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Published · transcript-backedPaul Bloom: belief
7 Aug 2024 Conversations with Tyler Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
“I’ll give another argument, which is — again, trying not to be disgust-based — which is that I think that there’s a range of human relationships that are tremendously valuable, and sometimes they’re better off without sex.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- 7 Aug 2024
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Let’s say brother-sister. I could reword the question. I said siblings, so brother and sister, or two sisters for that matter. That seems much less wrong than the stepfather and the daughter. It does, because in some way, as it brings us down to childhood, there’s less of a power asymmetry. There’s less of a case of an adult carefully grooming a child so that when she is of age, they could then have sex, and it would be okay. I have a visceral response to it. I’ll give another argument, which is — again, trying not to be disgust-based — which is that I think that there’s a range of human relationships that are tremendously valuable, and sometimes they’re better off without sex. In relationships, certain sex is great, connects to romance, connects to a great degree of intimate relationships. But some relationships are sex-free, like a relationship between most people and their adult children, and that’s good. Now, as a CWT listener, might you be up for a round of overrated versus underrated?…
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