Is Prostitution a Business?

4min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

i'm thinking about, i think the last time we were together in person was that debate with a massimo pigaluci for your podcast on, you know, can elythelas ibe derise objective moral truths from objective empirical facts? And as you know, myself, sam harris, tste pinker, a few others think that we can, to some extent, maybe. Most philosophers and scientists are sceptical. So, but if you take something like and here i'm conflicted. You know, shouldn't am adult women be able to h hoose to have whatever kind of sex life they want, including being sex workers,. But then when do you look at prostitution

When it comes to what we believe, humans see what they want to see. We have what Julia Galef calls a “soldier” mindset: a drive to defend the ideas we most want to believe — and shoot down those we don’t. But if we want to get things right more often, argues Galef, we should train ourselves to have a “scout” mindset. Unlike the soldier, a scout’s goal isn’t to defend one side over the other. It’s to go out, survey the territory, and come back with as accurate a map as possible. Regardless of what they hope to be the case, above all, the scout wants to know what’s actually true. In The Scout Mindset, Galef explores why our brains deceive us and what we can do to change the way we think.