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	1	+==1AC – Armenia==
	2	+
	3	+
	4	+===ROTB===
	5	+
	6	+
	7	+====The role of the ballot is to evaluate the simulated consequences of the topical aff policy. Prefer this====
	8	+
	9	+
	10	+====1. The state is inevitable- speaking the language of power through policymaking is the only way to create social change in debate.====
	11	+**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 17^^th^^ 2005 JW 11/18/15
	12	+An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of
	13	+AND
	14	+that is a fundamental cause of voter and participatory abstention in America today.
	15	+
	16	+
	17	+====2. Fairness.====
	18	+
	19	+
	20	+====Anything moots 6 minutes of 1ac offense – restarts the 1ar. They get a 13-7 minute advantage which means we have worse discussion, even if the subject of discussion is slightly better.====
	21	+
	22	+
	23	+====Independently, there is a huge spectrum of political theories – the k can be the radical on both sides of the spectrum and multifunctional aff offense is insufficient to interact with every one. ====
	24	+
	25	+
	26	+====Preparation asymmetry – the aff says a ton of things all of which might have representational implications. Holding me accountable for things that are not just the plan lets them pick on issue and prep it all out so affs lose every round.====
	27	+
	28	+
	29	+====Unfairness denies effective dialogue on kritikal issues which turns your impacts.====
	30	+**Galloway 7** Ryan Galloway, Samford Comm prof, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007
	31	+Debate as a dialogue sets an argumentative table, where all parties receive a relatively
	32	+AND
	33	+whims of time and power (Farrell, 1985, p. 114).
	34	+
	35	+
	36	+====Focusing on reps is bad:====
	37	+
	38	+
	39	+====a. Critique is useless without a concrete policy option that solves for your harms.====
	40	+**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
	41	+Unfortunately, the academic left falls prey to its own form of abstraction. It’s
	42	+AND
	43	+of shelters, the distribution of medicines, etc., etc., etc.
	44	+
	45	+
	46	+====b. Excessive focus on discourse and representations kills the liberal movements you seek to promote.====
	47	+**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
	48	+Or maybe not. The p.c. style of politics has one serious
	49	+AND
	50	+confidence in the ultimate power of reason, not coercion, to triumph.
	51	+
	52	+
	53	+===Framework===
	54	+
	55	+
	56	+====Phenomenal introspection is reliable and proves that util’s true.====
	57	+**Sinhababu** Neil (National University of Singapore) "The epistemic argument for hedonism" http://philpapers.org/archive/SINTEA-3 accessed 2-4-16 JW
	58	+The Odyssey's treatment of these events demonstrates how dramatically ancient Greek moral intuitions differ from
	59	+AND
	60	+favors the kind of universal hedonism that supports utilitarianism, not egoistic hedonism.
	61	+
	62	+
	63	+====Thus, the standard is maximizing happiness. Prefer the standard:====
	64	+
	65	+
	66	+====1. Ethical frameworks must be theoretically legitimate. Any standard is an interpretation of the word ought-thus framework is functionally a topicality argument about how to define the terms of the resolution. Definitions should be subject to theoretical contestation in the same way other words should be. My framework interprets ought as maximizing happiness. Prefer this definition:====
	67	+
	68	+
	69	+====A. Ground- every impact functions under util whereas other ethics flow to one side exclusively, kills fairness since we both need arguments to win.====
	70	+
	71	+
	72	+====B. Topic lit- most articles are written through the lens of util because they’re crafted for policymakers and the general public who take consequences to be important, not philosophy majors. Key to fairness and education- the lit is where we do research and determines how we engage in the round.====
	73	+
	74	+
	75	+====Fairness is a voter since debate is a competitive activity-no debater ought to have an advantage otherwise you’re picking the better cheater. Education is a voter since it’s why schools fund debate and also provides portable skills for the real world. This is a framework warrant, not a reason to drop the debater.====
	76	+
	77	+
	78	+====2. No intent foresight distinction – by willing any action with knowledge that it could cause X harm, we necessarily intend X to happen because we could always decide not to act. Thus, means-based frameworks devolve to the aff.====
	79	+
	80	+
	81	+====3. Actor specificity. Policymaking must be consequentialist since collective action results in conflicts that only util can resolve. Side constraints paralyze state action since policy makers have to consider tradeoffs between multiple people. States lack intentionality since they're composed of multiple individuals—there is no act-omission distinction for them since they create permissions and prohibitions in terms of policies so authorizing action could never be considered an omission since the state assumes culpability in regulating the public domain.====
	82	+
	83	+
	84	+====4. Reductionism: personal identity doesn’t exist.====
	85	+**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
	86	+Whatever psychological continuity may amount to, a more serious worry for the Psychological Approach
	87	+AND
	88	+, you are both hungry and not hungry at once: a contradiction.
	89	+
	90	+
	91	+====This means consequentialism – moral theories can’t focus on individuals since there’s nothing that unifies them across time. Only states of affairs can have value. ====
	92	+
	93	+
	94	+====5. Determinism is true: our bodies are controlled by biological principles only – there’s no room for free will.====
	95	+**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 5^^th^^ 2006
	96	+One prominent notion is that we have both a ghostlike component (our consciousness or
	97	+AND
	98	+to deviate sometimes from the same rules that such particles otherwise always obey.
	99	+
	100	+
	101	+====Only consequentialism is consistent with determinism.====
	102	+**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 26^^th^^ 2004 Phil.Trans.R.Soc.Lond.B (2004)359,1775–1785 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1693457/pdf/15590618.pdf JW
	103	+The forward-looking–consequentialist approach to punishment works with all three responses to
	104	+AND
	105	+requires compatibilism. Accordingly, the standard legal account of punishment is compatibilist.
	106	+
	107	+
	108	+====6. Morality must be universalizable.====
	109	+**Pettit** Phillip "Non-Consequentialism and Universalizability" The Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 50 No. 199 pp. 175-190 April 2000 JW
	110	+Every prescription as to what an agent ought to do should be capable of being
	111	+AND
	112	+, indeed, that no other agent is ever likely to confront them.
	113	+
	114	+
	115	+====Only consequentialism can be universalized.====
	116	+**Pettit 2** Phillip "Non-Consequentialism and Universalizability" The Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 50 No. 199 pp. 175-190 April 2000 JW
	117	+There is no difficulty in seeing how the universalizability challenge is supposed to be met
	118	+AND
	119	+swears non-consequentialist allegiance, may be to flout that pattern oneself.
	120	+
	121	+
	122	+===Inherency===
	123	+
	124	+
	125	+====Armenia has plans for new nuclear reactors but they’ve been postponed –they’re stuck with Metsamor for the foreseeable future.====
	126	+**Sahakyan 4-27**-16 Armine (Human rights activist based in Armenia) "Armenia Continues to Gamble on Aging Nuclear Plant in a Quake-Prone Area" Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armine-sahakyan/armenia-continues-to-gamb'b'9788186.html JW
	127	+Armenia was supposed to have a new nuclear power plant this year that would replace
	128	+AND
	129	+is the new plant not operational — work on it hasn’t even begun.
	130	+
	131	+
	132	+====Armenia has existing legislation that vows to build new nuclear reactors.====
	133	+**Adamyan 14** Mane "THE CLOSURE OF METSAMOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT: COSTS AND BENEFIT" AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA, A MASTER’S ESSAY SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS FOR PARTIAL FULFILLEMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF ARTS May 2014 https://dspace.aua.am/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/615/Mane'Adamyan.pdf?sequence=1 JW
	134	+In October 2009 the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia has adopted a law
	135	+AND
	136	+materials costs64, this study takes the initial price for the new NPP.
	137	+
	138	+
	139	+===Plan Text===
	140	+
	141	+
	142	+====Resolved: the Republic of Armenia ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.====
	143	+
	144	+
	145	+===Meltdown Adv.===
	146	+
	147	+
	148	+====The Metsamor power plant – Armenia’s only form of nuclear power – is incredibly dangerous. Uses old tech and lies on earthquake territory.====
	149	+**Lavelle et al 11** Marianne Lavelle and Josie Garthwaite (National Geographic News) "Is Armenia's Nuclear Plant the World's Most Dangerous?" National Geographic News April 14^^th^^ 2011 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/04/110412-most-dangerous-nuclear-plant-armenia/ JW
	150	+In the shadow of Mount Ararat, the beloved and sorrowful national symbol of Armenia
	151	+AND
	152	+no water in it, and accident progression with no mitigation at all."
	153	+
	154	+
	155	+====Armenian Meltdown kills agriculture and threatens four other countries.====
	156	+**Sahakyan 4/27**-16 Armine (Human rights activist based in Armenia) "Armenia Continues to Gamble on Aging Nuclear Plant in a Quake-Prone Area" Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/armine-sahakyan/armenia-continues-to-gamb'b'9788186.html JW
	157	+So Armenia continues to make due with the Metsamor plant. The International Atomic Energy
	158	+AND
	159	+And the region and the world will join Armenians in holding their breath.
	160	+
	161	+
	162	+====New reactors won’t solve – can still melt down and cause increased cancer rates.====
	163	+**Idayatova 5/20**/16 Anakhanum "Armenia’s Metsamor nuclear plant can cause major radiation accident" Trend News Agency http://en.trend.az/world/turkey/2536379.html JW
	164	+Armenia's Metsamor nuclear power plant is a major threat not only for the entire Caucasus
	165	+AND
	166	+extremely dangerous enterprise, even if a new type of reactor is built.
	167	+
	168	+
	169	+====Harms to Armenian agriculture cause mass increases in poverty.====
	170	+**McKinley et al 2** Terry (Senior Policy Adviser on poverty and macroeconomic policies in the Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP, New York. He is the editor of UNDP’s global poverty report, Overcoming Human Poverty. He is the author of The Distribution of Wealth in Rural China, coauthor of Implementing a Human Development Strategy and editor of Macroeconomic Policies, Growth and Poverty Reduction. Much of his work in recent years has centered on China, Mongolia, Central Asia, Vietnam and the transition economies of the former Soviet Union and eastern and central Europe.) (this report is published with others, but the part I cut is just by Terry McKinley) "Growth, Inequality and Poverty in Armenia" A Report Commissioned by the Poverty Group, Bureau for Development Policy, United Nations Development Programme August 2002 http://www.ipc-undp.org/publications/reports/Armenia.pdf JW
	171	+In order to reduce Armenia’s widespread poverty, a development strategy and supporting public policies
	172	+AND
	173	+the government in equitably distributing the country’s agricultural wealth had a propoor impact.
	174	+
	175	+
	176	+===Prolif Adv.===
	177	+
	178	+
	179	+====Metasomor can be used to make nuclear weapons====
	180	+**Azer News 9/13**/16 ~~S.Korea says Armenia poses nuke threat to entire region, http://www.azernews.az/region/102159.html, ml~~
	181	+The Armenian Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) poses a nuclear threat and the
	182	+AND
	183	+smuggling of nuclear materials, we will all face hastening self-destruction."
	184	+
	185	+
	186	+====Armenian nuclearization destabilizes the Caucuses and causes Iran prolif—risk is extremely high now====
	187	+Petra **Posega** 5-30-**16** ~~Security Studies candidate with a degree in political science. She writes for platforms and magazines on four continents, including Geopolitics of Energy, Addleton and AEI Insights: An International Journal of Asia-Europe Relations, Dangerous Nuclear Security Failures in Russia's Backyard, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/dangerous-nuclear-security-failures-russias-backyard-16392?page=show, ml~~
	188	+Nuclear security is seemingly at the forefront of global attention, but the large framework
	189	+AND
	190	+would be stabilizing the Caucasus in a just, fair and sustainable way.
	191	+
	192	+
	193	+====Central Asia conflict will escalate to US-Russian nuclear war.====
	194	+**McDermott 11**—Roger McDermott, Honorary senior fellow, department of politics and international relations, university of Kent at Canterbury and senior fellow in Eurasian military studies, Jamestown Foundation ~~December 6, 2011, "General Makarov Highlights the "Risk" of Nuclear Conflict," Eurasia Daily Monitor, http://www.jamestown.org/programs/edm/single/?tx'ttnews5Btt'news5D=38748andtx'ttnews5BbackPid5D=27andcHash=dfb6e8da90b34a10f50382157e9bc117~~
	195	+In the current election season the Russian media has speculated that the Defense Minister AnatoliySerdyukov
	196	+AND
	197	+than the old dogs of the Cold War would wish to chew on.
	198	+
	199	+
	200	+====Iran prolif causes nuke war – miscalc and rapid escalation.====
	201	+**Goldberg 12** Jeffrey (Bloomberg View columnist and a national correspondent for the Atlantic.) "How Iran Could Trigger Accidental Armageddon: Jeffrey Goldberg" January 23^^rd^^ 2012 Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-01-24/how-iran-may-trigger-accidental-armageddon-commentary-by-jeffrey-goldberg JW
	202	+Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — One of the arguments often made in favor
	203	+AND
	204	+arguing that a nuclear Iran is a containable problem. It is not.
	205	+
	206	+
	207	+===Terror Adv.===
	208	+
	209	+
	210	+====Nuclear waste products and uranium are being stolen from Armenia’s nuclear power plant now. That causes dirty bombs and nuclear terror.====
	211	+**Murinson 5/3** Alexander "The other nuclear threat" Washington Times May 3^^rd^^ 2016 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/3/alexander-murinson-armenias-nuclear-threat/ JW
	212	+The fourth Nuclear Security Summit was recently hosted in America’s capital by President Obama.
	213	+AND
	214	+Mr. Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit will prove useful and visionary after all.
	215	+
	216	+
	217	+====Terrorism is the most likely existential threat.====
	218	+**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 14^^th^^ 2009 JW
	219	+The response was very different among nuclear and national security experts when Indiana Republican Sen
	220	+AND
	221	+nothing to do with those attacks in the name of sending a message.
	222	+
	223	+
	224	+===Underview (Theory)===

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