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#321 - Reckoning with Parfit

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Importance of Morality

Derek Parfits argues that morality is not about harming individuals. Instead, it's about helping people to have a better start in life. He uses the example of a 14-year-old girl having a child and nobody being harmed. And he then extrapolates that to a whole series of policies such as climate change.

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