Tournament: Greenhill Fall Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Corruption AC

1AC

I value morality.  The resolution is a question of any positive judgment to take the action, whether it is under a system of desirability or obligation. The AC will accept any definition of ought that involves a statement of normativity. If the resolution does not concern normative actions the resolution is incoherent since the ’ought’ statement wouldn’t be possible, as all ought statements are based in normativity.

Presume aff…

The majority of voters are uninformed in the status quo.  This is empirically verified.

Marko 1 Klasnja 1, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, "Uninformed Voters and Corrupt Politicians", 7 June 2013

The majority of existing explanations of why corrupt politicians can maintain public support focus on

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even "some of them were clearly guessing"~.~ (p. 1152).

And, uninformed voting perpetuates corruption.

Marko 2 Klasnja 1, Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University, "Uninformed Voters and Corrupt Politicians", 7 June 2013

Despite probable attenuation bias, I ?nd that low-awareness voters are signi?cantly more

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that the results are not sensitive to many common threats to causal inference.

And, corruption kills trust between citizens and the government.

Mark E. Warren 1, Department of Political Science at the University of British

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, No. 2, pp. 328-343, 2 Apr 2004

Moreover, corruption undermines the culture of democracy. When people lose confidence that public

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of association within civil society by generalizing suspicion and eroding trust and reciprocity.

Trust in the government is necessary for a well-functioning economy; research verifies.

Jon Hilsenrath 1, chief economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal , "How a Trust Deficit is Hurting the Economy", Wall Street Journal, 1/27/13

One thing holding back the economic recovery may be a trust deficit. Trust is

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, who has made trust a centerpiece of his strategy consultations with businesses.

Economic decline is statistically proven to be a catalyst of large-scale conflict and terrorism.

Jedidiah Royal 1, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, "Economic Integration, Economic Signalling and the Problem of Economic Crises," Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Edited by Ben Goldsmith and Jurgen Brauer, Published by Emerald Group Publishing, p. 213-215. 2010

Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict

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As such the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views.

And, increased terrorism is particularly troubling because terrorists are on the brink of using biological weapons of mass destruction.

Dave Bohon 1, "Government Panel Predicts WMD Attack by 2013", New American, (http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3164-government-panel-predicts-wmd-attack-by-2013) June 15 2010, HH

The official report from a blue-ribbon panel warns that terrorists with ~a

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of those weapons systems will be conducted in some place on the globe." 

Bioterror means extinction and outweighs all other threats, including nuclear ones.