Politics Archives - Center for Reducing Suffering Our mission is to reduce severe suffering, taking all sentient beings into account Mon, 06 Feb 2023 15:52:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cfrs-logo-square-150x150.png Politics Archives - Center for Reducing Suffering 32 32 194688957 Popular views of population ethics imply a priority on preventing worst-case outcomes https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/popular-views-of-population-ethics-imply-a-priority-on-preventing-worst-case-outcomes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=popular-views-of-population-ethics-imply-a-priority-on-preventing-worst-case-outcomes Sun, 11 Dec 2022 23:53:22 +0000 https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/?p=2303 A wide variety of views can support a focus on preventing worst-case outcomes. More than that, it appears that the views of population ethics held by the general population also, on average, imply a priority on preventing futures with large numbers of miserable beings. My aim in this post is to elaborate on this point […]

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]]> 2303 Five recommendations for better political discourse https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/five-recommendations-for-better-political-discourse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-recommendations-for-better-political-discourse Mon, 14 Mar 2022 21:53:23 +0000 https://centerforreducingsuffering.org/?p=1577 Introduction Political decisions arguably represent the linchpin of human decision-making, constraining and influencing every choice we make. And our political system is currently operating far from ideally, to put it mildly. This renders it uniquely important that we do better. From a longtermist perspective, what matters most is that we advance politics over the long […]

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