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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Reparations

I feel like you or someone imagined whether we would all exist if Hitler hadn't existed. How fully can we regret Hitler if half the world wouldn't exist? It would be people by different people. And actually, that raises interesting questions about reparations and so on. Because Hitler did obviously very bad things, but I owe Hitler my life as it were. So it has a complicated relationship with the past when one begins to think of it like that.

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