"Kant uttered in a sexy moment of dirty talk is very different than Kant being yelled at at a woman on the street," she says. "We need to find out people's boundaries, seek to understand their experiences and then be kind and consensual." She adds that using public podiums and positions of power to defend or trivialize the use of slurs is problematic.
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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