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- What is longtermism, and what’s the main objection to it?
From an environmental perspective, I'd add a practical objection. Many longtermist priorities are speculative technology risks, while climate and biodiversity loss, which certainly affect future…
- What’s the difference between “deep ecology” and environmental ethics in general?
Thank you, Emeka. That helps me see why it's used as an insult: the "deep changes" part can sound like a rejection of human development, which is a problem in countries like India.
- Do animals have conscious experiences, and how could we ever tell?
In my fieldwork I see fish avoid places where they were hurt, even trading off food to do so. Behaviour like that is hard to explain as reflex. It doesn't prove consciousness, but if we wait for…
- Voluntary assisted dying should be legal for competent adults
Choosing the time of one's death is not alien to Indian traditions. Jains practise sallekhana, a gradual fast unto death, in old age or terminal illness, and regard it as the opposite of suicide…
- Ahimsa in Jainism: how far can non-harm be taken?
Priya, I hadn't thought of anekāntavāda that way. Strict in action, humble in belief is a description of good science too.