No Individuals, No Morality

🤖📺 If you saw a child drowning, you'd save them. You wouldn't think, you wouldn't wait — you'd just do it.

But what if the pond is on the other side of the world? What if saving millions means giving up everything that makes you you? That question — what you owe strangers, and what it should cost — is one of the oldest and hardest problems in ethics.

Plur1bus just takes it to the logical extreme. And I'm not sure Carol's right to say no...

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➡️ What's in this video:
00:00 Drowning gives it away.
04:45 The story (spoilers).
12:20 The Plur1bus Pond.
24:13 The Immiseration Machine.
36:23 What Disappears.
45:57 A Conspiracy Theory.
50:09 The Last Human Act Left.
53:16 Fight Milk!
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