolic world-view is maintained as a sacred order has a tendency to transform it into a closed
ideological universe (in Karl Mannheims sense of the ideological; namely a world-view that promises
change while actually reinforces the status quo) that tends to define human identity in terms

Historically the process of

dehumanization has typically begun by redefining the other as, by
nature, less than human. So the Nazis did to the Jews, and European
Americans did to the Native Americans, men have done to women,
and whites to blacks. By relegating these social definitions to the
realm of nature they are removed from the realm of choice and
ethical reflection. Hence those in the superior categories need feel
no responsibility toward those in the inferior categories. It is simply
a matter of recognizing reality. Those who are the objects of such
definitions find themselves robbed of their humanity. They are
defined by and confined to the present horizon of culture and their
place in it, which seeks to rob them of their utopian capacity for
theonomous self-transcending self-definition.
advantageous to some and at the expense of others.

Conclusion: As long as we try to fix it then we dont have to solve the

problem. Just the act to stop is enough. If we are trying to stop
dehumanization then are cause is just.