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The "Values" Found in the Republican's Proposed NASA Budget 19 Jul 2013 | 08:10 pm
There is more Republican idiocy going on in the House of Representatives concerning NASA's budget. Among the elements of the Republican NASA plan, they explicitly prohibit NASA from spending money on ...
False Beliefs 19 Jun 2013 | 09:13 pm
False beliefs are bad. Desirism accounts well for the badness of false beliefs. People seek to objectively satisfy their desires, but act so as to objectively satisfy their desires given their belief...
Religion Poisons Everything? 14 Jun 2013 | 07:03 pm
There is a fundamental inconsistency in the way many atheists relate religion to good and bad actions. When a theist does something bad, religion is to blame. "What do you expect? You give a person a...
Effective Altrusim 12 Jun 2013 | 08:49 pm
I have been looking into the movement known as “Effective Altruism” recently, particularly in the light of Peter Singer’s presentation at TED. To a large extent, this is substantially consistent with...
Why you should not kill yourself and why we should try to stop you if you do try. 11 Jun 2013 | 06:56 pm
Yesterday, I wrote that if you want to talk a person off the ledge, you need to tie that action to current desires. Future desires do not work because future desires cannot reach back in time to influ...
Talking Somebody Off a Ledge 10 Jun 2013 | 07:09 pm
I have been presented with the following scenario: Imagine a healthy, intelligent, priveleged young guy with the entire life ahead of him. Say he becomes deeply depressed for some reason and wants to...
Procreation and Reasons for Action that Exist 5 Jun 2013 | 07:07 pm
If desires is the thing that tells us what is morally right / wrong, doesn't that impose upon us to procreate as much as possible? So that we have more entities that can form desires and fulfill them?...
On Having a Purpose 4 Jun 2013 | 07:11 pm
Another question from the studio audience. Given the premise that determinism is correct, how can you say that the universe has no purpose? The universe is exactly as it had to be given it's determin...
Using People 4 Jun 2013 | 12:28 am
I have been provided with another set of questions to answer regarding desirism. I will start with this one: A guy drugs a girl. She passes out. He rapes her in her sleep because he desired to. She i...
Population Ethics: Bringing More People Into the World 28 May 2013 | 06:44 pm
Last week, I posted several articles on population ethics - the question of "How many people should there be?" Before moving on, I want to post an article that addresses this question more directly. ...
