#tm scanlon

T.M. scanlon wrote a whole ass book on "what we owe to each other" when the answer all along was just

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”—which was co-created by Schur and Daniel Goor, who wrote for “Parks and Recreation”—lacks the high-concept intensity of, say, “The Good Place,” in which the characters debate philosophy between fart jokes. But, while it’s superficially a more basic workplace sitcom, along the lines of “Taxi” and “Barney Miller,” it shares “The Good Place” ’s interest in T. M. Scanlon’s philosophical theme: that human decency derives from “what we owe to each other.”