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#56 — Abusing Dolores

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Deficiency of Compassion in Hinduism?

I tend to be rearly cynical about people who claim to have certain abilities. But there's something about people who have attained a certain mental capacity, that you can tell it by being with them. And i am not sure what i think of it. These are extraordinarily happy people, so that what you get from them is not a perceived deficit of compassion or love or engagement with the welfare of other people. You get a kind of obliteration of preference. The problem in their case is it's a surfeit of compassion and love and engagement. They don't honor the kinds of normal ano family ties or or preferences that we consider normative. We would be sonally scandalized to

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