Slavery, they say, is wrong.
But can you prove it?
I can, and do, in this book, as a small part of building a metaethical system.
You will learn what is good — or rather what good is; why murder is wrong; how morality motivates; and a whole lot of cool things in this vein.
Capitalism, they say, contains in itself the seeds of its own destruction, because the general prosperity it creates finances the emergence of a leisure class of intellectuals whose main occupation is denouncing capitalism.
G.A. Cohen was one such miscreant.
For the health of society, he must be bled. And by the end of my book, he is an exsanguinated corpse.
Now, all that was left of mighty Rawls was a twisted, withered husk.
I needed to understand whatever memories lingered within the creature’s rotting mass.
Only by making contact with the gargantuan tendrils connected directly to his cortex could I learn his secrets.
Yet his countless minions, which seemed to be feeding from his dead husk, would prove somewhat… problematic.
I’m giving both sides of the abortion debate, in their fiery fervor, a cold bath of reason.
Come swim under the ice and see this important issue in a new and clear light.