Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Thomas SK | Judge: Jared Woods
All governmental actions and inactions are choices that should be judged based on their outcomes, and thus overall good should be how their actions are judged. Sunstein and Vermeule:
Cass Sunstein (professor of jurisprudence at U Chicago Law School) and Adrian Vermeule (professor of law at U Chicago Law School). “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? Acts, Omissions, and Life-Life Tradeoffs.” Stanford Law Review, December 2005.
In our view, any effort to distinguish between acts and omissions goes wrong by
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the distinction between authorizing murder and failing to prevent it would become thin.
And, the government must always deal with differing individual moral perspectives by promoting general welfare.
Woller 97 Woller, Gary BYU Prof., “An Overview by Gary Woller”, A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics, June 1997, pg. 10
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.
Consequences are the only morally relevant determination since they’re the only form of value we can experience.
Harris 10 Sam, 2010. CEO Project Reason; PHD UCLA Neuroscience; BA Stanford Philosophy. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values.”
Here is my (consequentialist) starting point: all questions of value (right
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, therefore, consequences and conscious states remain the foundation of all values.
And, means no infinite regress claims since the state always makes reasonably reliable predictions.
There’s no stable conception of personal identity, which means we use util. Shoemaker
The Journal of Value Inquiry 33: 183–199, 1999. UTILITARIANISM AND PERSONAL IDENTITY © 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. 183 Utilitarianism and Personal Identity DAVID W. SHOEMAKER Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, 327 Clement Hall, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
Doing so has a number of significant implications for rationality and morality. For one
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deeply unified and are, in fact, metaphysically like sets of lives.
5. Empiricism – All knowledge stems from experience. We know nothing before sensory experience since we must know a feeling to be able to perceive it. The natural world imposes limits upon non-natural epistemologies. This implies an obligation to maximize utility since our desire to seek out certain experiences and avoid others collapses into pleasure maximization.
And, even moral arguments requiring universalizability will require maximizing expected utility. Lazari-Radek and Singer explain Hare’s argument:
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics, 2014.
For Hare, when I prescribe something, using moral language, my prescription commits
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the maximal satisfaction of interests of desires—commonly known as preference utilitarianism.
Therefore, the standard for morality is maximizing expected utility.
Contention
Contention One: Nuclear energy is a threat to the planet.
Nuclear energy is becoming increasingly irrelevant as the cost of renewables continues to go down dramatically. Lindon in 15.
Henry Lindon, “Study: Wind Energy and Solar Energy Beating Conventional Generation Modalities On Costs Of Production”, http://sustainnovate.ae/en/industry-news/detail/study-wind-energy-solar-energy-beating-conventional-generation-modalities-o/ 11/30/15.
Wind energy and solar energy are notably beating out conventional generation modalities (coal,
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25 just over the last year, according to the new study.
And, falling storage costs mean that renewables will soon provide 100 of electricity, making nuclear obsolete. Evans-Pitchard:
Ambrose Evans-Pitchard (International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph). “Holy Grail of energy policy in sight as battery technology smashes the old order.” The Telegraph. August 10, 2016. JY.
The world's next energy revolution is probably no more than five or ten years away
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-wreck of a project was not killed long ago," he said.
And the myth that nuclear energy is environmentally friendly is totally unfounded relative to renewables and because of the emissions in the fuel cycle process. Diesendorf in 16:
Mark Diesendorf, Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales, “Renewable Energy versus Nuclear: Dispelling the Myths”, Energy Post, 5/31/16, http://www.energypost.eu/renewable-energy-versus-nuclear-dispelling-myths/
Neither nuclear energy nor most renewable technologies emit CO2 during operation. However, meaningful
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neither of these conditions is likely to be met for decades at least.
The problem is not just that nuclear fuels are dirty and will become more dirty, they detract from real solutions to climate change because:
A) nuclear energy consumes political attention, which means that renewables and efficiency standards get less political support, further delaying a move to radical energy efficiency. Porritt in 11:
Jonathan Porritt, Director of Forum for the Future, Why the UK must choose renewables over nuclear: an answer to Monbiot”, The Guardian, 7/26/11, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/jul/26/george-monbiot-renewable-nuclear
The Sustainable Development Commission's 2006 report commented specifically on this: "Were it to
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and absolutely nothing to put efficiency at the heart of that reform process.
And B) because of efficiency of renewables, the nuclear industry is working to actively make renewables more expensive in order to make them more cost effective, meaning any negative cost argument is based on a cruel lie.
Mark Cooper, PhD and Senior Fellow for Economic Analysis Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School, The Economic Failure of Nuclear Power and the Development of a Low Carbon Electricity Future: Why Small Modular Reactors are Part of the Problem, Not the Solution, May 2014, http://216.30.191.148/Cooper20SMRs20are20Part20of20the20Problem,20Not20the20Solution20FINAL2.pdf
The collapse of nuclear economics has two immediate and important implications for public policy.
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of nuclear power, it is about the fundamental direction of climate policy.
Not switching to renewable, less carbon emitting energy is not only economically wasteful, but threatens human survival. Auerbach in 15.
David Auerbach, “A child born today may live to see humanity’s end, unless…” Reuters, June 18, 2015, http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/18/a-child-born-today-may-live-to-see-humanitys-end-unless/
Humans will be extinct in 100 years because the planet will be uninhabitable, said
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multiplier” and is considering its potential disruptive impact across all its planning.
Underview
- We disidentify with the state as a survival tactic, taking what we can get in an attempt to cope with the daily violence of oppression, while leaving the rest of our identity intact. The question shouldn’t be about whether we ought to revolt-but rather how we stay safe while doing so.
Muñoz 99 José Esteban. Disidentifications: Queers of color and the performance of politics. Vol. 2. U of Minnesota Press, P. 10-12. 1999. Professor of Performance arts at NYU
The theory of disidentification that I am offering is meant to contribute to an understanding
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works to hold on to this object and invest it with new life.
2. Oxford American dictionary defines prohibit as:
Formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority.
This means we use a comparative worlds paradigm where the affirmative defends implementation of a
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a 3-1 advantage. Also, means truth testing isn’t textual.
