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#16 — The Dark Side

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Would You Kill One Person to Save Five?

Andeso: In some way, smacking around or certainly that water warding, the more serious tortures, are worse than killing somebody. He says he has an intuition to do with dignity and respect. Andeso: I think it does have certain connections to the trolley problem. It does invoke that difference between flipping the switch and pushing the fat man is rate.

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