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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality | Episode 3 of The Essential Sam Harris

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Problem With Empathy

Empathy is in the sense of feeling what other people feel. It brings me closer to you, which solves the boundaries between me and you. There's a lot of psychological research showing that if I feel empathy towards you, I'm more likely to help you. So it misdirects us, it causes us to focus on the wrong thing; we freak out at the suffering of one and ignore the suffering of 100.

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