- Reading [[essays-on-suffering-focused-ethics]]
	- Views are presented as counterintuitive, but I've actually found them to be the opposite
		- Classical utilitarianism is a lot less intuitive!
	- Seems like there are parallels with [[buddhism]]
		- [[william macaskill]] et al. disregard some suffering-focused views as [nihilistic](https://www.utilitarianism.net/population-ethics/#person-affecting-views-and-the-procreative-asymmetry)
			- What of the attainment of [[nirodha]]?
			- How helpful is it to talk about [[repugnant conclusions]] in the first place?
				- [[slippery slope]]
- Also reading [[frédéric bastiat]]
	- Likely the inventor of the now ubiquitous popular economics journalism
	- [[broken window fallacy]] [[opportunity costs]]