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#484 - Cosmic Skeptic - 8 Impossible Thought Experiments
Modern Wisdom
The Critique of Utilitarianism
ethical claims don't map on to emotions like anxiety and sadness, they just belong in that category. I think ethics imagine we lived in a world where there was no word for anxiety. There's this very unique feeling that we have towards the death of a friend or seeing somebody steal from a homeless man. It's somewhere in the middle, and we don't have a word for it. Well, i just say that we do have a term for it within our own thought process. That's how we should understand ethical statements. The last time we spoke, you seem to be essentially a project of minimizing suffering. I wonder if that's still an intuition you hold to.
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