Gauntlet

Thought Gauntlet XI: The Violinist

Need is morally serious, not a deed.

Thought Gauntlet X: The Predator

Nature does not know anything.

Thought Gauntlet IX: Smallpox

Smallpox was a predator.

Thought Gauntlet VIII: The Last Human

The Last Human’s loss is not a license to destroy every other field they can still manage to reach.

Thought Gauntlet VII: The Experience Machine

This is why Modal Path Ethics insists subjective experience can never be the foundation of a good ethics.

Thought Gauntlet VI: The Omelas

This is typically the voice of a field defending its own arrangement, even if some necessity is still real. [L]

Thought Gauntlet V: The Scapegoat

Even a mild scapegoating can thicken the field around a person until ordinary futures become harder to reach.