Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
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Repugnance warning that we've gone too far even when we have no moral justification "shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder"
Philosophers have long disagreed about whether it’s acceptable to harm one person in order to help or save several people. Utilitarianism is the philosophical school that says you should always aim to bring about the greatest total good, even if a few people get hurt along the way, so if there’s really no other way to save those five lives, go ahea
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