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#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Economic Costs of Lockdown
Many people are suggesting that this cure is worse than the disease. They're not properly comparing two states of the world, he says. It doesn't take into account that economic damage cannot be disentangled from all the lives lost. I think some people have a fantasy where you say, well, luck. Let's make a hard choice here, and we snap our fingers,. And then, just magically, some fairly small percentage, one per cent, half of one per cent, whatever, of humans disappear dutodovirus. But that's, that's bizarre. He adds: "Beyond being cruel, it's just irrational"...
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