#317 - What Do We Know About Our Minds?
Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content
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The Genetic Propensity to Panic Attacks
Nervous parents tend to have nervous kids and bookish parents have bookish kids. The thing is the relationship is genetic. It's impressive to witness how kind of resistant to change certain sources of suffering are even in the happiest household. Like kids with anxiety disorders who have no good environmental reason to have any anxiety. They're having panic attacks, but by any objective measure they have the most fortunate situation the homo sapiens has ever had. That's right. I think every parent has with gender control the ability to give their child a truly terrible childhood one full of abuse and neglect and cruelty. You need to set the bar again to like with a modicum of decency.
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