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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Problem With Fanaticism Within the Effect of Altruism

Sally Kohn: There's a real legitimate problem within effective altruism that to their credit, they talk about. They actually use this term fanaticism within the movement to discuss this. She says it tends to mean a kind of moral blindness to other consequences that in the clear light of day, you or certainly others around you could recognize you should care about. And again, I think it's this problem of of just what when you're acting with that massive sort of expected morality, and you're acting from that position, you have to be very careful to not become a suicide bomber.

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