In this episode, David discusses the pay differences between male and female athletes, focusing specifically on the game of soccer. Currently, men and women,  ostensibly playing the same game,  are paid very differently. Should this be equalized? If so, why, or why not?

Contents:
- team sports are gendered, meaning that on a professional level, men never play with women.
- similarities to other careers where men earn differently from women
- arguments against pay differences
- arguments for pay differences
- salaries vs. contracts
- a possible way forward

My email address:
[email protected]

Links:

Gender pay gap in sports:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_sports

Gender pay gap:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap

Analysis: What equal pay in sports really means, as the fight goes on for U.S. women's soccer:
https://www.espn.com/espnw/story/_/id/28971949/analysis-equal-pay-sports-really-means-fight-goes-us-women-soccer

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

In this episode, David talks about radical honesty, or the idea that we should always tell the truth and that any kind of lie is harmful. He discusses:
- Brad Blanton's Radical Honesty
- the television show Lie to Me
- Sam Harris (and Ricky Gervais)
- pros and cons of always telling the truth
- is it possible to be a moral, honest person without always being 100% truthful?
- does David ever lie?
- Golden Rule
- deontology

Links:

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

Radical honesty:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_honesty

Lie to Me:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie_to_Me

Lying, by Sam Harris:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying_(Harris_book)

the Golden Rule:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

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

In this episode, David talks about various illusions, or conceptual frameworks, that everyone operates under, both consciously and unconsciously, including sensory experiences, religious beliefs, nationalism, moral rules, adherence to laws, and the use of money.

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

Richard Dawkins quote:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4416-we-are-all-atheists-about-most-of-the-gods-that

Blank slate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabula_rasa

Evolutionary psychology:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology

Direct and indirect realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism

In this episode, David discusses the difference between experiencing life through the various filters humans apply by default, and knowing what objective reality is really like.

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

Red pill and blue pill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pill_and_blue_pill

The Matrix film:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix

Experience machine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_machine

Direct and indirect realism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_and_indirect_realism

In this episode, David talks about four fundamental values he wishes he had learned while growing up, and why he thinks they are important for children.

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

Stromae – Papaoutai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiKj0Z_Xnjc

In this episode, David discusses the way that we place different value on humans and nonhuman animals. Why don't animals get the same rights people do, and is this morally correct?

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

Speciecism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciesism

United Kingdom Declares Octopuses, Squids Are Sentient Beings
https://futurism.com/the-byte/united-kingdom-octopus-sentient

Humanism Needs an Upgrade:
https://areomagazine.com/2018/10/07/humanism-needs-an-upgrade-the-philosophy-that-could-save-the-world/