Our Fatal Flaw: “Indifference to the Woes of Other Human Beings”

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Notes

1. McMurtry, Unequal Freedoms, 23.

2. McMurtry, What is Good? What is Bad, 213.

3. Apart from Barcuchello’s essays and the work of John Kekes that he cites, the only other contemporary book-length treatment of the problems associated with cruelty that I know of is Philip Cole’s Myth of Evil.

4. Neu, Just Liberal Violence, 22–23.

5. Camus, Myth of Sisyphus, 3.

6. See Benatar, Better Never to Have Been.

7. This path is chosen by technotopian transhumanists like Ray Kurzweil. Baruchello does not examine their argument. I criticise it from a life-value perspective in Embodiment and the Meaning of Life.