"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."
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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