The land of the possible has many paths, and we can know only one. Everything's stochastic and impermanent. Our lives are packed with luggage, the vast majority of which would be best left at the side of the road. Utopia is a place with kind and reasonable people using coalition-building, science and determination to solve … Continue reading Apocalypse is the Suburb of Utopia
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The Impossibility of Comparative Consequences
A calculus of comparative consequences is impossible. Every effort to develop one is a process of rationalizing bias. Consequentialism assumes, based on experience or thought experiments, that it can assess the consequences of a particular act. This position implies that one act causes consequences. These consequences can be evaluated, reduced to some kind of common … Continue reading The Impossibility of Comparative Consequences
