Corpus evidence — top 10 passages

Most-relevant passages from the entire indexed corpus (67,286 paragraph chunks across YouTube transcripts, PubMed, arXiv, archive.org, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, OpenAlex, and more) ranked by semantic similarity (bge-small-en-v1.5).

1. 01 · _intake0.944

   > alternatives are sacrifices in terms of what they're delivering. That is the problem. Like I always talk about people get on me because I have what I call the iron graveyard, right? There's a few

   _intake/claims-allbranch/curated-low/iron/006-alternatives-are-sacrifices-in-terms-of-what-they-re-deliver.md

2. 02 · blog0.737

   For the purposes of this discussion, the question of whether incommensurable alternatives are invariably incomparable can be put aside, since the dynamic choice problem that will be discussed in relation to incommensurability applies regardless of whether the incommensurable options at issue are incomparable or are instead comparable as on a par. Although there is still some controversy concerning the possibility of incommensurable alternatives (compare, for a sense of the issues, Raz 1997 and Regan 1997), there is widespread agreement that we often treat alternatives as incommensurable. Pract…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/dynamic-choice.md

3. 03 · blog0.734

   What do the rest of you think concerning them? Do you differ on some points? Which ones, and why, and precisely how? Do you feel that I've missed something? And again, where, in what manner, and why? Do you found your definitions from other lines of thought entirely? Once more, what are those lines of thought, exactly how do they treat the subjects to hand, and why do you feel that way about it? 683 Whether you agree or disagree, I would like to read of it. I would like to know if we are stymied by essentially different views on how the world works, or merely each by our own assumptions of wha…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-taleisin-s-thoughts-internet-sacred-text-archive.md

4. 04 · blog0.733

   "Left-handed" is another common term for wrongful practice, very traditional, but just as ignorant, superstitious and potentially harmful as the phrase "black magic" itself. So in Proteus we tried using the word "unethical." That's a lot better - free of extraneous and false implications - but still too vague. Gradually, I began to wonder whether using any one word, "black" or "unethical" or whatever, might just be too general and too subjective. Perhaps all I really tell a student that way is "Judy doesn't like that." I won't settle for blind obedience. If ethical principles are going to surv…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-magickal-ethics-judy-harrow-internet-sacred-text-archiv.md

5. 05 · blog0.732

   However, in certain contexts, such as when we are standing inside morgues, we seem to use the terms ‘dead animal’ and ‘dead person’ to mean “remains of something that was an animal” or “remains of something that was a person.” On this interpretation, even in morgues calling something a dead person does not imply that it is a person. Still, the dispute between terminators and anti-terminators is unlikely to be settled on the basis of how we use terms such as ‘dead animal’ and ‘dead person.’ Metaphysical considerations must weigh in. For example, consider that the remarks made in Section 1.3 abo…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/death.md

6. 06 · blog0.732

   Thus it seems important to find a way to distinguish competent though unusual choices from choices that are unusual because incompetent (because arrived at by flawed or inadequate mental processes). Consider the decision to accept death rather than a certain form of treatment. The desire to die can, of course, be a sign of mental illness in certain cases and so possibly a sign of incapacity (though merely being mentally ill doesn’t make someone incompetent: see §5.5 ). But it would be hugely problematic to view all refusals of life-sustaining treatment as indicative of either mental illness or…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/decision-making-capacity.md

7. 07 · blog0.732

   If we can make sense of discovering that cats are automata, then our word “cat” may be true of (satisfied by) the very things—automata as it turns out—that we have called cats all along, even if our presupposition that “cat” is a natural kind term is false. Putnam thinks we can also make sense of discovering that a term such as “pencil,” which we believe to be an artifact term, is in fact a natural kind term. In short, we may discover that a term we take to be a natural kind term is an artifact term, and we may discover that a term we take to be an artifact term is a natural kind term, without…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/content-externalism-and-skepticism.md

8. 08 · blog0.731

   So, perhaps there is a descriptive word that covers all wrongful magical workings after all. How about "non-consensual" or "invasive" magic? There's one thing left to examine: the paradox of making rules to protect personal autonomy. If we make some of our choices as a community, by discussing things together and arriving at a common understanding about what magical behaviors are acceptable among us, then we choose and shape the kind of community we become. Or wecould give up ourright to choose,because we feelwe shouldn't tell each other what to do. Some people believe that a refusal to set co…

   blog/www-sacred-texts-com/internet-book-of-shadows-magickal-ethics-judy-harrow-internet-sacred-text-archiv.md

9. 09 · blog0.729

   However, the same fragment continues, “Killing a person to save the world, it’s not that we kill a person to benefit the world; killing oneself to save the world, it’s that one kills oneself to benefit the world.” This seems to indicate that even in the extreme case in which we can save the world by sacrificing another’s life, we do so not merely on the grounds of the net benefit to the world, since adopting such grounds might suggest that we could routinely sacrifice individuals for the benefit of society in less extreme cases as well. Rather, we do so because of the massive discrepancy betwe…

   blog/plato-stanford-edu/mohist-canons.md

10. 10 · blog0.729

    Others are “pluralists.” They defend the idea that desert claims fall into different categories, and that each category has its own distinctive sort of justification (see, for example, Feinberg 1970, Sher 1987, and Lamont 1994). We first consider some monist views. Some popular views about the justification of desert claims are based on the idea that such claims can be justified by appeal to considerations about the values of consequences. Sidgwick seems to be thinking of something like this in The Methods of Ethics where he mentions ‘the utilitarian interpretation of Desert.’ He describes thi…

    blog/plato-stanford-edu/desert.md