Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
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The Importance of Empathy in Prison Reform
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.
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