It’s not cannibalism, but an essay on this practice notes that “the certainties postulated by philosophers hardly ever exist” when analogizing it to the case of shipwrecked sailors Dudley and Stephens. Kitty Genovese’s murder is used to make a distinction between “Good,” “Splendid,” and “Minimally Decent” Samaritans in an essay on this practice. An essay titled for this practice describes an analogy of seeds floating through windows and taking root in houses. This practice is paired with “the Doctrine of Double Effect” in the title of an essay by Philippa Foot that proposed the trolley problem. An essay on this practice proposes a thought experiment involving keeping a dying violinist alive. For 10 points, Judith Jarvis Thomson wrote a “Defense” of what practice opposed by pro-life activists? ■END■
| 2025 ACF Nationals | 2025-08-09 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 67% | 104.33 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 13 | 100% | 0% | 31% | 104.00 |
| Midwest | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 87.75 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 40% | 107.40 |
| Canada | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 107.83 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 108.80 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 102.00 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 63% | 104.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 82.20 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacob Finley | Notre Dame A | Louisville A | 30 | 10 |
| Olin Bose | Columbia A | Rowan A | 33 | -5 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Georgia Tech A | 37 | -5 |
| Cameron Ricketts | Warwick A | Durham A | 37 | -5 |
| Yusuf Baig | McMaster A | Toronto D | 39 | -5 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Chicago D | 40 | 10 |
| Davin Sivertson | Alabama B | Auburn B | 40 | -5 |
| Jaz the Mononymous | Southampton B | Sheffield A | 46 | -5 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | Toronto C | 52 | -5 |
| Christopher Pawul | Columbia C | Vassar A | 52 | -5 |
| Kennedy Gallaher | Notre Dame C | Indiana B | 52 | 10 |
| Arjun Kala | Illinois A | Michigan B | 52 | 10 |
| Young Fenimore Lee | Ohio | Iowa | 52 | 10 |
| Elijah Pollock | UTD A | Rose State | 52 | -5 |
| Max Averbach | Northwestern C | UTD B | 52 | -5 |
| Matthew Sumanen | Georgia Tech A | Auburn A | 52 | 10 |
| Darren Kellis | Vanderbilt B | Vanderbilt A | 59 | -5 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA B | Claremont Scripps | 66 | 10 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | North Carolina C | 66 | 10 |
| Benjamin Chapman | Toronto A | Guelph A | 67 | 10 |
| Uday Bhardwaj | McGill B | Carleton | 68 | 10 |
| Faraz Foroughi | NC State | North Carolina A | 69 | 10 |
| Charlie Ruff | McGill C | Queen's A | 71 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Virginia B | 71 | 10 |
| Braeden LaRoche | South Carolina A | Liberty B | 71 | 10 |
| Emily Hackwelder | Notre Dame D | Purdue A | 71 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas B | Northwestern A | 71 | 10 |
| Wesley Stine | Clemson A | Liberty C | 73 | 10 |
| Ben Weng | Macalester B | Minnesota A | 73 | 10 |
| Alexandra Duan | Columbia B | Lehigh A | 75 | 10 |
| Patrick Boyle | Notre Dame B | Chicago B | 78 | 10 |
| Jason Lee | Rutgers B | Princeton A | 81 | 10 |
| Matt Sheldon | Oxford B | Cambridge D | 82 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA A | Claremont Pitzer | 85 | -5 |
| Keith Delarosa | UAB A | Sewanee A | 87 | 10 |
| Chris Wang | Toronto H | Toronto K | 92 | 10 |
| Asha Basu | McGill A | Toronto B | 95 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Purdue C | 95 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta B | Texas A | 95 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech D | Georgia Tech B | 95 | 10 |
| Thomas Brittain | McMaster B | Guelph B | 99 | 10 |
| Kerry Xu | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCSD Vices and Virtues | 101 | -5 |
| Elizabeth Megson | Tulsa | Arizona State B | 103 | -5 |
| Jason Panusopone | Toronto J | Toronto F | 104 | -5 |
| Brody Sadler | UCO | Arizona State A | 104 | 10 |
| Rahul Jogadhenu | UCLA C | UCI | 105 | 10 |
| Theodore Lam | Toronto G | Toronto Metropolitan | 105 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech C | 107 | 10 |
| Isaac Studley | Carleton | Nebraska | 108 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Huntsville A | 108 | -5 |
| Ethan Burks | Huntsville B | Mississippi State A | 108 | -5 |
| Clio Selyuzhitsky | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | UCLA D | 109 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Kentucky | 109 | 10 |
| Ben Simmons | Macalester A | Iowa State | 109 | 10 |
| Aisling Skeet | Durham A | Warwick A | 109 | 10 |
| Cori Zhong | Waterloo | Toronto E | 110 | -5 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Vanderbilt B | 110 | 10 |
| Winston Zuo | UCSB | USC | 113 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina B | Liberty A | 113 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Virginia Tech B | 113 | 10 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | Tulsa | 113 | 10 |
| Stephen Walsh | Northwestern B | McGill D | 113 | -5 |
| Eric Yang | Purdue A | Notre Dame D | 114 | 10 |
| Michael Xu | McMaster C | Toronto I | 120 | 10 |
| Abdelrahman Elsisi | Sheffield A | Southampton B | 122 | 10 |
| Jack Casey | Illinois B | Michigan D | 125 | 10 |
| Gannon Rice | Clemson B | South Carolina B | 126 | 10 |
| Sarah Silverman | Claremont Pitzer | UCLA A | 127 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | 127 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto D | McMaster A | 127 | 10 |
| Nicholas Kwan | Western Ontario | Queen's B | 127 | 10 |
| Samuel Zheng | Toronto F | Toronto J | 127 | 10 |
| Blake Kim-Wansbrough | Toronto E | Waterloo | 127 | 10 |
| Deepanshi Matai | Toronto C | Ottawa | 127 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Columbia A | 127 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Lehigh B | 127 | 10 |
| Eli Young | Vassar A | Columbia C | 127 | 10 |
| Sasha Tripathi | Chicago C | Louisville B | 127 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | St. Thomas | 127 | 10 |
| Athena Devashish | Minnesota C | Wisconsin | 127 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Northwestern B | 127 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | UTD A | 127 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Northwestern C | 127 | 10 |
| TJ Pickering | Auburn B | Alabama B | 127 | 10 |
| Kaushul Manikandan | Huntsville A | Alabama A | 127 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Huntsville B | 127 | 10 |