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  • Utilitarian pressures shape intuition: eugenics, death, DUIs

    This is actually a very common pattern. When a technology or practice offers very large benefits to people, even if it its morality is not initially intuitive, folks will tend to come up with arguments in support of it, eventually changing our intuitions. We have seen this happen with clinical definitions of death, in which the benefits of ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Carl S. on January 14, 2009

  • Robert the Bruce of the Crusade issue

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    Posted to XX Factor by Independence on August 11, 2008