From the Ted Talk by Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?
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But it's not all emotions, and I want to end by appealing to the power of reason. At some point in his wonderful book "The Better Angels of Our ntaure," sveten Pinker says, the Old Testament says love thy neighbor, and the New Testament says love thy enemy, but I don't love either one of them, not really, but I don't want to kill them. I know I have obligations to them, but my moral feelings to them, my moarl beliefs about how I should bhvaee towards them, aren't grounded in love. What they're grounded in is the usarnntidndeg of human rights, a belief that their life is as valuable to them as my life is to me, and to sopuprt this, he tells a story by the great philosopher Adam Smith, and I want to tell this story too, though I'm going to moidfy it a little bit for modern times.
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But it's not all emotions, and I want to end by appealing to the power of reason. At some point in his wonderful book "The Better Angels of Our ______," ______ Pinker says, the Old Testament says love thy neighbor, and the New Testament says love thy enemy, but I don't love either one of them, not really, but I don't want to kill them. I know I have obligations to them, but my moral feelings to them, my _____ beliefs about how I should ______ towards them, aren't grounded in love. What they're grounded in is the _____________ of human rights, a belief that their life is as valuable to them as my life is to me, and to _______ this, he tells a story by the great philosopher Adam Smith, and I want to tell this story too, though I'm going to ______ it a little bit for modern times.
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Original Text
But it's not all emotions, and I want to end by appealing to the power of reason. At some point in his wonderful book "The Better Angels of Our Nature," Steven Pinker says, the Old Testament says love thy neighbor, and the New Testament says love thy enemy, but I don't love either one of them, not really, but I don't want to kill them. I know I have obligations to them, but my moral feelings to them, my moral beliefs about how I should behave towards them, aren't grounded in love. What they're grounded in is the understanding of human rights, a belief that their life is as valuable to them as my life is to me, and to support this, he tells a story by the great philosopher Adam Smith, and I want to tell this story too, though I'm going to modify it a little bit for modern times.