florence 🦐
@morallawwithin
kantian 🏳️🌈 / philosophy phd student / vegan for the animals / liberal / pause ai / alt for mutuals @formofthegood / my substack is really good
Apparently the documentary Dominion is available on youtube; I urge everyone to watch it. If you can't stomach it, you shouldn't be paying people to do the things you see in it. youtube.com/watch?v=LQRAfJ…
Killing is exactly five times worse than letting die, so collect that toll guilt-free
You own the toll booth and will collect $25 if the trolley runs over 5 people Or you can have it run over just 1 person, but you won’t collect a toll What do you do?
Chat should I do it?
You said you preferred Y to X, Z to Y, and X to Z, right? Very enlightened set of preferences, if I may say so. I have some Y that I’m happy to trade for your X; and we’re friends so I’ll only charge you a penny for the trade :)
I’m sobbing rn
A magnificent example of the European culture we’re told doesn’t exist. Touches my heart ever single time.
The Repugnant Conclusion is making me very sad so I decided I’m going to have intransitive preferences. Please do NOT money pump me, that would be very immoral
The plan: We take 100 babies, 50 control + 50 test. For the test group we surgically swap the nerves leading to the red, blue, and green cones so they have inverted vision. Then wait 20 years and see if we can identify which is which.
If you ever think you are bad at philosophy just remember G.E. Moore published this:
Objects conforming to our cognition
If you were going to go on the "one guy who's kind of decent at arguing debates 20 morons" show, what point would you argue with the morons?
traumatize a fandom with one image
traumatize a fandom with one image
If I hadn’t eaten breakfast this morning, would God know?
Don't get your theology from William Lane Craig.
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several people on flo’s team need to be fired this like is the 3rd scandal they’ve had this month
smdh @morallawwithin
several people on flo’s team need to be fired this like is the 3rd scandal they’ve had this month
Interesting to compare this to SBF which leftists use to point out that utilitarianism/EA can justify serious wrongdoing. Here wokeness is being used to justify an atrocity. Get off your high horse.
This is Lilly Rocha. She is the CEO of the Latino Restaurant Association. Today she tried to convince Congress to force states to sell pork from crated pigs by arguing that it will help the “most diverse and vulnerable populations”.