Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Empathy
"It's a version of masochism in the same way as young children are testing their boundaries by playing games that involve pain," says Paul. "I didn't actually even understand him more other than in this very narrow way as somebody who who is suffering physically", he adds about Leonardo DiCaprio’s character. “We have some appetite for empathizing with great suffering, so much of fiction,. There's some weird pleasure you get from it."
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