Andrew Schulz's Flagrant with Akaash Singh
Philosopher on Why Being Nice is Selfish, Is Incest Bad? &, Testing our Ethics! | Alex O'Connor
20 Aug 2025
YERRR – Alex O’Connor joins the boys to break down the wildest moral questions you’ve never wanted to answer. From siblings and animal relationships to split brains and trolley problems, it’s philosophy at its most unhinged. Deep thoughts, dark hypotheticals, and big laughs. All that and more on this week’s episode of FLAGRANT. INDULGE. 0:00 Who has the most empathy? 4:08 Incest is ok! Empathy is self-serving 9:14 What are ethics? Finding out about ladyboys 16:29 Caring about holes + God needs priests 22:45 Why is bestiality wrong? Rationalising everything 36:15 Trolley problems + Utilitarianism's limits 46:18 Fat man variance 52:39 Plato, history of philosophy + Turbo losers 55:58 Deeper issues & motivations + Too many voting 1:00:35 Changing political systems + Rule utilitarianism 1:05:46 Brexit & feeling of losing cultural identity 1:10:10 Facts to serve feelings + Split brains 1:16:24 Philosophy of mind + What makes you, you? 1:27:19 What makes you happy? Turning it off 1:39:54 Does Alex have a therapist? Deep self-introspection 1:50:41 Dabbling with substances, Realisations & Demons Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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