
The Value of Human Life with Eron Fasser
Brain in a Vat
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The Wrong Making Features in Jason's Voodoo Stabbing
There's something wrong about the willful intention to harm somebody else in and of itself. I think what's particularly egregious about Jason's case of stab in the voodoo doll is the will all intention to cause harm on me. That seems to be a bad making feature all its own. The fact that it's not effective because, you know, voodoo dolls. There's no supernatural mechanism that could make that work is really besides the case. And so we might think that it cannot be harmed. Therefore it is not vicious behavior or a character vice each Marilyn Monroe. In fact, you might be celebrated as an adventurous character. So I have no problem with that sort of analysis.
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