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Individuals differ in how empathic they are. Some people would really flinch if they watched me hitting my hand with a hammer, and other people would just not care. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
If our moral attitudes are entirely the result of nonrational factors, such as gut feelings and the absorption of cultural norms, they should either be stable or randomly drift over time, like skirt lengths or the widths of ties. They shouldn’t show systematic change over human history. But they do. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I’m sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series led to similar tears. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
It’s really difficult working with kids and with babies because they are not cooperative subjects: they are not socialized into the idea that they should cheerfully and cooperatively give you information. They’re not like undergraduates, who you can bribe with beer money or course credit. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sports, play, literature, movies and television. And, so long as we don’t transform into angels, violence and the threat of violence - as in punishment and deterrence - is needed to rein in our worst instincts. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Some people think that without that spark of empathy we would do nothing, but that’s just flat-out wrong. You could feel compassion for somebody without the spark of empathy. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it’s hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
It is clear that rituals and sacrifices can bring people together, and it may well be that a group that does such things has an advantage over one that does not. But it is not clear why a religion has to be involved. Why are gods, souls, an afterlife, miracles, divine creation of the universe, and so on brought in? (Paul Bloom Quotes)
People differ in where they direct their empathy and their compassion. Many people are intensely concerned about the suffering of non-human animals, and some do not care at all. There are cultural differences. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don’t like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I’ll get a backlash from them. And this isn’t necessarily a bad thing. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
It’s hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil? (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
What I mean by empathy is putting yourself in other people’s shoes, feeling what they feel (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there’s more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We might see a world inhabited by objects and people, a world infused with causation, agency, and morality - a world that would surprise us not by its freshness but by its familiarity. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
I’m really interested in the pleasure we get from stories and the pleasure we get from movies, and certainly the pleasure we get from virtual experiences. My complaint is against empathy as a moral guide. But as a source of pleasure, it can’t be beat. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
That something can be used for good isn’t necessarily a knockdown argument for it (Paul Bloom Quotes)
I’m very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
I have two teenage sons, and they’re both surviving, thriving, and having a great time, and they’re always on social media. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls. (Paul Bloom Quotes)
We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community (Paul Bloom Quotes)
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and human cloning, but the fact that some people find such acts to be disgusting should carry no weight (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to our starting off so well-informed; we are good learners because we know what to pay attention to and what questions are the right ones to ask (Paul Bloom Quotes)
More-radical scholars insist that an inherent clash exists between science and our long-held conceptions about consciousness and moral agency: if you accept that our brains are a myriad of smaller components, you must reject such notions as character, praise, blame, and free will (Paul Bloom Quotes)
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity (Paul Bloom Quotes)
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