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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

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The Importance of Empathy

"I feel it for all kinds of things," he says. "Empathy can take a group that you had once disregarded and make you care for them." He thinks there's an arrogance to empathy, which is the temptation to conclude after your experience that you now know what it feels like to be a transgender sex worker. But I am certain you do not.

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