"There are plenty of people who argue that fear misfires all the time, right? And so there's even disorders of anxiety." "I've never seen any kind of good defense for the view that morality has to be that impartial or anywhere near that impartial. But I'm curious what you two guys think," he adds. 'If I let somebody drown if I pass a drowning child and I hurry on because I'd promised my son'
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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Special Guest: Paul Bloom.
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