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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Common Sensitivity

Sam McCaskill: There's a track record throughout human history of people doing absolutely abominable acts, not realizing that it was morally problematic at all. The ways in which the harm caused had been stripped away had been made sterile as were the case of the SS guards," he says. "It's through that almost mechanization of suffering that I think humanity has committed some of the worst alongs in its history" He concludes by asking if we could be acting in a way that seems radically wrong from the perspective of future generations, but that we take for common sense?

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