Rachell Powell
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762 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
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Like what happens to these little creatures is horrific.
And even you do everything in your power to try to, you know, as many can survive and you can't.
So like, you know, this reminds me of Groundhog Day.
You remember that movie?
Of course.
So here's, I'm going to give you my take on Groundhog Day that I haven't heard anyone else do, okay?
And this goes back to the nature of ethics and it's relevant to this question because I think,
You know, I'm at a senior enough state in my career where I feel like I could just say things like this.
I think virtue ethics is stupid, but I think it's right.
And I guess the reason why is because, okay, let's go to Groundhog Day for a second, the Bill Murray movie, right, where he just keeps reiterating that same day over and over again.
I think it's a really, really interesting movie from an ethics perspective.
The way it starts is he starts out being an egoist.
Now he knows everything that's going to happen, so he's going to manipulate the world to his end.
He tries to sleep with the girl, blah, blah, blah.
It doesn't work out well for him anyway in all of those cases.
He keeps getting reborn and recycled.
This starts again.
he at some point moves from this kind of egoist mentality to what essentially is a utilitarian mentality, like maximize utility, meaning maximize pleasure over pain, which is a deeply selfless thing, but it's also futile.
And so like,
He's running around trying to save the kid.
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