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#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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We Can Engineer to Make Life and Opportunity Better and Better

It's never a question of everyone being equal in all their capacities. That's clearly a pipe dream, and not even obviously a desirable one. But it is also a case that all boats can rise with whatever tide. We can engineer to make life and opportunity better for more and more people. And that's the, that's our ethical ponsibility here. The basis for offence, or pride, or anything that could correlate with any summary of group differences, all i see is a very easy path to daylight, to get past all that.

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