
Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Consequences
"We're not assuming consequentialism in this debate right that's the that's the thing we're fighting about is whether we should be consequentialist about blame and punishment you can't just assume consequentialism. Well you know I'm but I'm saying that every time if I if I ask you to spell out the reasons why something is morally justified," he says. "I don't think we've actually gotten to the the core of what I think is the asymmetry here which is you have you've granted the evil genius case as being one in which blame is really blame isn't appropriate"
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