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S2E11: Your Mind On Moral Curiosity, with Dr. Jordan Wylie

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The Importance of Morality in Harm Reduction Policy

I think when people talk a lot about aversion to harm reduction they focus a lot on drugs and I think the intuition is particularly strong there that if I really don't like that you're doing drugs then a clean needle exchange it's somehow making me complicit in your. You're doing something I find morally wrong even though it's totally counter to what we know is a factual harm reducing right such as abstinence. getting people to really stop being cold turkey kind of stuff doesn't work this is the thing that works. It's just really hard to get people to break from their moral belief so how harmful do you think that this is? We also measured people’s harm attitude by asking them how

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