Paul Bloom

Against Empathy

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  • Ilya Vasichhas quoted6 years ago
    This skews our decisions so that if, say, we are faced with a choice where one specific child will die now or twenty children whose names we don’t know will die a year from now, empathy might guide us to choose to save the one. To me, this is a problem with empathy.
  • Максимhas quoted8 months ago
    “the identifiable victim effect.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    Not Against Empathy but Against the Misapplication of Empathy. Or Empathy Is Not Everything. Or Empathy Plus Reason Make a Great Combination. Empathy is like cholesterol, with a good type and a bad type.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    gone too far.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    As Fredrik deBoer once put it, “Your haters are your closest readers.”)
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    as an apologist for psychopathy and predatory capitalism, and people have made unkind speculations about my childhood and personal life.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    Boston Review article, one sociologist blogger called me “an intellectual disgrace and moral monster.”
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    When my New Yorker article went online, I checked out Twitter to
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    published articles in popular outlets describing earlier versions of these ideas—in The New Yorker (looking at policy issues), the Boston Review (looking at intimate relations), The Atlantic (defending the role of reason, exploring how empathy can motivate violence), and the New York Times (on the problems we have understanding the mental states of others).
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quotedlast year
    product of conversation and criticism.
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