Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: SOUTH EUGENE INDEPENDENT KS | Judge: VIREN ABHYANKAR
The value is justice, defined by Merriam Webster as "Definition of JUSTICE," https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/justice
the quality of being just, impartial, or fair
The value criterion is utilitarianism, the greatest good for the greatest number.
Askari 20 -- economist, scholar of economic development in the Middle East
Hossein, and Abbas Mirakhor, The Utilitarian Conception of Justice and Its Critics (Bentham to Hayek). In: Conceptions of Justice from Islam to the Present. Political Economy of Islam. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16084-5_4, accessed 7-10-21
prerequisite to any other framework - Value requires us to be alive in the future.
Bostrom 12 Nick Bostrom. Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford. “Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority.” Global Policy (2012)
Cognitive biases – extinction is more likely than we think
GPP 17 (Global Priorities Project, Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, “Existential Risk: Diplomacy and Governance,” Global Priorities Project, 2017, https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/Existential-Risks-2017-01-23.pdf,