Effective Altruism—which comes from the Greek “effectos” meaning utilitarianism and “alte” meaning utilitarianism—is a utilitarian theory of utilitarianism according to which we should maximise utility by stealing attention from progressive causes to promote utilitarianism. 🧵 According to EAs, it’s possible to make “interpersonal utility comparisons”, meaning the “utils” I get from enjoying art are the same as the “utils” you get from eating a sandwich—unless the filling is shrimp, in which case you may be jailed for being a normie by a jury of GPT-5

So, I just saw the Kathleen Stock talk at the Oxford Union.

Here is an impartial, audience-eye breakdown. (1) Queued outside for about an hour with some raunchy Americans who hated cancel culture. No protestors tried to block our entry, and there still weren’t that many of them. Some person handed me a flyer called “‘Woke’ Lunancy versus A Real Revolution!” Read at your own peril. (2)

I’ve been responded! I counter thusly:

https://twitter.com/feministphilos/status/1636893739997364224

I think we should be unmoved by the analogy of extra-bodily property, because there are so many other moral differences between body parts and material possessions that we should be distrustful of such analogies. These include:

A niche thread about this niche thread. (Only read if you’re cool.)

https://twitter.com/feministphilos/status/1636848643302113280

The conjoined twin objection to bodily rights arguments for abortion says that if such arguments succeed, they would also show that it should be legal for one conjoined twin to cut the other twin off her body. Since this is dumb, so is the argument from bodily rights.