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Practical Ethics for Our Time: Peter Singer on PYP 555

The Plant Yourself Podcast

CHAPTER

The Importance of Impartiality

I'm reminded in a way to wrap up very quickly but I've been you know following behavioral economists for a while who revel in sort of human irrationality and there have been a bunch of wonderful studies that behavioral economists have conducted among themselves showing that they're just as irrational as everybody else. so I think we have to accept that about ourselves that there are some things that we can't do so we're not going to be purely rational beings but we can try to control it and limit it. Yeah I suppose the best example is that I would say the life of my own child probably rather than the lives of two strangers I guess.

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