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#321 — Reckoning with Parfit
Making Sense with Sam Harris
The Importance of Being a Victimless Crime
I feel like you or someone imagined whether we would all exist if Hitler hadn't existed. How fully can we regret Hitler if half the world wouldn't exist? It would be people by different people. I am actually the product of two Jewish refugees. They would work not for Hitler, they would not have arrived in England. There was no way I would exist if Hitler weren't there. But that's true of almost everybody. He changes the whole world. So you wouldn't exist if Hitler wasn't there. That raises interesting questions about reparations and so on. Because, Hitler did obviously very bad things, but I owe Hitler my life as it were. One has a complicated relationship with
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