Evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings
John shares his story, from being a devout Pentecostalist Sunday School Teacher in Nigeria to being a Sentientist, atheist, vegan academic and author.
“Drop the retribution. Instead use restoration, rehabilitation, protection and deterrence. Justice for all sentient beings.”
Every now and then I send out an update about our Sentientism “movement”(?) to the academics, activists, celebs, lawyers, policy people, podcasters, YouTubers and writers I’ve spammed so far about Sentientism. I thought I’d share it here in case of interest.
“My enemy, which I will destroy, is arbitrariness!” New Sentientist Conversation with Stijn Bruers. Evidence, reason and compassion.
We’ve launched a Sentientism podcast! You’ll hear from celebrities, academics and activists about “what’s real?” and “what matters?”.
“The aim is to convince 8 billion people to use evidence & reason & extend universal compassion to all sentient beings, thereby solving all the world’s problems.” New podcast interview!
“Do you want a habitable planet for your children?” A Sentientist Conversation with Zion Lights. Addressing the climate challenge with evidence, reason and compassion.
In this Sentientist Conversation I talk to Law and Rights Lecturer and Author, Dr. Joe Wills. We talk about what’s real and what matters morally.
“We have a golden opportunity to re-imagine our relationships with non-human animals.”
Annika van den Born from Future Based and I discuss how naturalism and sentiocentrism come together in Sentientism. We discuss how “higher power” systems of thinking tend to warp compassionate ethics. We talk about the risks of environmental movements extending their moral circles too far (biocentrism, ecocentrism or holism) while often ignoring sentient non-human animals. We also talk about what a Sentientist utopia might look and how we might move towards it.
New York Times bestselling (4 times!) author and journalist AJ Jacobs experiments on himself to help us all learn. In this Sentientist Conversation he talks with Jamie about what he believes, what matters morally, and how his writing projects link to Sentientism’s tenets of evidence, reason and universal compassion.