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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Consequences

The question is whether or not it's solely reducible to the consequences. Consequences might not be linear, linearly related. The Walter Mitty case strikes you as such an impoverished way of being, right? I mean, in what does its moral impoverishment consist? It consists in all of the states of consciousness that such a person is guaranteed to know nothing about because he's captivated by his malicious fantasy life. That's why this example seems to have moral force for people.

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