223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
The Michael Shermer Show
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I've Been Rethinking This Issue.
I've been rethinking this issue. You know, i read daniel goldhoggins book, wil hitler's willing executioners. There were some criticisms of at i thought were legitimate,. But they weren't anatemetic in thein the eliminationist, exterminationist sense that most germans probably were not. I think what you see here is ta sort of taxonomy of evil, where evil could have different sources. Am there’s a sort of pure evil, which does makes people suffer for the sake of having them suffer? It happens, but it's very rare, much rarer than we think. Typically, evil tends to be something where people do things on
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