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	1	+The first two nuclear plants in Belarus are on the way now.
	2	+Nielsen ’12 Earthquake zone on EU border to host Belarus nuclear plant NIKOLAJ NIELSEN, 30. MAR 2012, https://euobserver.com/belarus/115329
	3	+The drive toward the site of Belarus' future nuclear power plant goes through tall pine
	4	+AND
	5	+"within allowable limits." It failed, and construction began in 2011.
	6	+
	7	+Plan text
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	9	+Resolved: the Republic of Belarus ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.
	10	+
	11	+Accidents Adv.
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	13	+The plant has not followed NPP safety protocol and Belarus has no intention of subjecting its plant to inspection—makes accidents inevitable.
	14	+UA Today ’16 http://uatoday.tv/society/belarus-nuclear-power-plant-disaster-waiting-to-happen-or-is-lithuania-blowing-dangers-out-of-proportion-669203.html Belarus Nuclear Power Plant: Disaster waiting to happen or is Lithuania overreacting?
	15	+Despite all the assurances from Minsk, Vilnius insisted the project was built violating numerous
	16	+AND
	17	+as a reminder, that everyone should fully understand responsibility for their actions.
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	19	+The plants are not safe from either earthquake or aerial terror attack.
	20	+Backaitis ’12 Dangers from Proposed Belarus and Russian Nuclear Power Plants to Lithuania Dr. Stan (Stasys) Backaitis, P.E., SAE Fellow Lithuanian American Council 2012
	21	+The recent Fukushima nuclear accident has focused the international community on the need to evaluate
	22	+AND
	23	+Russian fighter jet actually crashed in Lithuania near the planned Kaliningrad NPP site.
	24	+
	25	+There are ZERO net-benefits to plant construction—they don’t have the economy or infrastructure; means there’s only risk that something goes wrong.
	26	+Keller ’10 ON THE BELARUSIAN ENERGY DILEMMA: ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOPOLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE NUCLEAR POWER OPTION BY JAMES WILLIAM KELLER THESIS Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
	27	+Notwithstanding these fundamental issues, they are nevertheless tangential to the socioeconomic impacts which completion
	28	+AND
	29	+tagged for special funding for the EU‟s periphery through the EP.
	30	+
	31	+The academic consensus is that the plants are a terrible idea—their construction is only desired because of authoritarian arrogance by the government.
	32	+Keller ’10 ON THE BELARUSIAN ENERGY DILEMMA: ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND GEOPOLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF THE NUCLEAR POWER OPTION BY JAMES WILLIAM KELLER THESIS Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies in the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010
	33	+Based on the foregoing analysis, and especially in light of the VNPP project which
	34	+AND
	35	+for defending Belarus which, by implication, defends him from being deposed.
	36	+
	37	+Asymmetrical access to information regarding the build exists—the government controls all access to reasonable information; means the pro NPP position should face extreme scrutiny.
	38	+Novikau ’16 Nuclear power debate and public opinion in Belarus: From Chernobyl to Ostrovets Aliaksandr Novikau Northern Arizona University, USA Public Understanding of Science 1– 14 © The Author(s) 2016 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0963662516647242
	39	+The nuclear power debate in Belarus demonstrates that nuclear risk communication in the country is
	40	+AND
	41	+concerns and proper responses during authentic dialogues, mutual trust can be gained.
	42	+
	43	+Framework
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	45	+Phenomenal introspection is reliable and proves that util’s true.
	46	+Sinhababu Neil (National University of Singapore) “The epistemic argument for hedonism” http://philpapers.org/archive/SINTEA-3 accessed 2-4-16 JW
	47	+The Odyssey's treatment of these events demonstrates how dramatically ancient Greek moral intuitions differ from
	48	+AND
	49	+favors the kind of universal hedonism that supports utilitarianism, not egoistic hedonism.
	50	+
	51	+Thus, the standard is maximizing happiness. Prefer the standard:
	52	+
	53	+3. Reductionism: personal identity doesn’t exist.
	54	+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
	55	+Whatever psychological continuity may amount to, a more serious worry for the Psychological Approach
	56	+AND
	57	+, you are both hungry and not hungry at once: a contradiction.
	58	+
	59	+4. Determinism is true: our bodies are controlled by biological principles only – there’s no room for free will.
	60	+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 5th 2006
	61	+One prominent notion is that we have both a ghostlike component (our consciousness or
	62	+AND
	63	+to deviate sometimes from the same rules that such particles otherwise always obey.
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	65	+Only consequentialism is consistent with determinism.
	66	+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 26th 2004 Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B (2004)359,1775–1785 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693457/pdf/15590618.pdf JW
	67	+The forward-looking–consequentialist approach to punishment works with all three responses to
	68	+AND
	69	+requires compatibilism. Accordingly, the standard legal account of punishment is compatibilist.
	70	+
	71	+The role of the ballot is to evaluate the simulated consequences of the aff policy. Prefer this
	72	+
	73	+1. The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.
	74	+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
	75	+An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of
	76	+AND
	77	+that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today.
	78	+
	79	+2. Fairness.
	80	+
	81	+Unfairness denies effective dialogue on kritikal issues which turns your impacts.
	82	+Galloway 7 Ryan Galloway, Samford Comm prof, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007
	83	+Debate as a dialogue sets an argumentative table, where all parties receive a relatively
	84	+AND
	85	+whims of time and power (Farrell, 1985, p. 114).
	86	+
	87	+Critique is useless without a concrete policy option that solves for your harms.
	88	+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
	89	+Unfortunately, the academic left falls prey to its own form of abstraction. It’s
	90	+AND
	91	+of shelters, the distribution of medicines, etc., etc., etc.
	92	+
	93	+Excessive focus on discourse and representations kills liberalism.
	94	+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
	95	+Or maybe not. The p.c. style of politics has one serious
	96	+AND
	97	+confidence in the ultimate power of reason, not coercion, to triumph.

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	1	+SEPT OCT Belarus Plan

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	1	+Bronx