“It may be shameful to be happy by oneself.”

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

similar topics

• Peter Singer's drowning child: you would ruin your expensive shoes to save a child drowning in front of you, so why do you hesitate to spend the same money saving a child far away? Does distance shrink moral responsibility?
• He who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
• To call something 'evil' you first need a measure of 'good'. But who set that measure? If morality is not a law of the universe but a human agreement, is genocide 'wrong' only because most people say so?
• 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.