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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Ethical Significance of Proximity

There's an immense psychological significance that the starving person on my doorstep is different, certainly more salient than the starving person in a distant country. Is there any ethical significance to proximity? The problem in your backyard as opposed to the problem in an ocean away? Well I'd say not to proximity in itself again. But we do have very good research now about effective nonprofit organizations that are trying to help people far away.

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