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#228 - Doing Good

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Antithesis of Feeling Like an Onrous Obligation

i'm increasingly sensitive to causes that i that catch my eye and i want to support but i'm aware that i am a a malfunctioning robot with respect to my own you know moral compass as i said. When i when i think about giving to a cause that really doesn't quite meet the test well that then achieves the status for me of a kind of guilty pleasure. I feel a little guilty like i gave that much money to the homeless charity because you know will just told me that that's not going to meet the test so okay that's going to have to have to be above and beyond the ten percent i pledged to the most effective charities. Just having to differentiate the charitable donations that

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