Jack Symes
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Yeah, thinking he could live long. He was worried he was going to die, right? A vegetarian diet to make sure he could. Not just vegetarian, but terrible vegetarian diet. He ate mostly bread and sugar. Yeah, you've got to do it right, but he certainly didn't. I've just finished Ian Kershaw's book on Hitler. It's like over 1,000 pages. It's a real good read, like a 40-hour read.
So if you're interested in likeβ You've got to be careful leaving those around your house. I know. I bought it my dad for his birthday and he was there in the restaurant showing everyone.
So if you're interested in likeβ You've got to be careful leaving those around your house. I know. I bought it my dad for his birthday and he was there in the restaurant showing everyone.
So if you're interested in likeβ You've got to be careful leaving those around your house. I know. I bought it my dad for his birthday and he was there in the restaurant showing everyone.
If you take it to its logical conclusion, then we can't, even on the view which I hold, which is hedonistic utilitarianism, the idea that the morally relevant facts are pain, pleasure, happiness, suffering. Right. If you can't then just let all of the animals free to run around, that's going to, as you say, create like a sort of mayhem.
If you take it to its logical conclusion, then we can't, even on the view which I hold, which is hedonistic utilitarianism, the idea that the morally relevant facts are pain, pleasure, happiness, suffering. Right. If you can't then just let all of the animals free to run around, that's going to, as you say, create like a sort of mayhem.
If you take it to its logical conclusion, then we can't, even on the view which I hold, which is hedonistic utilitarianism, the idea that the morally relevant facts are pain, pleasure, happiness, suffering. Right. If you can't then just let all of the animals free to run around, that's going to, as you say, create like a sort of mayhem.
You have to. That seems I mean, that's in my view, that's OK to give them birth control and the like.
You have to. That seems I mean, that's in my view, that's OK to give them birth control and the like.
You have to. That seems I mean, that's in my view, that's OK to give them birth control and the like.
Yeah, you can have population control.
Yeah, you can have population control.
Yeah, you can have population control.
Well, OK, this is good. I think Martha Nussbaum in her new book, Justice for Animals, she argues that these things, as you say, are a problem. You can't avoid suffering in these cases because you need to keep populations in control. And she thinks that we need to embark on a research project which simulates hunting and keeps down populations in like animal sanctuaries, if you like.
Well, OK, this is good. I think Martha Nussbaum in her new book, Justice for Animals, she argues that these things, as you say, are a problem. You can't avoid suffering in these cases because you need to keep populations in control. And she thinks that we need to embark on a research project which simulates hunting and keeps down populations in like animal sanctuaries, if you like.
Well, OK, this is good. I think Martha Nussbaum in her new book, Justice for Animals, she argues that these things, as you say, are a problem. You can't avoid suffering in these cases because you need to keep populations in control. And she thinks that we need to embark on a research project which simulates hunting and keeps down populations in like animal sanctuaries, if you like.
And I was thinking recently, like there's a lot of arguments for human reparations, like when a full group is harmed by another group, that we think that they're owed something, whether it's like people who were subject to slavery in North West Africa. We think that those communities have been harmed in the past and that we should right that wrong. I don't know the details.