I feel like you're kind of deflecting the question, like the issue isn't that you have to act like a sociopath or be evil. The issue is that you can just, you could be happier in the iety as it is right now if you just didn't do the right thing as often asan i mean, it may turn out that just magically doing the conventionally moral thing, as always brings people's enlightened self interest, it always maximizes wo se magical a, magically could be possible, but it could so no could bether thismer balance where you sort of dick people over in certain circumstances where you can get away with it. I believe that there is some
Sam Harris gets back in the VBW ring for another round on moral responsibility, ethical theories, and the grounds for our obligations to other people. Are we at a genuine stalemate when it comes to blame and desert? Is Tamler a closet consequentialist? Is Sam a closet pluralist? Why is Dave such a big Wagner fan? Plus, Twitter shaming: what is it good for? Settle in, get comfortable, pour yourself a drink, you’re in for the long haul on this one.
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