Tournament: UNLV | Round: 5 | Opponent: IDK | Judge: disclosing
Resolved: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.
The Advantage is Cosmic Colonialism.
Private appropriation of outer space expands corporate colonialism.
Shammas and Holen 19
The insistence on outer space as corporate capital’s spatial fix accelerates environmental degradation.
Shammas and Holen 19
Environmental degradation causes extinction.
Dr. Peter Kareiva 18
Our internal link is reverse causal. The “spatial fix” ensures infinite environmental destruction.
Shammas and Holen 19
Corporate colonialism concentrates society around collective effervescence, which effaces safeguards to capital’s negative externalities.
Shammas and Holen 19
Corporate colonialism necessitates mass launch.
Shammas and Holen 19
That depletes the ozone layer, open the floodgates for existential UV floods, and leaves residual black carbon.
Grush 17
Ozone collapse causes extinction.
Simmons 20
UV floods cause extinction—no defense assumes rampant UV poisoning.
Lucas et al 14
That causes viruses to human bacterial genome to damage will ensure the next pandemic is existential
Supriya 4/19
Black carbon locks in widespread and dangerous pollution, which kills millions.
CHO 16
Corporate colonialism also locks the Global South out of space, which internal link turns any negative offense because it magnifies interstellar inequality.
Stockwell 20
Framing
The standard is maximizing expected well-being.
Existential threats independently outweigh – all life has infinite value and extinction eliminates the possibility for future generations
GPP 17
Pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable.
Moen 16
Thus, the standard is maximizing expected well-being – prefer:
1 Actor specificity – Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action. Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings.
2 No act-omission distinction—governments are responsible for everything in the public sphere so inaction is implicit authorization of action: they have to yes/no bills, which means everything collapse to aggregation.