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-====Moral uncertainty means we should prevent extinction ==== |
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-**Bostrom 12** ~~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 moral uncertainty suggest an alternative, complementary way of looking at existential |
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-====Independent of considerations of future happiness or life, death is ontologically the worst possible evil since it destroys the subject iself==== |
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-**Paterson, 03 – Department of Philosophy, Providence College, Rhode Island (Craig, "A Life Not Worth Living?", Studies in Christian Ethics, http://sce.sagepub.com)** |
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-Contrary to those accounts, I would argue that it is death per se that |
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-the person, the very source and condition of all human possibility.82 |
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-====Only utilitarianism can serve as the basis to legitimately justify policy to the public. Government actions will inevitably lead to trade-offs between citizens. The only justifiable way to resolve these conflicts is utilitarianism – solves their constituivism args because the US is a democracy and Woller is specific to democracies==== |
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-**Gary Woller ~~BYU Prof., "An Overview by Gary Woller", A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics, June 1997, pg. 10~~** |
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-Moreover, virtually all public policies entail some redistribution of economic or political resources, |
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-perhaps at times a necessary, basis for public policy in a democracy. |