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Bentham's Bulldog 2025 In Review

The lows, highs, and the I guess middles or something

13 hrs ago • Bentham's Bulldog

December 2025

Why You Shouldn't Act As A Utilitarian

Or a deontologist or according to any other specific normative theory

Dec 31, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

Addressing My Critics

A little-known fact is that my primary aim in life is to be universally loved on the internet.

Dec 30, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

Foreign Aid Cuts Are More Like Killing Than Letting Die

Particularly when enacted by a new administration

Dec 29, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

Senseless Brutality Is Not a Reasonable Political Strategy

It's bad to be stupid and evil

Dec 28, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

Ranking The Best Charities

Some of them at least

Dec 27, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

The Objections to Veganism Are All Wrong

It's wrong to consume animal products

Dec 26, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

Trump's Foreign Aid Cuts Have Already Killed More People Than The Iraq War

The projected death toll is well over one million

Dec 25, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

For paid subscribers only

Dec 24, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

It's Good To Create Happy People: A Comprehensive Case

Why the person-affecting view is wrong, much more than you wanted to know

Dec 23, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

There Is Exactly One Good Objection To The Drowning Child Argument

But it won't let you off the hook completely

Dec 22, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

Against The Doomer Worldview

Actually look at the numbers

Dec 21, 2025 • Bentham's Bulldog

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