Philosophy of The Good Place, Part 1 Suppose you are walking through a park and notice a small child thrashing about in the shallow pond beside the path. She surfaces, goes under, surfaces again, and the intervals are getting precariously longer. If you wade in, you save her life. Your shoes and clothes will be… Continue reading

Disclaimer. I regret to report that I no longer espouse the argument hereunder set forth, if one could call it that. I wrote this long rant at night after a drunk conversation with a friend. I re-read it the day after, thought it through, and concluded that the argument does not work structurally, and the… Continue reading

In April 2019, Korea’s Constitutional Court ruled that the provisions of the Criminal Code and the Mother and Child Health Act — which criminalized abortion without regard to gestational age — unconstitutionally infringed upon pregnant women’s rights to self-determination. At the time, I expressed my support for the decision, framing the central issue as “a… Continue reading