“Our thesis is that there is no moral requirement to refrain from emitting reasonable amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) solely in order to enjoy oneself. Joyriding in a gas guzzler (joyguzzling) provides our paradigm example” – explain Ewan Kingston and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong of the Philosophy Department, Duke University, Durham, NC, US, in a new paper […]
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The pleasures of listening to ironically-enjoyed music (new study)
“When you enjoy music in spite of the fact that it’s bad, because of the fact that it’s bad, or you enjoy it for a different reason than the musician intended” then that’s ‘ironically-enjoyed music’. The definition comes from a new (Aug 2016) study scheduled for publication in the Psychology of Music journal entitled : […]
The pleasure of being nasty
Dr. Klaus Abbink (pictured) of Monash Business School has (along with colleague Prof. Dr. Abdolkarim Sadrieh) experimentally examined the question of pleasure derived from deliberate nastiness – specifically with regard to joy-of-destruction. “In the joy-of-destruction game that we introduce, players can burn each other’s money, but we have removed all conventional reasons to do so. […]