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#264 - Consciousness and Self (Rebroadcast)

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Evolution of Human Suffering

Sally Kohn: It's interesting that this kind of gradual walk toward not taking human suffering seriously anymore is something that I think we experience in context dependent ways already. And when you think of the global implications, it is worrying to consider how malleable our experience might be here. But just to introduce a note of optimism, at least in recent history, most societies seem to be following a difference trajectory, right? That we no longer consider people from different races as have varying experiences of suffering that don't count ethically. We don't see them as different. So things, at least provisionally, up to this point, and who knows what will happen next, seem to have

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