Part one of term paper
I never thought it to be possible for someone to be so caught up in an emotional ideology of economics and money until I read an excerpt from “The Armchair Economist: Economics in Everyday Life” called “Why I Am Not An Environmentalist” by Steven E. Landsburg, because as much “honest scrutiny and logic” as he claims to apply to h ...

Part two of term paper
... morality. This is all the discussion he provides on the basis of morality to this point. Logically speaking, why can’t morality be a matter of preference? Why can’t I decide that I would prefer to help preserve nature (with non-utilitarian motives) rather than pave that parking lot that I would otherwise so love to have? And I feel that his implication that such a conflict in preferences is or should be morally neutral is a gross attempt at suppressing our humanity in the interest of profit ...