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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Empathy

The lives of a hundred matter more than a life of one. Especially, and this is the amazingly non-normative finding from Slovak's work. And so there's an interesting duality here. On the one hand, our gut feelings push us towards the one girl and not the hundred. But on the other hand, we're smart enough to recognize when we put it in this abstract way that that's a moral mistake.

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