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Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

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The Importance of Empathy

The author says he's not wedded to the utilitarian view of life. He argues that empathy can lead to moral mistakes, like valuing one life over 100 lives. "I think empathy is the wrong reason to say that's a bad arrangement"

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