Tournament: TFA State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Clements MM | Judge: JAY CONKLIN
That outweighs on moral disagreement – ethics are regressive in principle since controversy prevents acting on moral laws. Prefer naturalism since there is no philosophical controversy on the correlation between moral facts and natural facts. Pleasure is an intrinsic good.
Moen 16 Ole Martin, PhD, Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oslo. "An Argument for Hedonism." Journal of Value Inquiry 50(2). 2016. https://www.academia.edu/26656561/_An_Argument_for_Hedonism_by_Ole_Martin_Moen. PeteZ
Let us start by observing, empirically, that a widely shared judgment about intrinsic
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places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value.
Thus, moral naturalism prima facie justifies hedonism through naturalism, empirical facts that are explained and physically verified from science should be used which only a theory of pain and pleasure can provide since there is a psychological grounding for why they are good and bad. Thus, the standard is consistency with hedonic act utilitarianism
Extinction outweighs—-it's the upmost moral evil and disavowal of the risk makes it more likely.
Elizabeth Finneron-Burns 17, Teaching Fellow at the University of Warwick and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies in Stockholm, "What's wrong with human extinction?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2017, TandF.
Many, though certainly not all, people might believe that it would be wrong
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are also valid reasons to reject principles that permitted or required human extinction.
Jones 9 Alex Jones 9-15-2009 "An Argument Why Journalists Should Not Abandon Objectivity" https://niemanreports.org/articles/an-argument-why-journalists-should-not-abandon-objectivity/ (Alex S. Jones, a 1982 Nieman Fellow, is director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.)Elmer
In their book "The Elements of Journalism: What Newspeople Should Know and the
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akin to dismissing trial by jury because it isn't perfect in its judgments.
Gutman 12 David Gutman 10-25-2012 "Objectivity Does Not Mean Neutrality: The Danger of False Equivalency in the Media" https://www.commondreams.org/views/2012/10/25/objectivity-does-not-mean-neutrality-danger-false-equivalency-media (Ph.D. Assistant Professor. IMSE.)Elmer
And yet, too often, they do not. The media, too often
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what both sides say and stake out a safe position in the middle.
Policy debates motivate activism—apolitical approaches are coopted and cede the political.
Coverstone 05 ~Alan Coverstone, "Acting on Activism: Realizing the Vision of Debate with Pro-social Impact," (Nov. 17, 2005). Coverstone is debate coach at Wake Forest University.~ TJHSSTAD
An important concern emerges when Mitchell describes reflexive fiat as a contest strategy capable of
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that I would spend my life trying to make the difference I imagined.
News has hit a Commercialization Crisis – Corporate interests directly undermine Objective and Truthful reporting.
Omenugha et Al 8, Kate Azuka, and Majority Oji. "News commercialization, ethics and objectivity in journalism practice in Nigeria: strange bedfellows?." Revista Estudos em Comunicação-Communication Studies (2008). (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria)Elmer
What is news commercialization? UNESCO (1980:152) alluded to the commercialization
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raises ethical questions and challenges the notion of objectivity in Nigerian news reports.
Asogwa et Al 12, Chika Euphemia, and Ezekiel S. Asemah. "News commercialisation, objective journalism practice and the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria." Higher education of social science 3.2 (2012): 27-34. (Head, Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria.)Elmer
NEWS COMMERCIALISATION IS A THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT News is no longer news, as
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its policies and programmes, even when they are inimical to public interest.
Asogwa et Al 12, Chika Euphemia, and Ezekiel S. Asemah. "News commercialisation, objective journalism practice and the sustenance of democracy in Nigeria." Higher education of social science 3.2 (2012): 27-34. (Head, Department of Mass Communication, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Kogi State, Nigeria.)Elmer
OBJECTIVE JOURNALISM BUILDS DEMOCRACY Journalism has a lot to contribute to the development of democracy
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an unfettered flow of information from the government, through the pluralistic media.
Oberiri 16, Apuke Destiny. "Journalists' perception of news commercialization and its implication on media credibility in Nigeria." World Scientific News 55 (2016): 63-76. (Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Taraba State University)Elmer
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY "The mass media ought to play the role of gathering
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journalist engages in news commercialization the more it loses its trust and credibility.
Sands 20 John Sands 8-4-2020 "Americans are losing faith in an objective media. A new Gallup/Knight study explores why." https://knightfoundation.org/articles/americans-are-losing-faith-in-an-objective-media-a-new-gallup-knight-study-explores-why/ (Researcher at the Knights Foundation)Elmer
Americans have high aspirations for the news media to be a trusted, independent watchdog
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say those outlets are trying to persuade people to adopt a certain opinion.
Hamilton and Krosnick 20 James Hamilton and Jon Krosnick 2-27-2020 "Stanford researchers discuss journalism and democracy in lead up to Super Tuesday" https://news.stanford.edu/2020/02/27/journalism-and-democracy/ (Hamilton also directs the Stanford Journalism Program, is a co-founder of the Stanford Computational Journalism Lab and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. Krosnick also directs the Political Psychology Research Group and is a professor, by courtesy, of psychology.)Elmer
How important is an objective media for a functioning democracy? Hamilton: Objectivity was
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up with more disparate views of reality than was the case decades ago.
Democracy solves war and even Nuclear War.
Diamond 19, Larry. Ill winds: Saving democracy from Russian rage, Chinese ambition, and American complacency. Penguin Books, 2019. (professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University, PhD in Sociology)Elmer
The most obvious response to the ill winds blowing from the world's autocracies is to
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proliferating weapons of mass destruction, or threatening the territory of their neighbors.
Nuke war causes extinction AND outweighs other existential risks
PND 16. internally citing Zbigniew Brzezinski, Council of Foreign Relations and former national security adviser to President Carter, Toon and Robock's 2012 study on nuclear winter in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Gareth Evans' International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Report, Congressional EMP studies, studies on nuclear winter by Seth Baum of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and Martin Hellman of Stanford University, and U.S. and Russian former Defense Secretaries and former heads of nuclear missile forces, brief submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, Open-Ended Working Group on nuclear risks. A/AC.286/NGO/13. 05-03-2016. http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/OEWG/2016/Documents/NGO13.pdf Re-cut by Elmer
Consequences human survival 12. Even if the 'other' side does NOT launch in response
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course the immediate post-nuclear results for Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well.