Paul Bloom on Cruelty

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🗓️ 17 September 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Yale University psychologist Paul Bloom talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about cruelty--what motivates cruelty, the cruelty of small acts that accumulate into something monstrous, and the question of whether the abuse of a robot is a form of cruelty.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:20.5	We'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done going
0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.0	Today is August 24, 2018.
0:35.4	I'm, I guess, his Paul Bloom, the Brooks and Suzanne Reagan professor of psychology and
0:39.7	cognitive science at Yale University.
0:42.3	This is Paul's second e-contalk appearance in February of 2017.
0:46.2	He talked about his book against empathy.
0:48.9	Today our topic is cruelty.
0:50.2	And I want to say up front that anyone listening with young children may want to screen
0:54.0	this episode in advance as we are likely to discuss some disturbing behavior.
0:58.1	Paul, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:59.6	Thanks so much for having me back.
1:02.3	So this conversation is going to be based on three essays you've written, one in the
1:05.2	New York Times with Sam Harris, one in the Times with Yale graduate student Matthew Jordan
1:09.4	and one you wrote in the New Yorker.
1:11.8	We'll link to all of them.
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