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Talent
“I read your talent book, and it was actually very, very useful to me because it taught me other ways, other things to look for.”
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Paul Bloom
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Against Empathy
“I read Against Empathy, and it changed my life.” I don’t want it to sway me, but it’s hard for it not to, and so yes, that’s our weakness.”
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I think that that’s right, where we take some sort of pleasure from negative emotions: sadness and fear and disgust and even guilt, shame.
“I think that that’s right, where we take some sort of pleasure from negative emotions: sadness and fear and disgust and even guilt, shame.”
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Because although as adults, there’s a strong supposition that they’re free to do what they want, I think that the problem is that when they’re not adults, the fact that later on they can have sex — and worse, between, say, a stepfather and a stepdaughter or an uncle and a niece — the idea that sex is a possibility in the future when they’re adults corrodes the relationship early on.
“Because although as adults, there’s a strong supposition that they’re free to do what they want, I think that the problem is that when they’re not adults, the fact that later on they can have sex — and worse, between, say, a stepfather and a stepdaughter or an uncle and a niece — the idea that sex is a possibility in the future when they’re adults corrodes the relationship early on.”
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He also asked people, “How much would I have to pay you for you to take a pair of pliers and pull out one of your front teeth?” And people want more money to strangle a cat than to have this painful, agonizing, disfiguring thing, which, I think, says something nice about people.
“He also asked people, “How much would I have to pay you for you to take a pair of pliers and pull out one of your front teeth?” And people want more money to strangle a cat than to have this painful, agonizing, disfiguring thing, which, I think, says something nice about people.”
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I think in some ways, Santa Claus is an easier climb because he’s just a big guy who looks like a big beard and who climbs down chimneys and gives gifts.
“I think in some ways, Santa Claus is an easier climb because he’s just a big guy who looks like a big beard and who climbs down chimneys and gives gifts.”
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I think you need some cultural support to make it into a God, as opposed to just some sort of strange stuff is happening that you can’t explain.
“I think you need some cultural support to make it into a God, as opposed to just some sort of strange stuff is happening that you can’t explain.”
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- Paul Bloom
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- Conversations with Tyler