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"
Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil, racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .