...I mean when they're talking about Hume's guillotine and the is-ought problem they're basically talking about moral relativism..yes?
Amateur surface knowledge trump supporters!
I don't know if Sam's worst of all worlds thing cuts it, but DP's attempt at naturalising morality might!
Something like 55 minutes in and Peter is talking about reducing suffering and then going for happiness, I hoped they'd get more into how to weigh these things.
Also glad they're only concerned with pain/pleasure as things that are (dis)valuable. lots of people give weight to "ecosystems" and other abstract shite
Cool that they touch on acts and omissions at the end, I've been looking at omission bias today.
"In moral psychology, the tendency to judge harmful actions as worse, or less moral than equally harmful omissions (inactions) due to the fact that actions are more obvious than inactions is known as omission bias. Cf. Spranca, M., Minsk, E., & Baron, J. (1991). Omission and commission in judgment and choice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 27, 76−105."
thedit : Aww shit last but one question touches on happy cows with net positive lives!
last edit : Finished, he mentions animal charity evaluators at the end!! ACE recommend the group i'm doing stuff for at the moment, although we're not their top recommended charity.
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