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+Value resides in indeterminacy – the affirmative’s project of defining worth within the parameters of being relies on an inherently viviocentric notion of value. This strictly biological interpretation of finitude begins a violent project of self-preservation that renders all difference suspect. Maintenance of the tyranny of life lays the epistemological foundations for hierarchal notions of being that lets power remained unquestioned. |
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+Heisman 10 (Mitchell, University at Albany bachelor's degree in psychology, “Suicide Note”, online @ http:www.suicidenote.info/, loghry) |
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+There is a very popular opinion that choosing life is inherently superior to choosing death.... Only when the will to live itself is civilized, can one be free to acknowledge that reason itself does not dictate a bias towards life. |
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+Such a tyranny of life creates a subsequent tyranny over the dying. The victims in the narrative of the 1ac act as the producers of the raw material of the spectacle. Their moral sentiment configures a relation to pain that ends in pre-programmed termination. |
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+Baudrillard 94 (Jean, “The Illusion of the End” p. 66-71) AMM |
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+We have long denounced the capitalistic, economic exploitation of the poverty of the 'other half of the world' 'autre monde...Because it cannot accept being confronted with an end which is uncertain or governed by fate, it will prefer to stage its own death as a species. |
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+This desire for a pre-programmed world incites a revengeful hatred for the status quo – this posture is the foundational principle of psychology which outweighs every other impact. |
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+Deleuze 83 (Gilles, 1983, Nietzsche and Philosophy, pg. 34-36) AMM |
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+Is this difference only psychological?...All the rest is nihilism, Christian and dialectic pathos, caricature of the tragic, comedy of bad conscience. |
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+Vote negative to embrace a purposeful death – while the affirmative frantically attempts to save us from the impending catastrophe, we sit back and face extinction with a radical laxity. This act – or lack thereof – deconstructs the Western notion of subjectivity that undergirds modernity. |
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+Robinson 2012 (Robinson, Andrew, political theorist, Baudrillard master, also has a great smile "Jean Baudrillard: Catastrophe and Terrorism." Ceasefire Magazine RSS. N.p., 7 Dec. 2012. Web. 10 Aug. 2014. http:ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-13/, LB) |
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+The accidental or violent death gains special significance in western culture as the only kind of death which is talked about...They are contributing to the system’s self-destruction by refusing to put in any energies from outside it. |