Doing the Right Thing
Wikipedia on:
Consequentialism
Ethical Egoism
Deontology
Divine Command Theory
Moral Relativism
Virtue Ethics
Care Ethics
Euthyphro’s Dilemma
Objectivism
Katrina mentioned that she’d read that the impact of child rape is less severe on cultures where this practice is typical. It turns out is was a comment on this LessWrong post and the validity of this statement is not certain.
Kant bites the bullet on not lying to murderers in his typically named essay “On A Supposed Right To Lie From Altruistic Motives“.
SSC somewhat in favor of Deontology – You Kant Dismiss Universalizability
Common Rationalist saying: Consequentialism is Ideal, But Deontology is Safe for Humans
Philosophy gets a lot of side-eye from Rationalists, in large part because of things Like This. But see also LukeProg’s Take
YouTube video where Katrina is arguing with a video gamer about the goodness of the protagonist of The Last Of Us.
Video of a bloody penguin fight over a female.
Planet Money episode on economic policies all economists are fully behind, but which will never be implemented.
Our Voting episode (with Tim!)

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