Christopher Brown
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Jan
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I've always thought that there can be too easy a linkage between, well, if you just get people to think the right way, then they'll do the right thing.
And you can see that
at the political level, but you also see it at the individual level.
Just coming into my office in New York City today, I walked by homeless people on the street.
It's cold, lying on warm grates.
This is true for most days in the winter in New York.
I see people on the streets struggling in this way.
And we walk by them, or I walk by them.
I think most New Yorkers walk by them.
Often with, sometimes with the thought of, that's really awful.
That's really sad.
It shouldn't be this way.
Maybe I should do something.
But then I'm late for work.
My child is calling me.
I'm thinking about what I'm going to have for lunch today.
And then we go back to sleep at the end of the day, and we wake up and do the same thing.
And so I think there's really a great distance between our moral intuitions and even our moral commitments and then our moral actions.
And I think that is something that in the writing about, in the thinking about anti-slavery, there had been, and sometimes still is, a too easy equation of, well, once people saw the problem, once they realized the humanity of Africans, once they understood the cruelty of slavery, then of course they would organize and do something about it.
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