Is There a Creature?

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There's no moral force to the argument that, from his perspective, he should stopwewe. So it all your doing is saying that this guy doesn't really exist. No, i'm just saying that, you now, he might exist. Only le's, let's say this is t you take someone like a kim kim jong un, right? You knowik, how happy is he? Let's just posit him as really happy, right? W he's got, he's got millions of people starving outside the palace gates a, and he's just o sipping coniac all day, and he loves it. And he just gets off on everything.

Sam Harris gets back in the VBW ring for another round on moral responsibility, ethical theories, and the grounds for our obligations to other people. Are we at a genuine stalemate when it comes to blame and desert? Is Tamler a closet consequentialist? Is Sam a closet pluralist? Why is Dave such a big Wagner fan? Plus, Twitter shaming: what is it good for? Settle in, get comfortable, pour yourself a drink, you’re in for the long haul on this one.

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