On the Ethics of Making People Feel Uncomfortable
Using David Foster Wallace's essay on boiling lobsters alive, Marianne Janack asks whether it is wrong to make people confront ethical questions they cannot immediately change. She draws on Descartes, Malebranche, and Beauvoir and Sartre's idea of facticity to argue that comfortable ignorance is easier but not better.
— via 3 Quarks Daily, Marianne Janack
