The Morality of Everyday Things Podcast
1) Replay: Should you lie to your kids about Santa Claus? When is a white lie ok?
Old description: Is the Santa myth just harmless fun, or should we be honest to our kids about Saint Nick? In this very festive episode, Jake and Ant discuss the morality of lying to children about Sa...Show More
2) What is happiness? What form matters? Part 1 - Season teaser drop!
Hi all, excuse the LONG pause - we've been heads down at Stasher.com and super busy. We did manage to get this episode together and decided that as Ant is appearing on a quiz show and this has likely ...Show More
3) Replay: Is it wrong to have children in an era of climate change? Is it unfair to have babies?
Old description: In this episode, Jake and Ant look at the ethics of having children in the context of climate change. Is it ok to birth a child into a doomed circumstance...is this circumstance quite...Show More
4) Replay: Is it wrong to keep pets? Why is keeping a pet different to keeping a slave?
Old Description: In this episode, Jake and Ant look at the ethics of pet care. Is it ok to keep any sentient living being as property, free to be made infertile if their incessant humping annoys us an...Show More
5) Replay: Can we enjoy art even if it was made by a paedophile or anti-semite?
Old description: In this episode, Jake and Ant look at the ethics of art. Well, a very small sub-section, enjoying the works of artists who are themselves immoral. In considering this, we consider the...Show More
Replay: Can we enjoy art even if it was made by a paedophile or anti-semite?
49:46 | Oct 25th, 2023
6) Replay: Is it wrong to send your children to private school? Should all education be free?
Old episode description: In this episode, Jake and Ant look at the ethics of private education. Education is so important - and so formative - that it's important to ask whether it is fair for some pe...Show More
7) Replay: Are you a bad person if you work at Facebook? What are the moral implications of your career choices?
Old episdoe description: In this episode, Jake and Ant explore what it means to be a bad person, briefly revisit the distinction between good/bad and right/wrong and discuss in some more depth why the...Show More
8) Replay: Is it immoral to eat meat? Should you be a vegetarian if you want to be a good person?
Old Description: In this episode, Jake and Ant consider whether the consumption of meat - and specifically the production and slaughter of animals to that end - is immoral. This includes an exploratio...Show More
9) Replay: Is it ok to punch a nazi?
Old Description: In this second episode, Jake and Ant explore the circumstances in which we may be justified in doing something we'd typically class as wrong. Are we ever justified in using violence, ...Show More
10) Replay: Should billionaires exist?
NOTE: we'll be doing replays and occassional hot-take updates between now and January next year, when we will release our next season! The episode that started it all...Should billionaires exist? We e...Show More