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+Because I believe that nuclear power is a tool of silence, not of discussion, I affirm the resolution “Resolved, countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power.” |
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+Only through deliberation can we arrive at a conception of morality. |
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+Freeman writes Samuel Freeman, Deliberative Democracy: A Sympathetic Comment |
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+Deliberative democracy assumes ... a “search for truth.” |
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+Empirics confirm the comparative benefit of deliberative democracy |
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+Habermas writes Political Communication in Media Society: Does Democracy Still Enjoy an Epistemic Dimension? The Impact of Normative Theory on Empirical Research by Jurgen Habermas, Philosophy Department, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe Universitat Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany |
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+Whether deliberation does ... of fair argumentation. |
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+The value criterion is maintaining structures for democratic deliberation. |
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+Prefer: |
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+1. Analytic |
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+2. Deliberation is self-correcting—solves back disads to the aff. |
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+Christiano clarifies Christiano, Thomas (University of Arizona). Democracy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 7/27, 2006 |
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+Epistemologically, democracy is ... advance those interests.” |
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+3. Analytic |
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+Let me start with this. What do government nuclear power programs and foggy windows have in common? |
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+They’re a lot less transparent than they should be. |
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+Kyne and Bolin write Dean Kyne Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and Bob Bolin School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University “Emerging Environmental Justice Issues in Nuclear Power and Radioactive Contamination” Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2016, 13, 700 |
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+Public participation: While ... be adequately addressed. |
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+There’s widespread corruption in the nuclear industry. |
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+Tanter writes Richard Tanter, "After Fukushima: A Survey of Corruption in the Global Nuclear Power Industry", Asian Perspective 37 (2013), 475–500 |
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+During the eighteen ... Bulgarian and Russian cases. |
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+Secrecy and corruption take out deliberative processes because they prevent effective participation. |
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+Hamilton writes Lee H. Hamilton former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council “COLUMN: Government secrecy is killing our democracy behind closed doors” Mar 30, 2016 |
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+Openness is not ... the best disinfectant.” |
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+Nuclear energy is a continuation of environmental racism—it has marginalized indigenous populations since day one and extends colonialism into the 21st century. |
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+Falk et al (Professor Richard Falk, Princeton University, Dr. Frank Settle, Washington and Lee University,Dr. Michael Wallace, University of British Columbia, Dr. Tom Whaley, Washington and Lee University, Dr. Lawrence S. Wittner, State University of New York, Albany, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/about-us/about-nuclear-files.htm, an Philips, MD, Project Ploughshares, W. Alton Jones Foundation, The John Merck Fund, Ploughshares Fund, The Simons Foundation, “Nuclear Colonialism”, Web. L.A.) |
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+Distinguished members of ... of nuclear colonialism. |
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+Analytic |
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+Governments ignore native populations, and when they claim to have prior consent it’s usually obtained coercively and portrayed dishonestly. |
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+Green explains this phenomenon Jim Green; “Radioactive waste and the nuclear war on Australia's Aboriginal people”; The Ecologist; July 2016 |
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+Aboriginal groups were ... waste dump proposals. |
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+Excluding people from society justifies dehumanization and rights violations- solving this is a prerequisite to having any moral system. |
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+Opotow writes Susan Opotow, "From Moral Exclusion to Moral Inclusion: Theory for Teaching Peace," Theory Into Practice, http://www.nmcadv.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/From-Moral-Exclusion-to-Moral-Inclusion.pdf |
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+Our scope of ... areas, are included. |
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+Public trust in the nuclear industry is at rock bottom—this takes out negative claims of safety and sustainability. |
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+Ramana writes .V. Ramana (2011) Nuclear power and the public, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 67:4, 43-51, DOI: 10.1177/0096340211413358 |
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+A number of ... statements about safety. |
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+Nuclear power upholds status quo differences, dividing the public while making corporate sponsors richer. |
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+UCC writes Union Of Concerned Commies, Nuclear Power Is No Accident (Primary Source – Flyer), April 1979 |
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+Nuclear power is ... wasn't collapsing already). |
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+Prefer systemic impacts over linear link chains |
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+Cohn 13 Nate Cohn (Georgetown). Improving the Norms and Practices of Policy Debate. «November 24, 2013, 02:10:58 PM» http://www.cedadebate.org/forum/index.php/topic,5416.msg12020.html#msg12020 |
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+The fact that ... noise of prediction. |