Paul Bloom

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
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    candlelight vigil at the New Haven Green
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    It is easy to see why so many people view empathy as a powerful force for goodness and moral change. It is easy to see why so many believe that the only problem with empathy is that too often we don’t have enough of it.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    I used to believe this as well. But now I don’t. Empathy has its merits
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    I am against empathy, and one of the goals of this book is to persuade you to be against empathy too.
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    This is a radical position, but it’s not that radical. T
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    It’s that if we want to be good and caring people, if we want to make the world a better place, then we are better off without empathy.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Or to put it more carefully, we are better off without empathy in a certain sense. S
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    cognitive empathy” is overrated as a force for good.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    hallmark of the successful psychopath and can be used for cruelty and exploitation.
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