Clipped from Making Sense Podcast Episode 331 - A Golden Age for Assholes: https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/331-a-golden-age-for-assholes .

Be "less of an asshole, less of the time." Good advice.

This clip is aging in interesting ways.

I've always harboured respect for what Sam tries to do. But Sam walks a tricky path when he suggests people can "care about the wrong things" as a basis for concluding they are assholes.

It's not unreasonable to imagine that two equally educated, experienced, and equally good people can come to vastly different conclusions based on what they care about. The proverb "One man's trash is another man's treasure" comes to mind.

We're all enriched -- and sometimes hindered -- by our own experiences. No one person is omniscient. No one person has all the experiences and all the cares of all people. So, who gets to decide what is good or bad to care about?

Hyper-Sample - Sam Harris on Assholes

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Hyper-Sample - Sam Harris on Assholes

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