#228 - Doing Good
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Cost of Consequences
I wouldn't want to make a claim that the that homeless person in the US has a better life than the extreme poor you know I think it's not so hard to just hit rock bottom in terms of human suffering. The homelessness in San Francisco is very high on the list of reasons why that strikes me as a bad outcome that has far-reaching significance for society. There are things we we're right to want that are only compatible with the accumulation of wealth in certain respects one framing from singersframing those intuitions are just wrong or at least they're premature right and we should be careful about how we frame these issues.
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