What brilliant operationalizations Cowen offers with the baby example and the 18 year old example.
I also love the way Cowen doesn’t ‘let it go’: when discussing whether colonialism might have been better off for Africa, Singer offers that the problem is complex because there might have been militants uprisings even under colonial rule. But Cowen doesn’t let it go and forces Singer to consider the fact that most probably the scale of uprisings and damage done due to that would not have compared to the damage being done in current civil wars.
Singer is also very quick to update and move on when he realizes the truth of something. Awesome rationality skills from both sides.
What brilliant operationalizations Cowen offers with the baby example and the 18 year old example.
I also love the way Cowen doesn’t ‘let it go’: when discussing whether colonialism might have been better off for Africa, Singer offers that the problem is complex because there might have been militants uprisings even under colonial rule. But Cowen doesn’t let it go and forces Singer to consider the fact that most probably the scale of uprisings and damage done due to that would not have compared to the damage being done in current civil wars.
Singer is also very quick to update and move on when he realizes the truth of something. Awesome rationality skills from both sides.