A simple litmus test for self-described utilitarians: would you trade places with someone much worse off if it increased the net supply of human happiness?
Mickey (or Nicky) Markoff won the marble shooting contest at City Hall, May 20, 1922. Mickey, who in an elimination process proved to be the best marble shooter in greater New York, won a medal and an all-expenses paid trip to Philadelphia dduane.tumblr.com/post/717857317…
Welcome to my Saturday #linkdump, the third in an occasional series that may or may not be restricted to Saturdays, but which will ever be an ode to olde-timey #linkblogging of the sort practiced by our blogfathers, blogmothers, and other blogparents:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Any fule kno that Saturday is #Caturday, and today's woke felinism comes from @GoingMedieval, earthiest of all the Medivelist Bloggers, author of the superb *Once and Future Sex*, all about dirty dirty medieval people and their filthy filthy habits: