I have two teenage sons, and they're both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they're always on social media. — Paul Bloom Great times Copy Share Image
Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons. — Paul Bloom Capable Copy Share Image
If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police… — Paul Bloom Around Copy Share Image
Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way… — Paul Bloom About Copy Share Image
“Being a good person likely is more related to distanced feelings of compassion and kindness, along with intelligence, self-control, and a sense… — Paul Bloom Bad person Copy Share Image
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work. — Paul Bloom Imagination Copy Share Image
One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the… — Paul Bloom Also Copy Share Image
I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by this is we don't… — Paul Bloom About Copy Share Image
The fact that something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it. — Paul Bloom Argument Copy Share Image
Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant… — Paul Bloom Appreciation Copy Share Image
When people want to inspire you to turn against some group of people, they'll often use empathy. When Obama wanted to bomb… — Paul Bloom Action Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from. — Paul Bloom Bad thing Copy Share Image
I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult… — Paul Bloom Characters Copy Share Image
I think what a lot of fiction is, is the imagining of the worst so as to prepare ourselves. — Paul Bloom Fiction Copy Share Image
Morality is often seen as an innovation, like agriculture and writing. From this perspective, babies are pint-sized psychopaths, self-interested beings who need… — Paul Bloom Agriculture Copy Share Image
The real problem with natural selection is that it makes no intuitive sense. It is like quantum physics; we may intellectually grasp… — Paul Bloom Feel Copy Share Image
It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least… — Paul Bloom Care Copy Share Image
I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change… — Paul Bloom Admiration Copy Share Image
“the egalitarian lifestyles of hunter-gatherers exist because the individuals care a lot about status. Individuals in these societies end up roughly equal… — Paul Bloom Community Copy Share Image
I'm not a pacifist. I think the suffering of innocent people can be a catalyst for moral action. But empathy puts too… — Paul Bloom Action Copy Share Image
Humans are born with a hard-wired morality: a sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. I know this claim… — Paul Bloom Bone Copy Share Image
It has been a period where people have been far nicer to one another in every possible way. I'm not saying it's… — Paul Bloom Dropping Copy Share Image
We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on… — Paul Bloom Belief Copy Share Image
“It might feel, at least to some of us, that our opinions about issues such as abortion and the death penalty are… — Paul Bloom Death Copy Share Image
When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake,… — Paul Bloom Bother Copy Share Image
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