Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
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Empathy and Morality
David Frum: Empathy is a biological adaptation for getting along with others. He says it's not an emotion evolved toward us away from dog poop and dead meat. Frum: It gets co-opted in a bad way for morality. "I'm not sure of its utility at a broad scale"
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