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-The standard is minimizing existential risk. |
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-1) Extinction precludes all values– |
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-If there’s even a risk of ethical uncertainty, we should always prioritize the survival of the human race to ensure future value. Bostrom 12 |
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-Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” Global Policy (2012) |
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-These reflections on …. any existential catastrophe. |
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-Second, Government actions will inevitably lead to trade-offs between citizens since they benefit some and harm others; the only justifiable way to resolve these conflicts is by benefitting the maximum possible number of people since anything else would unequally prioritize one group over another. Several impacts: |
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-a. Side constraint theories are useless for states since they’ll inevitably violate some constraint |
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-b. Answers util indicts since non-consequentialist moral theories prevent any action which is worse than not being able to use util |
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-Third, Extinction outweighs their value to life claims: |
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-A) There's always some value to life in a world where everyone is still alive. Even people who are marginalized find certain joys in life, which are obviously removed by the end of being. |
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-B) Loss of value to life is reversible, while extinction isn't. Means you prefer our impacts since there is always potential to regain life's value AFTER the plan is passed. |
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-C) Even if the world is bad now, it's a comparative question—a nuclear war would clearly harm value to life. Massive starvation, conflict, and collapse of all economic and political checks on violence result in more harm. |
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-Consequences are the only values we can experience. Harris 10’ |
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-Sam Harris 2010. CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.” |
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-I believe that … of all values. |