When To Intervene
15 December 2018
19 October 2024
Should the ‘Dynasties’ camera crew have rescued those trapped penguins? Should we give iPhones to uncontacted peoples? What could possibly go wrong?
Things mentioned in this podcast:
- Missionary killed: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/21/us-tourist-killed-reclusive-tribe-illegal-visit-isolated-indian/
- New Scientist article about uncontacted tribes: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24090-how-many-uncontacted-tribes-are-left-in-the-world/
- TV Tropes page on why gods can’t intervene: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GodsHandsAreTied
- World Happiness Report 2018: http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2018/
- Causing Death and Saving Lives by Jonathan Glover: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Causing-Death-Saving-Lives-death/dp/0140134794
- Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reasons-and-persons-9780198249085
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