The Importance of Genetic Determinism

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"I'm willing to take the chance that shit would have gotten messier just from what I know about how things did end up. How bad it was." "If your only option is kill or not kill, then you know, like... I love this one. Give him a chance," he says of an article on genes versus environment. 'His genes with his environment led to him leading the third right' He doesn't think Hitler's problem was that he couldn't have sex with Jewish girls? A problem subsequent? No, no, no. It was certainly a solution to whatever the problem might have been.

Special guest Eric Schwitzgebel joins David and Tamler to discuss the moral behavior (or lack thereof) of ethicists. Does moral reflection make us better people, or does it just give us better excuses to be immoral? Who's more right about human nature--Mencius or Xun Zi? What did Kant have against bastards and masturbating? Plus, we talk about jerks, robot cars, and killing baby Hitler. (Godwin's Law within 1:42--might be a new record for us).

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