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Utilitarianism

Responsibility And Liberty

Brynn Tannehill | Posted 05.07.2013 | Gay Voices
Read More: Transgender Issues, Transgender, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, Trans Community, Trans Stereotypes, Trans Issues, Transgender Stereotypes, Transgender Experience, Transgender Visibility, Trans Visibility, Trans Experience, Transgender Community, Kant Categorical Imperative, Utilitarian Ethics, Utilitarianism, Gay Voices News
Brynn Tannehill

Recently I asked a number of transgender and cisgender friends the following: If a transgender person does something that may reflect badly on the trans community, is their personal freedom of expression more important than expectations to conform?

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The Rich Are Differently Moral

Matthew Hutson | Posted 04.05.2013 | Science
Read More: Psychology, Morality, Empathy, Wealth, Class, Ethics, Deontology, Utilitarianism, Science News
Matthew Hutson

New research shows that upper-class people have less empathy than lower-class people, but that sometimes this can lead them to do the most good for the most people when their bleeding-heart compatriots won't.

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Beyond Belief: Sam Harris Imagines a "Moral Landscape"

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Morality, The Moral Landscape, Reductionism, Books, Utilitarianism, Sam Harris, Books News
Deepak Chopra

Good science fiction is a worthy genre, and although it's darker and more tension-filled to imagine a dystopia run by berserk robots or malicious alie...

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Who Lives and Who Dies: We All Care About Animals, Right?

Marc Bekoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Animal Protection, Utilitarianism, Prarie Dogs, Denver News
Marc Bekoff

Should humans keep other animals in cages, eradicate them for human development, eat or wear them, feed them to one another, or move them from one habitat to another?

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Beyond Fluoride: Pharmaceuticals, Drinking Water and the Public Health

Jacob M. Appel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Rights, Law, Philosophy, Lithium, Green, Violence, Suicide, Prozac, Drugs, Green Living, Peter Kramer, Dentistry, Texas, Politics, Pharmaceutical Industry, Human Rights, Health, Water, Ethics, Environment, Utilitarianism, Japan, Tobacco, Libertarianism, Bioethics, Medicine, Michigan, Healthcare, Cocaine, Politics News
Jacob M. Appel

If we are willing to ingest fluoride to prevent tooth decay, surely we can tolerate a trace of lithium to prevent suicides.

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