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1 -Framing
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3 -I value morality, defined as the sense of right and wrong because the word ought in the resolution is defined as a moral obligation.
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5 -Utilitarianism, maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain, allows us to choose in a real world situation between two hypothetical choices, in this case, the resolution.
6 -Harsanyi 76 (John C. Rule Utilitarianism and Decision Theory. Berkeley: Center for Research in Management Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1976. Print).
7 -It proposes to exlain our multifarious and seemingly logically rather disconnected moral value judgments in
8 -AND
9 -and any alternative moral code we may wish to consider for possible adoption.
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11 -Death should be avoided at all costs.
12 -Jonas 96 (Hans, Former Alvin Johnson Prof. Phil. – New School for Social Research and Former Eric Voegelin Visiting Prof. – U. Munich, “Morality and Mortality: A Search for the Good After Auschwitz”, p. 111-112)
13 -With this look ahead at an ethics for the future, we are touching at
14 -AND
15 -confession of faith we come to the end of our essay on ontology.
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17 -Thus, the criterion, or way to reach morality, is minimizing death.
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19 -Contention 1 is Terrorists
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21 -Nuclear plants will be attacked by terrorists. It’s try or die, empirics prove.
22 -Early et al. 13 (Bryan R., Matthew Fuhrmann, and Quan Li, Faculty Expert in Economic Sanctions and Foreign Policy @ Auburn University, Associate Professor of Political Science @ TAMU, Professor of Political Science at TAMU, Atoms for Terror? Nuclear Porgrams and Non-Catastrophic Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism, 2013, http://people.tamu.edu/quanli/papers/BJPS_2013_nrterrorism.pdf, p. 12, Accessed 8/9/16)
23 -Table 1 presents the results from four statistical models. The baseline model (Model
24 -AND
25 -with an average sized program (Nuclear Program Size 5 0.79).
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27 -Nuclear terrorism is a threat to humanity itself.
28 -Ayson 10 (Robert, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010 “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)
29 -A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by
30 -AND
31 -for the terrorists. This might not help the chances of nuclear restraint.
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33 -Contention 2 is the Grids
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35 -The electrical grid is under stress and on the brink of failing
36 -Trivella 08 (Anthony J., Executive Vice President at The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, One of the world's leading equipment breakdown insurers. "Mitigating Equipment Breakdown Risks," June 4, 2008, Industry Week, http://www.industryweek.com/articles/mitigating_equipment_breakdown_risks_16446.aspx Accessed 8/10/2016)
37 -What's the most vulnerable part of many businesses? For most, it's the equipment
38 -AND
39 -sometimes impossible, to restore the information due to rapid changes in technology.
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41 -Nuclear plants are dependent on the electrical grid.
42 -Adams 11 (Mike, outspoken consumer health advocate, award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist and science lab director, “Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns”, 7/13/11, Accessed 8/10/2016)
43 -Why does all this matter? To understand that, you have to understand how
44 -AND
45 -, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation."
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47 -A solar flare will collapse the grid and push it over the brink
48 -Heyes 14 (J.D., Seasoned writer, journalist and columnist specializing in politics, national security issues, healthcare, healthy living and technology coverage., “FEMA document admits solar flare could collapse U.S. power grid for years”, 12/21/14, Accessed 8/11/2016)
49 -Tens of millions of Americans face years of loss of electrical power if major solar
50 -AND
51 -in comparison to the devastation that an EMP attack could perpetrate on Americans."
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53 -Mass nuclear power plant meltdown causes loss of life
54 -Adams 11 (Mike, outspoken consumer health advocate, award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist and science lab director, “Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns”, 7/13/11, Accessed 8/10/2016)
55 -Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants
56 -AND
57 -planet? It's a very, very small fraction of the total population.
58 -
59 -Contention 3-Heat Radiation
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61 -Nuclear Reactors are leaking right now in the US- this is causing mass environmental damage by cutting into biodiversity, polluting groundwater and oceans, warming the oceans and leaking mass amounts of lethal tritium into the environment causing mass death- this has happened consistently over time and regulations have consistently failed
62 -Awareness Act 16 "Two Nuclear Leaks in the United States, One Is Likely Worse Than Fukushima." Awareness Act. N.p., 26 June 2016. Web. 12 Aug. 2016. Awareness Act is an online news site based in Florida that aims to raise awareness about various societal problems and provide news.
63 -When a radiation leak happens in Japan the whole world hears about it, but
64 -AND
65 -the world is going to begin going downhill faster than it already is.
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67 -2 Impacts:
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69 -1) Death from elevated tritium exposure- that’s the card above
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71 -2) Biodiversity loss causes extinction
72 -Coyne 7 Jerry Coyne, Professor of Ecology at UChicago and Hopi Hoekstra, Professor of Biology at Harvard (9/24/2007 http://www.truthout.org/article/jerry-coyne-and-hopi-e-hoekstra-the-greatest-dying)
73 -Aside from the Great Dying, there have been four other mass extinctions, all
74 -AND
75 -just another Great Dying, but perhaps the greatest dying of them all.
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77 -Only through the prohibition of plants can we stop meltdown
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79 -Thus, I urge an affirmative ballot.
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