Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
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The Power of Empathy
There is this other aspect of empathy, and it's actually something we talked about in that chapter. And so now you can show me a picture of one sort of neotenous looking starving African child. And it doesn't just make me care about that one child. Right? If empathy were completely partial, and if it's object, we're only that thing that made me feel empathy. But because we have this other ability to categorize informed groups and maybe extend with reason, now I can actually watch to donate to starving Africans. So there's a power there to the empathy that I think.
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