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

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