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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Paradox of Morality

The most disturbing things are not reliably the most harmful in the world. We recognize that it would take a different kind of person with a very different set of internal motives, intentions and global properties of his mind to do the latter versus the former. A completely ordinary person like ourselves could be by dint of circumstance detached enough from the consequences of his actions so as to drop the bombs from the plane. It takes a proper psychopath or somebody who was pushed into psychopathy by his experience to kill people in that way with a shovel. The idea that it's much worse to kill people intentionally is a far greater model wrong in our society than merely failing to save someone.

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