Ethics in the Real World: 82 Brief Essays on Things That Matter

Contents\nIntroduction\nAcknowledgments\nBig Questions\n	The Value of a Pale Blue Dot\n	Does Anything Matter?\n	Is There Moral Progress?\n	God and Suffering, Again\n	Godless Morality (with Marc Hauser)\n	Are We Ready for a “Morality Pill”? (with Agata Sagan)\n	The Quality of Mercy\n	Thinking about the Dead\n	Should This Be the Last Generation?\n	Philosophy on Top\nAnimals\n	Europe’s Ethical Eggs\n	If Fish Could Scream\n	Cultural Bias against Whaling?\n	A Case for Veganism\n	Consider the Turkey: Thoughts for Thanksgiving\n	In Vitro Meat\n	Chimpanzees Are People, Too\n	The Cow Who . . .\nBeyond the Ethic of the Sanctity of Life\n	The Real Abortion Tragedy\n	Treating (or Not) the Tiniest Babies\n	Pulling Back the Curtain on the Mercy Killing of Newborns\n	No Diseases for Old Men\n	When Doctors Kill\n	Choosing Death\n	Dying in Court\nBioethics and Public Health\n	The Human Genome and the Genetic Supermarket\n	The Year of the Clone?\n	Kidneys for Sale?\n	The Many Crises of Health Care\n	Public Health versus Private Freedom?\n	Weigh More, Pay More\n	Should We Live to 1,000?\n	Population and the Pope\nSex and Gender\n	Should Adult Sibling Incest Be a Crime?\n	Homosexuality Is Not Immoral\n	Virtual Vices\n	A Private Affair?\n	How Much Should Sex Matter? (with Agata Sagan)\n	God and Woman in Iran\nDoing Good\n	The One-Percent Solution\n	Holding Charities Accountable\n	Blatant Benevolence\n	Good Charity, Bad Charity\n	Heartwarming Causes Are Nice, But Let’s Give to Charity with Our Heads\n	The Ethical Cost of High-Price Art\n	Preventing Human Extinction (with Nick Beckstead and Matt Wage)\nHappiness\n	Happiness, Money, and Giving It Away\n	Can We Increase Gross National Happiness?\n	The High Cost of Feeling Low\n	No Smile Limit\n	Happy, Nevertheless\nPolitics\n	Bentham’s Fallacies, Then and Now\n	The Founding Fathers’ Fiscal Crisis\n	Why Vote?\n	Free Speech, Muhammad, and the Holocaust\n	The Use and Abuse of Religious Freedom\n	An Honest Man?\n	Is Citizenship a Right?\n	The Spying Game\n	A Statue for Stalin?\n	Should We Honor Racists?\nGlobal Governance\n	Escaping the Refugee Crisis\n	Is Open Diplomacy Possible?\n	The Ethics of Big Food\n	Fairness and Climate Change (with Teng Fei)\n	Will the Polluters Pay for Climate Change?\n	Why Are They Serving Meat at a Climate Change Conference? (with Frances Kissling)\n	Dethroning King Coal\n	Paris and the Fate of the Earth\nScience and Technology\n	A Clear Case for Golden Rice\n	Life Made to Order\n	Rights for Robots? (with Agata Sagan)\n	A Dream for the Digital Age\n	A Universal Library\n	The Tragic Cost of Being Unscientific\nLiving, Playing, Working\n	How to Keep a New Year’s Resolution\n	Why Pay More?\n	Tiger Mothers or Elephant Mothers?\n	Volkswagen and the Future of Honesty\n	Is Doping Wrong?\n	Is It OK to Cheat at Football?\n	A Surfing Reflection\nIndex