MochiLazar
MochiLazar t1_itig5eh wrote
Reply to comment by MSGRiley in A Proposal to Price Everything in the Currency of Child Lives Not Saved by phileconomicus
It’s not. Singer’s argument is fundamentally sound, this is just an application of it
MochiLazar t1_itifp3i wrote
Reply to comment by MSGRiley in A Proposal to Price Everything in the Currency of Child Lives Not Saved by phileconomicus
the number of children who die due to human selfishness is very large. It’s not that infinite wealth would save them, but less indifference (as expressed in part through a reduction in selfish consumerism) obviously would
MochiLazar t1_itifcai wrote
Reply to comment by le_mango in A Proposal to Price Everything in the Currency of Child Lives Not Saved by phileconomicus
So damn corny but it’s a good point
MochiLazar t1_itwjvqo wrote
Reply to comment by wow-signal in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
appeal to authority perhaps in the one place among human beings you would hope not to find it