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#29 Dacher Keltner: Survival of the Kindest

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Limits of Compassion

Can cultures be too compassionate? Yes. And we just, you know. We have to get to cultural practices like extending compassionate people who are not like us. If a small hunter gatherer tribe was purely compassionate, they could be invaded and taken over by another tribe. That raises interesting questions about the limits of compassion. It's back to a question, sheng, that you asked tand i didn't answer it because i got carried away thinking about darwin. So i apologized.

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