Poor and black defendants have more legal rights than ever, but that didn't stop mass incarceration. Why is that? We talk about a paper by Paul Butler called "Poor People Lose: Gideon and the Critique of Rights." Plus, we answer the question that's on everyone's mind: how to live as an anti-natalist. And Tamler is appalled to discover David's anti-natalist leanings. Sponsored By: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.eero.com/verybadwizards" rel= "nofollow">Eero</a> Promo Code: VERYBADWIZARDS</li> </ul> <a href="https://www.patreon.com/verybadwizards" rel= "payment">Support Very Bad Wizards</a> Links: <ul> <li><a href="https://click.fireside.fm/e/NTE5MzQ" title= "How to Live As an Antinatalist: 11 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow" rel="nofollow">How to Live As an Antinatalist: 11 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow</a></li> <li><a href="https://click.fireside.fm/e/NTE5MjQ" title= "Suing your parents for being born has philosophical support — Quartz" rel="nofollow">Suing your parents for being born has philosophical support — Quartz</a></li> <li><a href="https://click.fireside.fm/e/NTE5MzA" title= "Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him - BBC News" rel= "nofollow">Indian man to sue parents for giving birth to him - BBC News</a></li> <li><a href="https://click.fireside.fm/e/NTE5MjM" title= "Butler, P. D. (2012). Poor people lose: Gideon and the critique of rights. Yale LJ, 122, 2176." rel="nofollow">Butler, P. D. (2012). Poor people lose: Gideon and the critique of rights. Yale LJ, 122, 2176.</a></li> <li><a href="https://click.fireside.fm/e/NTE5NDI" title= "Butler, P. (2010). Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice. The New Press. Chicago " rel="nofollow">Butler, P. (2010). Let's get free: a hip-hop theory of justice. The New Press. Chicago</a></li> <li><a href="https://click.fireside.fm/e/NTE5NDM" title= "Gideon v. Wainwright - Wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Gideon v. Wainwright - Wikipedia</a></li> </ul>

Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.