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Philosophy Resolves Conflict with Tuur Demeester (WiM159)

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What's the Point of Compassion?

The author says we need useful fictions to orient ourselves under abstractions. Human beings can co-operate flexibly in large numbers the way no other animal can, he argues. But when you implement that on a larger scale, what actually happens is totalitarianism and starvation. He believes it's almost like preying on the compassion cercretry that we all have.

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