
#305 - Moral Knowledge
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Importance of Consequentialism in Altruism
The original inspiration for EA is arguably the thought experiment that Peter Singer came up with about the shallow pond, which has been discussed many times on this podcast. If you were to be walking home one day and you see a child drowning in a shallow pond, obviously he would rush over and save it. And if you happen to be wearing some very expensive shoes, the thought that you can't wait into that pond to save the life of a drowning child because you don't want to damage your shoes, well, that immediately brands you as some kind of moral monster.
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