Do People Deserve to Be Happy?
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In this episode, David ponders whether or not people "deserve" to be happy. Contents:
- Mare of Easttown
- does someone deserve to be happy even when they've done something wrong?
- what is deserving? What is it not?
- just desert
- universal laws, karma, morality
- moral realism/anti-realism
- moral relativism
- who decides what is deserved?
- free will and causal determinism
- moral responsibility/instrumental responsibility
- what about "bad people"?
- parasitism, tumours, insanity
- punishment & justice
Links:
Pragmatic ethics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_ethics
Mare of Easttown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_of_Easttown
Just desert:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_(philosophy)
The Moral Landscape:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Landscape
Sean Carroll:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M._Carroll
Moral realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism
Moral anti-realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-realism
Moral relativism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism
Causal determinism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism#Causal_determinism
Toxoplasmosis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis
Chapters
1. Do People Deserve to Be Happy? (00:00:00)
2. Intro/Mare of Easttown (00:01:49)
3. Deserving. What is it/not? (00:04:17)
4. Moral anti-realism (00:06:36)
5. Causal determinism (00:09:27)
6. Bad people (00:11:31)
7. Parasitism, tumours, insanity (00:12:11)
8. Punishment & justice (00:15:52)
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