223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a Happy Ending?
The fact we get pleasure of such a thing as tis incredible. That's the great exi id just had one of those messages. A quote you get from, you have from chief justice john roberts commencement speech in 20 17. It really captures a lot of what you're trying to do in this book. But he's talking here about unchosen sofel he chooses it for other people. And i'm somewhat sceptical. The clam that this sort of negative experiences make us better people has never had much un interesting. I think thereis some evidence that s a continuum for everything. So some people do nake et through life fairly unscathed. On extremes, there
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