Burnt Orange Report

But you didn't answer my question about the million rabbits', umm, wrestling.

By Jim Dallas

Belle Waring of Crooked Timber,one of my favorite blogophilosophers, demonstrates the failings of utilitarianism in determining the justice of prisoner torture. Aliens and Bruce Willis are involved.

Of course, this all necessarily reminds me of a philosophy TA at UT who asked us to consider weighing one human life against the overly-abundant happiness which would result by causing one million rabbits to simultaneously got their freak on. This was one of the lectures on J.S. Mill. Oh, how I miss college.

Belle also contributed, a while back, one of my favorite blog posts ever, examining utopian discourse. Note - ponies are involved.