I think that the best way to evoke prison reform is not to get people to feel empathetic towards prisoners, because it's just very, very difficult. We're not saints. And many of them are in fact bad people who frighten us. I think we could evoke some general principles of human rights and compassion, which are sort of less cold-blooded than the Peter Singer accounting.
Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil , racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .
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Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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