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Comment 93 by ccw95005
Yup, that was my point.
In practice this seems to be true, still, and that’s the problem. Do you not agree you make better moral judgments when you rely more on reason and less on emotion? The thing with empathy is it tends to get dulled down as the suffering piles up. Your reason tells you that mean something is wrong.
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