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The Narrowing Circle · Gwern.net

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Modern ethics excludes as many beings as it includes.

--- title: The Narrowing Circle description: Modern ethics excludes as many beings as it includes. created: 2012-04-24 modified: 2019-04-27 status: finished confidence: likely importance: 8 css-extension: dropcaps-de-zs ... > The "expanding circle" historical thesis ignores all instances in which modern ethics *narrowed* the set of beings to be morally regarded, often backing its exclusion by asserting their non-existence, and thus assumes its conclusion: where the circle is expanded, it's highlighted as moral 'progress', and where it is narrowed, what is outside is simply defined away. When o

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