Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Montville RP | Judge: Alex Rivera
The standard is maximizing expected well-being, or hedonistic act util. Prefer it:
~a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.
~b~ Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they’re empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.
The standard is maximizing expected well-being, or hedonistic act util. Prefer it:
~a~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action.
~b~ Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings. Takes out util calc indicts since they’re empirically denied and link turns them because the alt would be no action.
Pummer 15 ~Theron, Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford. "Moral Agreement on Saving the World" Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. May 18, 2015~ AT
There appears to be lot of disagreement in moral philosophy. Whether these many apparent
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If our selfish recklessness ends human history, we would be acting very wrongly." (From chapter 36 of On What Matters)
Nixon 2K Makani Themba-Nixon, Executive Director of The Praxis Project. "Changing the Rules: What Public Policy Means for Organizing." Colorlines 3.2, 2000.
Getting It in Writing Much of the work of framing what we stand for takes place
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to our vision of how things should be. And then we must be committed to making it so.