At what step do you stop agreeing with this logical argument relating to animals? For each step, I'm also showing the percentage of disagreements on social media that involved this step (either direct disagreements with the step or disagreements with its premise). (There were a total of 63 such disagreements described across my posts on Facebook and X.)
Note: any time the argument mentions something being wrong or immoral, you can treat it either as referring to something being (a) objec...
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What to do when your values conflict? – part 2 in the Valuism sequence
By Spencer Greenberg and Amber Dawn Ace
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This is the second of five posts in my sequence of essays about my life philosophy, Valuism - here are the first, third, fourth, and fifth parts.
Pretty much all of us have multiple intrinsic values (things we value for their own sake, not merely as a means to an end). This means that sometimes our intrinsic values come into conflict. For example, you might value:
Both achieving ambitious goals and...
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Incentive misalignment and conflicts of interest
Written: May 26, 2018 | Released: June 11, 2021
In my view, fundamental incentive misalignment affects many parts of society.
Companies:
There are many ways to make money that are net harmful to the world (e.g., see here for 13 ways).
Non-profits:
(1) The people that sponsor the work of a non-profit organization aren’t the ones that benefit from it.
(2) Donors can’t easily tell how much benefit their donation caused the organization to create.
(3) Th...
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