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Suffering & death
A good life
Self & identity
Ethics & others
Knowledge & truth
The transcendent
Power & community
Moral dilemmas
Is it okay to break a promise to keep a bigger one?
✦Should the dying always be told the truth?
✦Would you sacrifice your child to save five strangers?
✦Should I report a friend who did something terrible?
✦Would you betray a friend to save a stranger?
✦Is it ever right to kill in defense of another?
Should I tell my friend their partner is cheating?
Would you lie to save someone you love?
Pointed positions
The uncomfortable
Thought experiments
Are you the same person you were ten years ago?
✦If happiness came in a pill, would it be real?
✦Would you be yourself if you woke up with different memories?
If a perfect copy of you replaced you, would anyone lose anything?
If everyone you knew forgot you, would you still exist?
If you could erase your memory of someone, should you?