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Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Discussions

After Dinner Conversation

Named “TOP 20 PHILOSOPHY PODCAST” for 2022! Brought to you by “After Dinner Conversation” publishing; thoughtful discussions about the philosophy and ethics found in the short fiction stories from our monthly magazine. Or, put another way, discussions about “what-if” examples, across literary genres, regarding ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, utilitarianism, aesthetics, moral relativism, and political and economic philosophy.

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E31. "Idle Horns" - What do you do when it's...

Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Discussions ·

2020/11/16

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Set in hell, a demon, “Bub” asks the person he is torturing for eternity what he did to end up in hell. Turns out he stole a few bikes. This causes Bub to question his purpose and walk off the job. He climbs to limbo to take a break from it all. Eventually, Hermes comes to fetch him and bring him before Satan, who punishes him for eternity for walking off the job.DISCUSSION: Wonderful story, both for the questions it asks, and the humor it brings to

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00:43:35

E30. "Farewell, Odysseus" - Would you get a human as...

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2020/11/02

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Set in the future, the Dios are a group of super humans who, because of having the wealth over generations to make mental and physical enhancements, are a different, and superior, race. Humans on earth sometimes agree to go to live on Mars with the Dios as their pets. The narrator is one such person, that is, until he starts to ask too many questions.DISCUSSION: Great world building. A longer and more complete story than we usually do. Perhaps this is a

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00:47:53

E29. "All My Tomorrows" - How many tomorrows would...

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2020/10/19

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A sixteen year old girl is put in charge of her parents’ shop that sells memories of your past in exchange for a year of your future. The girl loves her job and all the memories she can feel leaking through the files. A sad man comes in and asks to have the memory of his “last good day.” She sells him the day at a discounted price for the remainder of the life he has left. It was, he says, the last day before he learned a terrible secret he never

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00:55:50

E28. "The Seven Absent Sins" - Are all sentient...

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2020/10/05

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A Jesuit Priest researches other sentient beings in the universe looking for species that are incapable of committing one of the cardinal sins. He finds six different species that, because of their biology, he says, cannot commit one of the sins. He is unable to find a species without the sin of Pride. He questions, but finally confirms, that this strengthens his belief in God.DISCUSSION: Are their merits of earth closing itself off from the universe

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00:44:35

E27. "Two-Percenters" - Should we make everyone special?

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2020/09/21

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Set in the future, 2% of the population have a genetic makeup that allows them to be enhanced. The intelligent are very intelligent, the beautiful, like Greek gods. Because of their enhanced abilities, they run the world. An enhanced “Social” meets up with an enhanced “Rational” to tell him about a newly discovered drug that would allow the other 98% of the world to be able to be enhanced as well, but it would cause the 2% to regress to average, or

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00:56:16

E26. "Snitch" - When doing a moral good, do the ends...

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2020/09/07

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A black pastor in New Orleans is trying to get a redevelopment project built for his poor community post Katrina. Things aren’t going well. A white person was robbed and beat up in the area, which scared off the banks from lending. The pastor goes to the local gang and pays them to keep white people safe. He also reaches out to another church group to help with protests. The white developer/partner comes and says he is going to make the project smaller

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00:54:12

E25. "Pneumadectomy" - Would you remove your soul, to...

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2020/08/24

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A young boy heads to the park to play soccer with friends, they tease him and won’t let him play because he had his soul removed. Flash to the discovery of the soul. A doctor has modified a CAT Scan machine and found the soul in the appendix. When the appendix is inflamed, sometimes it is medically caused, sometimes it is because of an injured soul. Regardless of the cause, it can still be removed and the problem is fine. And the person with no soul

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00:50:26

E24. "Choose" - What if death is the only option?

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2020/08/10

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A woman wakes up strapped to a lab table. An emotionless doctor asks her to choose what she would do for the trolley problem. She is then graphically shown the results of her choice. A new choice, do you push people out of an over-capacity life raft? She is again graphically show the result of her choice. This goes on for 1000’s of scenarios until the woman is totally exhausted from watching death. Only then does she realize she is being punished, 900

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00:48:08

E23. "Prevention" - Would you turn on your son, to...

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2020/07/27

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: A single mother and her son have coffee before school. His car is in the shop, so she drives him to high school. He calls his mom later to say he left his laptop in the car. She decides to go through his laptop, and finds out his son and two friends are planning on shooting up the school in just days. She searches his room, and finds guns and drugs. The mother is worried about how this will effect her college daughter, and herself, if the shooting

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00:44:33

E22. "An Infinite Game" - Is everyone selfish, when...

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2020/07/13

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Four prisoners are made to draw straws for the order they stand in a row. Their prison guard plans to push his bayonet into the first person and see how far back it goes in the line of men. The first man in line panics, runs, and is shot. The narrator talks to the man in front of him and tries to convince him not to run so he might slow down the thrust. The heavy set man in the back thinks he is safe, but the guard changes his mind and stabs him

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00:40:06

E21. "Prohibition" - Can you blame an addict for not...

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2020/06/29

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Set in the future, an addict takes a cab to an isolated part of town. He goes to a private, illegal club to break the law; he orders meat. The club is raided by the police, who kill a patron during their interrogation of her. The meat-eating addict sneaks away, knowing he will break the law again.DISCUSSION: Story with so many layers. First, the contrast between the “humane” society that has banned meat eating, but the brutality of the individual

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00:30:42

E20. "How The Cockroach Lost Its Voice" - When...

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2020/06/15

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: An older and younger (talking) cockroach climb to the top of the highest thing, the refrigerator, to overlook their world. The older roach tells the child that the humans he sees can talk, and also have a 3rd eye inside of them that allows them to imagine the future and remember the past, and this is what makes them unhappy all the time. An angel moth comes down and takes away the roaches ability to speak forever.DISCUSSION: A children’s story, but one

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00:41:35

E19. "The Orphan's Dilemma" - Is getting a future...

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2020/06/01

Named “Top 15 Short Story Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: The story takes place in the thoughts of a 16 year old boy waiting to have his memory erased for his adoption. He thinks about going on his first date, and about being teased by others. He wonders about the family that is adopting him and having new memories implanted in him. It’s finally his turn, he has decided if he is getting his memory replaced, and he heads in to the room to tell them his decision.DISCUSSION: Wonderful story about a

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00:35:02

E18. "The Book Of Approved Words" - Are there words...

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2020/05/18

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: An “approved “government writer gets in trouble by the governing board for writing honest movie reviews. His run-away brother comes to his house to scan his contraband collection of books and invites him to join his rebellion by uploading an earlier edition of the book of approved words so the population can see the words that are missing from the current edition.DISCUSSION: Interesting modern twist on the typical 1984 banned books idea. In this case,

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00:39:56

E17. "A Change Of Verbs" - What if you just said what...

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2020/05/04

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: The main character is a passive University Professor with a nagging wife. For some reason he decides today will be different and he goes through the entire day saying, and doing, what he actually feels. The day goes amazingly well, with classes, with colleagues, and he decides this will start a new chapter in his life.DISCUSSION: Mixed reactions on this story. On the one hand, isn’t it his own fault for not always saying what he meant and letting people

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00:29:19

E16. "Abrama's End Game" - If god told you she was...

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2020/04/20

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: The female god of a fantasy realm tells the inhabitants she is actually a graduate student researching AI in an MMORPG, and that she created them to see how they would change. However, the game developer is discontinuing the game because of the illegal gold farming being done in game for money laundering. The leader of the AI fight back by working with real in-game players to trade them in game gold for real world tools to fight back.DISCUSSION: How

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00:37:38

E15. "Ruddy Apes And Cannibals" - If a civilized...

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2020/04/06

Named “Top 15 Podcast” for 2020!STORY SUMMARY: Explorers find a remote island of civilized cannibals. The cannibals are much more technologically advanced, already having mastered teleportation and space travel. They have a debate to try and come to terms with the cannibals. The explorers are so offended they leave, but when they do, they leave several nukes and destroy the civilized cannibals.DISCUSSION: Where do we draw the line on what animals we eat? Is all meat that we eat that didn’t agree to

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Philosophy | Ethics Short Story Discussions ·

2020/04/05

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00:43:29

E14. "Give The Robot The Impossible Job!" - Can...

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2020/03/23

STORY SUMMARY: In the distant future where all teaching is done by robots, a robot is given a special chance. If it can teach a little girl that is showing early warnings of becoming a killer when she grows up, it can be retired to the robot equivalent of heaven. If it fails, it will be decommissioned. The robot has access to all teaching methodologies and determines the only way to change the girls behavior is to give her the most extremes examples of her killing ideas, so as to offend even the

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00:43:24

E13. "Believing In Ghosts" - How much power are you...

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2020/03/09

STORY SUMMARY: A white-hat hacker is hired b a Presidential campaign to make sure there information is secure. She gets a call that the system has been hacked. When she investigates she finds it wasn’t a usual hacker in the basement, but someone highly funded, maybe another nation-state. She also finds some odd code. She takes it to a friend and, between the two of them, they determine it’s an AI program that has been feeding the candidate all the optimal opinions and policy to get elected. The

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