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From the Ted Talk by Will MacAskill: What are the most important moral problems of our time?
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So I think the fturue is going to be really big, but is it going to be good? Is the hmaun race even really worth preserving? Well, we hear all the time about how things have been getting worse, but I think that when we take the long run, things have been getting radically better. Here, for example, is life expectancy over time. Here's the protprioon of people not living in erxmete poverty. Here's the nbuemr of countries over time that have decriminalized homosexuality. Here's the number of countries over time that have become democratic. Then, when we look to the future, there could be so much more to gain again. We'll be so much richer, we can solve so many prelmbos that are intractable today.
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So I think the ______ is going to be really big, but is it going to be good? Is the _____ race even really worth preserving? Well, we hear all the time about how things have been getting worse, but I think that when we take the long run, things have been getting radically better. Here, for example, is life expectancy over time. Here's the __________ of people not living in _______ poverty. Here's the ______ of countries over time that have decriminalized homosexuality. Here's the number of countries over time that have become democratic. Then, when we look to the future, there could be so much more to gain again. We'll be so much richer, we can solve so many ________ that are intractable today.
Solution
- proportion
- future
- extreme
- human
- problems
- number
Original Text
So I think the future is going to be really big, but is it going to be good? Is the human race even really worth preserving? Well, we hear all the time about how things have been getting worse, but I think that when we take the long run, things have been getting radically better. Here, for example, is life expectancy over time. Here's the proportion of people not living in extreme poverty. Here's the number of countries over time that have decriminalized homosexuality. Here's the number of countries over time that have become democratic. Then, when we look to the future, there could be so much more to gain again. We'll be so much richer, we can solve so many problems that are intractable today.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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nuclear war |
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