Are You Aware of Your Political Affiliation?

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i think political affiliations, affiliation is one of the things which has not by unconscious priming and all that stuff, but by cultural factors. So if true, as davis suggests, that your political poliefs are largely determied by the state in which you were born, then i suggest it's not rational. That's not an argument that i was born in kansas or in a born in massachusetts a. We tend to absorb the values of our culture. And just like we tend to absorb our language, and we don't make a reason judgment. This is preferable and otherines. We just scoop it up. You know, there's a differnce between

Can a fully determined creature deliberate? How big a role does conscious reasoning play in moral judgment and everyday life? Are we responsible for our thoughts and actions? Paul Bloom rejoins us against his better judgment to discuss his book "Just Babies" and his recent article in The Atlantic that set the internet on the fire and riled up the likes of Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne. Plus, what's the difference (if any) between getting into a Star Trek transporter and getting an axe to the head, and why does David know so much about boy bands?

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