“Longtermism: An Impracticable Attempt to Reason Our Way into Becoming Irrationally Generous Heroes?” by Fr Peter Wyg
"If we recognise that it is a part of human nature to be prepared to sacrifice for others principally through emotive relationships and a lived experience of solidarity and empathy, we are left facing the awkward reality that, as a facet of cosmic complexity, utilitarianism, so well equipped to recognise the need to develop our relationship with future generations, may not be well equipped to do anything about it." A common frustration for those visiting Rome is the impossibility of seeing everything. Even those committed to score-of-thousand stepped and stomach-stretching days merely scratch at the interwoven cultural strands densely packed over millennia into a hard surface. This is one reason why I am grateful for having studied there, eight years being time enough to reach a working familiarity with the city's seemingly endless sources of spiritual, aesthetic, and earthly refreshment. My last weeks in the eternal city, then, were [...] --- First published: October 15th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ea2cvo2H3Sc6rKJmz/longtermism-an-impracticable-attempt-to-reason-our-way-into --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.