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Book cover for Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion – How Emotion Undermines Morality, Justice, and Good Policy

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion – How Emotion Undermines Morality, Justice, and Good Policy by Paul Bloom

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empathy really is a spotlight. It’s a spotlight that has a narrow focus, one that shines most brightly on those we love and gets dim for those who are strange or different or frightening.

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“Sure you can. It's not hard, if you just let go and try.”
― Spencer Johnson, Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck

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“Happy endings are still endings.”
― Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch

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“That’s all a belief was. A thought. But look at how much power it held!”
― Spencer Johnson, Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck

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“I hate writing, I love having written.”
― Dorothy Parker

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“The bars on his windows were his old thoughts, thoughts he trusted were true, but which actually prevented him from venturing out into the Maze. His beliefs were holding him prisoner!”
― Spencer Johnson, Out of the Maze: An A-Mazing Way to Get Unstuck

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