Against empathy | Robert Wright & Paul Bloom [The Wright Show] (full conversation)

00:11 Paul’s brand new book, Against Empathy 05:51 The damage empathy can do 13:01 The difference between empathy and compassion 25:18 Why our moral intuitions aren’t so moral 29:44 Are low empathy people more likely to hurt others? 43:52 Empathy as moral jet fuel 51:23 The costs and benefits of feeling other people’s pain Watch this conversation on MeaningofLife.tv: http://meaningoflife.tv/videos/37456 Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero) and Paul Bloom (Yale University, Against Empathy, Just Babies) Recorded on November 30, 2016