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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Nonlinearity of Morality

If we assume there are consequences, then there's a question of whether or not the morality of the act scales linearly or non linearly with the consequences. We as humans want to naturally include things like intentions into into our equation. The difference between genuinely loving other people and only pretending to love them is enormous. It doesn't even if the superficial behavior looks identical to all the people involved.

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