Junto Notes

Topics

Agenda

Topics

1. How should we construct a county?
2. What do we do about growing a wage gap? Do we leave it unchecked?
3. Maps of meaning. How do you derive meaning?
4. Who should be allowed to vote president?
5. Describe the relationship between meaning and joy.
6. Emotions as valid data points.
7. You say Buddhists reject genuine reality and substitute their own false reality (which is effective by false). How would we know what the real reality is? Emotions as valid data points?
8. Personal Bill of Rights: http://www.dharmaspirit.com/pdf/Personal%20Bill%20of%20Rights_Handout.pdf
9. When is it alright to kick back and watch comics and not feel guilty. When does that protected time kick in?
10. Is being free from joy mean you are more or less free?
11. What is the utility of faith?
12. what are you? (physical or metaphysical)
13. are superstitions harmful?
14. trolley problem
15. choose one: dictatorship / republicanism / anarchism (centralized, decentralized or no power)
16. is ignorance bliss?
17. antinatalism?
18. what is freedom? are we free agents?
19. big red button hypothetical: if you could end humanity, painlessly and instantaneously, would you?
20. which is more important? The means, or the end?
21. Veil of ignorance, yes or no? (Rawlsian philosophy)
22. UBI? (Van Parijs, why surfers should be f

Agenda

1. Monday - 05/04/20: Should we put the nuclear launch codes in a capsule inside an aids heart?
2. Tuesday - 05/05/20: How do we perform moral math as consumers?
3. Wednesday - 05/06/20: Who should be allowed to vote for the president in the USA?
4. Thursday - 05/07/20: How do genetics affect our moral obligations to one another?
5. Friday - 05/08/20: How do we know when we are wrong?
6. Monday - 04/27/20: When should we listen to fear?
7. Tuesday - 04/28/20: Is the world overpopulated? If so what do we do about it?
8. Wednesday - 04/29/20: Is Physician-assisted Death acceptable?
9. Thursday - 04/30/20: Is capitalism broken because technical revolutions removed the need?
10. Friday - 05/01/20: Describe the relationship between meaning and joy.
11. Monday - 04/20/20: Polygamy yes? Polygamy no?
12. Tuesday - 04/21/20: Why should we fund animal shelters when humans are starving to death?
13. Wednesday - 04/23/20: What is the purpose of technology?
14. Thursday - 04/24/20: Is Quantitative easing poppycock or effective monetary magic?
15. Friday - 04/25/20: When is “I feel” a better thing to say then “I think”.
16. Friday - 04/17/20: Compare and Contrast Egotism and Confidence.
17. Thursday - 04/16/20: Should the US work to be self-sufficient?
18. Wednesday - 04/15/20: The Virtue of a Closed Mind. Reaction to this blog. https://medium.com/america-first/the-virtue-of-a-closed-mind-c7c60a5a59ac
19. Tuesday - 04/14/20: When will we settle mars?
20. Monday - 04/13/20: Why do you curse when your computer crashes? Reaction to this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A33S2N348WU&t=4s
21. Friday - 04/10/20 - Does everything have a purpose? Reactions to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8afGXEpOik&list=PL4HWqx3_59gG8HBg8fawax_V8j7fsGs3h&index=83&t=0s
22. Thursday - 04/09/20 - When is bureaucracy good?
23. Wednesday - 04/08/20 - Is it ethical to use fossil fuels?
24. Tuesday - 04/07/20 - How should I engage with a panhandler?
25. Monday - 04/06/20 - Unions Yes. Unions No.
26. Friday - 04/03/2020: How do we know what we know.
27. Thursday - 04/02/2020: Can anything ever be truly bad art or is it all relative?
28. Wednesday - 04/01/2020: Who is not deserving of compassion?
29. Saturday - 04/04/2020: What will be the long term effects on the business sector due to Covid-19.
30. Tuesday - 03/31/2020: How would we know if we were overreacting to Covid-19?
31. Monday - 03/30/2020: Aliens yes or Aliens no.