"I would pay not to walk by homeless people and be made to have that moral dilemma," he says. "My first thought is well if I give it to this person then what's to stop me from giving it to every single person on the street?" He has two sons who are empathetic, but his older son 'isn't very empathetic' David: The American government kills many more people like this with drones every day.
Paul Bloom joins us in the second segment for a lively discussion about the value of empathy as a guide our moral decisions. And in our first scoop, we talk about Paul's new book (coming in November) Just Babies: The Origin of Good and Evil , racist babies, and how 80s sitcoms changed the world. In the first segment, Dave and Tamler face the music and try to respond to a listener's criticisms of their episode on slurs and offensiveness (Episode 22) .
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