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Naïve Instrumentalism vs Principled Proceduralism
Not your standard consequentialism-deontology distinction
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Richard Y Chappell
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Risk Aversion as a Humility Heuristic
Considering higher-order uncertainty
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The Utilitarian Tradition is Conceptually Stunted
There are normative concepts besides goodness
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The Dangers of a Little Knowledge
Paired Mistakes in Protective Equilibria
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Confessions of a Cheeseburger Ethicist
Some moral mistakes matter more than others
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My Big Ideas
Feel free to share yours, too!
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Anti-Altruistic Paternalism
Why help others be self-centered?
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Evaluating Acts and Outcomes
Rejecting consequentialism vs reconsidering values
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Benatar's Fallacy
+ Rethinking the Consequences of Draper's Asymmetry
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Should We Care about Rights Violations?
Problems for Bystander Preference Permissivism
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Bleeding-Heart Consequentialism
My kind of moral theory
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Accepting Merely Comparative Harms
They may still be better than nothing
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