If We're Going To Live An Ethical

If You Go Back In Time You'll Find Tribes That Were Essentially Only Concerned With Their Own Tribal Members. If You Were A Member Of Another Tribe, You Could Be Killed With Impunity.

We Have A New Generation Of Very Rich People Who Want To Do More With Their Money Than Buy A Lot Of Expensive Toys. They Want To Live Meaningful Lives.

We May Feel The Pain Of Falling Back From A Level Of Affluence To Which We Have Grown Accustomed, But Most People In Developed Countries Are Still, By Historical Standards, Extraordinarily Well Off.

Remember That Not Everyone Is As Strong As You Are. Be Mindful Of Human Weakness, And Of The Fact That It May Be More Important, In The Long Run, To Get Many People Taking Steps In The Right Direction Than To Have Fewer Achieving The Ideal.

If A Being Suffers There Can Be No Moral Justification For Refusing To Take That Suffering Into Consideration. No Matter What The Nature Of The Being, The Principle Of Equality Requires That Its Suffering Be Counted Equally With The Like Suffering - Insofar As Rough Comparisons Can Be Made - Of Any Other Being. So The Limit Of Sentience Is The Only Defensible Boundary Of Concern For The Interests Of Others. To Mark This Boundary By Some Other Characteristic Like Intelligence Or Rationality Would Be To Mark It In An Arbitrary Manner. Why Not Choose Some Other Characteristic, Like Skin Color?