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	1	+===FW===
	2	+
	3	+
	4	+====Moral disagreement means epistemic reliability must be the starting point for ethics.====
	5	+Neil **Sinhababu '13** The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Nietzsche, National University of Singapore
	6	+While widespread error leaves open the possibility that one has true beliefs, it reduces
	7	+AND
	8	+. (Thus the pronoun 'we' in 3, 6, and 8.)
	9	+
	10	+
	11	+====That means util—phenomenal introspection is most epistemically reliable.====
	12	+Neil **Sinhababu '13** The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Nietzsche, National University of Singapore
	13	+Even though phenomenal introspection only tells me about my own phenomenal states, I can
	14	+AND
	15	+favors the kind of universal hedonism that supports utilitarianism, not egoistic hedonism.
	16	+
	17	+
	18	+====Thus, the standard is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. Additionally:====
	19	+
	20	+
	21	+====Moral substitutability is true and only consequentialism explains it.====
	22	+Walter **Sinnott-Armstrong '92** Dartmouth College Philosophical Perspectives, 6, Ethics, AN ARGUMENT FOR CONSEQUENTIALISM
	23	+Since general substitutability works for other kinds of reasons for action, we would need
	24	+AND
	25	+explain moral substitutability if it claims that properties like this provide moral reasons.
	26	+
	27	+
	28	+====Metaphysics:====
	29	+
	30	+
	31	+====A~~ Language cannot describe reality, which means a priori knowledge fails.====
	32	+**Conard '07 **(Mark T, prof @ Marmount Manhattan, "Chaos, Order and Morality: Nietzsche's Influence on Full Metal Jacket," The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick edited by Jerold J. Abrams)
	33	+Further, our conscious, rational thought is inseparable from language, and consequently,
	34	+AND
	35	+that our understanding of the world is based on this falsification of experience.
	36	+
	37	+
	38	+====B~~ We have no unified consciousness.====
	39	+**Parfit '84** (Derek, Reasons and Persons) brackets for gender
	40	+Some recent medical cases provide striking evidence in favour of the Reductionist View. Human
	41	+AND
	42	+, and can receive two different answers written by this person's two hands.
	43	+
	44	+
	45	+===Role of the Ballot===
	46	+
	47	+
	48	+====Debates about policy consequences are key to political activism.====
	49	+**Coverstone 5 **~~MBA (Alan, Acting on Activism)
	50	+An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of
	51	+AND
	52	+that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today.
	53	+
	54	+
	55	+===Adv 1 is Prolif===
	56	+
	57	+
	58	+====Nuke power causes nuclear prolif====
	59	+**Shrader-Frechette 8** ~~Kristin; teaches biological sciences and philosophy at the University of Notre Dame; "Five Myths About Nuclear Energy"; American Magazine, 6/23; http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=10884~~
	60	+Myth 4. Nuclear Energy Will Not Increase Weapons Proliferation Pursuing nuclear power also perpetuates
	61	+AND
	62	+motives for seeking nuclear materials would be unmasked as military, not civilian.
	63	+
	64	+
	65	+====Bad security and transferring intel leads to weaponization====
	66	+**Pedraza 12**
	67	+Jorge Morales Pedraza, consultant on international affairs, ambassador to the IAEA for 26 yrs, degree in math and economy sciences, former professor, Energy Science, Engineering and Technology : Nuclear Power: Current and Future Role in the World Electricity Generation : Current and Future Role in the World Electricity Generation, New York. ~~Bob~~
	68	+There are three issues of particular concern for the international community when the nuclear energy
	69	+AND
	70	+a nuclear power programme that brings them closer to a nuclear weapons capability.
	71	+
	72	+
	73	+====Proliferation risks extinction====
	74	+David **Wolfe **(Director, Oppenheimer Institute for Science and International Co-operation), 11/13/20**11** (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/13/pragmatic-approaches-to-nuclear-proliferation, Accessed 8/3/2014, rwg)
	75	+I feel it necessary to respond to the naive letter from Tony Benn et al
	76	+AND
	77	+threatens the survival of the human race cannot be allowed to proceed unhindered.
	78	+
	79	+
	80	+====Nuclear terrorism causes nuclear war ====
	81	+**Ayson, '10 **
	82	+~~Robert, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, "After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects," Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld~~
	83	+But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a
	84	+AND
	85	+be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.
	86	+
	87	+
	88	+===Adv 2 is Natural Gas Prices===
	89	+
	90	+
	91	+====Nuclear power drives down natural gas prices====
	92	+**Adams** 9 ~~Chief Contributor for Atomic Energy Insights and small nuclear plant operator/designer; "Nuclear Energy Growth Might Turn Promises of Low Natural Gas Prices Into a Reality"; atomicinsights.com/2009/11/nuclear-energy-growth-might-turn-promises-of-low-natural-gas-prices-into-a-reality.html~~
	93	+However, I am not the only energy industry observer who understands the interrelationships between
	94	+AND
	95	+gas turbines and burned cheap gas looked like sage energy price prediction geniuses.
	96	+
	97	+
	98	+====US gas exports collapse the Russian economy====
	99	+**Mead 12** ~~Professor of Foreign Affairs at Bard; "North American Shale Gas Gives Russia Serious Headache"; blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2012/04/25/north-american-shale-gas-gives-russia-serious-headache/~~
	100	+North America's shale gas boom is chipping away at the market for gas producers like
	101	+AND
	102	+market would be a major check on Russian economic growth and political influence.
	103	+
	104	+
	105	+====Extinction====
	106	+**Filger 9** ~~Columnist and founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com; "Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction"; www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html; JLB (8/8/2016)~~
	107	+In Russia, historically, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree
	108	+AND
	109	+the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.
	110	+
	111	+
	112	+===Adv 3 is Animals===
	113	+
	114	+
	115	+**====Nuclear cooling systems kill lots of sea animals.====**
	116	+**Gunter et al '01** (Linda Gunter, Safe Energy Communication Council, Paul Gunter, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Scott Cullen, Standing for Truth About Radiation, Nancy Burton, Public Interest Attorney, "Licensed to Kill: How the nuclear power industry destroys endangered marine wildlife and ocean habitat to save money," Executive Summary, http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensedtokill/l2kexecsummary.pdf) OS
	117	+The environmental impact of diverting more than a billion gallons of water per unit per
	118	+AND
	119	+reactor discharge systems by curtailing the light and oxygen they need to survive.
	120	+
	121	+
	122	+**====Regulations don't solve—they're not enforced.====**
	123	+**Gunter et al '01** (Linda Gunter, Safe Energy Communication Council, Paul Gunter, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Scott Cullen, Standing for Truth About Radiation, Nancy Burton, Public Interest Attorney, "Licensed to Kill: How the nuclear power industry destroys endangered marine wildlife and ocean habitat to save money," Executive Summary, http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/licensedtokill/l2kexecsummary.pdf) OS
	124	+The lack of oversight by federal agencies authorized to protect the marine environment from unfettered
	125	+AND
	126	+weakened, watered down, or done away with entirely at nuclear reactors.
	127	+
	128	+
	129	+====Fish feel pain.====
	130	+**Griffiths '14** (Sarah, Daily Mail, "Fish have feelings too: Expert claims creatures experience pain in the same way humans do - and should be treated better," 6/19, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2662297/Fish-feelings-Expert-claims-creatures-experience-pain-way-humans-better-treated.html) OS
	131	+Professor Brown said the primary senses of the fish are 'just as good' and in
	132	+AND
	133	+in our 'moral circle' and afford them the protection they deserve.'
	134	+
	135	+
	136	+====Animal suffering matters—if they say humans outweigh that's a voting issue and justifies racism.====
	137	+**Singer 02** (Peter Singer is the author of Writings on an Ethical Life, Practical Ethics; and Rethinking Life arid Death; among many others. Re is currently the Ira W. De Camp Professor of Bio ethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values Animal Liberation 2002. Pg. 8-9.)
	138	+If a being suffers there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that
	139	+AND
	140	+of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.
	141	+
	142	+
	143	+====This is a D-rule—rejecting anthro is key in educational spaces.====
	144	+**Pederson 04:**
	145	+Helena Pederson, Goteborg University, (2004), the Journal of Futures Studies, (http://www.jfs.tku.edu.tw/8-4/A01.pdf)
	146	+The education discipline as we know it today recognises the importance of issues related to
	147	+AND
	148	+to the situation of other species than our own have been largely ignored.
	149	+
	150	+
	151	+===Solvency===
	152	+
	153	+
	154	+====Thus the plan: The United States ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.====
	155	+
	156	+
	157	+**====Disads are non-unique—nuclear will become unprofitable soon.====**
	158	+**Romm 8/4** (Joe, founding editor of Climate Progress, "Nuclear Power Is Losing Money At An Astonishing Rate," Think Progress, 8/4, https://thinkprogress.org/nuclear-power-is-losing-money-at-an-astonishing-rate-e9473d62acc5~~#.l778f6k4l) OS bracketed for grammar
	159	+Half of existing nuclear power plants are no longer profitable. The New York Times
	160	+AND
	161	+fueling and operations and maintenance (OandM;) costs nuclear has.
	162	+
	163	+
	164	+====Nuke ban accelerates renewables breakthroughs – Germany proves====
	165	+**Korosec 11**
	166	+KIRSTEN KOROSEC, Fortune journalism, "Germany's Nuclear Ban: The Global Effect" Money Watch, May 31, 2011, 4:28 PM http://www.cbsnews.com/news/germanys-nuclear-ban-the-global-effect/ ~~Bob~~
	167	+Renewable markets Germany is already a world leader in renewable energy. Today, renewable
	168	+AND
	169	+opportunity, will enter the market and existing renewable energy businesses will expand.
	170	+
	171	+
	172	+===Underview===
	173	+
	174	+
	175	+====Nebel T is racist.====
	176	+**Niemi '15** (Rebar, "Mr. Nebel's neighborhood, OR Nebel Tea – I sip it.," 9/22, http://premierdebatetoday.com/2015/09/22/nebel-t-i-sip-it/) OS
	177	+Though I believe Mr. Nebel to be fundamentally wrong on the debate theoretical level
	178	+AND
	179	+could provide sufficient to outweigh the toxicity of its implementation and rhetorical methodology.

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	1	+paul zhou

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	1	+syosset jw

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	1	+Cambridge Rindge Sussman Aff

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	1	+so - 1ac - us util

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	1	+yale