PanThe Wall Street JournalIt is fine and good to argue for a greater emphasis on reason in moral decision-makingbut one wonders whether it is really fair to assail empathy as ferociously as Mr. Bloom does ... And there is something downright bizarre about Mr. Bloom’s insistence that 'we should aspire to a world in which a politician appealing to someone’s empathy would be seen in the same way as one appealing to people’s racist bias' ... Empathy can indeed limit and distort our moral vision, but Mr. Bloom fails to seriously engage with the fact that reason can also be marshaled for nefarious ends.
