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Forty-Fifth | Pandemic and Doctor Strangelove's Solution
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2023-03-12
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Imagine a one-million-person nation facing a disease deadlier than COVID-19. A government committee must decide how to respond. This episode walks alongside their deliberations using ethical frameworks to determine which decision is most morally defensible. We explore utilitarian Read more…Imagine a one-million-person nation facing a disease deadlier than COVID-19. A government committee must decide how to respond. This episode walks alongside their deliberations using ethical frameworks to determine which decision is most morally defensible. We explore utilitarian, deontological, and virtue-based approaches to pandemic ethics, examining the tension between individual rights and collective welfare. Which moral principles guide us through crisis? How do we justify impossible choices? Discover how philosophical ethics confronts real-world catastrophe. Close