The Importance of Stopping and Thinking

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Heidegger thought it was the, they had an unusually toxic virulent, aggressive, intellectually accepted form of anti-Semitism that made them want to do this. He doesn't think it's their personality or something like that. This brings us back to though your particular studies because I bet you that in Germany, the rates of returning library books is pretty, pretty damn high. You'd find something, anyone, any normal person would find something which like incredibly revolting about just walking to the forest and shooting a girl in the head.

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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