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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Viciousness of Altruism

effective altruist essentially get around some of these issues is just to say, well, actually, both of those are essentially wastes of money. And again, this all sounds good. Like I don't think that this is bad reasoning or anything like that. But the more seriously you take this and the more literally you take this, what happens is is that it's almost like you begin to instantiate this academic moral philosophy into real life. It begins to become vicious in a particular way.

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