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+The role of the ballot is to evaluate the simulated consequences of the topical aff policy. Prefer this |
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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 17th 2005 JW 11/18/15 |
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+An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of |
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+AND |
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+that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today. |
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+2. Fairness |
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+Unfairness denies effective dialogue on kritikal issues which turns your impacts. |
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+Galloway 7 Ryan Galloway, Samford Comm prof, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007 |
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+Debate as a dialogue sets an argumentative table, where all parties receive a relatively |
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+AND |
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+I can’t engage, that’s the only type of education unique to debate. |
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+AND: 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 left falls prey to its own form of abstraction. It’s |
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+AND |
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+of shelters, the distribution of medicines, etc., etc., etc. |
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+Excessive focus on discourse and representations kills liberalism. |
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+Chait 15 Jonathan Chait “How the language police are perverting liberalism.” NY Magazine January 275h 2015 http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html JW |
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+Or maybe not. The p.c. style of politics has one serious |
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+AND |
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+confidence in the ultimate power of reason, not coercion, to triumph. |
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+The aff uses state as heuristic which doesn’t affirm its legitimacy but allows enhanced governmental resistance. |
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+Zanotti 14 Dr. Laura Zanotti (Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech) “Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World” – Alternatives: Global, Local, Political – vol 38(4):p. 288-304,. A little unclear if this is late 2013 or early 2014 – The Stated “Version of Record” is Feb 20, 2014, but was originally published online on December 30th, 2013. Obtained via Sage Database |
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+By questioning substantialist representations of power and subjects, inquiries on the possibilities of political |
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+AND |
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+position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.’’84 |
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+Framework |
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+Phenomenal introspection is reliable and proves that util’s true. |
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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 of these events demonstrates how dramatically ancient Greek moral intuitions differ from |
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+AND |
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+favors the kind of universal hedonism that supports utilitarianism, not egoistic hedonism. |
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+Thus, the standard is maximizing happiness. |
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+Plan Text |
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+Resolved: the Republic of Turkey will prohibit the production of nuclear power. |
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+Adv 1 = accidents |
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+Turkey’s building nuclear power plants now – high risk of meltdown, accidents, and biodiversity loss. |
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+Demircan 15 Pinar (Pinar is a Turkish activist-researcher, working on climate and energy issues at Yesil Gazete. She is Project coordinator of Nukleersiz.org. Particularly after the Fukushima accident, she has been focusing on anti-nuclear struggles, where her earlier decade-long experience of working with Japanese companies has helped. She has undertaken several initiatives recently to spread awareness about Fukushima in Turkey and mobilise opinion against the proposed Japan-Turkey nuclear agreement.) **Pinar Demircan is being interviewed by DiaNuke.org “Turkey’s nuclear obsession is dangerous and entirely misplaced” October 27th 2015 http://www.dianuke.org/turkey-nuclear-obsession-dangerous-and-entirely-misplaced-pinar-demircan/ JW |
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+In Turkey, we the opponents of nuclear energy often raise the question: How |
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+AND |
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+to the west, that of Kozan, joins the sea Akkuyu Bay. |
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+Turkey’s a huge biodiversity hotspot. |
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+Şekercioğlu 11 Çağan Şekercioğlu of University of Utah and KuzeyDoğa Society “Turkey’s Conservation Crisis: Global Biodiversity Hotspots Under Threat” December 31st 2011 National Geographic http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2011/12/31/turkeys-globally-important-biodiversity-in-crisis/ JW |
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+For me, 2011 started with a great post by David Braun, so I |
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+developing conservation capacity, and the expansion of a nascent Turkish conservation ethic. |
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+Hotspots are key to global biodiversity. |
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+Conservation International 13 “Hotspots” 2013 http://www.conservation.org/how/pages/hotspots.aspx |
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+Life on Earth faces a crisis of historical and planetary proportions. Unsustainable consumption in |
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+percent of all terrestrial vertebrate species are endemic to the 34 biodiversity hotspots. |
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+Every species loss pushes us closer to the brink. |
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+Diner 94 David N. (Major, U.S. Army) "The Army and the Endangered Species Act: Who's Endangering Whom?" Judge Advocate Officer Graduate Course (April 1994) www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA456541andLocation=U2anddoc=GetTRDoc.pdf |
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+Biologically diverse ecosystems are characterized by a large number of specialist species, filling narrow |
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+AND |
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+from an aircraft's wings, mankind may be edging closer to the abyss. |
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+Extinction. |
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+Takacs 96 David (Environmental Humanities Prof @ CSU Monteray Bay) “The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise” pg. 200-201 1996 |
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+So biodiversity keeps the world running. It has value and of itself, as |
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+end of the next century - not with a bang but a whimper. |
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+Adv 2 = terrorism |
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+Turkish nuclear power is uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks and materials can be stolen for dirty bombs. |
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+Ergun et al 14 Doruk Ergun and Can Kasapoglu (research fellows at EDAM) “Securing Turkey’s Prospective Nuclear Energy Program: A Strategic Nuclear Security Risk Analysis” Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies **the article doesn’t specify the date, but all the dates-accessed in the bibliography are from 2014, and the article doesn’t cite anything later than 2014 http://edam.org.tr/document/NuclearBook3/edam_nucphysec2015_ch1.pdf JW |
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+In order to meet its rising energy demand and diversify energy sources, Ankara is |
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+a realistic understanding of the threat landscape that the country is faced with. |
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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 14th 2009 JW |
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+The response was very different among nuclear and national security experts when Indiana Republican Sen |
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+AND |
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+by a retaliatory nuclear strike |