Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Oklahoma LW | Judge: Crowe
Being rock, gas, mist, mind,
Being the mesons traveling the galaxies with the speed of light,
I have come here, my beloved.
I have manifested as trees, grass, butterflies, as single-celled beings and chrysanthemums;
but you tell me you have never died.

Start your decision with a recognition of your connection to more than human others.  Beginning with the human social betrays your anthropocentric bias and reinforces the root cause of violence. 

Rose 6 (Rebecca, Lecturer in Literature for Trinity College Foundation Studies, The University of Melbourne, 2006, COLLOQUY text theory critique  12shree)

In recent decades concern
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billions of years in the making.29 

Vote negative to reject their egocentric and human centric ethics in favor of an ecocentric ethic that starts by emphasizing the intrinsic values of Earth’s geoecosystem.

Rowe 3 (Stan, retired ecology teacher, prof emeritus at the U of Saskatchewan, The Trumpeter  Volume 19, Number 2shree)

Ethical systems express
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an Ecological Ethics.