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Making Sense of Foundations of Morality

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Consequences of Sacrificing One to Save Five Others

The idea that if you can sacrifice one to save five, well then you should go into your doctor's office for a checkup and he realizes he's got five other patients who need your organs. "If you just look at the larger consequence of living in a world where at any moment any of us could be sacrificed by society to save five others, none of us want to live in that world," writes John Sutter.

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