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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Psychology of Distance Suffering

Our ancestors for millennia, for perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, we'd go back even to social primates before there were humans at all. Now suddenly, suddenly in terms of evolutionary time anyway, we live in a world where we have instant communications and very rapid delivery of assistance. And our psychology has not changed rapidly enough to cope with this.

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