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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.)
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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.
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18		-====Thus, the standard is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain. Additionally:====
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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.
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28		-====Metaphysics:====
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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.
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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.
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45		-===Role of the Ballot===
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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.
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55		-===Adv 1 is Prolif===
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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88		-===Adv 2 is Natural Gas Prices===
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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.
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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
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102		-market would be a major check on Russian economic growth and political influence.
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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.
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112		-===Adv 3 is Animals===
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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151		-===Solvency===
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154		-====Thus the plan: The United States ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.====
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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.
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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.
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172		-===Underview===
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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		-2016-09-18 01:18:39.0

Judge

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1		-paul zhou

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1		-syosset jw

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1		-6

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1		-Cambridge Rindge Sussman Neg

Title

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1		-so - 1ac - us util

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1		-yale