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Key takeaways from It’s hard to be a moral person. Technology is making it harder.

Digital distractions such as social media and smartphones wreak havoc on our attention spans. Could they also be making us less ethical? Open at source

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I began to notice that digital technology often seems to make it harder for us to respond in the right way when someone is suffering and needs our help.

Weil, an early 20th-century French philosopher and Christian mystic, wrote that “attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”

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