eternalist

with no disrespect, this take has always rubbed me the wrong way. to paraphrase Einstein, the moral circle should be expanded exactly as wide as it ought to be, but no wider. there is a tremendous social cost to misallocating moral patienthood

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an example: the US is currently squeezing family formation and impoverishing its people by imposing a crypto-animist moral regime that allocates patienthood to old houses and lifeless deserts. it's called NEPA