Sam Harris on using reason to build our morality
The TED Interview
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The Worst Possible State
"There is a kind of moral diversity possible in my picture. But for this example, just imagine that every conscious system in that universe suffers as much as it possibly can," he says. "So if you're telling me there's somebody who would consider a universe of dirt to be worse than a universe of painful torment, well then that's the universe he gets."
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