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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?

The Next Big Idea

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The Problem With Virtue Status Games

The problem with virtue is that it's always local to your group. So every status game has its own particular idea of what is virtuous and what isn't. Hitler thought he was a good virtuous man because he genuinely believed the hideous, antisemitic lie of inherent Jewish evil. Lenin and Stalin for all their kind of violence and insanity thought they were virtuous people because they were spearheading the communist project.

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