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	1	+==Part 1 is Framewrok==
	2	+
	3	+====The role of the ballot is to vote for the most desirable written policy option.====
	4	+Nixon 2k ( (Makani,~~Executive Director of The Praxis Project, a nonprofit organization helping communities use media and policy advocacy to advance health equity and justice~~, "Changing the Rules: What Public Policy Means for Organizing" Colorlines 3.2, 2000)
	5	+Getting It in Writing Much of the work of framing what we stand for takes
	6	+AND
	7	+should be. And then we must be committed to making it so.
	8	+
	9	+
	10	+====I value morality as per the evaluative term "ought" in the resolution, which is defined as "used to express duty or moral obligation". By Merriam-Webster.====
	11	+
	12	+
	13	+====The standard is maximizing societal welfare. ====
	14	+
	15	+====Experience is the source of epistemic knowledge as it is how we empirically ground our existence. We cannot derive truth from reason as conceptions of reason differ from person to person and reason is socially constructed and thus dynamic. Sentience is the only non-arbitrary source of normativity. Pain is objectively bad and pleasure is objectively good. ====
	16	+Thomas **Nagel ~’86** ~~"The View From Nowhere", 1986~~ //AG
	17	+I shall defend the unsurprising claim that sensory pleasure is good and pain bad,
	18	+AND
	19	+such cases. There can be no reason to reject the appearances here.
	20	+
	21	+====Util is the most educational because it~’s how states make decisions; this gives portable skills in the realm of public policy. Education is the only portable impact from debate so prefer my standard because it~’s more educational.====
	22	+
	23	+====Ethics are constrained by the capabilities of the actor- we cannot ethically prescribe that a blind man be obligated to see. As such, because governments are constrained by their obligation to protecting their people, utilitarianism is the only sensical ethic.====
	24	+
	25	+====Non-utilitarian ethics fail within the realm of public policy. Appeals to a-priori moral principles, intent-based ethics, and deontological ethics, fail in reference to policy making because they fail to recognize inevitable trade-offs. Only util resolves this and allows policies to be justified to the public – that~’s a prior question.====
	26	+Woller 1997 (Gary, Economics Professor at BYU, "Policy Currents," June, http://apsapolicysection.org/vol7_2/72.pdf )
	27	+Moreover, virtually all public policies entail some redistribution of economic or political resources,
	28	+AND
	29	+perhaps at times a necessary, basis for public policy in a democracy.
	30	+
	31	+==Part 2 is Inherency==
	32	+
	33	+Armenia has plans for new nuclear reactors but they~’ve been postponed –they~’re stuck with Metsamor for the foreseeable future.
	34	+**Sahakyan 16 **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
	35	+Armenia was supposed to have a new nuclear power plant this year that would replace
	36	+AND
	37	+is the new plant not operational — work on it hasn~’t even begun.
	38	+
	39	+Armenia has existing legislation that vows to build new nuclear reactors.
	40	+**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 2014https://dspace.aua.am/xmlui/bitstream/handle/123456789/615/Mane_Adamyan.pdf?sequence=1
	41	+In October 2009 the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia has adopted a law
	42	+AND
	43	+materials costs64, this study takes the initial price for the new NPP.
	44	+
	45	+==Part 3 is Plan Text==
	46	+
	47	+====Resolved: the countries in the Southern Caucus will prohibit the production of nuclear power.====
	48	+
	49	+The Metsamor power plant – Armenia~’s only form of nuclear power – is incredibly dangerous. Uses old tech and lies on earthquake territory.
	50	+**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 14th 2011http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2011/04/110412-most-dangerous-nuclear-plant-armenia/
	51	+In the shadow of Mount Ararat, the beloved and sorrowful national symbol of Armenia
	52	+AND
	53	+no water in it, and accident progression with no mitigation at all."
	54	+
	55	+
	56	+==Part 4 is Poverty Advantage==
	57	+Armenian Meltdown kills agriculture and threatens four other countries.
	58	+**Sahakyan 16** 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
	59	+So Armenia continues…..holding their breath.
	60	+
	61	+New reactors won~’t be built, not enough infrastructure and banning nuclear power key to prevent bankruptcy.
	62	+**McGinnity 15 **Ian "Risky Business – Roadblocks to Building Armenia~’s New Nuclear Power Plant" Regional Studies Center May 25th 2015 http://regional-studies.org/blog/445-250515~~23_edn4
	63	+Most importantly, Armenia faces feeble prospects for long-term GDP growth and short
	64	+AND
	65	+of substantial assets that would satisfactorily pad potential investors against risk of failure.
	66	+
	67	+Armenian nuclear reactors are close enough to urban areas to increase the spread of cancer among citizens. Even if a new reactor is built, the same structural harms will occur.
	68	+**Idayatova 16 **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
	69	+Armenia~’s Metsamor nuclear ….. reactor is built.
	70	+
	71	+Harms to Armenian agriculture and preventing economic growth cause mass increases in poverty.
	72	+**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
	73	+In order to reduce Armenia~’s widespread poverty, a development strategy and supporting public policies
	74	+AND
	75	+the government in equitably distributing the country~’s agricultural wealth had a propoor impact.
	76	+
	77	+====Poverty is the worst form of structural violence and creates conditions worse than nuclear war. Poverty is also effectively genocide against the poor-it is a way to get rid of people that are weak or inferior.====
	78	+Mumia Abu Jamal is a journalist and political activist, 7-15-2009 ~~"A Quiet and Deadly Violence" http://www.angelfire.com/az/catchphraze/mumiaswords.html - 9/19/98~~
	79	+Gilligan notes: ~~E~~very fifteen years, on the average, as
	80	+AND
	81	+This fatal and systematic violence may be called The War on the Poor.
	82	+
	83	+
	84	+==Part 5 is Prolif Advantage==
	85	+Metasomor can be used to make nuclear weapons
	86	+**Azer News 16 **9/13/16 S.Korea says Armenia poses nuke threat to entire region, http://www.azernews.az/region/102159.html, ml
	87	+The Armenian Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) poses a nuclear threat and the
	88	+AND
	89	+smuggling of nuclear materials, we will all face hastening self-destruction."
	90	+
	91	+Armenian nuclearization destabilizes the Caucuses and causes Iran prolif—risk is extremely high now
	92	+**Posega 16 **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
	93	+
	94	+Nuclear security is seemingly at the forefront of global attention, but the large framework
	95	+AND
	96	+would be stabilizing the Caucasus in a just, fair and sustainable way.
	97	+
	98	+Central Asia conflict will escalate to US-Russian nuclear war.
	99	+**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
	100	+In the current election season the Russian media has speculated that the Defense Minister Anatoliy
	101	+AND
	102	+than the old dogs of the Cold War would wish to chew on.
	103	+
	104	+Iran prolif causes nuke war – miscalc and rapid escalation.
	105	+**Goldberg 12** Jeffrey (Bloomberg View columnist and a national correspondent for the Atlantic.) "How Iran Could Trigger Accidental Armageddon: Jeffrey Goldberg" January 23rd 20 12 Bloomberghttps://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2012-01-24/how-iran-may-trigger-accidental-armageddon-commentary-by-jeffrey-goldberg
	106	+
	107	+One of the arguments often made in favor of bombing Iran to cripple its nuclear
	108	+AND
	109	+arguing that a nuclear Iran is a containable problem. It is not.
	110	+
	111	+
	112	+==Part 6 is Terror Advantage==
	113	+Nuclear waste products and uranium are being stolen from Armenia~’s nuclear power plant now. That causes dirty bombs and nuclear terror.
	114	+**Murinson 16** 5/3 Alexander "The other nuclear threat" Washington Times May 3rd 2016 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/3/alexander-murinson-armenias-nuclear-threat/
	115	+The fourth Nuclear Security Summit was recently hosted in America~’s capital by President Obama.
	116	+AND
	117	+Mr. Obama~’s Nuclear Security Summit will prove useful and visionary after all.
	118	+
	119	+One nuclear terror attack would cause mass death and wreck the economy.
	120	+**Schwartz 2015** (Benjamin Worked at the Departments of State, Defense and Energy; Right of Boom: The Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism; The Overlook Press; p. 1-2; kdf)
	121	+
	122	+ON AN OTHERWISE CALM AND UNEVENTFUL MORNING, A small nuclear weapon explodes in downtown
	123	+AND
	124	+of the attack that the president of the United States knows for certain.

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