The Problem of Evil (Video)

Our group uses popular mobile application Snapchat to create our version of a typical personality test, thus exploring the (co-)existence of God and Evil in a fun and quirky way. If an omnibenevolent (totally good) and omniscient (all-seeing) God exists, would it be possible for Evil to exist?

Note: Videos are best viewed on a desktop/PC/laptop browser, otherwise the links to the choices will not appear in the videos. However, if you do use your mobile to view our videos, you may scroll down to the video description for the link to the next video, which depends on the choice you make.

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Is there really a difference between eating different types of meat? (Video)

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Our group project is mainly targeted at audiences who hold strong views on how it is supposedly “right” or “wrong” to eat certain types of meat. Hence, this video seeks to educate in a light-hearted way the fact that there is no difference in moral status between different animals.

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Lost (Haiku)

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We have created a Haiku to explain Singer’s drowning child argument as well as the other perspectives of the issue (deontology and virtue ethics) in a concise manner. We hope that non-philosophy NUS students will understand the rationale for helping a starving child in a poor country through this poem.

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Nocross’ Puppy Argument and Eating Factory Farmed Meat (Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeX5pD0qrM0

In this video, our aim is to explore whether it is morally permissible to support factory farming by consuming factory farmed animals as food using the Nocross’ Puppy argument and the Utilitarian argument. Our target audience are the consumers of factory farmed meat.

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  • Amanda Ng Pei Yi – Acting
  • Sim See – Filming
  • Chew Hwee Chee – Acting
  • Ong Ting Yong – Documentation
  • Low Sen Ern Gabriel – Acting and Editing

Acknowledgements and Reference

  • Nocross and his Puppy argument

A Real Demon (Video)

https://youtu.be/ahnP4zhmckE

The submission is a short original song and supplementary infographic explaining the references made. The intended audience is a layperson with minimal background in philosophy. The submission aims to bring together existing concepts in some well-known references and show that they can be organised as a single philosophical issue.

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Do you think it’s right to consume dogs? (Video)

https://youtu.be/ciqnXF_naAM

This video is meant for any laymen interested in philosophy and it aims to shed light on our natural and subconscious instincts to assign different moral statuses to different lifeforms. We bring in discussions about the trolley problem in relation to an idea extracted from Norcross’s puppy argument.

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He is Not Who You Think He Is (Poster)

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This poster attempts to convince theists that the monotheistic conception of God is problematic. This is concerned with the problem of evil, specifically the two tenets of omnibenevloence and omnipotence. We intend to place this poster around religious institutions, in conspicuous places such as on lampposts, or as a flyer between the windshield wipers of their cars.

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Love or Hunger: A Moral Dilemma (Video)

https://youtu.be/dzoThY-4puc

This animation aims to introduce the concept of moral dilemma and responsibility to layman
audiences through 3 perspectives, utilitarianism, virtue ethics and deontology. The plot follows
John and 2 starving children, exploring the permissibility of allowing the children to assuage
their hunger in the expense of John’s long term happiness.

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