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There are questions about our feelings not even God could determine
I met a guy once.
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Compassion ceilings
Due to the social roles assigned to them, some critically important jobs ‘cap’ the compassion that those who hold them can possess, and this is…
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When Hatred and Fear Mask as Indignation
I’m going to define two terms with meanings similar to, but a little different from their normal meanings:
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A short philosophical history
A philosophical history, in the sense I mean the term, is the attempt to take history as a whole- what has happened to our species- and find within it a…
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For more lifeboats: The only just academic job market is a tight academic job market
Lifeboat ethics describes the ethics of a situation in which there is not enough of a critical good for everyone, and yet that resource has to be…
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October 2024

Sex, Soccer and Aella
A while ago I wrote an article about how perplexed I was by strong reactions to Aella, an online personality and sex worker who evokes disgust from many…
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Why the truth or falsity of moral realism is an unresolved empirical question
Moral realism has many senses, but call “practical moral realism” the view that there are moral consensuses for humans we can figure out and come to…
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Lesser evilism is not endorsing genocide
I don’t like to repeat myself in close proximity, but I wanted to revisit the argument I made for voting for the lesser evil earlier in the election…
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The tough are those too cowardly to face tragedy
There’s a certain kind of “toughness” that consists, in effect, of making a public show of anger and resentment towards the broken.
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The Agenda
Ordinary people are concerned about big-ticket AI risks, but elites don’t especially care.
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How would you spend your time if you could do anything you wanted for eternity? Is the existence of evil compatible with God?
Consider two problems:
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If you were omniscient you would be a consequentialist
Darling, just don’t put down your guns yet, if there really was a God here, he’d have raised a hand by now
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