Is Smothering a Child Better Than Choosing of Your Children to Be Shot?

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The question is whether smothering a child is worse than choosing of your children to be shot. If i which one it was, that the problem seems easier if you give somebody a spinner or let him flip a coin. I mean, not on sort of reason grounds, but in a gut feeling level, it seems even worse. This is all in service of tamler a, paula, if if you could do one episode of very bad wizards about any movie, which movie would it be like?

Can a fully determined creature deliberate? How big a role does conscious reasoning play in moral judgment and everyday life? Are we responsible for our thoughts and actions? Paul Bloom rejoins us against his better judgment to discuss his book "Just Babies" and his recent article in The Atlantic that set the internet on the fire and riled up the likes of Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne. Plus, what's the difference (if any) between getting into a Star Trek transporter and getting an axe to the head, and why does David know so much about boy bands?

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