📕 subnode [[@j0lms/2025 06 24]]
in 📚 node [[2025-06-24]]
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Reading [[essays-on-suffering-focused-ethics]]
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Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I've actually found them to be the opposite
- Classical utilitarianism is a lot less intuitive!
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Seems like there are parallels with [[buddhism]]
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[[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as nihilistic
- What of the attainment of [[nirodha]]?
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How helpful is it to talk about [[repugnant conclusions]] in the first place?
- [[slippery slope]]
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[[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as nihilistic
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Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I've actually found them to be the opposite
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Also reading [[frédéric bastiat]]
- Likely the inventor of the now ubiquitous popular economics journalism
- [[broken window fallacy]] [[opportunity costs]]
📖 stoas
- public document at doc.anagora.org/2025-06-24
- video call at meet.jit.si/2025-06-24