The world of normative ethics took hold of me during my high school career. It came out of nowhere, an interest I never would have expected myself to have, but by my senior year it was one of my favorite subjects to independently explore. My interest in normative ethics began during my freshman year of high school. When I entered high school, I lacked a particular interest in an academic or extracurricular activity. I had taken part in some speech competitions and debates during middle school and so I was interested in continuing to participate in that sort of extracurricular activity during high school. As the Ethics Bowl was a debate-oriented club, it was a perfect fit for me. The Ethics Bowl club was truly my first introduction to normative
