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The Effective Altruism Scam

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Utilitarianism Is a Greatest Evil Humanity Ever Created

utilitarianism is an engine that allows rich people to feel good about hurting poor people, says mccaskell. The first public protest against African American slavery was the 1688 Germantown Quaker petition and it wasn't abolished until 1962 in Saudi Arabia. abolition he says is maybe the single best moral change ever as up there with feminism but they're not incremental because a million people shot each other to death during the civil war.

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