bayesic-bitch:

galois-groupie:

transgenderer:

Spending weeks toiling at the forge, sweat dripping off my face and sizzling on the glowing metal, hammering out an ethical framework in which speeding is not just a right but a moral duty

Of course there’s the caricature of the anarchist, but using “the state is evil -> breaking the law is good” is easy mode. Other low-hanging fruit would be various misanthropic or Malthusian worldviews where an increase in car crash fatalities is seen as good. Perhaps there’s an environmentalist angle to this? Idk at what speed fuel efficiency peaks in modern cars.

Here’s one

1) Negative utilitarianism is correct. The morally correct action is the one that has the least suffering.
2) Our world is filled with an unimaginable amount of suffering, and we have next to no ability affect most of it. In particular the biosphere is filled with trillions or quadrillions of small animals that experience predation, violence, parasitism, and disease in their short lives. One fermi estimate put the number of animals on earth at ~20 quintillion (2*10^19). The direct actions we take to allieviate their suffering are almost negligible in impact.
3) Morality is relative. Not as in the moral framework is up to you, I mean in the special relativity sense. There’s no ethically preferred reference frame, so we have to take the one that we’re choosing to take actions in. Otherwise there’s no way to compare the utility functions of agents in different reference frames. The morally correct action is determined by evaluating the global utility function in your reference frame and picking the action with the least suffering.
4) If you go really fast, the rest of the world is a little bit time-dilated so that it’s moving slower in your reference frame. This means there’s less suffering per second. Although this effect is miniscule, it adds up quickly if you consider the total volume of animal suffering in the world. At low speeds, increasing your speed by 10 extra miles per hour time dilates other reference frames by 1/(1+10^-16) (and in turn, decreases their suffering by a factor of 1/(1+10^-16)). Thats not much, but multiplying by the number of animals affected gives us about 10^3. So going 10 mph over the speed limit is the equivalent of sparing 1000 sentient from suffering.

It’s not much compared to the state of the world, but it’s enough to matter. It’s enough to make a difference.
We have to try.
We have to do something for them.
We have to go as fast as we possibly can.

“Gotta go fast”