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228 | Skye Cleary on Existentialism and Authenticity

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is There a Difference Between the Useful and the Just Restrictive?

I think a lot of norms are made up. They're usually made up for either arbitrary or bad reasons, but then there's like the norm that in the United States, we drive on the right side of the road,. That's a very useful social coordination kind of norm. And I'm just mentioning that I can't see a very simple way to delineate the difference between the useful norms and the just restrictive norms. So that's ongoing work as well.

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