CNN's Jarrett Bellini responds to a letter he received about his use of offensive terms. He says the author never questions what she would be losing if she banned certain words from her vocabulary. There is always a cost to banishing, you know, what people actually want to say and the way they interact with each other,Bellini writes.
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) .
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