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Indeed, MacAskill is barely out of undergraduate [[philosophy]] class himself. He hasn’t yet left the university. A thirty-something meta-ethics lecturer would strike most people (other than himself) as an unlikely source of cosmic advice for the planet’s distant future. So it proves. | Indeed, MacAskill is barely out of undergraduate [[philosophy]] class himself. He hasn’t yet left the university. A thirty-something meta-ethics lecturer would strike most people (other than himself) as an unlikely source of cosmic advice for the planet’s distant future. So it proves. | ||
===Brainboxes to the rescue=== | |||
But ultimately it is MacAskill’s sub-[[Yuval Noah Harari|Harari | But ultimately it is MacAskill’s sub-[[Yuval Noah Harari|Harari]]€€, wiser-than-thou, top-down moral counselling that grates: humanity needs to solve the problems of the future centrally; this requires brainy people from the academy, like MacAskill, to do it. And though the solution might be at the great expense of all you mouth-breathing oxygen wasters out there, it is for the future’s good. | ||
We should sacrifice you lot — birds in the hand — for our far-distant descendants — birds in a bush who may or may not be there in a million years. | We should sacrifice you lot — birds in the hand — for our far-distant descendants — birds in a bush who may or may not be there in a million years. | ||