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 	- It is not necessary anymore with the rise of agriculture
 
 - Arguments for human exceptionalism rely on the fact that humans are moral agents
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+## Trolley Problem
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+- 5 people are one one track, 1 person on the other. Which way to you set the train to go
+	- The trolley is initially going towards the 5 people
+- A utilitarian would probably think of this in simple terms: one person dying vs 5 people dying
+- This is tough to talk about without knowing who the people on the track are
+	- Ex. Assume that the 5 people have big families and were the family breadwinners. In this case, it would be exponentially more optimific to move to train to the track with 1 person
+- The way you think about this likely changes when the problem changes from turning a level to pushing a person in front of the train
+	- These two versions brings up the ethics of gunning down people vs killing people with a remote controlled drone
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+## Beasts are Rational Reading
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+- Circe is a witch that turns humans into farm animals
+- Odysseus lands on Circe's island
+- Gryllus is a pig who used to be a man
+- In the Ancient World, courage is a virtue
+	- Gryllus criticizes humans, claiming that they are not always courageous. He claims that animals are instinctually courageous
+	- A response to this argument is that perhaps humans are courageous when it is smart to be (fight or flight)
+- Note that the author is perhaps a bit biased, as he was a vegetarian