#1243 Jeff McMahan: Antinatalism, Extinctionism, Gene Editing, and Overpopulation
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a returned guest, Dr. Jeff McMahon. He is Sakura and White's professor of moral philosophy at the University of Oxford. And today we're going to talk about reproductive ethics and within the topic of reproductive ethics, antinatalism, extinctionism, embryo selection.
population ethics and some other related topics. So Jeff, welcome back to the show. It's always an immense pleasure to talk with you. Thanks, Ricardo. And it's always a great pleasure to talk with you.
As I've said before, you must be the the the most learned person on earth with all the topics you cover. It's just amazing. Well, I I I mean I I'm not sure about that, but I appreciate the kind words. So um let me just ask you before we get into uh the actual topics, uh, because of course on the show I've already discussed with you uh different kinds of topics related to, for example, your book, The Ethics of Killing, Killing in War. Uh we've talked about uh political violence.
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