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Episode 24: The Perils of Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

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The Importance of Empathy

"I bash it because some people fetishize it. So I bash it because Obama, who's a recently reflective person, champions empathy and more than any other president talking about the ability to take the perspective of others," he says. "There may be some moral superhumans who have empathetic powers that they could have empathy for anybody ... But you just don't think that'll happen."

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