📓 journals/2025_06_24.md by @j0lms ☆

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
    - 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]]