Imagining yourself in someone else’s shoes

Is imagining what it is like to be someone else a good way to make moral decisions? Paul Bloom says no in  “Imagining the Lives of Others.” For one thing, we’re not very good at imagining the lives of other persons. We are better off using general moral principles to make moral decisions at what we owe others.

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