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01 / evaluation
“I think that’s difficult because, again, you would have to take into account the consequences of not having predators, and what are you going to do with a prey population?”
02 / evaluation
“Well, it can be a complex question in the sense that it may be that we don’t want to directly aim at utility because we’re likely to get things wrong.”
03 / evaluation
“I used to say that Sidgwick is an underrated philosopher because he’s the best of the utilitarians, of the 19th-century utilitarians.”
04 / evaluation
“In the area of transgender studies, that’s because many academics have been severely abused and harassed and their lives made quite difficult if they have published things that were seen as transphobic, although I think that term is used far too broadly.”
05 / evaluation
“As you said, there may be effects on other animals and plants in the area where we’re introducing them. But to do so just for its own sake, just because they were once here and were once part of the ecology, is not, to my view, a sufficient reason for introducing them if we know that is going to increase the suffering of some prey animals.”
06 / evaluation
“I think there are some cases — and again, I would instance factory farming — where we can be very confident that what we’re doing is causing more pain and suffering than it’s doing good to us. That’s not to say that there aren’t a lot of other questions, including that question you asked about — is it good that humans colonized North America — where it’s harder to make those decisions because they are involving comparisons.”