In this episode, David ponders whether or not people "deserve" to be happy. Contents:

- Mare of Easttown
- does someone deserve to be happy even when they've done something wrong?
- what is deserving? What is it not?
- just desert
- universal laws, karma, morality
- moral realism/anti-realism
- moral relativism
- who decides what is deserved?
- free will and causal determinism
- moral responsibility/instrumental responsibility
- what about "bad people"?
- parasitism, tumours, insanity
- punishment & justice

Links:

Pragmatic ethics:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_ethics

Mare of Easttown:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mare_of_Easttown

Just desert:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_(philosophy)

The Moral Landscape:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moral_Landscape

Sean Carroll:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_M._Carroll

Moral realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_realism

Moral anti-realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-realism

Moral relativism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_relativism

Causal determinism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinism#Causal_determinism

Toxoplasmosis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasmosis