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-Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power |
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-I value morality as implied by the word ought in the resolution which is defined by Dictionary.com as “used to express duty or moral obligation.” |
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-Therefore the standard is consistency with governmental duty. A government only becomes a legitimate one when it acts in accordance with its predetermined obligation. |
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-The social contract deems the obligation of the government to protect its citizens. |
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-Steven Heyman 91,The First Duty of Government: Protection, Liberty and the Fourteenth Amendment”, Supreme Court editor of the HARVARD LAW REVIEW. |
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-In a state |
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-every individual's life |
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-My thesis and sole contention is that the dangerous conditions brought forth by nuclear production rematerialize the same dangers that the government is obligated to protect us from. |
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-The process of production itself particularly in the context of mining and enriching is dangerous to citizens in the vicinity |
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-Helen Caldicott 2015, “Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe”, January, 2015, Founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics Instructor at the Harvard Medical School |
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-Few estimates of |
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-their own health |
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-The resolution demands an advocacy that displays morality in the agent. In the context of governments, it requires public policy to display a recognition and respect of inherent humanity |
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-Stephen Engstrom 2008, Philosophy Professor @ University of Pittsburgh, University of Chicago and Harvard, “Universal Legislation as the Form of Practical Knowledge”, |
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-Since practical reason |
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-of practical reason |
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-Governmental disposal policies often display a disrespect to the humanity of certain people which is in opposition to the moral agency that the government must become. |
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-Helen Caldicott 2015, “Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe”, January, 2015, Founder of the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children’s Hospital, Pediatrics Instructor at the Harvard Medical School |
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-Because it is |
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-of tribal land |
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-Mining policy removes autonomy from national governments to actively benefit their citizens. |
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-Nicolas Dasnois is a political analyst currently based in Paris, France. After graduating in international affairs from the Paris Institute of Political Science (Sciences Po), he worked at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, and at the French Embassy in Nairobi as political officer in charge of the UN Environment and Human Settlements programmes. “Uranium Mining in Africa: A Continent at the Centre of a Global Nuclear Renaissance”. September 2012 |
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-The consequences of |
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-inspect mines regularly |
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-Commercialization has now created scenarios where the government will put aside their duties to the citizens in favor of their desire to grow the economy. Unfortunately, even that is a failure. |
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-Union of Concerned Scientists, "Nuclear Power Cost", http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/cost-nuclear-power#.V7E8-bDMuP9 |
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-Nuclear power has |
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-for government support |
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-Evaluate the round under a truth testing paradigm. |
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-The negative must argue the falsity of the resolution as a general principle. This outlaws specific advocacies particularly PICs. |
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-Justifications: |
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-Reciprocal burdens |
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