.@sapinker @NYTOpinionator Simple message: Don't tell others how they should feel and what their needs are.
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@sapinker@NYTOpinionator I know I am switching from is to ought, but doesn't the "dispassionate" approach only balkanize us further?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@NYTOpinionator Sorry but "objective and fair morality" is a MUCH slipperier concept to pin down than empathy. Essay fail. -
@sapinker@NYTOpinionator Ask 20 different people what is objectively fair and get 20 different answers.
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@sapinker@NYTOpinionator We should acknowledge the gap between the way we imagine ourselves to think, and what the evidence says about it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker: Paul Bloom on the moral limits of empathy - it's not as curative, or even innocous, as you think.http://nyti.ms/1IsMHR4Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@NYTOpinionator empathy tells us what the other is feeling via vicarious experience; morality tells us what to do about it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@NYTOpinionator Difficult because one has to have clarity in their own mind before they could hope to see thru the eyes of others.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@NYTOpinionator I'll read that.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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