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172 – Virtue Ethics

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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EA and Singer on the Life You Can Save

"There is no philosophical reason not to go absolutely nuts and I think virtue ethics can help mitigate that" "I don't have any sort of moral obligation to people who are outside of my community" "If you only care about them 1% as much as you know your neighbor well there's way more of them and they're way worse" 'You should try to do the greatest good for everybody in a society as a whole even if that means people are worse off' "[Singer] makes a good argument that now people who are who are far away from you very much in the world and culture in in any sort of who you've never heard of you have some level of obligation to

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