Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust | CWT

[@DanHowardMtl]

I love these podcasts. So dense with information. Tyler is awesome!

[@mepex]

Enjoyed particularly the flattery discussion. I think people are more reluctant to give flattery because people are also very sensitive to the desperation of others, and they don't want to seem desperate.

[@RayG817]

In my experience, only those low in empathy think it is a bad quality. Perhaps out of jealousy, but mostly out of ignorance. Ironically, these people usually score highly on I.Q. tests.

[@michaelc9287]

What about disgust at incest and pedophilia?

[@deersakamoto2167]

34:38 "education makes people smarter, it gives you practice in dealing with abstractions" Bloom says this right after citing Caplan but "The Case Against Education" begins by showing how much average people suck at abstractions 😂

[@JameBlack]

Average people suck at school Studying make you smarter, you learn what your brain us capable of and getting exppsure to variety of experiences and ideas . America is just anti intellectual beyond repair

[@AsstVillageIdiot]

Liberals also employ disgust. Haidt's original testing of UPenn students included questions like whether you would use an American Flag to clean the toilet to measure disgust. But the examples all shaded to conservative ideas. If he had asked whether you should use a newspaper with a picture of Gandhi, or MLK, or Obama on it as toilet paper if you had nothing else, liberals would have demonstrated their disgust. Mush objection to pollution is more disgust than safety. Vegetarianism and veganism, somewhat more common on the left, has a large component of disgust in it, as does much animal rights thinking.