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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Moral Truth About Rabbits

William McCaskill says we should take seriously the idea that creatures with negative well-being should essentially be eliminated. "I happen to think we probably should do it for mosquitoes," he adds. If you put me in charge of the world and gave me the CRISPR technology here to engineer the death of a species, I probably would kill all the mosquitoes,. At minimum, I would engineer them in a way that made them far less harmful than we know them to be.

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