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172 – Virtue Ethics

The Bayesian Conspiracy

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Utilitarianism Isn't About the Best Rules

Kant's utilitarianism is about what are the best rules to make society better for everybody and it seems like virtue ethics or even also deontology mostly aren't about this right. It does seem that there's sort of different things going on like how much should you trade off your pain as the painter against societies gain from your beautiful paintings well utilitarianism has one answer to that and it's add up how happy everybody gets from senior paintings and then figure out how sad you get from them. I think taking care of yourself in a sustainable way probably isn't working yourself almost to the bone because that's not sustainable but when I when I change it to the a doctor who you know could cure

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well with dew rags well enough
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i didn't say i'm fucking weird al yankovic i'm going to reproduce the meter
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like like impressively good rapper
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weird al yankovic hey his
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stuff on uh when he covered chameleon is white and nerdy that was some solid flow even chameleonor chameleon said like that dude
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can rap that is the what of all the incredible things about weird al yankovic of which there are
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many so
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many i think one of the most
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incredible is
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what like as someone who loves rap music and hates jokes about rap
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music because they tend to be real easy and shitty and sometimes racist
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i have to say weird al
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yankovic does a legitimately great job rapping and i
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i asked him about it one time when he was on uh when he was on bullseye and he's just like yeah i mean i i work really hard on it so and i was like yeah i bet you do because you're a hardworking guy you're a great craftsman there's no one has ever questioned the man's craft but but if
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you're going to be a fruit themed parody rapper does the rapper himself have a fruit themed name have you thought of
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that that's a great question i mean right now i'm rapping under my own name just because i'm kind of like a straight shooter and
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