Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas351 | Peter Singer on Maximizing Good for All Sentient Creatures

Pain Outweighs Pleasure Thought

22:20–23:43 · 83s

Singer bites the bullet on utilitarian trade-offs but argues our scale for pain and pleasure isn’t symmetric, using a vivid fairy thought experiment to show why.

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