You might be interested in experimental philosophy. It's where philosophers quiz people to probe at how common a given intuition is. There's ongoing debate regarding whether the results pose a problem for certain…
There's quite a bit of philosophical support behind the view that there are objective moral truths. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/ for a not so brief overview. Also related is moral cognitivism…
> ... I know this does not justify anything > ... wouldn't it be acceptable for humans to do the same? Edit: Re-reading your comment, I think this isn't a charitable interpretation. I'll assume that you don't think…
And the economic preduction. And the influx of wealth into underdeveloped countries. And all of the people not dying.
As a counterpoint, you can do an absolutely absurd amount of good with this kind of money. With a salary of 250k, you could donate 150k to charity, and still be quite well off. I like to go by effectiveness estimates…
Try spacemacs. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/ It's an emacs configuration meant to be a hybrid of the best in emacs and vim. I'm a vim user of several years, and am just beginning to do some clojure development…
You might be interested in experimental philosophy. It's where philosophers quiz people to probe at how common a given intuition is. There's ongoing debate regarding whether the results pose a problem for certain…
There's quite a bit of philosophical support behind the view that there are objective moral truths. See https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-realism/ for a not so brief overview. Also related is moral cognitivism…
> ... I know this does not justify anything > ... wouldn't it be acceptable for humans to do the same? Edit: Re-reading your comment, I think this isn't a charitable interpretation. I'll assume that you don't think…
And the economic preduction. And the influx of wealth into underdeveloped countries. And all of the people not dying.
As a counterpoint, you can do an absolutely absurd amount of good with this kind of money. With a salary of 250k, you could donate 150k to charity, and still be quite well off. I like to go by effectiveness estimates…
Try spacemacs. https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/ It's an emacs configuration meant to be a hybrid of the best in emacs and vim. I'm a vim user of several years, and am just beginning to do some clojure development…