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
You are watching cspan, youre unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought you today by your television provider. Later, on friday night, joe biden addressed the nation from his Campaign Headquarters in wilmington, delaware. He talked about his plans for the country, dealing with coronavirus, the economy, and called for the nation to come together. Mr. Biden good evening, my fellow americans. We dont have a final declaration of victory yet, but the numbers tell us a clear and convincing story. We are going to win this race. Just look at what has happened since yesterday. 24 hours, we were behind in georgia, now we are ahead. And we are going to win that state. 24 hours ago, we were behind in pennsylvania, and we are going to win pennsylvania. And now, we are ahead, winning in arizona, winning in nevada. In fact, our lead just doubled in nevada. We are on track to over 300 Electoral College votes. And look at the national
From the bay areas local news stations. Watching kron 4 news. With this race, the clear majority, a nation behind us. Weve gotten over 74 million votes. I repeat that 74 million votes thats more than any president ial ticket has ever gotten in the history of United States of america. Confident of winning thats the tone tonight from former Vice President joe biden is ballot. Counting continues into the wee hours. Thank you for joining 10 everybody on the key will cuts and im grant lotus former Vice President biden spoke briefly this evening from his Campaign Headquarters in wilmington, delaware, and that is where kelli meyer joins us life she will join us live soon im being told were working on that connection. And when we get it squared away, we will go to kelly in wilmington all right meantime we do have a developing story out of the white house President Trumps chief of staff mark meadows has tested. Positive for covid19 2 Senior Administration officials confirmed that meadows is amo
Mr. Biden good evening, my fellow americans. We dont have a final declare ration of victory yet, but the numbers tell us its clear tell us a clear and convincing story. Were going to win this race. Just look at what has happened since yesterday. 24 hours, we were behind in georgia. Now, were ahead. And were going to win that state. 24 hours ago, we were behind in pennsylvania, and we are going to win pennsylvania. And now, were ahead, but were winning in arizona, winning in nevada, and in fact, our lead just doubled in nevada. Were on track to over 300 electoral votes Electoral College votes. And look at the national numbers. Were going to win this race with a clear majority with the nation behind us. Weve gotten over 74 million votes. Let me repeat that. 74 million votes. Thats more than any president ial ticket has ever gotten in the history of the United States of america. And our vote total is still growing. Were beating donald trump by over four million votes. And thats a margin t
A recount. What president you should do is frankly put his big boy pants on in the show acknowledge the fact that he lost and he needs to congratulate the winner. 3 days after one of americas most divisive president ial votes the democratic challenger joe biden is edging further ahead of President Donald Trump in key battleground states which will decide the outcome of biden is leading in pennsylvania nevada and georgia he just needs one of them to get him over the line trump needs them all plus still carolina to hit the required 270 electoral seats joe bidens been speaking to supporters and his home state of delaware hes still not declaring victory but says he will eventually be victorious biden also urged people to be patient. Joe biden took the stage looking weary but full of confidence we dont have a final declaration of victory yet but the numbers tell us its clear to us a clear and convincing story were going to win this race. By now leads donald trump in pennsylvania by a signif