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#6 — Peter Singer | Utilitarianism and Animals

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Why Should We Care About Our Pains?

Mills utilitarianism was a pretty hastily written essay for a magazine. Henry Sidgwick's methods of ethics was something he revised the the edition we read is the seventh He was a careful academic and he wrote much more carefully than Mills. Nothing outside consciousness is good nothing outside consciousness is bad undesirable consciousness that can try to consciousness that we would try to avoid minimize get out of is something that's bad. talk about why we should give that pain weight at all I want to kind of dive into some of the meterethical foundations for the practical ethics that we're talking about here.

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