Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a unique framework for thinking through your moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism — the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. To submit a question, fill out this anonymous form. Here’s this week’s question from a reader, condensed and edited for clarity:
“I’m disgusted...
The article challenges readers to reconsider assumptions about the capabilities and achievements of early humans. By presenting examples like Göbekli Tepe and the Sainte-Chapelle cathedral, it demonstrates that complex structures were built before modern tools like mathematics and the scientific method. Additionally, the piece discusses an argument by Alex Chalmers about the limitations of saturationism, which implies that well-being only increases up to a certain point, and suggests that variet...