How Much Weight Should We Give to Moral Outrage?

I would argue again 80% with Sam Harris I think you can probably have a fire prove that somehow. How is it that moral systems become rigid and lead to sort of destructive behavior? Where does the pathology arise what does the other side of the coin actually look like, he asks. The best way of making people kill the other half of the world is more communication which is bad so it's not a system that is in itself bad That's what you said I don't think one moral system is kind of worse than the other it's the intensity. It's the intensity with which it with which it's, you know, the fundamentalism that it leads to.

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