And the our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how do make sure that our good intentions do not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the loss of a at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show well as case being i thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with is called a sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be ineffective or even harmful in what cases yes i think soundly isnt very often as ineffective or even harmful so there are many attempts where people try and do some out of good but actually end up. Achieving very little or just achieving far less than they could have done so for example or so that im in the United States called scared straight takes juvenile delinquent
The president needs to do is frankly put his big boy pants on he needs to acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. And on resolved election the nation on edge 3 days after one of americas most divisive and knife edge president ial votes it appears that the democratic challenger joe biden is moving further ahead of President Donald Trump and battleground states which will decide the final outcome biden leads in pennsylvania nevada and in georgia so far is projected to have 164. 00 Electoral College votes trump has 214. 00 and of course the number required is 270 the needs to win in only one of those undecided states to get across that finish line. His magic White House Correspondent can you help it who is in washington for us. In wilmington delaware joe bidens home state we have passed culhane standing by for us in philadelphia and then theres Andy Gallagher who bring us the latest on the state of georgia and heidi castro is among protest as the House W
A Tropical Storm but the damage has already been done. Because german football is abuzz ahead of one of the years most anticipated clashes well preview this weekends top of the table does make a match between don and a woman and. Im rebecca it is welcome to the program more than 3 days after the ball polls close in the u. S. There is still no official winner of the president ial election but just a few hours ago democratic president ial candidate joe biden made another public announcement he told supporters democrats would win this race and with a clear majority pulling ahead of President Donald Trump in case states lets listen to some of what he had to say. Were going to win this race to circle what has happened since yesterday 24 hours were behind in georgia now are ahead and were going to win that state 24 hours ago we were kind of pennsylvania and we are going to win pennsylvania an hour ahead but were winning in arizona were going to vote out and in fact our lead just doubled in n
Timber on all the way out to the Golden Gate Bridge, well see a lot more of that into the afternoon too. So its going to be a nice calm day and look at how we remain calm during your daytime hours. Then the sun sets and the winds push in winds of change overnight winds picking up rushing in cooler air during the overnight hours and its going make for a night and a situation from todays warm daytime highs to the much cooler conditions were expecting starting on friday and really lasting for the rest of your forecast after that point 50s and 60s for most of our bayside in inland areas right now well lena holding on to the upper 40s along the santa rosa, fairfield you just got a pretty big temperature update now youre at 57 degrees that sunshine really helping the out ive got more on your forecast still to come lets go over to robin with an updated look at traffic. Yes we are checking in on that morning drive which is not so bad so far heading into San Francisco busy here at the bay bridg
Kosovos president resigns following an indictment for war crimes at the hague. And the u. K. Gets a new multibillion dollar rescue package to boost its economy has included and has enough of them across. All americans are waking up to another day of uncertainty over who will be the next president it is now 9 am in the u. S. State of georgia and youre watching these live pictures from there where vote counting has been going through the night it remains an extremely close race and the traditional republican state and Donald Trumps initially there has been steadily falling georgia is one of several states where republicans are filing legal challenges already over this election lets take a step back and have a look at the state of play biden has already fit michigan and wisconsin that donald trump merrily won 4 years ago the democratic candidate now has a projected total by the Associated Press of 264 Electoral College votes while trump is projected to win 214 remember the magic number is