Part 5: The Rainbow Bridge and the Feedback Loop: Climate Risk and the Poverty of Persuasion
·911 words·5 mins
The challenges of motivating action against long-term climate threats and the poverty of persuasion.
Justice
Part 4: The Economic Calculus of Cruelty: Distancing, Blindness, and the Revenges of the CAFO
·1117 words·6 mins
How psychological mechanisms enable ethical evasion in animal cruelty and factory farming.
Part 3: Longevity's Hidden Tax: The Dynamic Justice of Intergenerational Caregiving
·1027 words·5 mins
The economic and ethical costs of extended lifespans on intergenerational justice and caregiving burdens.
Part 2: When Compassion Clashes with the Oath: Physicians as Arbiters of Static Justice
·1223 words·6 mins
The moral dilemma of duty versus mercy in end-of-life care, resolved through game theory and the Nash Solution.
The Inconvenient Math of Mortality: Ethical Decisions on Life, Death, and Intergenerational Justice
·204 words·1 min
Exploring how bounded rationality and time inconsistency warp our ethical decisions about life, death, and intergenerational justice through the lenses of behavioral economics and bioethics.
Part 1: The Prisoner of Choice: How the Two Selves Betray Our Living Wills
·1366 words·7 mins
The internal war between rational intent and psychological reality in living wills and end-of-life decisions.