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Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Listen to Sam Harris skillfully eviscerate the “both sides” argument in the Israel-Hamas war:
“The boundary between antisemitism and generic moral stupidity is a little hard to discern, and I’m not sure it’s always important to find it. I’m not sure it matters why a person can’t… Show more
This builds on a growing body of work that our ‘‘mind perception’’ (which manifests as inferences of intentions, beliefs, and values) meaningfully varies across individuals and shapes our moral judgments
Sydney Levine • Who gets credit for AI-generated art? – MIT Media Lab
The judges, however, wisely rejected that argument, quoting Thurgood Marshall's observation that given the mysteries of human motivation, “it would be unwise to presume as a matter of law that human beings of one definable group will not discriminate against other members of their group.”
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
In order to maintain the certitude that the world was fair, subjects manufactured flaws in the woman’s character.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
The philosopher Erik Wielenberg argues for this, what he calls “non-natural non-theistic moral realism.”