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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Dispassionate Love

There are trade-offs, right? If you do one thing, you can't do something else. I think there's this argument that we could make, which is a bias for the local and the personal generally makes moral sense. We may have a better world where we all love our children more than we love children generically. But if it always just feels differently to us, well, then we have to price those feelings as part of the consequential calculus.

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