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Continuing to Eat Meat Is Weakness of Will Not Hypocrisy

Both speakers participate in a factory-farming system that is ethically indefensible while knowing the moral case against it, but the right term is not hypocrisy but akrasia - weakness of will - because they know and will openly state the right thing to do, yet cannot do it, which is what it feels like to knowingly do evil.

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Speaker

Paul Bloom

Evidence Quote

we know what it's like to knowingly do evil all i'll sort of nibble at around the edges is it's not really hypocrisy

Source

16 - The Dark SideMaking Sense with Sam Harris
Created: 6/14/2026, 2:24:40 AM

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