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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Penguin UK / Allen Lane, 2018 ebook)

Steven Pinker · c. 2018

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  1. The moral value of quantification is that it treats all lives as equally valuable, so actions that bring down the highest numbers of homicides prevent the greatest amount of human tragedy.

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  2. Intellectuals hate progress.

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  3. The fickle effects of inequality on well-being bring up another common confusion in these discussions: the conflation of inequality with unfairness.

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