Versión en español There are people who say that we negative utilitarians are obsessed with pain, and they are right. These people say that there …
Interests, preferences, pain and suffering
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Sentience experiment with a bottle of vodka
Versión en Español Many people read this piece and tell me that they do not agree because: – Suffering is not so bad – There …
The big lie
Spanish | French “A powerful piece.” —David Pearce People wonder about the cause of poverty when scarcity is the natural state of things. Why is …
Paneudaimonia: making plausible the idea of a happy universe, plus a technique to quit smoking
Versión en español I consider myself basically a negative utilitarian-ish. That is, I consider that to avoid suffering is the highest moral priority, and that …
Implications of a plausible Sentience Platonism in the prevention of suffering
Versión en español Even if the probability of Sentience Platonism were extremely small, while there is a higher than zero probability, and considering that is …
Five common mistakes in the interpretation of the concept of speciesism
Versión en español Speciesism is a moral preference that discriminates (positively or negatively) beings of certain species by the simple fact of belonging to that …
Ethics is a masquerade, the show must go on
Versión en Español Ethics is a masquerade, the show must go on Manuel de la Herran Gascón First version: Jan. 2017 Updated: May 2017 …
Sentience platonism
Spanish version “The little I know I owe to my ignorance” –Plato I will give the name Sentience Platonism to the idea that experiences …
How does it work the mechanism that ignores the sentience of non-human animals
Versión en Español How does it work the mechanism that ignores the sentience of non-human animals? Manuel de la Herrán Gascón 2016 Many humans …
Patterns, coherence, and the strange spaces of sentiocentrism / sentientism
‘The Universe’s instantaneous self-destruction button’, ‘to anesthetize and assassinate’ or ‘The undiscovered infidelity’ are all explained ignoring the existence of individuals in the habitual sense …