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TheIndependenWhig comments on Scope sensitivity? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: AnthonyC 16 July 2015 02:03PM

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Comment author: TheIndependenWhig 17 July 2015 02:11:37PM 0 points [-]

re: "empathy can get in the way of doing the right thing."

Yes. See the book "Pathological Altruism" by Barbara Oakley.

And see the video of Jon Haidt's lecture called "When Compassion Leads To Sacrilege" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnPFtg6YsuI