“He who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.”

Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.

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• The social contract: do we obey the state because of an implicit promise we made to escape the chaos of nature? We never signed any contract, so why are we bound to follow the law?
• The great novelists are philosophical novelists, that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.
• A main cause of philosophical disease: a one-sided diet; one nourishes one's thinking with only one kind of example.
• Should you treat your life as an optimization problem, or does that ruin the point of living?