Tournament: Regionals | Round: 3 | Opponent: Everglades AW | Judge: Tenebaum
Framework
My standard is maximizing expected well-being.
1 – Consequentialism is necessary to evaluate any ethical theory – specifically, existential risk outweighs under any framework because of the inherent value of current and future generations
Pummer 15 (Theron Pummer – Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, “Moral Agreement on Saving the World,” 5-18-15, http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/05/moral-agreement-on-saving-the-world/)
There appears to be lot of disagreement in moral philosophy. Whether these many apparent
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be acting very wrongly.” (From chapter 36 of On What Matters)
2 – Death precludes any other ethical framework – right action is constrained by our ability to live and death destroys the subject in its entirety
3 – Actor Specificity – governments act on the aggregate of their citizens – they must be consequentialists because every action benefits some and harms others
Extinction outweighs because it is irreversible
MacAskill 14 (William MacAskill – Associate Professor in Philosophy and Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute, University of Oxford, “Normative Uncertainty,” 2014, University of Oxford PhD Thesis, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.677.4121andrep=rep1andtype=pdf)
However, even if we believe in a moral view according to which human extinction
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have better evidence about how to evaluate human extinction than we currently have.
Contention 1: Space Mining
Private space mining is coming now because of global recognition of property rights
Gilbert 21 (Alex Gilbert – complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines, “Mining in Space Is Coming,” 4-26-21, https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming)
Space exploration is back. After decades of disappointment, a combination of better technology
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to as much as $1 trillion by 2040 as private investment soars.
Space mining is key to sustainable mining, especially rare earth metals – shortages ensure resource wars
MacWhorter 16 (Kevin McWhorter – JD Candidate at William and Mary, “Sustainable Mining: Incentivizing Asteroid Mining in the Name of
Environmentalism,” February 2016, 40 Wm. and Mary Envtl. L. and
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of mining need not be sacrificed for the sake of the environment.38
Resource wars on Earth escalate – even perception of scarcity triggers conflict
Klare 13 (Michael Klare – professor emeritus of peace and world-security studies at Hampshire College and senior visiting fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, “How Resource Scarcity and Climate Change Could Produce a Global Explosion,” 4-22-13, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-resource-scarcity-and-climate-change-could-produce-global-explosion/)
Brace yourself. You may not be able to tell yet, but according to
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pattern is very well understood, and has been evident throughout human history.
Contention 2: Colonization
Only private sector solves space colonization and are doing so now.
Diakovska and Aliieva 20 (Halyna Diakovska – Associate Professor, Donbass State Pedagogical University, and Olga Aliieva – Associate Professor, Donbass State Pedagogical University, “Consequentialism and Commercial Space Exploration,” January 2020, Philosophy and Cosmology 24:5-24, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338707972_Consequentialism_and_Commercial_Space_Exploration)
The experience of the USA showed that leadership in space exploration, which is maintained
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a part of the global economy and the sustainable development of the society.
Space colonization is key to avert multiple existential risks
Green 21 (Brian Patrick Green – director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University, Space Ethics, p5, https://books.google.com/books?id=z1VDEAAAQBAJandpg=PA5andlpg=PA5anddq=Another+reason+that+humans+may+want+to+explore+space+would+be+to+create+a+E2809Cbackup+EarthE2809D+to+hedge+againstandsource=blandots=FgSow0ZIlrandsig=ACfU3U3_Pg9NQNM6K2Mk4X6SPAtuXiV0zwandhl=enandsa=Xandved=2ahUKEwig7IT4isj1AhV6TTABHcBQAwIQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepageandq=Another20reason20that20humans20may20want20to20explore20space20would20be20to20create20a20E2809Cbackup20EarthE2809D20to20hedge20againstandf=false)
Another reason that humans may want to explore space would be to create a “
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. This is a dire fate, but less terrible than the first.
The sooner the better – there is intrinsic value in colonization
Baum 16 (Seth Baum – Global Catastrophic Risk Institute, “The Ethics of Outer Space: A Consequentialist Perspective” in The Ethics of Space Exploration, p109-123, 5-20-16, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2807362)
Space colonization is notable because it may be able to bring utterly immense increases in
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or bringing ecosystems into Dyson swarms could bring immense amounts of ecosystem flourishing.