“The cognitive act of extricating oneself from the particulars of one’s life and pondering “There but for fortune go I” or “What would the world be like if everyone did this?” can be a gateway to compassion and ethics.39”
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
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