Ellie Beale: The social pressure in this case is like, you know, being embarrassed in front of your peers for being a Jew lover. And the Milgram, right? I mean, isn't that the whole point of Milgram and Stanford prisons experiment? Part of what inspired them. She says it's one thing when you're facing somebody at war but another thing when you are just rounding up little kids and slaughtering them and killing them.
Special guest Eric Schwitzgebel joins David and Tamler to discuss the moral behavior (or lack thereof) of ethicists. Does moral reflection make us better people, or does it just give us better excuses to be immoral? Who's more right about human nature--Mencius or Xun Zi? What did Kant have against bastards and masturbating? Plus, we talk about jerks, robot cars, and killing baby Hitler. (Godwin's Law within 1:42--might be a new record for us).
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