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One of the criticisms sometimes levelled at that group is that their approach to doing good tends to ignore the political and structural dimensions of suffering. This conversation with Josh focuses much more on those dimensions.

Among other things, it's an interesting counterpoint to the episode from before Christmas with David Edmonds, which focused on Peter Singer and the Effective Altruists.

In particular, Josh is interested in the way the existence of global structural injustice creates obligations, and how people can fulfil those obligations.

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Following the shape of his new book - press.princeton.edu/.../death-in... - we started by describing Peter Singer's famous 'shallow pond' thought experiment and then spent the rest of the conversation exploring its implications.
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We focused on one particular comic book series, Heartstopper (tapas.io/series/Heart...). Aside from enlightening me about that series, Simon makes a convincing case that this is a good way to get at a range of ethical issues, in a way that is complex, subtle and grounded in recognisable situations.

Instead, we talk about a particular way of highlighting ethical issues and encouraging discussion of them. That's through engaging with serial narratives, including comic books and TV series...

Simon Meisch is a Senior Lecturer for Applied Ethics at the Ethics Centre of the University of Tubingen, and until recently was also a visiting scholar here at IDEA. It's an unusual episode of the podcast in that we aren't talking about a specific ethical issue...

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You can see the In-House Ethics Framework, developed by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds for the Law Society here: www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/in-ho...

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