Paul Waldman: Empathy is a good thing, but there are cases where it pulls us back. He says that in the case of foreign aid, for example, empathy can lead to atrocities. Waldman: Terrorists exploit our fear and make us all scared, shitless. That's not fear's fault, right? It's not, you wouldn't want to blame fear for that.
Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil , racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .
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