The Power of Empathy

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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.

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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