GTAA Philosophy Friday Livestream: Retributivism, Consequentialism, and "A Clockwork Orange"
We were planning something else for today, but since Jennifer had to leave the Wednesday Movie Livestream on "A Clockwork Orange" before she got a chance to talk about the philosophical issues raised by the movie, today we're going to be using the movie as a jumping off point for a discussion of retributivism, consequentialism, and whatever other philosophical issues the discussion leads us to--this one should be fun.
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Very Bad Wizards co-hosts Tamler Sommers and David Pizarro join Ben Burgis and Ryan Lake to discuss Joe Dante's absurdist classic Gremlins 2. A good way to spiritually prepare yourself for this is to watch the Key & Peele documentary capturing the meeting at which the movie was planned:
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Note: Stream starts at 7 ET instead of 8 ET because one of the participants insists that he should be there for his "wife"'s "birthday." Very lame.
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Glenn Greenwald explains why the Brazilian Elite hates Lula even though they actually got richer under his presidency.
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Katie and crew beat back some right-wing talking points about Israel while also discussing the uselessness of condemning Hamas without talking about the larger context of the conflict.
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Matt McManus tells the gang about his Twitter dust-up with James Lindsay, after Matt mocked him for his dumb fake stunt.
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