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+====Phenomenal introspection is reliable and proves that util is objectively valid.==== |
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+**Sinhababu** Neil (National University of Singapore) "The epistemic argument for hedonism" http://philpapers.org/archive/SINTEA-3 accessed 2-4-16 JW |
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+The Odyssey's treatment |
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+AND |
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+not egoistic hedonism. |
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+====This outweighs other frameworks.==== |
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+**Sinhababu 2** Neil (National University of Singapore) "The epistemic argument for hedonism" http://philpapers.org/archive/SINTEA-3 accessed 2-4-16 JW |
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+A full moral |
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+AND |
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+through reliable processes. |
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+====2. Reductionism: personal identity doesn’t exist.==== |
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+**Olson** Eric T. (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield) "Personal Identity" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Aug 20, 2002; substantive revision Oct 28, 2010 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-personal/~~#PsyApp JW |
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+Whatever psychological continuity |
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+AND |
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+once: a contradiction. |
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+====3. Determinism is true: our bodies are controlled by biological principles only – there’s no room for free will.==== |
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+**Drescher** Gary L. (Visiting Fellow at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, PhD in Computer Science from MIT) "Good and Real: Demystifying Paradoxes from Physics to Ethics" Bradford Books May 5^^th^^ 2006 |
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+One prominent notion |
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+AND |
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+otherwise always obey. |
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+====Only consequentialism is consistent with determinism.==== |
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+**Greene and Cohen** Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen (Department of Psychology, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Princeton University) "For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything" November 26^^th^^ 2004 Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B (2004)359,1775–1785 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693457/pdf/15590618.pdf JW |
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+The forward-looking |
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+AND |
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+punishment is compatibilist. |
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+====4. Morality must be universalizable.==== |
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+**Pettit** Phillip "Non-Consequentialism and Universalizability" The Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 50 No. 199 pp. 175-190 April 2000 JW |
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+Every prescription as |
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+AND |
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+to confront them. |
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+====Only consequentialism can be universalized.==== |
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+**Pettit 2** Phillip "Non-Consequentialism and Universalizability" The Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 50 No. 199 pp. 175-190 April 2000 JW |
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+There is no |
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+AND |
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+that pattern oneself. |
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+===Inherency=== |
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+====Armenia has plans for new nuclear reactors but they’ve been postponed –they’re stuck with Metsamor for the foreseeable future.==== |
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+**Sahakyan 4-27**-16 Armine (Human rights activist based in Armenia) "Armenia Continues to Gamble on Aging Nuclear Plant in a Quake-Prone Area" Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armine-sahakyan/armenia-continues-to-gamb'b'9788186.html JW |
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+Armenia was supposed |
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+AND |
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+hasn’t even begun. |
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+====Armenia has existing legislation that vows to build new nuclear reactors.==== |
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+**Adamyan 14** Mane "THE CLOSURE OF METSAMOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: COSTS AND BENEFIT" AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA, A MASTER’S ESSAY SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FOR PARTIAL FULFILLEMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF ARTS May 2014 https://dspace.aua.am/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/615/Mane'Adamyan.pdf?sequence=1 JW |
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+In October 2009 |
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+AND |
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+the new NPP. |
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+ |
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+====Resolved: the Republic of Armenia ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.==== |
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+===Adv 1 = Meltdown=== |
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+====The Metsamor power plant – Armenia’s only form of nuclear power – is incredibly dangerous. Uses old tech and lies on earthquake territory.==== |
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+**Lavelle et al 11** Marianne Lavelle and Josie Garthwaite (National Geographic News) "Is Armenia's Nuclear Plant the World's Most Dangerous?" National Geographic News April 14^^th^^ 2011 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/04/110412-most-dangerous-nuclear-plant-armenia/ JW |
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+In the shadow |
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+AND |
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+mitigation at all." |
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+====Armenian Meltdown kills agriculture and threatens four other countries.==== |
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+**Sahakyan 4/27**-16 Armine (Human rights activist based in Armenia) "Armenia Continues to Gamble on Aging Nuclear Plant in a Quake-Prone Area" Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armine-sahakyan/armenia-continues-to-gamb'b'9788186.html JW |
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+So Armenia continues |
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+AND |
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+holding their breath. |
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+====New reactors won’t solve – can still melt down and cause increased cancer rates.==== |
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+**Idayatova 5/20**/16 Anakhanum "Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear plant can cause major radiation accident" Trend News Agency http://en.trend.az/world/turkey/2536379.html JW |
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+Armenia's Metsamor nuclear |
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+AND |
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+reactor is built. |
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+====Harms to Armenian agriculture cause mass increases in poverty.==== |
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+**McKinley et al 2** Terry (Senior Policy Adviser on poverty and macroeconomic policies in the Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, New York. He is the editor of UNDP’s global poverty report, Overcoming Human Poverty. He is the author of The Distribution of Wealth in Rural China, coauthor of Implementing a Human Development Strategy and editor of Macroeconomic Policies, Growth and Poverty Reduction. Much of his work in recent years has centered on China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Vietnam and the transition economies of the former Soviet Union and eastern and central Europe.) (this report is published with others, but the part I cut is just by Terry McKinley) "Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Armenia" A Report Commissioned by the Poverty Group, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme August 2002 http://www.ipc-undp.org/publications/reports/Armenia.pdf JW |
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+In order to |
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+AND |
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+a propoor impact. |
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+===Adv 2 = Terror=== |
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+====Nuclear waste products and uranium are being stolen from Armenia’s nuclear power plant now. That causes dirty bombs and nuclear terror.==== |
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+**Murinson 5/3** Alexander "The other nuclear threat" Washington Times May 3^^rd^^ 2016 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/3/alexander-murinson-armenias-nuclear-threat/ JW |
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+The fourth Nuclear |
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+AND |
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+visionary after all. |
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+====Terrorism is the most likely existential threat.==== |
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+**Rhodes 9** Richard (a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and currently he is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award) "Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety" December 14^^th^^ 2009 JW |
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+The response was |
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+AND |
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+sending a message. |
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+====1. The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.==== |
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+**Coverstone 5** Alan Coverstone (masters in communication from Wake Forest, longtime debate coach) "Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact" Paper presented at the National Communication Association Annual Conference November 17^^th^^ 2005 JW 11/18/15 |
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+An important concern |
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+AND |
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+in America today. |
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+ |
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+====a. Critique is useless without a concrete policy option that solves for your harms.==== |
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+**Bryant 12** Levi Bryant (Professor of Philosophy at Collin College) "A Critique of the Academic Left" 2012 https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/ JW |
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+Unfortunately, the academic |
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+AND |
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+etc., etc., etc. |