Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Regardless of discipline or subject matter, I think having the chance to interact with really smart people is sort of underrated. You learn a lot of general skills from expressing your ideas and then having someone smarter than you explain why you're wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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Joking aside, this is my official advice on studying philosophy. https://t.co/nz1u5VjfGc https://t.co/16nrDB77Xb — PolitiTweet.org

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I guess the way I (a consequentialist) would put it is that encouraging people to behave with common decency has pretty good consequences, which is why common decency is generally held to be praiseworthy. — PolitiTweet.org

Consequentialists usually offset their dogmatic moral theory with a bunch of dogmatic empirical claims in a despera… https://t.co/7dvTsR14qN

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