Facebook brings out something in people that might be specific to Facebook. So I'm not sure how much that transfers over to real world interactions. You can almost make no predictions at all. Some of those people, they say that, you know, actually they're really nice. But it's like, they're all very nice, kind of zero correlation. There's the jerk node in there somewhere. It's near the parietal junction, I think.
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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