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• A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man…
• Traditionally, psychology has been the study of two populations: university freshmen and white rats.
• Families survive the terrible twos because toddlers aren't strong enough to kill with their hands and aren't capable of using lethal weapons.
• Our best hope for the future [...] lies in an appreciation of the fact that, even if we don’t empathize with distant…
• And empathy is narrow; it connects us to particular individuals, real or imagined, but is insensitive to numerical differences and statistical data.
• If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband…
• We don't just respond to things as we see them, or feel them, or hear them. Rather, our response is conditioned on…
• We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on…
• Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man…
• On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim…
• Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
• We know that young babies, as they become capable of moving voluntarily, will share. They will share food, for instance, with their…

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