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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Dangers of Empathy

David Frum: Empathy is not a good piece of software if you want to be a reliable moral actor in normative terms. He says it causes us to focus on the wrong thing and that's why we freak out over mass shootings, even though they're very rare. The best people in the world have tons of empathy but so do the worst - he says. But there are many problems with empathy because it serves as a spotlight which zooms me in on a person in the here and now,. Frum writes.

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