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| Yale | 3 | Scarsdale ZG | Sam Azbel |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All | 10/11/16 |
1 - Util FWTournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SM | Judge: Daniel Alessandro First, empiricism is key to avoid regressRichards '86 (Robert, "A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics," Biology and Philosophy) bracketed for offensive language Second, phenomenal introspection reliably informs us of pain's badness and pleasure's goodness as an empirical basis for ethicsSinhababu '13 (Sinhababu, Neil, "The epistemic argument for hedonism," 2013) PO Thus, the standard is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.Impact framing: extinction first—moral uncertainty necessitates minimizing existential riskBostrom '05 (Nick, professor of philosophy at Oxford~, July 2005, "On our Biggest Problems" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/44) PO | 10/13/16 |
SO - CP - LFTRTournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SM | Judge: Daniel Alessandro Countries ought to acquire nuclear power only from Liquid Fluoride Thorium ReactorsLFTRs solve your offenseCooper 15 ~Ryan Cooper 15, 6-18-2015, "Why the U.S. should invest a lot more in nuclear research," The Week, http://theweek.com/articles/561192/why-should-invest-lot-more-nuclear-research~~ AG | 10/13/16 |
SO - DA - IcebreakersTournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SM | Judge: Daniel Alessandro Russia and the West are on the path to warAllen 15 ~John Allen 15, 4-22-2015, "Countdown to War: The Coming U.S.-Russia Conflict," National Interest, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/countdown-war-the-coming-us-russia-conflict-12698~~ AG Nuclear icebreakers make emerging arctic trade routes accessibleReterski 14 ~Milosz Reterski 14, 12-11-2014, "Breaking the Ice," Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-12-11/breaking-ice~~ AG Arctic trade routes create Russia-West trade cooperationKruskal 1/18 ~Joshua Kruskal 16, 1-18-2016, "Arctic Trade Route Presents Opportunity for Russia-West Cooperation," International Policy Digest, http://intpolicydigest.org/2016/01/18/arctic-trade-route-presents-opportunity-for-russia-west-cooperation/~~ AG Trade cooperation prevents warMooney 14 ~Loren Mooney 14, 5-28-2014, "Matthew O. Jackson: Can Trade Prevent War?," Stanford Graduate School of Business, https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/matthew-o-jackson-can-trade-prevent-war~~ AG | 10/13/16 |
SO - DA - WarmingTournament: Yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stuyvesant PY | Judge: Becca Traber U.S. emissions low nowMcMahon 6/23 ~Jeff McMahon, contributor at Forbes, "U.S. On Track To Achieve 2030 Emissions Goals In 2016," Forbes Magazine, June 23, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/06/23/u-s-on-track-to-achieve-2030-emissions-goals-in-2016/~~#fa3d9fa42c8e~~ JW Nuclear is the best solution to climate change—every alternative fails—future tech solves squo shortcomingsCohen 2012 Warming causes extinctionMazo '10 (Jeffrey Mazo – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122) | 10/11/16 |
SO - K - FoDTournament: Yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stuyvesant PY | Judge: Becca Traber Their politicization and fear of nuclear power is a conscious or unconscious refusal to confront death.Pahner '76 (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS This fear is symbolic displacement—it's a palliative scapegoat that allows us to transfer our fears of nuclear war onto separate objects.Pahner '76 (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS Our fear of the chaotic unknown is self-blackmail, internalized securitization. We have encased ourselves in plastic cellophane to prolong our shelf lives, reducing the body to no more than a diseased object to preserve—what value is there in living if we just do so to maximize survival?Baudrillard 2 ~Jean, v smaht person, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp. 177-180, Sage Publications~ CRLS PO Turns case—repression of death is the root cause of every violent and oppressive dichotomy.Baudrillard 3 ~Jean, "Symbolic Exchange and Death", pg. 125-126~ CRLS PO The alt is to sacrifice the 1AC to endorse symbolic exchange—embrace death as the only way to destroy the system.Robinson 12 ~Andrew, "The Rise of Capitalism and Exclusion of Death", 2012, http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2~~ CRLS PO
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