Episode 59: Tumors All the Way Down (With Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Metaphysical Truth of the Ultimate Causality
Jared Diamond's father-in-law spent the rest of his life and something like 60 years being tortured by guilt for not having exacted retribution when it was most warranted. Sam: I treat bears differently than I treat human beings in part because human beings can do things like read books and listen to you know but David you're privileging the general category difference over these micro details of the specific instance. If there is some empirical evidence that voluntary and involuntary actions are respond perfectly exactly to one kind of punishment, then we should be able to punish people according to their circumstances. We have an absolute agreement about this differences between a voluntary action and the only thing that stops us from
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